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A Brief History of Open Letters To Twitter

Everyone has always known exactly what Twitter has needed to do. Immediately! Here’s proof.

Slate‘s David Auerbach has a plan to fix Twitter. In brief, it involves making it a more welcoming place and minimizing harassment by shielding users from tweets other than those sent by people they’ve chosen to follow. He outlines his strategy—soberly headlined “What Twitter Must Do”—in the form of an open letter to Twitter itself:

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The Privacy Issues You Should (And Shouldn’t) Worry About With BYOD

If you use your personal phone for work, should you be worried about your Tinder profile and NSFW Facebook posts?

How are you reading this story—on your work phone or computer, or on a personal device that you use for work? If it’s the latter, you’re in the majority. Sixty percent of respondents in a 2014 survey said their companies already had a bring your own device (BYOD) policy in place, and another 14% said their companies were developing one. The year before, Garter researchers predicted that half of employers would actually require their staff to use their own devices for work by this year.

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On The Hunt For Natural Beauty Products For Women Who Actually *Like* Makeup

The creators of Beauty Lies Truth are advocating for better—and bolder—natural beauty products.

It sounds like the start of a joke: A rock star and a Harvard business school student team up and start a beauty blog. But Beauty Lies Truth is a real site started by Alexis Krauss, one half of the band Sleigh Bells, and Harvard Business School student Jessica Assaf. Their goal? To advocate for a beauty industry that is inclusive to getting dolled up, but with makeup that has safer and more natural ingredients.

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Instagram Hires Twitter’s Former Product Head Kevin Weil

Weil left Twitter over the weekend with other execs in a major shake-up.

Former Twitter product head Kevin Weil has reportedly landed at one of the microblogging site’s main competitors, Facebook’s Instagram, reports Re/code. Weil was one of the executives who left Twitter in a major shake-up at the company over the weekend. At Instagram, Weil will take the same position he held at Twitter, heading up the product team.

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Twitter Is Looking To Stack Its Deck In Wake Of Exec Exodus

The company has hired AmEx’s former VP of global advertising and is looking to nab Apple’s former PR star.

After an exodus of high-level executives at Twitter over the weekend, which caused the company’s shares to drop as much as 4.6% on Monday, it appears the social media company is on a high-profile hiring spree to stack its deck full of experienced leaders which can move the company past this turbulent period.

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This is How Google’s Project Wing Drone Delivery Service Could Work

Patent filing reveals a drone “delivery receptacle” to securely store packages

Google’s Project Wing is the code name for the company’s drone delivery service it hopes to launch in 2017. The company first publicly announced Project Wing in a YouTube video back in 2014, but since then has been keeping mum about how this service will work. Now a new patent filing from the company reveals how part of Project Wing deliveries could deliver your packages.

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The R&D Behind Meal Delivery Startup Sprig’s New Recipes

The story of 1,274 different dishes that needed to be healthy, delivery-proof, cost-conscious, mass-producible—and oh yeah, delicious.

For years, 590 Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco was home to a restaurant in the Chevy’s Fresh Mex chain, and therefore full of food that was starchy, salty, served in overwhelming portions, and generally prepared without apparent regard to its impact on anyone’s health.

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