“The train has started in #social-watercooler,” one employee said, referring to a Slack room Twitter employees have used in recent weeks to notify others that they are leaving.Jason Abbruzzese

“China is brainwashing the youth” might not just be a pet conspiracy theorySead Fadilpašić

Musk’s doubled down on the statistic that sparked the spat.Mitchell Clark

It’s a bad month for layoffs in tech.Amanda Yeo

Twitter chaos continues, following the purchase of the social network by Elon Musk. From engineers being asked to work crazy hours, to Musk pulling the plug on a Twitter Blue contract with more than 300 web publishers. Musk appointed himself as absolute dictator of Twitter by disbanding the original……

The Wuhan Institute of Virology, the cutting-edge biotech facility at the center of swirling suspicions about the pandemic’s onset, was far more troubled than previously known, explosive documents unearthed by a Senate research team reveal. Following the trail of evidence, Vanity Fair and ProPublica……

Going out of your way to get grossed out might seem like a contradiction of human nature. But it serves a strong evolutionary purpose.Bradley J. Irish

Jasper, a platform leveraging AI to generate marketing art and copy, has raised $125 million at a $1.5 billion valuation.Kyle Wiggers

Rising Taiwan-China and U.S.-China tensions have brought “more serious” challenges for the semiconductor industry, the chairman of Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC said on Wednesday.Sarah Wu

Ordinarily, the show at Central Academy of Technology and Arts in North Carolina would have gone off without a hitch. But Moms for Liberty got involved.The Daily Beast

’We are working on a product that has not found product market fit,” says an exec in a leaked memo.Alex Heath / @alexeheath

I’m Kitty Giraudel, a non-binary trans frontend developer based in Berlin, focused on accessibility and inclusivity.Kitty Giraudel

After a decade of explosive growth, the company formerly known as Facebook is planning to freeze hiring and restructure some teams.Taylor Hatmaker

Make sense of the proliferation of new Javascript web frameworks. A deep dive into the problems at scale and the recent evolution of innovation.

From the first moment you walk into a room people are making judgements about how much they like you. Fortunately, there are ways to improve your chancesTiffanie Wen

LEESBURG, Va. – Making his Premier League debut at 16, earning his first full England cap a few months later, Wayne Rooney once walked the path himself. He knows a thing or two about being a teenage phenom, and two decades later still holds several ‘youngest-ever’ records for both clubCharles Boehm

But it’s unclear what they’ll do next.Makena Kelly

The Sumerians, Maya and other ancient cultures created texts that have lasted hundreds and even thousands of years. Here’s what they can teach us about crafting an immortal message.Sophie Hardach

China is the world’s biggest polluter — but also the biggest investor in clean energy.Lili Pike

The initiative covers roads, playgrounds, and parking lots, and it has already cooled the surface by 10 to 12 degrees.Elissaveta M. Brandon

Life is short. Here’s how to cherish every day of it.Rachel Friedman

This week, a security researcher and blogger reiterated his claims that all VPNs on iOS are broken. According to researcher Michael Horowitz and ProtonVPN, every VPN on...Daniel Sims

Enjoying his time as an assistant with the US men’s national team and fully focused on preparations for the 2022 World Cup, Luchi Gonzalez didn’t expect to make a decision on his future anytime soon.Tom Bogert

‘SPACs are ideal for of a company that has huge potential but is going to take some time to mature,’ says D-Wave CEO Alan Baratz.Mark Sullivan

Researchers have identified a material that they believe makes a good candidate for use in quantum computers as it defies the normal laws of physics.Tushar Mehta

Musk became the figure everyone was looking for, but the answers we really need will come from collective action, writes Paris MarxParis Marx

Expanding to 22 metro areas, from 17 today.Jon Porter

The DOJ first filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google in 2021 over search and search-related advertising monopoly..Engadget