A report from Bloomberg details the obstacles hampering Amazon’s efforts to get its delivery drone program off the ground, citing a high employee turnover rate and potential safety risks. According to Bloomberg, there were five crashes over the course of a four-month period at the company’s testing site in Pendleton, Read more…
As the labor market reorders, more Americans are making the leap from blue-collar jobs and hourly work to “new collar” roles that often involve tech skills and come with better pay and schedules. More than a tenth of Americans in low-paying roles in warehouses, manufacturing, hospitality and other hourly positions Read more…
Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, has accused a “finance gerontocracy” including Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon of hindering bitcoin’s progress. The outspoken libertarian tech investor described multibillionaire Buffett, the world’s richest investor, as the “sociopathic grandpa from Omaha” in a keynote address at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami Read more…
Pinterest is to block all climate misinformation, as the image-focused social network seeks to limit the spread of false and misleading claims. Under the new policy the site is committing to take down content that distorts or denies the facts of the climate crisis, whether posted as adverts or normal Read more…
No one wants to be left behind in the metaverse. Two more big companies tossed their hats — or at least dollars — into the metaverse ring on Monday, as North Carolina-based Epic Games announced a $2 billion investment that values it at $31.5 billion. Epic said the new funding Read more…
The newest member of Twitter’s board of directors — Elon Musk — tweeted new ideas for improving Twitter last night. “Everyone who signs up for Twitter Blue (i.e. pays $3/month) should get an authentication checkmark,” Musk suggested, adding later that “It would massively expand the verified pool & make bot Read more…
The newest member of Twitter’s board of directors just tweeted “Is Twitter dying?” That would be Elon Musk — who’d preceded the question with a list of Twitter’s ten most-followed accounts, noting that most of them “tweet rarely and post very little content.” And in follow-up tweets, Musk pointed out Read more…