How to Be Extremely Online and Influence People
Lauren: Our guest this week is Taylor Lorenz. Taylor is a prominent technology journalist at The Washington Post, and she’s the author of a new book called Extremely Online: The...
Elon Musk ordered to face fraud lawsuit for late disclosure of Twitter stake
Elon Musk was ordered by a US judge to face most of a lawsuit claiming he defrauded former Twitter shareholders last year by waiting too long to disclose that he had invested...
TikTok probed for hiring of execs from China-based ByteDance
Two US senators said they were investigating short video sharing app TikTok’s reported decision recently to hire several high-level executives from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. Sens. Richard Blumenthal, a...
Artificial intelligence used to cook ‘perfect’ steak in 3 minutes
AI, meet A-1. Home grill chefs could soon be cooking perfect steaks in less than 90 seconds — providing they can afford what’s been dubbed the “world’s first AI-powered grill,” manufactured...
FCC hits Dish Network with $150K fine in first-ever space debris penalty
Dish Network has been slapped with a historic $150,000 fine by the Federal Communications Commission for failing to properly deorbit one of its broadcast satellites, creating orbital debris. The FCC...
Ex-CNN anchor Campbell Brown leaving Meta as it shuns news
Veteran TV news anchor Campbell Brown will step down as Meta’s head of news partnerships, the company said Tuesday — another sign Facebook’s parent company is pivoting away from promoting...
Emergency test set to blast phones — and conspiracy theorists are on high alert
Is the test a test? Conspiracy theorists are flooding social networks ahead of the Federal Emergency Management Agency testing its blaring Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts on Wednesday...
AI copilot enhances human precision for safer aviation
Imagine you’re in an airplane with two pilots, one human and one computer. Both have their “hands” on the controllers, but they’re always looking out for different things. If they’re...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta cutting jobs in Reality Labs division
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is planning to lay off employees on Wednesday in the unit of its metaverse-oriented Reality Labs division focused on creating custom silicon, two sources familiar with the matter...
