Lauren Goode

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Bug Zappers Are Swarming on Amazon

Call it a bug zapper, not a feature.Data from Fakespot, a service owned by Mozilla that helps consumers spot fake reviews and scams on shopping sites, shows a bizarre rise in the...

The Case Against Apple Weaponizes the Cult of Cupertino

Back in 2022 at the annual Code Conference, where tech luminaries submit to on-stage interviews, an audience member asked Apple CEO Tim Cook for some tech support. “I can’t send my mom...

Perplexity’s Founder Was Inspired by Sundar Pichai. Now They’re Competing to Reinvent Search

Aravind Srinivas credits Google CEO Sundar Pichai for giving him the freedom to eat eggs.Srinivas remembers the moment seven years ago when an interview with Pichai popped up in his YouTube feed....

Yoel Roth, Twitter’s Former Trust and Safety Chief, Is Trying to Clean Up Your Dating Apps

Yoel Roth has spent the past 16 months recovering from a very bad, very public breakup.For two chaotic weeks after Elon Musk took control of Twitter in October 2022, Roth clung on...

Why Tech Job Interviews Became Such a Nightmare

After a WIRED story last month described the sometimes ludicrous challenges heaped on tech workers applying for engineering jobs, some readers shared their own experiences with excessive test assignments and interviews.The responses...

There’s No AI Without Nvidia. Meet the CEO Powering the Future

Talking to Jensen Huang should come with a warning label. The Nvidia CEO is so invested in where AI is headed that, after nearly 90 minutes of spirited conversation, I came away...

Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control

In 2022, feeling burned out by the pandemic and a five-year sprint at a cloud storage company, Catherine decided it was time for a break.Catherine, who uses the pronouns they/them and asked...

OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Memory

The promise and peril of the internet has always been a memory greater than our own, a permanent recall of information and events that our brains can’t store. More recently, tech companies...

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