Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke told managers to help employees stay focused but "poor performance and divisiveness cannot be tolerated." | Continue reading
The WhatsApp privacy policy was delayed over confusion about whether users would share more data with Facebook, WhatsApp's parent company. | Continue reading
The US investigation into personnel falling ill around the world is focusing on whether Russia's GRU spy agency is involved, officials told Politico. | Continue reading
The practice is internally called "hire to fire," in which managers hire people they intend to fire within a year just to meet their turnover goal. | Continue reading
"When people can make more staying at home than going to work, they will stay at home," the National Owners Association wrote in a letter. | Continue reading
Having thrown a wrench into the mobile-ad industry with its app-privacy changes, Apple is quietly expanding its own ads business. | Continue reading
The knawed bones of Neanderthals who were hunted and mauled by hyenas have been found in an Italian cave just outside of Rome. | Continue reading
Bezos hasn't previously had a boat of his own, but he's often spotted on mega-yachts belonging to the likes of David Geffen and Diane von Furstenberg. | Continue reading
Every time the bees are exposed to an infected sample, they stick out their tongues to collect a reward. | Continue reading
Clubhouse took off like wildfire during the pandemic as the audio app provided community for its users, but that growth appears to be tapering off. | Continue reading
Tim Milliron says the entire process caught him off guard and that it was like a graduate-level course in thinking like an entrepreneur. | Continue reading
New customers have to become returning customers in order to reach government goals for electric vehicle sales. | Continue reading
China plans 10 more launches to build its space station by the end of 2022. It's not clear whether there's any plan to safely discard the rockets. | Continue reading
Googlers are expected back in September. Some don't plan to go: "A lot of my colleagues have moved away with no real intention of coming back." | Continue reading
Ingenuity didn't get off the ground for its ambitious fourth flight. NASA engineers have just a week left to push the Mars helicopter to its limits. | Continue reading
US top labor official said most gig workers should be classified as "employees" deserving of related benefits. | Continue reading
Kat Norton, aka Miss Excel, has netted 264,000 TikTok followers and 153,000 Instagram followers, racking up a six-figure income in the process. | Continue reading
Justin Zhu, the founder of Iterable, told Bloomberg he was terminated for micro-dosing LSD before a work meeting. | Continue reading
By raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, we could lower dependency on safety net programs, saving the country $65 billion a year. | Continue reading
Several countries have imposed travel restrictions on visitors from India as it battles a catastrophic second coronavirus wave. | Continue reading
The questionable practice underscores that using pre-orders as a proxy for sales may not be the best way to evaluate aspiring automakers. | Continue reading
A Waco federal judge has made his courtroom the go-to spot for patent cases. That could mean more litigation for Big Tech companies flocking to Texas. | Continue reading
The Times said in an internal memo Friday that managers have been fielding a number of requests about staffers wanting to start their own newsletters. | Continue reading
The Times said in an internal memo Friday that managers have been fielding a number of requests about staffers wanting to start their own newsletters. | Continue reading
The law-enforcement arm of the USPS is running iCop, a "covert" program that tracks Americans' social media posts, according to Yahoo. | Continue reading
The Siri shortcut can be activated when you're pulled over by police, and will send your location to designated contacts and start recording video. | Continue reading
If Sergey Brin has anything to do with it, the future of humanitarian aid could come in the form of massive airships roaming the skies. | Continue reading
Pilots merely monitored the systems and spoke with air traffic control while the self-flying plane performed every other aspect of the flight on its own. | Continue reading
The McDonald's franchisee who owns the restaurant, Blake Casper, told Insider that restaurants are "scrambling for help." | Continue reading
"This doesn't happen with other treadmills," an official told The Washington Post after reports of the child's death and numerous other injuries. | Continue reading
Many experts, including Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, suspect that coronavirus vaccines will become a yearly routine. | Continue reading
The program is funded by a $25 million donation from Intuit executive chairman Brad D. Smith and his wife, Alys. | Continue reading
Until Putin's Russia, nobody had ever built a weapon like this, because there's almost no military utility in so badly destroying the world. | Continue reading
Uber is curbing California drivers' ability to set prices and see trip destinations in advance, saying too many drivers rejected low-paying rides. | Continue reading
Robinhood and other "free" retail brokers are quietly making it so that their users don't get the best prices on their trades. | Continue reading
The data includes phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and — in some cases — email addresses. | Continue reading
Uber unsuccessfully argued it wasn't responsible for drivers denying rides to the woman and her guide dog because its drivers are contractors. | Continue reading
As reports of Amazon workers peeing in bottles resurface amid an ongoing unionization push, Amazon is again having employees defend it on Twitter. | Continue reading
Months after a short squeeze sent shares soaring more than 1,600%, GameStop's stock remains extremely volatile, the company told investors. | Continue reading
Shares of ViacomCBS and Discovery fell as much as 35% Friday, while US-listed shares of China's Baidu, Tencent Music, Vipshop and others also plunged this week. | Continue reading
The plan, drawn up in 1963, would have carved the canal through the Negev desert but did not take into account "political feasibility." | Continue reading
Maura Healey is the latest state attorney general to accuse Uber and Lyft of illegally misclassifying drivers as contractors. | Continue reading
Unlike winding down after a long day, fake commuting is about erecting necessary personal boundaries that separate home and work life. | Continue reading
Amazon named Adam Selipsky, a former executive and CEO of Tableau Software, the incoming head of its cloud business. | Continue reading
The driver, identified only as Vic, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that he believes the AI-powered cameras were a breach of privacy and trust. | Continue reading
SpaceX was down to its last rocket, which was flying aboard a C-17 jet over the Pacific. When it began to crumple, Zach Dunn dove in headfirst. | Continue reading
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is pregnant, and is asking to have her federal trial delayed until the end of August after she gives birth. | Continue reading
The cofounders face criminal and civil charges. They are accused of giving a false impression to investors of how well the company was doing. | Continue reading