The Race to Fill Crypto’s FTX-Shaped Hole
FTX demonstrated what can go wrong when a crypto exchange is given the latitude to operate in an opaque fashion and with minimal external oversight. It...
Blood, Guns, and Broken Scooters: Inside the Chaotic Rise and Fall of Bird
In a minivan with the rear seats ripped out, John is chasing one of his 250 electric scooters down a California highway. He finds it 10...
New York’s Airbnb Ban Is Causing a Christmas Crunch
Christmas is in full swing in New York City; lines snake through Midtown as tourists oggle department store windows and the Rockefeller Center tree, and the...
What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home
For Big Tech, there are few better places to experiment with data center heating than in the Nordics. This idea works best when data centers can...
The Obscure Google Deal That Defines America’s Broken Privacy Protections
Joseph Jerome, who left privacy advocacy to work on Meta’s augmented reality data policies for two years before being laid off in May, says he grew...
Lamborghini Revuelto 2024 Review, Specs, Price, Availability
Such is the fluidity of this interchange between electric and combustion that, after a time, you stop thinking of the car as being a hybrid at...
EU Investigates Elon Musk’s X for Spreading Illegal Content
The relationship between Elon Musk and the European Union deteriorated further on Monday, with the bloc launching a formal investigation into the way X has been...
McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup
A little over three years have passed since McDonald’s sent out an email to thousands of its restaurant owners around the world that abruptly cut short...
Massive Layoffs Hit Troubled Robotaxi Developer Cruise
Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving development subsidiary, will lay off almost a quarter of its workforce—about 900 employees—the company announced Thursday. The cuts are part of a...