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Silicon Valley

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. screen time
    Why Every App Now Feels Like TikTok, But WorseAlgorithmic videos are killing social media.
    By John Herrman
  4. screen time
    Is AI Coming for Coders First?The tech industry is running a big experiment on itself.
    By John Herrman
  5. life in pixels
    Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse?Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland.
    By Paul Murray
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. big tech
    The Silicon Valley LoopHow the dot-com crash created Palo Alto’s clueless investor class.
    By Malcolm Harris
  12. 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
  13. screen time
    Why Artificial Intelligence Often Feels Like MagicThis is no ordinary next big thing for Silicon Valley.
    By John Herrman
  14. 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
  15. screen time
    Twitter Is Just a Guy NowAt the company — and on the platform — there’s no escaping Elon.
    By John Herrman
  16. twitter
    Did Elon Musk Just Kill Twitter With a Google Form? Apparently, Twitter employees did not want to be “hard core.”
    By Danielle Cohen
  17. screen time
    Why Elon Wants to Make Them PayNice Twitter account you got there. Shame if something happened to it.
    By John Herrman
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. celebrity weddings
    Sheryl Sandberg Got Married This WeekendShe and Tom Bernthal had a western-themed wedding in Wyoming.
    By Danielle Cohen
  21. celebrity
    Nicole Shanahan Denies Having an Affair With Elon MuskHer lawyer called the WSJ story an “outright lie.”
    By Danielle Cohen
  22. the streaming wars
    Netflix to Its Techies: Shut UpTech workers at Netflix thought the company would always value their feedback. How naïve.
    Zoë Schiffer
  23. 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
  24. big tech
    Pity the BillionaireSilicon Valley’s oligarch class can’t stop feeling sorry for itself.
    By Jacob Silverman
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. silicon valley
    The Elizabeth Holmes Verdict Is No Reckoning for Silicon ValleyElizabeth Holmes was convicted, not her way of doing business.
    By Ankush Khardori
  34. just asking questions
    How Jack Dorsey Failed TwitterScott Galloway dances on the outgoing CEO’s grave.
    By James D. Walsh
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. the law
    T.J. Miller’s Fake Bomb Threat Charge DroppedProsecutors partly blamed his past brain surgery.
    By Justin Curto
  40. 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
  41. media
    Facebook Blocks All Sharing of News in AustraliaThe unprecedented move is the result of a proposed law requiring online platforms to pay news sources for displaying and linking to their work.
    By Matt Stieb
  42. end-times
    The Most Important Takeaways From Big Tech’s Deplatforming of TrumpBetween San Francisco and Washington, the power shifts by the day.
    By Scott Galloway As told to James D. Walsh
  43. silicon valley
    Google Workers Are UnionizingThe news follows years of bad press for the tech giant.
    By Sarah Jones
  44. silicon valley
    ‘Beginning of the End’: Scott Galloway on Antitrust Lawsuits Against FacebookFirst the government came after Google, now they want to break apart Mark Zuckerberg’s company. It’s part of a trend.
    By James D. Walsh
  45. late capitalism
    America Has Central Planners. We Just Call Them ‘Venture Capitalists.’Venture capitalists guide significant portions of industrial development by using their vast wealth to subsidize their favorite money-losing firms.
    By Eric Levitz
  46. silicon valley
    Is Palantir’s Crystal Ball Just Smoke and Mirrors?An inside look at how Big Data’s scariest, most secretive unicorn got its start.
    By Sharon Weinberger
  47. vision 2021
    Biden 2020: Change That Wall Street Liberals Can Believe In?Biden seems interested in redistributing income, but not in challenging the private power of his party’s favorite industries.
    By Eric Levitz
  48. burners
    Alas, Zoom Burning Man Is Upon UsBecause of COVID-19, Burners must dress up in elaborate costumes and erect their tents at home.
    By Hannah Gold
  49. conservatism
    The Big Tech Hearing Showed That Anti-Monopoly Is a Partisan IssueWith token exceptions, Republicans don’t want Silicon Valley’s giants to be less powerful, only more conservative.
    By Eric Levitz
  50. the top line
    Why Do Food Delivery Companies Lose Money?One common theory is that they are planning to raise their prices someday. I think something else is going on.
    By Josh Barro
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