Lauren Goode

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The Killer App for Threads Is the Web

Threads, the text-based social network that Meta recently launched as part of Instagram, is finally on the web. Earlier this week, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg shared that Threads for the web...

It’s the Age of Ozempic. Do We Need Weight Watchers Anymore?

Schaub’s burgers and melted ice cream: Those are the food items logged in my memory from the night I first met Sima Sistani. This was a decade ago, before she became the...

ChatGPT Now Has an iPhone App

If you’ve searched for “ChatGPT” in Apple’s App Store since the chatbot launched six months ago, you may have discovered some of the dozens of apps with names like Genie, Genius, and...

Ukraine’s Startups Kept Innovating Through 1 Year of War

“Many people here and across the world were pissed off about some of his posts,” says Pranskevičius, who is based in Kyiv. “But what we’ve seen is that Starlink has continued to work....

Right-to-Repair Advocates Question John Deere’s New Promises

Deere’s new agreement states that it will ensure that farmers and independent repair shops can subscribe to or buy tools, software, and documentation from the company or its authorized repair facilities “on...

Why the World Fell for FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried

Back in April I paid $12 to “attend” a virtual event with 30-year-old crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried. Around 45 other people registered for the Zoom, which was hosted by Manny Yekutiel, a...

Max Levchin’s War on Credit Cards

Because of the digital divide they’ve created? Because of algorithms treating people differently? Because of data-gathering practices? It’s a combination of everything. But 10 years ago, I think even trillion-dollar companies were perceived as going to...

How to 'Quiet Quit' Elon Musk's Twitter

And for the love of God, don’t blindly take voting advice from Elon Musk.Take a Walk on the Decentralized SideTwitter may be much smaller than other social media sites, but it plays...

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