Uber, After Buying Postmates, Lays Off More Than 180 Employees
New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber on Thursday laid off roughly 185 people from its Postmates division, or about 15 percent of Postmates’ total work force, said three people with knowledge of…
Help With Vaccination Push Comes From Unexpected Businesses
Amazon[1] wrote to President Biden on Thursday offering to assist with communication and technology. Microsoft is opening up its largely empty office campus as a vaccination center as part of…
Director of Amazon's 'Tandav' Cuts Scenes After Pressure From India's Hindu Nationalists
ARPORA, India — The director of a big-budget Amazon web series has bowed to pressure from Hindu nationalists[1] and cut several scenes that they had deemed offensive, demonstrating the sway…
Facebook Invokes Its ‘Supreme Court’
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.[1] Facebook’s new “Supreme Court” is taking on its biggest case: Donald Trump.…
An Australia With No Google? The Bitter Fight Behind a Drastic Threat
SYDNEY, Australia — In a major escalation, Google threatened on Friday to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government approved legislation that would force tech companies to…
Google Shuts Loon Helium Balloon Project
OAKLAND, Calif. — Google’s parent company Alphabet is shutting down Loon, a high-profile subsidiary spun out from its research labs that used high-altitude helium balloons to deliver cellular connectivity from…
Google Shuts Loon Hot-Air Balloon Project
OAKLAND, Calif. — Google’s parent company Alphabet is shutting down Loon, a high-profile subsidiary spun out from its research labs that used hot-air balloons to deliver cellular connectivity from the…
Amid One Pandemic, Students Train for the Next
The project was awarded funding in early 2020, said Christine Marizzi, the chief scientist at BioBus. Weeks later, the coronavirus began to pummel the nation, and the team was forced…
‘A Total Failure’: The Proud Boys Now Mock Trump
After the presidential election last year, the Proud Boys[1], a far-right group, declared its undying loyalty to President Trump. In a Nov. 8 post in a private channel of the…
QAnon believers struggle with inauguration.
Followers of QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theory, have spent weeks anticipating[1] that Wednesday would be the “Great Awakening” — a day, long foretold in QAnon prophecy[2], when top Democrats would…
