Soaring stock prices might be a major reason the US workforce has been shrinking. That’s a conclusion from Bank of America, which examined the possible causes behind the US’s declining labor force participation rate. The number of people participating in the job market has ticked higher recently, but has generally trended lower over the last
The camera housing on my Meta Nova glasses is smaller than on the Gen 2 glasses. From a distance, they might even read as rivets at a glance. (I asked my colleague Reece Rogers how they looked on my face, and from a few feet away in the WIRED office, he didn’t even notice they
On one of my days off, I was sitting at a coffee shop when my phone buzzed with a message from a coworker. “Tech issue here, any chance you can stop by?” they asked. I’ve never been much of a computer whiz, but at the independent bookstore where I’ve worked for two years, I’m the
Hi, it’s Preston Fore, in for Allie. Earlier this month, defense tech firm Mach Industries raised $600 million in a Series C extension at a $3.7 billion valuation. That’s more than double the $1.8 billion valuation Mach reached just three months earlier when it raised its initial $300 million Series C led by Ribbit Capital,
As the “forgotten generation” squashed between the culturally dominant Boomers and millennials, the people born between the late 60s and 80s often go under the radar in conversations about Botox online. But that generation is now arriving at plastic surgeons’ offices not just for wrinkle treatments, but for facelifts once reserved for patients 15 years
The tech guy uniform is full of basic T-shirts and bad haircuts, so I get why Alexandr Wang’s look at Meta Connect is riling Silicon Valley. If you’re used to the black turtlenecks of Steve Jobs and Elizabeth Holmes, or the white T-shirts of Mark Zuckerberg, sure, Wang’s camo-print deer T-shirt and matching Crocs seem
