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• Tech workers made an average salary of $111,193 last year — but 35% of them weren't happy about it.
• One reason for salary dissatisfaction: layoffs across the tech industry, a Dice study found. 
• Employers are "right-sizing staff and their

Uber is bringing its all-electric luxury rideshare service to its biggest market yet: New York City. The launch will coincide with the rollout of new product features aimed at steering its customers toward greener choices when using Uber.

Uber first launched its Comfort Electric service, in which customers can hail trips in premium

Today, I’m talking to Kyle Chayka, a staff writer for The New Yorker, a regular contributor to The Verge, and author of the new book Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Kyle has been writing for years now about how the culture of big social media platforms bleeds into real life, first affecting how things look, and now shaping how

• A popular menswear blogger broke down some of the fashion highs and lows of the Oscars.
• In the thread, Tim Cook's black tuxedo triumphed over other male celebrity outfit choices.
• Menswear blogger Derek Guy said Cook's suit was "beautifully tailored" and "well proportioned."

At yesterday's Oscars, Tim Cook's simple black tuxedo caught

Update 3/11/24: The PS5 bundle deal that we originally found at GameStop is now available at Amazon, Target and Walmart as well.

If you've been on the fence about snagging a PS5 and have been intrigued by Marvel's Spider-Man 2, now's a good time to considering picking up the console. You can get a bundle with either the digital or standard edition of the PS5 with the game for $50 off. That brings

There was a time when you could hop onto Netflix and feel like you had pretty much any movie or show at your fingertips. Those years are long gone. Now, consumers have a growing number of streaming providers clamoring for attention, splitting up the media catalog against dozens of services and making finding the best…

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The self-styled ‘front page of the internet’ has unplugged third-party apps, spurned defiant mods, and struck AI partnerships in a bid to go public.

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• Elon Musk's charity often supports his own interests, according to a New York Times analysis.
• Half of donations made in 2021 and 2022 had links to Musk, his employees, or his businesses, it found.
• The Musk Foundation also regularly falls short of minimum required donations set by tax laws, it said.

Elon Musk's charity makes infrequent donations and the ones it does

Pedal harps can cost $70,000 — far more than lever harps, which cost $2,000 to $9,000. At first glance, a pedal harp looks like a simple frame with a row of strings. But there are complicated mechanisms inside that musicians use to change notes. At Camac Harps in France, every harp is carved and assembled by hand. For musicians like the Grammy-nominated artist Brandee Younger, the pedal harp

• Russia is intensifying glide bomb attacks on Ukrainian defenses. 
• It is adapting old Soviet bombs into powerful new weapons.
• Russia is making their use a "priority", a Ukrainian official said. 

Russia is

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• Finland has a reputation for being the happiest country in the world.
• I lived there for three years, and things like "cradle-to-grave" welfare made me feel secure.
• The government has a crucial role in building a happy society, and Finland has cracked that code. 

Finland has been dubbed the world's happiest country fo