Shirin Ghaffary
Former Senior Correspondent
Latest articles by Shirin Ghaffary
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Plus: Canada welcomes foreign tech workers, Facebook’s issue of scale, and Kickstarter’s CEO resigns.
In tech’s capital, even programmers with six-figure salaries are struggling to afford studio apartments.
Plus: Facebook can’t find enough local news, a Warner Bros. Studio CEO resigned over a sex scandal, and Myspace may have deleted your garage band tracks from 2005.
Plus: Lyft’s IPO, an Apple Watch heart-monitoring study, and what Facebook’s top execs leaving means for the company.
Plus: China’s Huawei is building its own OS, Tesla unveils its new Model Y compact SUV, and Facebook’s recent outage sets a record.
Plus: Jack Dorsey decides to chat with an anti-vaxxer, ICE’s newly revealed massive database of license plates, and uncovered founder drama at Google.
Plus: Tech investor and “do-gooder” charged in a college cheating scandal; flaws in Switzerland’s online voting; Twitter’s latest version of its prototype.
Plus: another twist from Tesla, Sam Altman’s latest project, and a new lawsuit about Google’s payout to a former exec facing sexual harassment allegations.
Plus: Amazon drops its merchants, France welcomes tech entrepreneurs, and Twitter’s still figuring out how to foster healthy conversations online.