LinkedIn is trimming its workforce once again.
The company, on Monday, announced plans to cut 668 jobs across its engineering, product, talent, and finance teams. This is the second mass layoff at the company this year, following a decision in May to cut 716 jobs, and the third this year. An undisclosed number of workers on its talent acquisition team were let go in February, as reported then by The Information.
“Talent changes are a difficult, but necessary and reg
Roblox is working to be a place where kids come to learn, not just play.
The popular metaverse gaming company is investing $15 million into its Roblox Community Fund, which supports educational programming on the platform, as it looks to support creators of experiences teaching everything from math to mental and emotional health strategies.
“We imagine a world where millions of students will be learning via co-experiences on Roblox that facilitate solving problems,
If it’s true that your life flashes before your eyes right before you die, a large chunk of my playback will be dedicated to finding the perfect Zoom backgrounds.
In my quest to virtually turn my boring home office into what appears to be a boring, professional commercial office, I’ve sifted through thousands of Zoom backgrounds and found a mere handful that look realistic enough to use on a regular basis.
Here are the ones I keep loaded up in my Zoom app, pl
California last week finally passed a sweeping new “right to repair” law that should make it much easier to fix your smartphone or laptop when it breaks. Enacted by Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday, the Right to Repair Act makes California the third state to pass a broad right to repair law, after New York, which passed a similar measure last year, and Minnesota, which passed its version in May.
It’s also arguably the strongest in the nation so far. While New
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In order to illustrate just how dead the metaverse is, I could resort to citing the single-digit user numbers in Decentraland, or the abrupt, mass pivot of venture funding away from the whole idea, or the fact that the majority of people who have no idea what Facebook Horizons even is. Instead, I’ll convey it this way: The manic hype surrounding the metaverse is so sufficiently gone that if this story were to run in the next print issue of Fast Company, the metaverse would not only no
Staring down a 90-minute delay to an evening flight from Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, to New York City’s JFK last weekend, I did something I’ve done many times before. I tweeted at the airline to ask what was causing the delay.
Within a few minutes, I’d had my query answered by the official X (formerly Twitter) account of JetBlue, but I’d also been inundated with likes, follows, and replies from nearly 20 accounts—each of which boasted the same
If you scan the list of top 10 shows on Max, the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service, chances are you’ve come across—and maybe binge-watched—the British dating show Naked Attraction. (No judgment.) “The show is performing with outstanding demand,” Brandon Katz, an entertainment industry strategist at Parrot Analytics, told Fast Company. “It’s in the top 2.7% of shows in the U.S. in that time frame, which is obviously very good. I think it&
While it’s only been going on for a little under two weeks, the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried has already had more revelations and shockers than a whole season of Succession.
Award-winning journalist Stephanie Clifford has been in the federal courtroom each day, documenting the trial and offering an inside look at the proceedings for Fast Company. (She also has a great primer on what happened at FTX leading up to Bankman-Fried’s arrest and why his parents are being s
There’s a reason you’ve maybe been struggling to find Clorox products on store shelves: For the last two months, the consumer products giant has been struggling with a large-scale bleach breach.
On Aug. 14, Clorox—which makes not only its namesake bleach but also Glad trash bags and Burt’s Bees skin products—announced in a regulatory filing that it discovered “unauthorized activity” in its computer systems. More than a month later, on