Matt Novak
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Meta Plans to Lay Off Thousands of Employees Starting This Week: Report
Meta, the parent company that owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, is expected to start mass layoffs as early as this week, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. And while it’s not clear exactly how many of Meta’s roughly 87,000 employees will lose their jobs, it’s in the “thousands,” according to the…
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Julie Powell’s Last Tweet Before Her Death at 49 Causes Confusion Among Fans
Author Julie Powell, whose book Julie and Julia was turned into a hit 2009 movie starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, died of cardiac arrest on October 26 at the age of 49, according to a new report from the New York Times. But it’s Powell’s last tweet, sent the day before she died, that’s…
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7 Conspiracy Theories About the Attack on Nancy Pelosi’s Husband That Are Just Wrong
Every news event seems to generate conspiracy theories online these days, and the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband on Friday really brought the weirdos out of the woodwork. The only difference this time? The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, helped fuel the fire.
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India Hits Google With Multimillion-Dollar Fine for Forcing Apps to Use Google Payments
India’s competition regulator is fining Google $113 million (around $158 million) over anti-competitive practices with its app store Google Play, according to a press release from the Competition Commission of India. Specifically, authorities in India believe app developers should be allowed to use the payment processors of third parties rather than being forced to use…