Sources: Coinbase is testing an app from Ray Dalio's company Principles that lets staff rate each other on how well they exemplify Coinbase's 10 cultural tenets
often a terrible idea, but occasionally game-changing! We should all thank Coinbase for their service 😅 https://twitter.com/... Emma Jacobs / @emmavj : Coinbase lets employees eval...
Several women who attended Miami's Bitcoin 2022 conference were harassed and say the conference doesn't go far enough to enforce its anti-harassment policies
Several women who attended Miami's Bitcoin 2022 conference were harassed and say the conference didn't enforce its anti-harassment policies
For some women, inappropriate conduct from other conference-goers continued to haunt them online. — Miami's annual gathering of Bitcoin zealots began with a bull. Tweets: @wired ...
Laptops that US schools issued to students for remote learning are likely to have monitoring software, disproportionately affecting low-income students and PoC
Sidney Fussell / Wired : Tweets: @aclu and @pardesoteric Tweets: @aclu : Surveillance on school-issued devices forces children and families who can't afford their own devices to c...
Following Texas' abortion law, tech companies could face suits over providing on-demand rides to clinics, subpoenas requesting user data, and more
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol :
Lyft and Uber say they will cover legal fees for drivers who are sued under Texas' new abortion law for transporting women to abortion clinics
- Lyft and Uber said Friday they would cover legal fees for drivers on their respective platforms who are sued under Texas' restrictive abortion law that went into effect this week...
Dallas-based Match Group creates a fund to help cover costs for staff and dependents who need care outside of Texas after the state's near-total ban on abortion
Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg :
PitchBook: 3,000+ angel investors are expected to make their first deal in 2021, up from 2,725 in 2020; angels have invested $2.1B in H1 2021 vs. $2.6B in 2020
TikTok says it is testing TikTok Stories; source says Stories are available in a handful of markets outside the US
Twitter may have shut down its Stories features known as Fleets, but the Stories format will continue to invade other social platforms. TikTok today confirmed it's piloting …
YC's decision to remove two of its CEOs who critiqued the accelerator publicly from its program raises questions about how YC moderates its community
TechCrunch : Tweets: @pardesoteric , @lzsthw , and @martinsfp Tweets: Arielle Pardes / @pardesoteric : “I think YC has become an institution, and institutions are viewed with high...
Founders and VCs are flocking to Miami for “Miami Tech Week”, an impromptu event kicked off by a tweet from Delian Asparouhov, a principal at Founders Fund
Facebook's NPE team launches Hotline, a web-based app to let creators stream and record live video or audio Q&As, in public beta
Facebook's internal R&D group, NPE Team, has today launched its latest experiment, Hotline, into public beta testing. The web-based application …
Interviews with low-wage contract workers at Silicon Valley campuses show the existential threat to livelihoods from longterm COVID-19 closures
cooks, baristas, custodians, etc—in this WFH year https://www.wired.com/... @wired : Tens of thousands of people in Silicon Valley make a living by keeping tech campuses running. W...
Researchers find candidates and PACs are increasingly turning to influencers for the election as platforms like Facebook and Twitter clamp down on bots and ads
Arielle Pardes / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @pardesoteric Tweets: @wired : Nanoinfluencers tend to have closer relationships to their audience and higher engagement too. That kind...
The Police Data Accessibility Project, which started on Reddit, aims to aggregate all public police records into one easily searchable, open source database
The Police Data Accessibility Project aims to request, download, clean, and standardize public records that right now are overly difficult to find.
The 👁👄👁 stunt, a hyped beta of a fake app, exploited Silicon Valley's fixation on shiny new things, but raised $200K for charities
Last weekend, the stunt aimed to use Silicon Valley's love of shiny new things for charity. The result left people wondering about the memeification of movements.
Some Instacart workers are frustrated over the delay in safety kits the company promised them on April 2; Instacart says it caps the daily number of kit orders
containing masks, hand sanitizer, and thermometers—but two weeks later, Instacart workers told me they've been nearly impossible to order and have yet to materialize. #scoop for @W...
Facebook's experimental product unit debuts Tuned, an iOS app creating a “private space” for couples, letting them keep a photo diary, exchange notes, and more
a messaging tool for couples — is another example of how the tech industry has slowly privatized communication that once took place on open, unsiloed protocols. https://www.theverg...
Many Facebook groups have sprung up in response to coronavirus fears, offering information on emergency preparedness, blood banks, and coordinating local help
and look for ways to help each other. By @pardesoteric https://www.wired.com/...
A growing number of astrophysicists are leaving academia to join data science teams at tech companies amid a surging demand for machine learning expertise
Space scientists are abandoning the heavens to help you decide what to wear and watch and listen to. Whether it's stars or Stitch Fix, it's all about machine learning. Tweets: @wi...