Retail therapy meets art therapy.
Whether you call them lighthearted anxiety-relieving tools or regressive escapes from reality, coloring books for adults have become a full-fledged craze (and lucrative market for print publishers).
Elon Musk Wants A Tesla Factory In China This Year
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his company is “doing reasonably well” in the country.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is hoping to have a factory in China to produce Tesla electric vehicles by the middle of this year, reports Engadget. Musk, also CEO of SpaceX, told Engadget that the company is “doing reasonably well” in mainland China, where it has 15 stores across seven of the country’s major cities. Musk also said that there are currently 340 Superchargers and more than 1,600 destination chargers throughout China.
Mark Zuckerberg Announces He’s Going Back To Work With A Dad Joke (Of Course)
This gray T-shirt or that gray T-shirt?
Imagine for a moment that you’re a billionaire CEO returning to work after a lengthy parental leave. Armed with the knowledge that what you wear at work says a lot about you, you might consider changing it up with something different—sartorially—for your big day back. Something extra.
How Amazon’s Customer Service Could Open You Up To Identity Theft
In a blog post, an Amazon user says an attacker duped a customer service rep into disclosing his address and phone number.
Eric Springer, a former software developer at Amazon, revealed in a Medium post on Sunday that the e-commerce site’s customer service was putting customers at risk of identity theft. On three different occasions, Springer’s account was compromised by someone who obtained his personal information from Amazon’s customer service representatives.
Today In Hacks
Congrats to Adrian Chen, The New Yorker‘s first Reddit correspondent.
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Today In Headlines
Extra! Extra! The headlines today are way too extra.
Welcome to the last week before February Tabs hiatus. It’s been a while since I tabbed at you so let’s take take quick a spin around the `net and check out some headlines.
Silicon Valley’s Problem-Solving Bubble
The insanity of gas-delivery startups and what they say about inconvenience inflation.
“Every day, in every way, the things that matter to our lives are coming to us,” begins the pitch for an on-demand fuel startup called WeFuel that is launching on Tuesday. “But there’s something that still forces us to get in our car, fight traffic, and go through a ritual that is more than 100 years old. Filling up our cars with gas.”
How The Tech That Took Away Your Work-Life Balance Is Working To Reinstate It
Chat and project-management platforms like Slack and Basecamp blurred work-life boundaries. Here’s how they are putting them back.
Most of work doesn’t have to be done in an office anymore. And in many situations that’s a good thing. Technology enables remote work when regular routes are shut down (like during a snowstorm). Between a smartphone and home-based WiFi, most workers can at least answer email and get basic stuff done. Add a little Slack chat or Basecamp project management, and many of the daily tasks can be tackled.
How Big Is The Gig Economy? The Government Is Finally Going To Find Out
Labor Secretary Tom Perez announced plans to rerun a survey of independent workers for the first time since 2005.
The gig economy has launched a healthy “future of work” panel circuit amid a roaring debate over whether apps like Uber, Postmates, and Handy—which hire an army of independent contractors instead of employees—represent a return to the sweatshop or a new freedom to work when and how one pleases. But all sides of the debate face the same dilemma: When they propose a new policy or launch a new initiative, they have only a vague idea of how many workers it could impact. There is no current government data that specifically catalogs this group of workers.
New App Powers Chat Between Uber And Lyft Drivers
Non-employees, meet your coworkers.
Drivers for on-demand services like Uber and Lyft have no easy way to find their coworkers, but a new app called Pulse aims to change that.
