Twitter is no longer enforcing its COVID-19 misinformation policy, scrapping it less than a month after Space Karen Elon Musk acquired the company. I’m shocked. This is my shocked face. “As the global community faces the COVID-19 pandemic together, Twitter is helping people find reliable information, connect with others, and follow what’s happening in real…
Tasha Adams/AP Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy on Tuesday. It’s the most significant charge related to the January 6, 2021, attack. Rhodes’ estranged wife told Insider she was happy with the conviction. Tasha Adams, the estranged wife of Oath Keepers’ founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes, was “thrilled” to learn of…
Anna Kim/Insider In her book, “Butts, a Backstory,” Heather Radke revealed how women’s sizes came to be. Measuring squads visited American households and only maintained white women’s measurements. A 1930s eugenics experiment is the reason women’s clothing sizes are inconsistent, as per Radke. A 1930s eugenics experiment is the reason women’s clothing sizes are incredibly…
Infosys building. Getty Images Indian techies were tripling salaries during the pandemic due to bloated demand for talent. But the tech sector — especially edutainment — has already begun feeling the pinch amid a global downsizing. The worst may come next year, a recruitment expert told Insider, who predicts a surge in layoffs in the…
You might have to buy Blue somewhere else. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter’s revamped Blue subscription might not be available as an in-app purchase on iOS when it eventually relaunches so that it can dodge Apple’s 30 percent cut of App Store purchases, according to Platformer. When the new Blue was…
Prismforce, an India-U.S. startup that provides IT and tech services companies with tools to build better talent supply chain, has raised $13.6 million in a Series A round led by Sequoia Capital India. IT providers spend a large part of their variable costs on hiring skilled employees. But finding those employees from the ever-growing talent…
Sam Bankman-Fried, left, and Elon Musk. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images, Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Arianna Huffington rebuked Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried as “burnout deniers.” In a Tuesday opinion piece, she suggested Musk’s “hardcore” approach is bad for business. The author and businesswoman co-founded a company in 2016 focused on ending the burnout…
Elon Musk sent Twitter staff a memo on Thursday confirming job cuts would be announced on Friday. Carina Johansen/Getty Images Elon Musk isn’t the first — or necessarily most powerful — exec to take on Apple’s App Store fees. Industry insiders from developers to CEOs have long decried the 30% fee, dubbed the “App Store…
Tim Cook and Elon Musk Justin Sullivan/Getty Images and Philip Pacheco/AFP via Getty Images A former Twitter executive weighed in on Elon Musk’s brewing conflict with Apple and its CEO, Tim Cook. Elon Musk had said Apple threatened to remove Twitter from its App Store “but won’t tell us why.” Roth said it would take…
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