Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus says there was no legal or regulatory angle for the government to kill its Libra project and “it was 100% a political kill”
For reasons you can guess at, debanking has been the topic du jour in my Twitter feed. Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News : FinTech CEOs Expose How Feds Colluded In ‘Debanking’ Schemes After Andreessen ‘Op...
TechCrunch+'s founding editor about its launch to complement TechCrunch's ads and events revenue and its failure due to issues with finding business reporters
January was a brutal month for journalists, globally from death and locally from layoffs. The latter hit home this week … Threads: @firstadopter . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @mjburnsy , @rez...
WSJ's Facebook Files don't show that Facebook's execs are evil or incompetent, but highlight their hubris in believing they can get things back under control
Read in app Shannon Bond / NPR : Senators Blast Facebook For Concealing Instagram's Risks To Kids Tweets: Laura Edelson / @lauraedelson2 : So now it is abundantly clear. @JeffHorwitz and the @WSJ were...
The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing
Stereotyping the tech industry as a bunch of secretive right-wingers isn't correct, and it isn't helpful. — 11 hr ago Tweets: @noahpinion , @brianfagioli , @martinsfp , @ericnewcomer , @noahpinion ,...
VAMS, a CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M to manage rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, has been abandoned by states due to bugs and problems
mission comes second, profit comes first. And that comes at a cost: vaccines delayed, loved ones lost. https://twitter.com/... Lawrence Mower / @lmower3 : Unreliable registration, problems that lock s...
How Magic Leap failed to miniaturize tech used in its early, stunning demos, which wooed high-profile investors, leading to an unspectacular consumer product
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel …
Sources: Magic Leap is laying off about half its employees, or around 1,000 people, as it winds down its consumer business; Magic Leap has raised over $2B
50 percent of its workforce — and shutting down its consumer division: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Jon Evans / @rezendi : This is going to go down as one of the biggest failures in the history of te...
Apple and Google should add contact tracing functionality, similar to Singapore's TraceTogether app, in a privacy-respecting way to iOS and Android
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How angel investing for social status is a core part of Bay Area tech ecosystem, and is critically missing from other cities trying to grow their tech scenes
Michael Seibel of YC posted a short video the other day about a topic that's near and dear to my heart: Why Fundraising is Different in Silicon Valley. Tweets: @alex_danco , @giordanobc , @jposhaughne...
Libra may become a global mobile reserve currency for individuals, not institutions, enabling them to receive, save, spend, and exchange a global hard currency
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