Netflix will stop disclosing member count. Will it hurt advertising?

This story originally appeared in The Technology Letter and is republished here with permission.

Shares of Netflix are down almost six percent in late trading despite the company beating on revenue and profit with its Q1 report, and forecasting this quarter’s profit higher as well, with new subscribers com

Could the Apple Watch morph into a personal AI device?

There are some interesting connections between Apple and Humane, the company behind the new Ai Pin.

The Ai Pin is actually the brainchild of a couple of ex-Apple execs, Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, and some of the engineers on the team that built the Pin are ex-Apple. The Pin, if you squint your eyes, is roughly the same size as the Apple Watch Ultra. And Humane’s pre-l

Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck vehicles due to dangerously defective accelerator pedals

It’s been a bad week for Tesla. First, the EV maker announced mass layoffs. Then, despite this, just a few days later, Tesla asked shareholders to approve Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package—a figure so large that a court had previously nullified it. And then Te

Power up with these 3 highly rated AI extensions for Chrome and Edge

Whether you’re a content creator, a researcher, or simply someone who spends hours browsing the web, AI-powered browser extensions are your secret weapons. Here are three top-rated AI extensions that seamlessly integrate with Google’s Chrome and Microsoft’s Edge browsers. From writing assistance to smart summarization and beyond, these extensions can streamline your work and take productivity to new heights.

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Romance scams are on the rise on dating apps. Here’s how you can protect yourself

When 27-year-old Chad Teixeir got to know his romance scammer, he thought he had met the man of his dreams. “Everything seemed perfect,” he says. “It was almost too good to be true.”

But there was no happy ending in this love story. Chad’s love interest eventually left his job and became financially dependent on him, resulting in Chad handing over a six-figure sum within a year and a half. It turns out that the scammer actually had a pregnant girlfriend at home and was only using C

Superhuman founder Rahul Vohra on coping with email overload

Superhuman is a fast, pricey email service aimed at those whose work inboxes are exploding. People pay $30 a month for it, CEO Rahul Vohra says, because it’s as important for their work as any other core company software. 

The universality of email stress—workers spend more than two hours a day on it—has helped the company raise more than $100 million from the likes of Ashton Kutch

TikTok’s sell-or-ban bill gains steam in Congress ahead of upcoming vote

An effort to force TikTok‘s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the social media app or face a ban in the U.S. was gaining steam in Congress on Thursday, with the House of Representatives setting a vote for Saturday and a key Senate Democrat voicing support for the move.

The Republican-controlled House included the measure in a sweeping $95 bill

NYC vs. Texas? Actually, they’re both top destinations for tech talent right now

Hundreds of thousands of tech workers have been culled from payrolls over the past year or so, but several areas around the country remain hubs for tech workers. That includes such cities as Austin, Seattle, and New York City, according to a new report from venture firm SignalFire

More trouble for Tesla: Layoffs, severance snafu, and a painful stock downgrade

In an email obtained by CNBC Wednesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk informed staffers that the severance packages sent to some of the 14,000 workers laid off this week were “incorrectly low.”

Musk apologized for the mistake, stating that the problem is being “co

Microsoft is riding on geopolitics to extend its AI footprint

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Microsoft extends its grip on global AI with $1.5B share of the UAE AI company G42

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