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How to use Mastodon: create accounts, join servers, and more

The drama over at Twitter, both from a business as well as user experience perspective, is truly one of a kind. Elon Musk is making changes that not all users will appreciate, and his cavalier attitude towards content isn’t winning him many free-speech-absolutist fans like him. Naturally, a lot of Twitter users are looking for…

The Apple TV 4K (2022) and Siri remote on a table.

Apple TV 4K vs. Roku Ultra: Which top streaming device rules?

Scanning the shelves of your local brick-and-mortar outlet, you’ll see everything from Google devices to Amazon-powered peripherals that you can connect to the internet, plug into your TV, and use to access thousands of movies and TV shows from apps like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and more, with a slew of additional device features available to…

Kratos sternly looks at Atreus in God of War: Ragnarok.

God of War Ragnarok isn’t just another ‘dad game’

As young creatives in entertainment industries get older and have children, more stories about reluctant but caring fathers are popping up in mainstream media. On the film and television side, movies like Logan and shows like The Mandalorian and Obi-Wan fit this mold. Sony has championed this kind of story on the video game front…

an "entirely avoidable tragedy" • TechCrunch

an “entirely avoidable tragedy” • ProWellTech

If you want to better understand exactly how big a deal it is that the cryptocurrency exchange FTX just imploded, you could do worse than talk with David Pakman, an entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. After logging 14 years with the investment firm Venrock, Pakman — who led Venrock’s investment in the digital collectibles company Dapper…

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried quits as crypto exchange files for bankruptcy • TechCrunch

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried quits as crypto exchange files for bankruptcy • ProWellTech

To get a roundup of ProWellTech’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hoooo boy. As Alex would say: This week has been a long year. You just know it has been a pretty wild ride when Meta can lay off 13% of its staff,…

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The best OLED TVs for 2022: LG, Samsung, and more

When it’s uncompromising color and contrast-rich picture quality you’re looking for, an OLED TV is the way to go. Unlike traditional LED sets, OLED TVs negate the use of regular backlighting altogether, employing a massive array of self-emissive pixels instead. The best part: These pixels are individually controllable, meaning that when one is turned off,…

H-1B worker advice, managing remote teams, pitch deck teardown • TechCrunch

H-1B worker advice, managing remote teams, pitch deck teardown • ProWellTech

According to layoffs.fyi, more than 23,000 tech workers have been laid off so far this month. For comparison, the site tracked 12,463 layoffs in October. Facebook’s parent company Meta announced the first major job cuts in its history this week, eliminating 11,000 jobs. Like Twitter, Stripe, Brex, Lyft, Netflix and other tech firms based in…