Elon Musk demands Twitter employees commit to ‘extremely hardcore’ culture or leave

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Elon Musk gave Twitter employees an ultimatum in a midnight email: commit to a “hardcore” culture at Twitter or leave with severance. The Washington Post reports that Musk has asked Twitter employees to sign an online form by 5PM ET today committing to “long hours at high intensity.”…

NASA gets its mojo back with a stunning nighttime launch of the SLS rocket

Enlarge / NASA’s Space Launch System rocket lifts off on Wednesday morning from Kennedy Space Center. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—The skies were auspicious during the wee hours of Wednesday morning, as the Artemis I mission ticked down its final seconds until liftoff. Ten, nine, eight seconds … Shining brightly, near the southern horizon, was the…

Escape from monkey mountain

After more than a week in Ubud, we thought we had the local monkeys figured out. We did some “research” while visiting Ubud’s Monkey Forrest. We chatted with hotel staff about the monkeys. And in the afternoons, while waiting out the day’s rain, we observed the monkeys from the safety of our room. Here’s a…

Donald Trump will run for president again in 2024, and the internet isn’t thrilled

Donald Trump has announced that he is running for U.S. president again. We may technically be in 2022, but in practice 2016 never really ended. “I will ensure that Joe Biden does not receive four more years,” Trump said in a rambling hour-long speech from his Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday night. “We will make America…