Amanda Hoover

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Quantum Startups’ Stock Market Dreams Are Decohering

At the end of September, Rigetti reported $212 million in assets and a net loss of $49 million for the year to date. The SPAC deal was originally expected to net $458 million, pushing Rigetti’s...

Mastodon Is Hurtling Toward a Tipping Point

Rodti MacLeary started a Mastodon instance, mas.to, in 2019. By early November 2022, it had amassed around 35,000 users. But since Elon Musk bought Twitter and unleashed one chaotic decision after another, people have signed up for mas.to and...

No One on Twitter Is Safe From Elon Musk

Musk changed his tune this week after he alleged a “crazy stalker” followed a car carrying his young son. Questions about the incident remain, and it’s not clear how an account tweeting...

Big Tech Laid Off Thousands. Here’s Who Wants Them Next

Remote work. Competitive salaries. A streamlined hiring process. They’re all perks being offered to prospective tech workers from an unlikely employer: the US government. Soaring Silicon Valley salaries, perks, and stocks have allowed...

Truth Social Is Rising as the Anti-Mastodon

Then there’s Mastodon’s code. As Truth Social was under development in 2021, the Software Freedom Conservancy accused it of violating a free and open source software licensing agreement for taking Mastodon’s code. Anyone...

Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos Gets 11 Years in Prison

Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to just over 11 years in prison for defrauding investors by falsely claiming her technology could detect diseases from a drop of blood.The sentencing of the former...

Want to Archive Twitter? Good Luck With That

From the moment Elon Musk closed his Twitter deal, the network’s diehard users have taken steps to eulogize it. People have downloaded their own archive from Twitter. Others have started threads with...

Despite Big Layoffs, Tech Workers Are Still in Demand

“You have two diverging paths for tech workers,” says Pollak. “One group is taking a flight-to-safety approach and going to companies and industries that are recession-resistant. And another group will throw caution...

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