Interview with Walmart's e-commerce chief Marc Lore, who is leaving the company at the end of the month Techmeme · 1 week ago
What is Signal, and why is everybody downloading it right now? The encrypted messaging app is currently the most downloaded app on both app stores. Reddit · 2 weeks ago
eMarketer: US e-commerce sales, up 12%-16% in recent years, will have grown by 30%+ in 2020 and Amazon's US retail business grew an estimated 39% YoY in 2020 Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
SoulCycle changed fitness. Its culture and toxic work environment made growth impossible. – Vox Pinboard · 4 weeks ago
Privacy laws in the US had momentum at the beginning of 2020, but the pandemic has focused Congress elsewhere and forced everyone to give up more data online Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Alloy, a Reid Hoffman-backed political data startup for Democrats, imploded after four senior employees, who had all complained about a colleague, were fired Techmeme · 1 month ago
AI has cracked a problem that stumped biologists for 50 years. It’s a huge deal. Reddit · 2 months ago
Biden transition: How he could act fast and outrun Republican opposition to his presidency – Vox Pinboard · 2 months ago
Obama: The internet is “the single biggest threat to our democracy” | President Obama loved the internet. Now he has second thoughts. Reddit · 2 months ago
Social media is making a bad political situation worse | America’s polarization problem is bigger than we thought it would be. Reddit · 2 months ago
Is social media ready for a Covid-19 vaccine? – Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are bracing for more misinformation. Reddit · 2 months ago
Trump’s performance with Hispanic voters in 2020 should prompt some progressive rethinking – Vox Pinboard · 3 months ago
California's Proposition 24 is set to expand and strengthen CA's recent privacy law, the CCPA, and create a Privacy Protection Agency to help enforce the rules Techmeme · 3 months ago
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are pushing for a reform to CA tax law that would use property taxes to fund education, spending almost $11M on the effort Techmeme · 3 months ago
Facebook and Twitter said they would crack down on QAnon, but the delusion seems unstoppable – Can anyone stop QAnon? Reddit · 3 months ago
Trump wants to end Obamacare. He has no plan to ensure preexisting conditions are covered. – Vox Pinboard · 3 months ago
Almost 2,000 US election offices have applied for Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $250M gift for election infrastructure; grants ranged from $5,000 to $15M Techmeme · 4 months ago
Leaked memo from February reveals Amazon's plans to invest in software to analyze data on unions, alongside non-union "threats" like crime and weather Techmeme · 4 months ago
Google and Facebook hate a proposed privacy law. News publishers should embrace it. Reddit · 4 months ago
An inside look at the world of TikTok "collab houses" in Los Angeles, amid allegations of exploitative talent managers withholding money from influencers Techmeme · 4 months ago
Sources: Democratic Party leaders say Facebook has failed to stem the tide of misinformation on its platform, despite monthly conversations with the company Techmeme · 4 months ago
While livestreaming video e-commerce has taken off in China, it has yet to go mainstream in the US, but Walmart hopes it can lead the way with its bet on TikTok Techmeme · 4 months ago
We have to accelerate clean energy innovation to curb the climate crisis. Here’s how. Reddit · 4 months ago
Getting broadband internet to everyone in the US is a political and policy issue, which will need a multi-layered effort at the local, state, and federal level Techmeme · 4 months ago
Give everybody the internet – We need to get the internet to everyone in America. Here’s what it would take to do it. Reddit · 4 months ago
Apple wants to stop advertisers from following you around the web. Facebook has other ideas. Reddit · 5 months ago
A look at Remark Holdings, supplying 100+ Chinese schools, and a Las Vegas school, with AI-powered thermal imaging tech to monitor COVID-19 safety compliance Techmeme · 5 months ago
Instagram has been taken over by "social justice slideshows" that use the 10-image carousel format to inform and educate about myriad issues Techmeme · 5 months ago
Biden's VP pick Kamala Harris, who has close ties with tech execs and has dodged questions about breaking up Big Tech, is likely to generate excitement in SV Techmeme · 5 months ago
Bill Gates Is Spending $150 Million To Try To Make A Coronavirus Vaccine As Cheap As $3 Reddit · 6 months ago
Big Tech's antitrust hearing is largely theater, producing soundbites with little bearing on rule-changing and law-making, but it's still a valuable spectacle Techmeme · 6 months ago
A brief history of video chat, how it has evolved, and how the pandemic has forced big tech to develop new ways to make it feel more like real-life interactions Techmeme · 6 months ago