Wake up, companies: Worker power is growing. Everyone’s hopping jobs, demanding livable wages (gasp—the audacity!), and leaving toxic workplaces in the dust. Jumping to new companies is a popular exit path, but some workers are going the freelance route, or more radically, quitting with no plan at all. When you’re hiring, you’re not only competing…
Fully’s Jarvis Bamboo Standing Desk is discounted by 20 percent right now. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Fully is joining the growing list of retailers kicking off their Black Friday-adjacent sales. It’s having a site-wide sale this month, taking 20 percent off everything ranging from standing desks to office chairs. Fully makes…
Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images We’re one week into Elon Musk’s stewardship of Twitter, and according to Musk, it has already spurred a “massive drop in revenue.” Or not, and that’s just what Musk is saying to distract everyone from the absolutely heartless layoffs of thousands of people that have already spurred one…
The iPad Mini is just one of many Apple devices currently on sale in the run-up to Black Friday. | Image: Dieter Bohn / The Verge Want to get a head start on your holiday shopping before the Black Friday madness begins? Despite the fact it’s still a few weeks away, many major retailers are…
Enlarge (credit: VIEW press / Contributor | Corbis News) A day after it was reported that Twitter would lay off 50 percent of staff, Twitter has temporarily shut down its offices to begin layoffs. Some staff told Reuters that hundreds of employees who got this news yesterday immediately logged into Slack to say goodbyes before…
Enlarge / PS5 owners, ask yourselves: Does this landscape truly look as good as it could? Destiny 2 developer Bungie says a “notable” number of PS5 owners are still playing the worse-looking PS4 version of the game on their high-end console hardware. Bungie first offered a free PS5 update for the PS4 version of Destiny 2…
Enlarge / Virgin Galactic’s new vehicle, VSS Imagine, is lighter than its predecessor, VSS Unity. Will it ever fly? (credit: Virgin Galactic) Space tourism company Virgin Galactic released its third-quarter financial results on Thursday. As one might imagine of a spaceflight company that has not flown since June 2021, the financials are pretty disastrous. The…
Three ring-tailed lemurs hanging out in a tree. Deposit Photos Madagascar, besides being the inspiration for several animated films, is home to some of the world’s most interesting creatures. The island split from the African coast about 160 million years ago, and now sits about 250 miles off of the continent’s east coast in the…
The AfroTech Conference, one of the nation’s most prominent Black tech gatherings, will touch down in Austin on November 13 for its first in-person event since 2019. The event is put on annually by the publication AfroTech, with this year’s theme being web3. High-profile speakers for the conference include NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, billionaire Mark…
TechCrunch Sessions: Space is back! Happening December 6 — our third dedicated space event. This is a live, in-person event featuring the most influential people in the space industry, across public, private and defense. 2022 was a year that saw the commercial space industry undergo a lot of change, including significant consolidation, as well as…