Elon Musk, not for the first time in his life, seemingly broke the internet last week with his offer to buy Twitter in a nearly $44 billion bid. In early April 2022, Elon Musk purchased 73,486,938 shares of Twitter’s stock, valued at $2.89 million, making him the largest shareholder of the social media company at […]
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What Are NFTs and How Do They Work? Understanding Non-Fungible Tokens
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are digital assets that represent something in the real world, like art, music, or collectibles. Non-fungible, aka unique, means each NFT is one-of-a-kind and can’t be easily replaced with another NFT or another form of internet currency, unlike cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin or dogecoin. NFTs are something like virtual trading cards. […]
Instacart Fires Employees Who Voted to Unionize
Instacart recently fired a group of Skokie, Illinois employees who voted to unionize with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1546 last year. As part of Instacart’s recent layoffs amid rapid expansion for the company and an impending IPO, Instacart fired 10 employees who voted to form the first and only union on the […]
The Parler Data Breach Explained
An alternative right-wing popularized social media network, Parler, faced a data breach amid political tensions in the United States presidential election. The scandal showcases just how vulnerable these apps are to accessing users’ personal information, and just how much of that information users should give at sign-up. Parler was founded in 2018 as a conservative […]
New California Law Protects Non-Partnered Restaurants From Delivery App Practices
A new law was passed in California, which impacted delivery apps like Grubhub, DoorDash, Uber Eats, Postmates, Caviar and others. The law, which was approved last fall, went into effect on January 1 to require delivery apps to offer services only from restaurants with which they have a direct partnership. With this, apps are also […]
Indoor Farming is Blooming: What’s Next?
A recent study suggested that indoor farming can help save water and soil. Moreover, when the COVID-19 pandemic exposed long-ignored food supply chain issues, including but not limited to shipment delays and inadequate demand forecasting, indoor farms and vertical farms contributed to the solution. A number of controlled-environment farming companies, including AeroFarms, Elevate Farms, Plenty, […]