10 Things in Tech: Free Apple AirTags, EV resistance, and ChatGPT Plus for all

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10 Things in Tech: Amazon Slack, industry extinction, and top EVs

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Amazon employees being pushed out of the company have a little-known Slack channel. Leaked messages reveal anguish, despair, but also community.

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Mark Zuckerberg, whose Meta laid off thousands of people, is now the 12th richest person on the planet after his wealth surged to $87 billion

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Mark Zuckerberg, whose Meta laid off thousands, is now the 12th richest person on the planet after his wealth surged to $87 billion on the company's earnings beat.

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Jamie Dimon's 'tone deaf' return to office mandate is getting pushback from JPMorgan staffers, who are complaining about being stuck on Zoom calls even while in the office: Reuters

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Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, speaks about investing in Detroit during a panel discussion at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., April 11, 2018.
Jamie Dimon's 'tone deaf' return to office mandate is getting pushback from JPMorgan staffers, who are complaining about being stuck on Zoom calls even while in the office: Reuters.

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The former CEO of Reddit says laid-off tech workers should get in on AI because 'you don't need an enormous amount of technical skill' to make an AI app

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Yishan Wong, CEO of Terraformation.

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It might be time to break up with your work wife or husband — the concept is 'outdated' and exclusionary, experts say

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In "The Office," Jim and Pam were work spouses who later got married.

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Walmart says its CEO earned 933 times its median employee's pay last year

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Walmart CEO Doug McMillon had more than $25 million in total compensation in the fiscal year that ended in January 2023.

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Workers in the US now want at least $76,000 to start a new job as minimum wage expectations continue to rise in a red-hot job market

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Workers in the US now want at least $76,000 to start a new job as minimum wage expectations continue to rise in a red-hot job market.

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Google recently announced further cutbacks to employee perks, but staff say the company has been pulling back on freebies for years

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a panel at the CEO Summit of the Americas.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

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