Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images San Francisco is once again fighting over billionaires’ philanthropic power. Billionaire philanthropy is once again on the defense in San Francisco, the home of many a tech billionaire. The latest backlash centers on a city proposal to get 20,000 schoolchildren some in-person teaching and playtime this summer, after city public

Facebook’s new oversight board isn’t looking at the platform’s core design. | Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images Facebook’s oversight board is meant to take on the platform’s toughest content decisions. Should that include its algorithms? All eyes are on Facebook’s oversight board, which is expected to decide in the next few weeks if former President

A year and a half after its failed IPO and a major drop in valuation, WeWork is going public. | Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images The troubled co-working company, now valued at $9 billion, is riding the SPAC boom to the public markets. A year and a half after its failed IPO attempt, WeWork is

A woman makes her way to the Covid-19 testing site at the California State University Los Angeles campus on February 3. | Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Testing can do things for us now that it couldn’t do before. There was a time when we thought Covid-19 testing would save us from the

Technology company executives at Thursday’s hearing had different reactions to Welch’s proposal. | Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images During a hearing with tech CEOs, Rep. Peter Welch asked if they’d be open to a new federal agency focused on social media platforms. How can Congress best regulate the monstrosity that is Facebook? At a House

Finding love looked different online. | Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images New data from the app shows how strange the last year has been. Like everything else that used to happen in person, romance increasingly happened online during the pandemic. And like everything else that had to happen online during the pandemic, it was not

Mark Zuckerberg testifies remotely at a Congressional hearing in November 2020; he is scheduled to appear at another remote hearing on March 25, 2021. | Hannah McKay/Getty Images But not too much help: Mark Zuckerberg has a proposal. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a message for Washington: We’re happy to change the way we run

Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images The new controversy centers on Amazon deleting the profiles of hundreds of thousands of entry-level warehouse employees. Last week, Amazon made changes to its internal online staff directory, deleting hundreds of thousands of entry-level warehouse workers’ profiles from a tool that allows any company employee to view the full

Marvel Studios You’ll have to wait until July to see Black Widow in theaters or at home. Not long ago, Disney thought you’d be ready to go to the movie theaters by early May. Now it has changed its mind: Disney is pushing back the release of Black Widow, its next big-budget Marvel movie, from

One of the many conference rooms at the then-startup Gusto, in San Francisco in 2018. | Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images From where we work to how our work is measured, office work will be permanently different after the pandemic. Someday, perhaps someday soon, when vaccination rates are high enough and the coronavirus