Lina Khan’s Plan to Liberate US Workers
[ad_1] “I am dubious that three unelected technocrats have somehow hit on the right way to think about noncompetes and that all the preceding legal minds to examine this issue…
Welcome to the Wet Hot AI Chatbot Summer
[ad_1] Late last year, I attended an event hosted by Google to celebrate its AI advances. The company’s domain in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood now extends literally onto the Hudson River, and…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Making Meta Look Smart
[ad_1] It was the first day of April 2022, and I was sitting in a law firm’s midtown Manhattan conference room at a meeting of Meta’s Oversight Board, the independent body…
Tony Fadell Is Trying to Build the iPod of Crypto
[ad_1] Fadell looks at the photos of the credit-card-sized wallet and its innovative E Ink touchscreen. When Ledger reveals it on December 6, it will cost $279. That’s a rounding…
Good Luck Getting Elon Musk to Stop Tweeting
[ad_1] Why do it? When I wrote about Musk’s tweeting earlier this year, I leaned toward the idea that Twitter itself had led him into this 280-character recklessness. I described…
Big Tech’s Layoffs Will Fuel the Industry’s Future
[ad_1] Hi everyone. Welcome to Plaintext, the newsletter that’s cheaper than a blue check mark—and guaranteed bot-free! The Plain View This was the month when Big Tech got smaller. The…
Inside Meta’s Oversight Board: 2 Years of Pushing Limits
[ad_1] Ultimately, the issue came up in a March 2022 meeting with Clegg, who seemed taken aback by the board members’ frustration. He promised to break the logjam, and a…
Anthony Fauci’s Sign-Off Message | WIRED
[ad_1] Beginning in 2023, we won’t have Dr. Anthony Fauci to kick around any more. After 38 years in government service, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy…
Elon Musk’s Need for Speed Puts Twitter in Peril
[ad_1] Hi, everyone. Life is good because the Phillies are in the World Series! (Disclosure: I’m from Philadelphia.) Uh-oh, they just got no-hit. Booooo! The Plain View In May 1998,…
Why Meta Is Tanking—and How Zuckerberg Can Fix It
[ad_1] 2012: Facebook plays catch-up with mobile. Not many people realize that Facebook had an existential scare when the action in computing shifted from the desktop to our pockets. This…
What If the Metaverse Is Better Without Virtual Reality?
[ad_1] Another part of the keynote was a scripted conversation between Meta’s vice president of metaverse, Vishal Shah, and his boss, chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth. After touting the variety…
What’s Deepfake Bruce Willis Doing in My Metaverse?
[ad_1] Hi, everyone. So now Elon wants to buy Twitter, allegedly to help him build X, “the everything” app. Sweet of him to name it after his kid. The Plain…
Meta Rethinks the Philosophy of the Facebook Feed
[ad_1] When I tell Facebook I want to see more or less of something, does that mean I’m telling it, for instance, that I don’t want to see politics? For…
Why Jann Wenner Let WIRED Start the ‘Rolling Stone’ of Tech
[ad_1] Rock idols, movie stars, and presidential candidates who quoted Bob Dylan—not tech giants—were Rolling Stone’s stock in trade. Wenner knew Steve Jobs and noted some similarities—when they met in…
Amazon Wants to Cocoon You With ‘Ambient Intelligence’
[ad_1] That project is now personified by today’s announcement of Halo Rise, the $140 “no-contact bedside sleep tracker, smart alarm and wake-up light” that picks up signals from your bedroom…
Bogus Fears of Censorship Could Spell the End of Content Moderation
[ad_1] Hi, everyone. Glad to hear from Joe Biden that the pandemic is over. But who’s going to tell the coronavirus? The Plain View The linguist George Lakoff is famous…
The Next Silicon Valley Will Be in the US Heartland
[ad_1] The Rise of the Rest investments you extoll certainly benefited from that exuberance—and now may suffer. Some Silicon Valley venture capitalists who were focused on rising cities might pull…
Neal Stephenson Named the Metaverse. Now, He’s Building It
[ad_1] Hi, everybody. Elizabeth is mourned, Ukraine is battling back, and new Covid vaccines are here. But this week will be remembered for the Merge, making crypto more useful and…
Silicon Valley Is Obsessed With Its Evil Twin, TikTok
[ad_1] Hi, everyone. Summer is gone but not the heat. People might return to the office not because of employer mandates, but to save on their air-conditioning bills. The Plain…
Twitter, Meta, and Blowing the Whistle on Big Tech
[ad_1] Hi, folks. We won’t have Fauci to kick around much longer. But we’ll always have Covid. The Plain View In late 1969, Daniel Ellsberg made a brave and consequential…
Silicon Valley Conservatives Are Stepping Out of the Shadows
[ad_1] That stigma no longer seems to apply. There may not necessarily be more who lean right, but you no longer see stories with titles like “The Secret Republicans of…
Larry Brilliant Says Covid Rapid Antigen Tests Are Bad for Public Health
[ad_1] You were one of those people with four doses. That’s right, and I was also able to get a prophylactic monoclonal antibody. That’s probably why I think I got…
Tim Wu, Biden’s Anti-Big Tech Adviser, Has Been Living the Dream
[ad_1] Wu even suggests that we’ve turned a corner in stemming Big Tech’s dominance. “Ten years ago or whenever, they were able to get away with acquiring potential competitors, or…
The Supreme Court Accidentally Spurred a Data Privacy Push
[ad_1] Hi, folks. The winner of the week is Reed Hastings, who lost a million subscribers but saw Netflix’s stock skyrocket because he didn’t lose more. What a showman! The…
Even Twitter Thinks Elon Musk’s Tweets Are Out of Control
[ad_1] Hi, folks. If inflation makes everything more expensive, why are stock prices falling? Asking for a 401(k). The Plain View In all the months since Elon Musk has been…