Billionaire for President Used Prison Labor to Place Campaign Calls
Former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg has reportedly severed ties with a company that used prison labor to place calls on behalf of Bloomberg’s presidential...
TikTok Owner ByteDance Denies That It’s Planning to Sell Majority Stake Amid Espionage Concerns
A Bloomberg report on Monday evening said that ByteDance is considering selling off a majority stake in its incredibly popular and fantastically annoying music app, TikTok,...
How to Apologize Like a Tech Ghoul: 2019 Edition
Even viewed from a distance on Twitter, business news has developed its own subgenre of macabre spectacle: the disgrace of the corporate goon. It’s 2019, the...
Travis Kalanick Flees Sinking Ship
Christmas Eve news dump: Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, the man behind the ride-hailing company’s meteoric global rise despite its highly speculative business model that’s never...
The iPad’s Identity Crisis
My computer needs are different from pretty much all of my coworkers at Gizmodo. I’m not a gamer, I’m not looking to build my own PC....
The Smart Home Is a Technological Teenager Going Through Some Awful Growing Pains
It can take a new technology decades to fully mature into a product that’s reliable and genuinely useful. Computers and mobile phones have arguably reached that...
Public investors loved SaaS stocks in 2019, and startups should be thankful
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today, something short. Continuing our loose...
Uber founder Travis Kalanick is leaving the company’s board of directors
Uber founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick is leaving the company’s board of directors, the ride-hailing company announced today. Kalanick will officially resign from the board...
Why I Decided to Skip Buying Wrapping Paper This Year
I love the holidays. I love the coquito, the lights, and Christmas music. In fact, I’m listening to Kacey Musgraves’ Christmas album as I write this....
How to Track Santa on Your Computer, Phone, TV, or Smart Speaker
Santa’s halfway across the globe right now, delivering presents to every child in every home. If your kid’s anxiously waiting for Santa to arrive, then maybe...
