🤑 Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification

Plus: Workers Leave World's Biggest iPhone Plant to Escape Covid Curbs, Of Course Instant Groceries Don't Work, and more…

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Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification. Now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave. The directive is to change Twitter Blue, the… (Alex Heath / The Verge)

Alex Heath @alexeheath

NEW: Twitter is planning to start charging $20 a month for verification. It’s Elon Musk’s first big project. Oh, and the team building it was told they will all be fired if they don’t meet a launch deadline of November 7th.

theverge.comTwitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification“The whole verification process is being revamped right now,” Musk tweeted.

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Workers Leave World's Biggest iPhone Plant to Escape Covid Curbs. Workers are departing Apple Inc. 's biggest iPhone plant in China, seeking to escape hastily enacted Covid measures that left many of the 200,000 staff grappling with inadequate living conditions. Local authorities from several regions in the… ( Bloomberg)

Peter Elstrom @pelstrom

Apple and Foxconn are struggling to manage a Covid outbreak at iPhone City, the Zhengzhou facility with hundreds of thousands of workers. Employees are now escaping the lockdowns and living conditions that had some fighting over food. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @technology

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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Of Course Instant Groceries Don't Work. More than 20 years ago, as the rubble of the dot-com boom was still smoking, Wired magazine published an autopsy of the grocery-delivery start-up Webvan. The company had just filed for bankruptcy after evaporating the better part of a billion… (Amanda Mull via The Atlantic)

The Atlantic @TheAtlantic

Quick-delivery grocery apps hoovered up billions of dollars of venture capital and expanded rapidly during the pandemic. But investors should have seen their near-instant implosion coming, writes @amandamull.

on.theatln.tcOf Course Instant Groceries Don’t WorkObstacles include: space, time, reality.

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India's ban on Chinese video games proves to be a double-edged sword. Heavy-handed approach drives domestic success, but executives worry foreign publishers now afraid to invest in country. (Benjamin Parkin / Financial Times)

Benjamin Parkin @b_parkyn

It has been a rough few years for Indian gamers, losing three beloved shooter games to New Delhi's crackdown on Chinese tech. Now studios are stepping in with their own "Made in India" alternatives. Our @FT deep dive into India's fledgling gaming sector

enterprise-sharing.ft.comIndia’s ban on Chinese video games proves to be a double-edged sword[FREE TO READ] Heavy-handed approach drives domestic success, but executives worry foreign publishers now afraid to invest in country

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We Need to Rethink How to Adapt to the Climate Crisis. Much of the barrier island community of Fort Myers Beach on Florida's southwest coast, once home to 5,600 people, is unrecognizable. Older buildings not made of concrete were obliterated by Hurricane Ian. With properties that were worth nearly $4.5… (Katharine Mach via The New York Times)

Katharine Mach @katharine_mach

@galentreuer and I reflect post-Ian on how we can become much more prepared for climate impacts and risks. This thread gives more on the adaptation ideas/examples we introduce

nytimes.comOpinion | We Need to Rethink How to Adapt to the Climate CrisisWhat we’re doing now is not early enough.

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