reader comments 619 with 269 posters participating Share this story A day after it was reported that Twitter would lay off 50 percent of staff, Twitter has temporarily shut down its offices to begin layoffs. Some staff told Reuters that hundreds of employees who got this news yesterday immediately logged into Slack to say goodbyes ..
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Enlarge / People fish in front of defunct oil drilling rigs in the Corpus Christi Ship Channel at Aransas Pass on March 11, 2019, in Port Aransas, Texas. reader comments 159 with 111 posters participating Share this story CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas—Five years ago, when ExxonMobil came calling, city officials eagerly signed over a large portion ..
Aurich Lawson reader comments 670 with 277 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk plans to eliminate half the jobs at Twitter and require remote employees to report to an office, Bloomberg reported. “Elon Musk plans to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at Twitter, or half of the social media company’s workforce,” and “intends to reverse ..
imaginima/Getty Images reader comments 62 with 41 posters participating Share this story The Asia-Africa-Europe-1 Internet cable travels 15,500 miles along the seafloor, connecting Hong Kong to Marseille, France. As it snakes through the South China Sea and toward Europe, the cable helps provide Internet connections to more than a dozen countries, from India to Greece. ..
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 183 with 75 posters participating Share this story Twitter won’t restore banned accounts until after next week’s midterm election, Elon Musk wrote in a tweet early on Wednesday. That means former President Donald Trump and others banned by the pre-Musk Twitter won’t be allowed back just yet. “Twitter will ..
reader comments 80 with 43 posters participating Share this story ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The chair of a U.S. Senate committee asked the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday to review whether a Texas-based property tech company’s ..
Elena Lacey/Getty Images reader comments 251 with 121 posters participating Share this story Next week, a law takes effect that will change the Internet forever—and make it much more difficult to be a tech giant. On November 1, the European Union’s Digital Markets Act comes into force, starting the clock on a process expected to ..
Enlarge / A Comcast Xfinity service van in Sunnyvale, California, in November 2018. Getty Images | Sundry Photography reader comments 142 with 122 posters participating Share this story Comcast has a problem—it isn’t signing up many new broadband customers. But Comcast also has a solution—get more money from existing subscribers. Comcast failed to add any ..
Getty Images | Chesnot reader comments 580 with 247 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk reportedly appointed himself to the CEO role at Twitter and is expected to reverse lifelong bans on users—including the ban imposed on former President Donald Trump. As reported last night, Musk completed his $44 billion purchase of Twitter and ..
Enlarge / Juan Gilbert demonstrates his transparent voting machine, which he says is a breakthrough in election security. Lawren Simmons for Undark reader comments 172 with 96 posters participating Share this story In late 2020, a large box arrived at Juan Gilbert’s office at the University of Florida. The computer science professor had been looking ..
