An interview with Affirm co-founder Max Levchin on the US CFPB's probe into BNPL services, issues with credit cards, the current economic environment, and more
Lauren Goode / Wired : Tweets: @laurengoode , @laurengoode , @laurengoode , @laurengoode , @laurengoode , @laurengoode , @wired , @usmanbk77 , @tsimonite , @waltmossberg , and @mlevchin Tweets: Laure...
Q&A with EIC Nilay Patel on The Verge's 10th anniversary, tech media's advance from early breathless gadget reviews, subject-source relationships, and more
After a decade covering the Zucks, Googles, and Ubers of the scene, the Verge editor in chief reflects on tech's troublesome relationship with the rest of the world. Tweets: @brandyzadrozny , @profcha...
Q&A with EIC Nilay Patel on The Verge's 10th anniversary, tech media's advance from early breathless gadget reviews, subject-source relationships, and more
After a decade covering the Zucks, Googles, and Ubers of the scene, the Verge editor in chief reflects on tech's troublesome relationship with the rest of the world. Tweets: @brandyzadrozny , @pierce ...
Biden EO will encourage the FCC to bring back net neutrality and enforce clearer pricing labels for ISPs, asks FTC to draft right-to-repair rules, more
but it can't until he picks a third Democrat Pia Singh / CNBC : IAC CEO says Apple is ‘worse’ than Google and will be next target in U.S. antitrust crackdown Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo : President Joe Bide...
A look at Google's hands-off content moderation approach for Google Podcasts, where hate speech from white supremacists and pro-Nazi groups is easy to find
The platform's tolerance of white supremacist, pro-Nazi and conspiracy theory content pushes the boundaries of the medium. Tweets: @uugwuu , @dabeard , @uugwuu , @repteddeutch , @jessesingal , @waltmo...
[Thread] A look back at the state of tech and mobile industries during the first iPhone keynote 14 years ago, the importance of which took years to sink in
Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : Tweets: @stevesi , @cblatts , @danrose999 , @richminer , @stevesi , @ednutting , @raztweets , @ravithinkz , @kushaanshah , @grady_booch , @gassee , @ziiyuuaan , @tfadell ...
How Massachusetts' ballot proposal requiring carmakers to install standardized, open data-sharing platforms on cars with telematics may shape right to repair
Lauren Goode / Wired : Tweets: @mikaljakubal , @gadgetlab , @waltmossberg , and @laurengoode Tweets: @mikaljakubal : While well intentioned, “right to repair” is tangential to the deeper critique tha...
Facebook internal report: US users are reading more COVID-19 content from “higher-quality” sources based on its ranking of top publishers adopted last year
> Is Facebook really a “news powerhouse” again, thanks to coronavirus? (No more than it was before) https://www.niemanlab.org/... Tom Gara / @tomgara : The top four news publishers on Facebook right n...
An oral history of Amazon Prime, the internet's most successful membership program with 100M+ members worldwide and one of the main reasons behind Amazon's rise
An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever. — It's easy to forget now, but Amazon wasn't always the king of online shopping. Tweets: @peterme , @delrey , @karas...
Slack and other workplace messaging services undermine their goal of increased productivity by becoming distractions, where users are constantly chatting
Job software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven't. — Several people are typing. Tweets: @mostafanageeb , @bdsams , @cebsilver , @howelloneill , @a...