Author: cindy
When he moved to a new country last October, he got a new phone number. Ugo, who lives in Europe, where WhatsApp is very popular, didn’t immediately register his new phone number with the app, but was able to continue using it as normal. It was only when I told WhatsApp that I had a new phone number. His profile picture changed to that of a young woman, and his phone was flooded with new messages from Italian-speaking strangers, including from a group chat he had suddenly been added to. I was. . Hugo, who does not want to reveal…
It’s far from perfect, but if you’re used to the days when Twitter was a surefire place to digest all sorts of breaking news, politics, celebrity gossip, or personal thoughts, it’s time to embrace the new reality. . Twitter is becoming a degraded product. In the four months since Elon Musk took over the company, the app experienced major glitches. For example, there were several hours last week when users around the world were unable to post Tweets, send messages, or follow new accounts. Like other social media networks, Twitter has always experienced periodic outages, but under Musk, the app’s…
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who has led the world’s largest video site for the past nine years, is stepping down from her role. She will be replaced by her longtime lieutenant, Neil Mohan. In a letter sent to YouTube employees, Wojcicki said he was leaving to “start a new chapter focused on my family, health and personal projects that I am passionate about.” I was. During her tenure, YouTube became increasingly important to business for Google, which acquired the site in 2006, and Alphabet, the holding company that owns both companies. In 2022, YouTube generated her $29.2 billion in ad…
A massive bipartisan push against Big Tech in the new Congress looks set to protect children. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was quoted as saying that passing them was a priority for him. I’m here. President Joe Biden recently said the same thing. If this week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings show any indication about protecting children online, they could pass. Witnesses testified about how children are being harmed by online content and platforms that help push it to audiences of mostly friendly senators. None of it has become law, but the new Congress seems keen to make it happen. In…
2022 has been a miserable year for Meta. Year-on-year, the stock price fell 65%, he laid off 11,000 people, and employee morale plummeted. However, there are signs that things are improving. Earlier this month, the company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings, and the stock is up more than 20% in his one day. Almost every other major tech company continues to struggle, laying off thousands of employees, but the stock market has never recovered anywhere near Meta. According to an internal memo from one of the company’s chief executives obtained by Recode, this progress may have been exaggerated, and the company…
IntroductionThe Benefits of Investing in Renewable EnergyThe Pros and Cons of Different Renewable Energy SourcesHow to Make Your Home More Energy Efficient with Renewable EnergyThe Latest Developments in Renewable Energies TechnologyExploring the Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy Introduction Renewable energy is a form of energy generated from natural sources that are renewable, such as the sun, wind, water, and biomass. Renewable energy sources are abundant, clean, and can be used to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. sustainable forms of energy technologies are becoming increasingly cost-competitive with traditional fossil fuel sources and offer a much more sustainable option for powering…
Kelsey can’t do her job without her medication. The resident physician in Wisconsin, who is in her early 30s, takes the generic version of a stimulant called Concerta to treat her narcolepsy as well as her attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Untreated, her ADHD makes it difficult to keep focus and do routine tasks, and the narcolepsy makes it impossible to stay awake. “If I sit down for any length of time, like to read a book or emails, I’ll pretty much fall asleep within five minutes or so,” Kelsey said. “Around noon, I get this heaviness, that feeling…
let’s say you want to take yourself magic mike last dance at the AMC 34th Street Theater in Manhattan on Friday. It could happen! Regular tickets are available for $26.88. Or you can pick a seat in the middle of the theater and pay $1 more. If this was a Knicks game or a Broadway show, this wouldn’t be a big deal. Consumers are familiar with the idea of paying a lot for seats based on desirability and demand. Front-row tickets cost thousands of dollars; nosebleeds seeing foreigners in Las Vegas are more affordable. But for the beleaguered film industry,…
When Rob Fishman, a former account executive at a tech startup, was laid off in January, he wasn’t sure how to talk about it. Even though tens of thousands of tech employees at startups like his — and at major tech companies like Google, Meta, and Microsoft (which owns LinkedIn) — were being laid off, there was still, he said, a stigma attached to talking about it. But he wanted people to know he was in the market for a new job, so he decided to post on LinkedIn. Fishman wrote a lighthearted, self-deprecating post listing out everything he did…
Super Bowl LVI was only a year ago, but some of the ads I saw back then made it feel like a very different time. The future of the Internet was all about cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and the Metaverse. A company that didn’t exist a decade or three before him spent big bucks to establish itself as a major player in his Web3, while older established companies made their claims in the same world. tried to claim That world won’t last long. Over the past year, Web3 has failed, Big Tech stocks have flipped, and AI is currently cornering the field…