Simone Stolzoff

Viagra is experiencing some performance anxiety.

Google wants to be your word processor, editor, and, if you’ll let it, your ghostwriter.

Competition drives innovation, but not usually at exactly 284 mph.

Ask anyone who has been around the tech world long enough, and they’ll tell you that innovation is cyclical. Microsoft tried to sell smartwatches back in 2004. WebVan tried to build Instacart in 1999. Nintendo tried to make virtual reality gaming a thing back in 1995. But ask Richard Thalheimer, and he’ll tell you that the cycle of innovation has two wheels.

Twitter removed tens of millions of suspicious accounts from its site on Thursday (July 12). The purge is the latest in a series of moves from the social network to clean the site of bots and misinformation. Though the company said that most people will lose four followers or fewer, the site’s founders were, ironically, some of the ones hit the hardest by the change. Analysis from Quartz shows that current CEO Jack Dorsey, along with Ev Williams, and Biz Stone all lost over 5% of their followers in the last 24 hours, indicating they had a lot of bot followers in the first place.

Wing and Loon, two projects from Alphabet’s “moonshot lab,” have officially taken flight.

Ordering something online is quicker and sometimes cheaper than going to a store, but it still requires a certain leap of faith because you can’t try things on, or look at them in real life. Today (July 10th), Facebook added another nail to the coffin of brick-and-mortar shopping when it began testing augmented reality ads in the news feed, a feature that brings online shopping one step closer to the offline experience.

A new report from industry analyst Canalys predicts by the end of 2018, over 100 million people will have installed smart speakers. There’s only one thing missing: the world’s most valuable hardware company.

This week, @MabzMagz, a Twitter user with 572 followers who is identified as being from Swaziland, tweeted at Elon Musk, asking for help in rescuing the 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave in northern Thailand.

The European Union rejected a piece of controversial legislation today (July 5) that would have made it harder for companies like Wikipedia and Google to distribute content online.

A cut in a fiber line from one of Comcast’s network partners has caused nationwide internet outages.

California lawmakers passed a law to give people more control over how companies like Google and Facebook use their data.

Seventeen years ago today (June 28), the world’s richest man breathed a sigh of relief.

After seven years, Samsung and Apple have finally settled a lawsuit that alleged Samsung copied Apple’s design for the iPhone.

Executives from large tech companies will meet in San Francisco today (June 27) to discuss how to better protect consumer privacy. The meeting, first reported by Axios, was organized by the Information Technology Industry Council, a trade group whose members include Facebook, Google, and Apple.

You update your resume. You send in your application. You pass the phone screen. You read your interviewer’s LinkedIn profile. You think of a strength that you can pass off as your greatest weakness. You iron your lucky shirt. You’re ready to nail the in-person interview.

In 2018, the word “algorithm” has become an evil agent.

When Lehman Brothers filed for the largest bankruptcy in US history in September 2008, it took 24 days for the stock market to fall 20%. Over the past 24 hours, the price of bitcoin plummeted 28%.

Next Wednesday, 400 San Franciscans will wake up at 5:00am, put on their brightest spandex, and head to a science museum for a Space Jam-themed dance party. At 6am, there will be an hour-long cosmic yoga class and a sound-bath experience. After a quick organic-juice refreshment, two international DJs will spin electronic dance music—even though the crowd is stone-cold sober. At 9am, sweaty, elated, and covered in glitter, everybody will get changed out of their onesies, put on their office attire, and head to work.

How much does it cost to escape capitalism?