Thanks to The Verge’s Alex Heath, we now know more about Meta’s plans to shape the metaverse by building its own wildly ambitious augmented-reality hardware. Heath’s article, “Mark Zuckerberg’s Augmented Reality,” covers two codenamed products. “Project Nazere” is a high-end pair of AR glasses that don’t require a smartphone, with the first version shipping in 2024, followed by upgraded ones in 2026 and 2028. Also due in 2024 is 
Sitting in a sunny room in his Miami home, Ryan Breslow, cofounder and executive chairman of Bolt, says he’s doing fantastically. In the last three months, Breslow has been on a Twitter thread spree, calling out perceived detractors and as he tells it, speaking the truth. These rants often focus on corruption among Silicon Valley’s most elite venture capitalists and how he thinks they wield power and money to keep little guys like him down. Some reports suggest that these tira
The world’s billionaires are pouring money into age-reversal investments. Last September, it came out that Jeff Bezos had invested in Altos Labs, a company pursuing biological reprogramming technology. “Reprogramming” is the scientific term for turning old cells young again. It was discovered in 2012 by Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka, who called it a potential “elixir of life.” The Nobel Prize in Medicine Committee seemed to agree. Bezos
Elon Musk’s $43 billion hostile takeover attempt of Twitter might be one of the most-expected “surprise” acquisition offers in recent history. After Musk said he would, then wouldn’t, join the company’s board, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal warned investors of “distractions ahead.” And analysts grabbed their popcorn. So, Thursday’s bid wasn’t unanticipated, but that didn’t stop it from becoming a circus. Twitter shareholders don&#x
With its new Mac web browser, DuckDuckGo wants to take the hassle out of online privacy. It has many of the same anti-tracking features as DuckDuckGo’s existing extension for other browsers, and of course it uses DuckDuckGo’s own search engine—which, unlike Google, doesn’t profile users based on their search history. But DuckDuckGo says its new browser is faster and simpler than using its extension with other browsers, and it can offer extra features, such as the abil
When Elon Musk filed an offer with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday morning to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share—or a total of just over $40 billion, in cash—the millions of users and other executives that follow his every move online began celebrating and fantasizing about what the platform would look like under his command. “The Twitter woke employees are in for a rude awakening,” former PayPal executive Keith Rabois tweeted. “Elon once
Ukrainian Railways, or Ukrzaliznytsia, is the largest employer in Ukraine. Nearly 375,000 people work for the transit company, more than 1% of the country’s population. Since the full-scale Russian invasion started on February 24, the government-owned railway has become the main circulatory system for Ukrainians fleeing to safety. About 10 million people have been forced to leave their homes behind. For the most part, they head west, to cities like Kyiv and Lviv. From there, many continue
WhatsApp has announced that it is adding a new feature to the platform that aims to better help organize and manage multiple, similar group chats users are part of. The new feature is called Communities and will allow users to sort and compile existing group chats into one larger collective. Announcing the new feature, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained, “We built WhatsApp Communities to make it much easier to organize all your group chats and find information. You’ll be able to br
My first job in America, after I graduated from business school, was at Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen’s consulting firm. Christensen, who coined the theory of disruptive innovation, was one of the most influential business thinkers of our time. CEOs flocked to him for help spotting and preempting disruption of their businesses as well as the creation of their own disruptive innovation, so he built a consulting firm to help. I was a part of that team. Learning from
Most of the international relief efforts for Ukraine have focused on charitable giving and humanitarian aid. Some brands have ceased business relations in Russia as a show of solidarity with Ukraine while others have expressed support in more symbolic ways. One Ukrainian company, called UA IT Hub, is seeking a different kind of relief: patronage. It’s reaching out to companies in Europe and North America asking them to hire Ukrainian tech talent for their contract-development work. Before