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  1. screen time
    The First AI Gadgets Are a Cautionary TaleThese wearable devices feel new and ambitious — and that’s the problem.
    By John Herrman
  2. chapters
    Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated MediaKara Swisher’s front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe.
    By Kara Swisher
  3. screen time
    The Vision Pro’s Biggest Problem Is AppleNobody wants to lend a hand to the richest tech company on earth.
    By John Herrman
  4. screen time
    Is Your Phone the Reason You Feel Broke?The smartphone economy is booming — and it also feels awful.
    By John Herrman
  5. crime
    What’s the Matter With Stanford?The Sam Bankman-Fried scandal reveals a lot about Silicon Valley’s favorite school.
    By Theo Baker
  6. the money game
    Mark Zuckerberg Corrected Me About His Sweater on InstagramIt turns out the Meta CEO spends hundreds, not thousands, on hoodies. I regret the error.
    By Jen Wieczner
  7. the money game
    How Loro Piana Became Silicon Valley’s Favorite FlexThe luxury Italian fashion brand is no longer quite as understated as it once was.
    By Jen Wieczner
  8. screen time
    Lies, Damned Lies, and Social-Media MetricsThose view counts on Twitter, TikTok, and Netflix? Be very skeptical.
    By John Herrman
  9. the money game
    Wall Street Is Finally Ready for Its Next IPO SeasonInstacart’s long-gestating stock-market debut is another sign that a recession is nowhere in sight.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  10. the system
    Richard Hanania’s Chilling NormalityThe revealing case of the anti-woke crusader.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  11. screen time
    Are Apple’s New Goggles a Nightmare? Maybe.The Vision Pro — think of it as a face computer — is surreal, fascinating, unsettling, and $3,500.
    By John Herrman
  12. chat room
    Mrs. Davis’s Chris Diamantopoulos Pushed for JQ’s Banana Hammock“I mean, come on, this guy wears a snap-at-the-crotch, orange wrestler’s jumper. This guy’s not wearing nice-looking Calvin Kleins.”
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  13. screen time
    Why Every App Now Feels Like TikTok, But WorseAlgorithmic videos are killing social media.
    By John Herrman
  14. screen time
    Is AI Coming for Coders First?The tech industry is running a big experiment on itself.
    By John Herrman
  15. life in pixels
    Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse?Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland.
    By Paul Murray
  16. silicon valley
    Silicon Valley Bank Execs Investigated for Selling Stock Before CollapseThe Feds are reportedly looking into the CEO and CFO, who scheduled millions of shares to be sold less than two weeks before the bank went bust.
    By Matt Stieb
  17. silicon valley
    10,000 People at Meta Will Lose Their JobsAfter Meta lost $700 billion in market cap last year, Mark Zuckerberg announced a mass layoff to make sure this is its “Year of Efficiency.”
    By Matt Stieb
  18. screen time
    ‘It’s a Big F - - - - - - Mess’: How SVB’s Collapse Is Creating ChaosWhat was America’s 16th largest bank now no longer exists. Lots of regular people are already being hurt.
    By John Herrman
  19. feature
    ‘Call Me a Scammer to My Face’Madison Campbell is determined to get DIY rape kits into survivors’ hands, no matter who tells her it’s a bad idea.
    By Angelina Chapin and Katie Heaney
  20. alright
    True Blood and Silicon Valley Are Getting the Basic-Cable TreatmentAnd someone will have to edit the episodes to a TV-MA rating.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  21. big tech
    The Silicon Valley LoopHow the dot-com crash created Palo Alto’s clueless investor class.
    By Malcolm Harris
  22. neighborhood news
    Welcome to the Neighborhood™A couple has announced plans to move up to 1,000 like-minded people into their corner of Bushwick.
    By Clio Chang
  23. screen time
    Why Artificial Intelligence Often Feels Like MagicThis is no ordinary next big thing for Silicon Valley.
    By John Herrman
  24. screen time
    Amazon’s New Car Cam Takes Personal Surveillance on the RoadIt’s marketed as a security solution. But there will be other uses.
    By John Herrman
  25. screen time
    Twitter Is Just a Guy NowAt the company — and on the platform — there’s no escaping Elon.
    By John Herrman
  26. twitter
    Did Elon Musk Just Kill Twitter With a Google Form? Apparently, Twitter employees did not want to be “hard core.”
