Mark Zuckerberg's old camp counselor held onto his Little League baseball card for 30 years, and it reveals he had a .920 batting average
Facebook, now Meta, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2020.Getty Mark Zuckerberg made a baseball card of himself when he was 8, and now it's getting the NFT treatment. Zuckerberg gave the card to a camp counselor after...
Elon Musk denies report that he's planning to build his own private airport outside Austin, Texas
Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the company's Cyber Rodeo event in Austin, Texas.SUZANNE CORDEIRO / AFP Elon Musk said Thursday that he's not planning to build a private airport near Austin, Texas. Local news site Austonia...
Meet the 'chief taco officer' of Texas, who was paid $10,000 by a delivery app to criss-cross the Lone Star State for the best tacos
Chris Flores is the Chief Taco Officer at Favor, a Texas-based delivery app company.Favor Chris Flores is possibly the world's first chief taco officer. Texas delivery company Favor is paying him $10,000 to visit 9...
Texas's power grid operator is asking crypto miners to power down as the state's electricity system grapples with sky-high temperatures
A photo of data centers that crypto miners use in Russia.REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo Texas's power grid operator is paying big businesses that use lots of power to power down. That includes crypto mining companies...
Bill Gates says his pledge to give away his wealth will erase him from list of the world's wealthiest people
Bill Gates at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland on November 2, 2021Jeff J Mitchell/Pool/Getty Images Bill Gates said he will one day be knocked off the list of the world's richest people. The billionaire...
Binance's CEO, who pledged $500 million to Elon Musk's Twitter takeover, said 'free speech is very hard to define'
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao.Eric PIERMONT / AFP) (Photo by ERIC PIERMONT/AFP via Getty Images Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao told Bloomberg that while he supports free speech, it's "very hard to define." Binance...
Anxious Celsius customers say they have no idea what will happen to their money after the crypto platform halted withdrawals
Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky.Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images Celsius, the largest crypto lending platform, stopped letting users withdraw holdings on Sunday. Customers told Insider they have...
Former WhatsApp exec says he regrets the startup's sale to Facebook because it became a 'shadow of the product we poured our hearts into'
Neeraj Arora at the Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony November 4, 2018 in Mountain View, CaliforniaTaylor Hill/Getty Images Former WhatsApp exec Neeraj Arora says he regrets that Facebook bought the startup. WhatsApp...
Nest co-founder and iPod inventor says 'the metaverse is wrong' because you can't actually connect with people face-to-face
Nest co-founder Tony Fadell.Stephen McCarthy/Getty An early Apple engineer says "fuck the metaverse" because it's impersonal and "wrong." He also said it's sucked talent and resources away from...
The 6 most burning questions that Twitter employees, investors, and users have for Elon Musk
Elon Musk.HANNIBAL HANSCHKE /Getty Images Since Elon Musk said he was buying Twitter, there seem to be more questions than answers. Little is known for sure about what he plans to do with the social media giant. But we...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis threatened action against Twitter's board over its 'poison pill' to thwart a takeover: 'They know they can't control Elon Musk'
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.John Raoux/AP Images Gov. Ron DeSantis said Florida could take action against Twitter's board for its "poison pill." The board of directors employed the defense technique to stave...
Facebook is facing a much more black-and-white content battle against Russian misinformation than it has with the pandemic and 2020 US presidential election, expert says
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr ZelenskyyMikhail Svetlov/Getty Images, Laurent Van der Stockt for Le Monde/Getty Images Facebook has been faced with more straightforward content...
A Facebook bug promoted posts containing nudity, violence, and misinformation over the past 6 months, new report says
Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.Drew Angerer/Getty Images A Facebook bug promoted misinformation on its News Feed instead of stymieing it in recent months. Engineers first noticed the issue in October and resolved the bug on...
Russia says it will partially restrict access to Facebook, accusing it of censorship and human rights violations
Russian President Vladimir Putin in Kazakhstan on January 10, 2022.Alexey Nikolsky/Getty Images Russia said it would partially limit Facebook access over alleged censorship and human rights violations. The nation's...
Silicon Valley is no longer the edgy tech frontier as workers flee Google and Amazon for crypto and Web3 startups, recruiters say
Mark Zuckerberg in 2010.Kim Kulish/Corbis via Getty Images Recruiters say workers are leaving Silicon Valley giants for crypto and Web3 endeavors. They're making the leap in part to cash in early on what they view as...
Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey are two of crypto's biggest mascots — but they aren't fans of Web3, the metaverse, or NFTs
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images/Joe Raedle/Getty Images Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey are well-known for their vocal support of cryptocurrencies. But that doesn't mean they're also all-in for other decentralized...
Watch Larry Page playfully kick Boston Dynamics' robotic dog before Google sold the firm to Softbank in a newly-surfaced video (GOOGL)
A video of Larry Page has surfaced on social media of Google's cofounder playing with Boston Dynamics' robotic dog Spot during a 2015 test. The 30-second video shows Page lightly kicking the robot to see how well it...