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Bolt Loaned Employees Thousands to Buy Stock—Then Laid Them Off
In late May, employees of the fintech startup Bolt saw a message from their CEO on the company’s Slack. It…
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Google’s Russian Empire Faces an Uncertain Future
Some analysts have suggested that the government believes YouTube is too popular to block without risking a political pushback or…
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Satellites and AI Can Help Solve Big Problems—If Given the Chance
However, as in the Amazon, identifying problem areas only gets you so far if there aren’t enough resources to act…
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Meta’s New COO Is Nothing Like Sheryl Sandberg
Hey, folks. We’re deadlocked on gun safety, the Ukraine war still grinds on, and a gallon of gas is approaching…
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Airfare Tools Are Struggling to Predict Plane Ticket Prices
But the uneasy pandemic years have made all of this more complicated. Oren Etzioni is now the CEO of the…
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This Is What Flying Car Ports Should Look Like
On the technical side, any vertiport has a few key physical requirements: a stable electric grid for fast recharging, a…
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Volodymyr Zelensky on War, Technology, and the Future of Ukraine
Ever since Russian forces started their all-out invasion in February, Ukraine has been hailed as an exemplar of how to…
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Sheryl Sandberg’s Meta Departure and the Death of ‘The Deal’ With Mark Zuckerberg
Five years. That’s how long Sheryl Sandberg figured she’d be spending at Facebook, now called Meta, when she took the…
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How the Kremlin Infiltrated Russia’s Facebook
Outsiders quickly noticed the new, closer relationship with the government. “To date, no other social network in Russia cooperates so…
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As Bitcoin Falters, Crypto Miners Brace for a Crash
Last year, as bitcoin’s price rose as high as $68,000, miners were having a blast. Their profits, according to some…
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