    By Danielle Cohen
  27. screen time
    Why Elon Wants to Make Them PayNice Twitter account you got there. Shame if something happened to it.
    By John Herrman
  28. screen time
    It’s Official: Meta Is a DisasterThe dismal quarterly results make it clear that the company formerly known as Facebook is an absolute and total mess.
    By John Herrman
  29. screen time
    Elon Musk’s Incredible Shrinking FutureHe charmed his fans with visions of Mars and cool cars. But an “everything app” just sounds like a nightmare.
    By John Herrman
  30. celebrity weddings
    Sheryl Sandberg Got Married This WeekendShe and Tom Bernthal had a western-themed wedding in Wyoming.
    By Danielle Cohen
  31. celebrity
    Nicole Shanahan Denies Having an Affair With Elon MuskHer lawyer called the WSJ story an “outright lie.”
    By Danielle Cohen
  32. the streaming wars
    Netflix to Its Techies: Shut UpTech workers at Netflix thought the company would always value their feedback. How naïve.
    Zoë Schiffer
  33. the money game
    ‘The Poster Child’ of the Tech MeltdownSecretive hedge fund Tiger Global changed the rules on tech investing. Then it all went bad.
    By Michelle Celarier
  34. big tech
    Pity the BillionaireSilicon Valley’s oligarch class can’t stop feeling sorry for itself.
    By Jacob Silverman
  35. girlbossery
    Elizabeth Holmes’s Old Tweets Are Miraculously Still UpIt’s like watching The Dropout unfold in real time … on Twitter … with 100 percent more Margaret Thatcher quotes.
    By Rebecca Alter
  36. mark zuckerberg
    Zuckerberg Has Burned $500 Billion Turning Facebook to MetaThe social-media Goliath has fallen out of the top-ten largest companies in the world by market capitalization.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  37. media
    Parler CEO Says the MAGA Answer to Twitter Is ‘Grace’The pitch for conservative social media is anti–cancel culture, but its biggest problem may simply be TikTok.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  38. peloton
    Peloton Could Be the WeWork of the PandemicThe company thrived during the first stages of COVID-19, then failed to plan for what came after.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  39. business
    Mark Zuckerberg’s Disaster Is Taking Silicon Valley With ItHundreds of billions of dollars disappeared overnight, and it may get worse.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  40. silicon valley
    The Worst Day of Mark Zuckerberg’s ReignFacebook lost nearly $200 billion in value because while his head was in the metaverse, his company was being eaten alive in the real world.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  41. art
    How Agnieszka Pilat Became Silicon Valley’s Favorite Artist“It’s our obligation to have a relationship with machines so they grow up to be good citizens.”
    By Shawn McCreesh
  42. the money game
    Jack Dorsey’s Silicon Valley Grudge Match Has Only Gotten WeirderThe former Twitter CEO and his archnemesis Marc Andreessen are still dunking on each other.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  43. silicon valley
    The Elizabeth Holmes Verdict Is No Reckoning for Silicon ValleyElizabeth Holmes was convicted, not her way of doing business.
    By Ankush Khardori
  44. just asking questions
    How Jack Dorsey Failed TwitterScott Galloway dances on the outgoing CEO’s grave.
    By James D. Walsh
  45. silicon valley
    At Twitter, @jack Is Out As CEO and @paraga Is InJack Dorsey is now leading only one large Silicon Valley company.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  46. tech
    How Miami Seduced Silicon ValleyAwash in coders, crypto, and capital, the city is loving — and beginning to shape — its newest industry.
    By Benjamin Wallace
  47. silicon valley
    Book Excerpt: Peter Thiel’s Untold College StoriesHis ideology dominates Silicon Valley. It began to form when he was an angry young man.
    By Max Chafkin
  48. gavin newsom recall
    Gavin Newsom and the End of the California DreamThe recall drive against the governor is something of a joke. But the frustrations with the status quo are dead serious.
    By Patrick Redford
  49. the law
    T.J. Miller’s Fake Bomb Threat Charge DroppedProsecutors partly blamed his past brain surgery.
    By Justin Curto
  50. media
    Inside the Nasty Battle Between Tech and JournalismSilicon Valley feels picked on by “woke” journalists “who can’t code.” Reporters feel picked on by petty zillionaires with anger-management problems.
    By Benjamin Wallace
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