John Matze, CEO of Parler, a buzzy Twitter clone for conservatives, has a message for users trying to test the boundaries of the service’s free speech ethos: Free speech has its limits. Posting pictures of […]
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Sparrow Song Goes ‘Viral’
White-throated sparrows in British Columbia are whistling a new tune and it’s going viral across Canada. What started as a minor change to a common song has now morphed into a continent-wide phenomenon before our […]
Searching for Our Destiny in Data
Perhaps our modern obsessions with predictive algorithms and numerical forecasts are best understood as a continuation of the ancient divinatory impulse. Since the beginnings of history, our ancestors sought knowledge and understanding about their lives, […]
Senior Zoox Engineers Leave After Amazon Acquisition
Last week, Amazon bought self-driving startup Zoox for over $1billion. Now, two of Zoox’s longest serving engineers have left to work for Alphabet subsidiary and rival, Waymo. According to an exclusive from The Information, two […]
The Black Card for Influencers
The Karat Black Card offers credit limits determined by an influencer’s social metrics, revenue streams, and cash in hand. For now, Karat wants to be the flashy card in every influencer’s wallet. But eventually, the […]
Facebook Ad Boycott Sinks Stock
Unilever, one of the world’s largest advertisers, said it would stop spending money with Facebook’s properties this year. The decision by the maker of major consumer goods like Dove soap and Hellmann’s mayonnaise to follow […]
Why Venture Capital Doesn’t Build the Things We Need
In the 1950s and ’60s, technology took us to space. In the 1980s and ’90s, technology helped spread democracy. Now our national mission was … to be able to never leave the house? Zoom helps […]
Finding Love During the Pandemic
Tinder CEO Elie Seidman joins Vergecast host Nilay Patel and Verge senior reporter Ashley Carman for a chat about the future of the platform. Nilay Patel: How have things changed for Tinder in the midst […]
Technology Ecosystems Spread Around the World
Startup Genome’s data illustrates the democratization of tech ecosystems, or regions with a lot of tech startups and the infrastructure to make them viable. This democratization is most evident in Asia-Pacific, which now boasts 30% […]