Elon Musk's poll, asking “Should I step down as head of Twitter?”, ends with 57.5% voting yes, after Musk said Twitter polls will decide “major policy changes”
After a new policy prompted backlash, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said future policies would be determined by polls
After Elon Musk said polls will decide major new policies, @TwitterSafety posts a poll on whether accounts primarily promoting other platforms should be allowed
Should we have a policy preventing the creation of or use of existing accounts for the main purpose of advertising other social media platforms?
Google announces an in-person Pixel hardware event for October 6 at 10am ET in Brooklyn, where the company will detail the Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, and Pixel Watch
Google confirms the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro run on a “Tensor G2” SoC, bringing “personalized features” to photos, videos, security, and speech recognition
Ahead of October's Pixel 7 launch event, Google has confirmed that their next series of phone will run on the second-generation “Tensor G2” chip.
An in-depth look at OnlyFans agencies, which manage hundreds of models' accounts and use teams of ghostwriters to chat with subscribers in private messages
Clever marketers have figured out how easy it is to simulate online intimacy at scale, ventriloquizing alluring models with cheap, offshore labor. Tweets: @justinhendrix , @liamsta...
Sources: PayPal Mafia members, Jack Dorsey, and others who disliked Twitter's direction pushed Musk to launch a bid; Musk is dismayed that Trump is still banned
Behind the scenes, fellow billionaires and internet provocateurs bent Tesla CEO's ear; Jack Dorsey's role — Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Model Y in 2019.
Airbnb says its employees can work from home or the office moving forward, and their compensation won't change if they move, unless it's to a different country
But Here's The Fine Print Kevin Hurler / Gizmodo : Airbnb Will Stop Giving Refunds for Covid-19 Walter Frick / Quartz : Airbnb's five rules for work-from-anywhere Emma Goldberg / w...
Airbnb says its employees can work from home or the office moving forward and their compensation won't change if they move, unless it's to a different country
Airbnb is going all in on the “live anywhere, work anywhere” philosophy that much of the business world has been forced to adopt …
Sources: during Twitter deal negotiations, Elon Musk said he would be focused on the company's bottom line and floated the idea of cutting both costs and jobs
As he negotiated a $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter Inc., Elon Musk told bankers that he would be focused …
The auction for an NFT of Jack Dorsey's first-ever tweet, which sold for $2.9M last year, ended with a maximum bid of 2 ETH, worth around $6.2K
Crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi bought Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet as an NFT for $2.9 million last year. Source: OpenSea .
Amid COVID-19 concerns, Google, GM, and Waymo cancel in-person plans for CES, following Meta, Amazon, Twitter, and others, while Intel scales back its presence
The world's biggest technology show may not be — CES, the world's largest technology show, appears to be in jeopardy due to rising COVID-19 cases in the United States.
CES hosts say the show will proceed despite COVID-19; Meta, Amazon, Twitter, and others canceled in-person plans, T-Mobile and AMD plan a limited presence
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg :
Amid COVID-19 concerns, Meta, Amazon, Ring, and Twitter cancel in-person CES plans, T-Mobile and AMD plan a limited presence, and others monitor conditions
- Google, HTC, Samsung and Sony still currently plan to go — Host of CES conference remains steadfast in moving forward
Sources: SoftBank is scaling back its robotics business globally, including eliminating 165 jobs in France, and has stopped producing its Pepper humanoid
Qualcomm has received a US license to sell some 4G smartphone chips to Huawei
(Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc on Friday received a license from the U.S. government to sell 4G mobile phone chips to China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, an exemption to U.S. trade restr...
Sources: Oracle, working with US investors who own a stake in ByteDance, held preliminary talks to acquire TikTok's operations in US, Canada, Australia, and NZ
Tech group is working with investors in effort to outbid Microsoft after Trump divestment order
TikTok starts a Twitter account and website, aggregating positive news stories, to “set the record straight” about “misinformation” regarding TikTok
Nathan Crooks / Bloomberg :
Trump's executive order to ban TikTok by Sept. 20 is a gross abuse of power and sets an alarming precedent for the executive branch's control over software
An alarming precedent for government control over software — For months, President Trump has been teasing some kind of ban on TikTok …
US government will amend its prohibitions on US companies doing business with China's Huawei to let them work together on standards for 5G networks
As tech companies cancel events into 2021, Consumer Technology Association says next January's CES will take place “both physically in Las Vegas and digitally”
time to herd everyone into giant rooms full of screens, robots and drones during a deadly pandemic https://twitter.com/... X A-Xii Mims / @mims : The only way this works is if we ...