Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaks during the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 on November 1, 2021, in Glasgow, United Kingdom. | Photo by Yves Herman – WPA Pool / Getty Images More than 30,000 people representing governments, businesses, and environmental and human rights groups around the world are expected to gather next week to…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is being sued in a class-action lawsuit filed by former employees laid off as part of a mass firing instigated by the company’s new owner, Elon Musk. The lawsuit alleges that the workers were not given enough notice of their firing in accordance with both the federal…
Archaeologists digging during an excavation. Deposit Photos Even the most fantastic, fascinating historic places on the planet can’t escape climate change. A study published earlier this week in the journal Antiquities finds that many of the world’s most treasured archaeological sites are at risk due to increasing threats from climate change, showing again how no location on…
Stack Commerce We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Shopping for your loved ones for the holidays can come with some added stress. And while there’s no shortage of things that don’t make the end of the year easy, wasting money on overly…
An estimated 3,700 Twitter employees are losing their job today. Deposit Photos This story is developing. Elon Musk is wasting no time following through on rumors of his promise to gut Twitter’s workforce. Upon his recent $44 billion purchase of the social media platform, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO floated firing about half of the…
Deposit Photos A typical hobbyist drone is made by assembling electronic parts on frames made of carbon fiber or plastic. But as these flying machines continue to proliferate, it’s worth remembering that drones can come in many forms. As an extreme case, consider a drone recently shared on Twitter. The quadcopter looks like it was…
Twitter is being sued for not giving employees advanced written notice of a mass layoff, in violation of worker protection laws including the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act as well as the California WARN Act, both of which require 60 days of advance notice. Following Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, the company began…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Oh what a week. What a week. Things are busier than ever at TechCrunch, where we’re coming out of our post-conference stupor and charing straight back into a packed news cycle. Sure, Musk is…
Microsoft has warned businesses that many still need to up their security protections in order to stay safe from some of the worst threats around right now. The company has released its annual Microsoft Digital Defence Report (MDDR) for 2022, offering alarming data on the threats such as identity theft, ransomware and phishing attacks that…
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