Amanda Hoover

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Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare

Dozens of applications and interviews, hours spent tweaking resumes, and a conference and career fair-turned-Hunger Games. Finding a job in tech is a mess.The past year has brought a reckoning for the...

New York’s Airbnb Ban Is Descending Into Pure Chaos

As few as 2 percent of New York City’s previous 22,000 short-term rentals on Airbnb have been registered with the city since a new law banning most listings came into effect in...

Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech

It was meant to be a week for women in tech—but this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration was swamped by men who gate-crashed the event in search of lucrative tech jobs.The annual conference...

TikTok Shop Has a Snail Slime Problem

Snail mucin, for the uninitiated, is part of a skin-care regimen that’s meant to leave faces glowing and hydrating. Yes, it’s snail slime, and it’s exactly the sort of product primed to...

This Is the True Scale of New York’s Airbnb Apocalypse

The number of short-term Airbnbs available in New York City has dropped 70 percent after the city began enforcing a new law requiring short-term rental operators to register their homes. But despite...

The End of Airbnb in New York

Thousands of Airbnbs and short-term rentals are about to be wiped off the map in New York City.Local Law 18, which came into force Tuesday, is so strict it doesn’t just limit...

Donald Trump's Mug Shot Matters in a World of Fakes

For months, Etsy has become littered with a new genre of T-shirt: the Donald Trump mug shot. And they’re available in two main styles: Guity AF and Not Guilty. The shirts are...

This Is the Era of Zombie Twitter

The bird is dead, but zombie Twitter is not. Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, the platform has survived rate-limiting, massive staff cuts, suspensions of journalists, hemorrhaging ad dollars, exorbitant API price hikes,...

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