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Nearly 80% of the 346,000 workers who vanished from the U.S. labor force in January are women

The pandemic forced another 275,000 women out of the U.S. labor force in January, worsening the catastrophic employment crisis for working women. Women accounted for almost 80% of U.S. adults who stopped working or looking for work last month, according to an analysis of Friday’s jobs report by the National Women’s Law Center. More than […]

Musk joins Twitter board in deal that prevents him from buying majority stake

Enlarge / Elon Musk at a press conference at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas on February 10, 2022. (credit: Getty Images | Jim Watson) Elon Musk is joining Twitter’s board of directors in a deal that prohibits him from buying more than 14.9 percent of the company’s stock, Twitter announced today. The news of Musk joining […]

Google kills Google Cardboard, the last of its VR products

The Cardboard VR Viewer. [credit: Google ] Google’s last surviving VR product is dead. Today the company stopped selling the Google Cardboard VR viewer on the Google Store, the last move in a long wind-down of Google’s once-ambitious VR efforts. The message on the Google Store, which was first spotted by Android Police, reads, “We […]