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Big Tech’s Layoffs Will Fuel the Industry’s Future
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Elon Musk’s Need for Speed Puts Twitter in Peril
Hi, everyone. Life is good because the Phillies are in the World Series! (Disclosure: I’m from Philadelphia.) Uh-oh, they just…
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Why Meta Is Tanking—and How Zuckerberg Can Fix It
2012: Facebook plays catch-up with mobile. Not many people realize that Facebook had an existential scare when the action in…
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What the Soup-Throwing Climate Activists Got Right
Some people have argued that the stunt discredited the wider climate movement. I don’t buy that for a second. Instead,…
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What If the Metaverse Is Better Without Virtual Reality?
Another part of the keynote was a scripted conversation between Meta’s vice president of metaverse, Vishal Shah, and his boss,…
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What’s Deepfake Bruce Willis Doing in My Metaverse?
Hi, everyone. So now Elon wants to buy Twitter, allegedly to help him build X, “the everything” app. Sweet of…
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Why Jann Wenner Let WIRED Start the ‘Rolling Stone’ of Tech
Rock idols, movie stars, and presidential candidates who quoted Bob Dylan—not tech giants—were Rolling Stone’s stock in trade. Wenner knew…
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Silicon Valley Is Obsessed With Its Evil Twin, TikTok
Hi, everyone. Summer is gone but not the heat. People might return to the office not because of employer mandates,…
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Twitter, Meta, and Blowing the Whistle on Big Tech
Hi, folks. We won’t have Fauci to kick around much longer. But we’ll always have Covid. The Plain View In…
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Silicon Valley Conservatives Are Stepping Out of the Shadows
That stigma no longer seems to apply. There may not necessarily be more who lean right, but you no longer…
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