This is the web version of Data Sheet, a daily newsletter on the business of tech. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. Surrounded by machine learning-fueled facial recognition systems, autonomous security drones, and a network of biometric collecting sensors, the protagonist of your average cyberpunk novel knows how to take steps to […]
A friend of mine remarked the other day, wearing a pained expression, that he wished he had bought Dogecoin. “What? Why?” I asked, struggling to mask my incredulity. “Because the price has gone up so much. It’s up, like, 1,000% recently,” he said. “Elon Musk is endorsing it.” (Dogecoin’s price has surged 1,600% since the […]
This is the web version of Data Sheet, a daily newsletter on the business of tech. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. Sometimes the Super Bowl is an action-packed battle. Sometimes, like last night, it’s pretty much a snoozer, with one team dominating the other. But there’s always the commercials for entertainment. […]
This is the web version of Data Sheet, a daily newsletter on the business of tech. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. As the tech world digests Amazon’s CEO transition, it’s worth toting up all the big leadership changes we will need to follow this year. Qualcomm president Cristiano Amon is taking […]
TikTok is well aware it’s no longer a service used solely by bubbly teens doing dance challenges, lip-synching, or creating comic skits. It’s also a place where people spread harmful misinformation—a problem that has proliferated on its more mature rivals. The service said on Wednesday that it’s taking new steps to crack down on the […]
This is the web version of Data Sheet, a daily newsletter on the business of tech. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. Amazon’s earnings last night included more than the usual facts, figures, and unlabeled growth charts. Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who famously sketched out the business plan for Amazon on […]
Ten years ago, a desperate Egyptian government, led by then-President Hosni Mubarak, ordered the nation’s Internet to be shut down, a ploy to stymie pro-democracy protests. The move backfired. The countrywide service outage, ironically, drew more people outdoors to learn what was going on. As bigger crowds took to city streets, the so-called Arab Spring […]
In a perfect world, or at least one where “fate loves irony,” as Elon Musk mused philosophically last night on Clubhouse, Fortune’s annual survey seeking to crown the most underrated and most overrated CEOs would find the Tesla and SpaceX leader atop both lists. That would probably be how I would vote, given my defense […]
This is the web version of Data Sheet, a daily newsletter on the business of tech. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. Most of the time when we hear about cybersecurity crimes, we hear from the leading players, companies like Crowdstrike that nailed the Russians for stealing DNC emails in 2016. Or […]
If the Internet was a patient, its health would be so poor that it risks not only its own wellbeing but that of everyone around it. This characterization comes from the mouth of Mozilla executive director Mark Surman, who was summarizing the nonprofit’s annual Internet Health Report. The report, released on Thursday, relies on knowledge […]