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Why Elon Musk is so polarizing

The billionaire buying Twitter sees himself as a moderate. His tweets have convinced followers otherwise. https://wapo.st/39tH1ve

Amazon shares plunge as pandemic sales boom wanes

Amazon posted its first quarterly loss in seven years Thursday, sending its stock tumbling nearly 10 percent in after-hours trading. https://wapo.st/36ZaBHZ

Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Is it worth it?

The social media platform missed first quarter revenue targets but saw a bump in users ahead of its pending sale to the Tesla CEO. https://wapo.st/39ptxka

Can a video game tell if you’re depressed?

AI-driven start-up Thymia uses games to detect danger signs of mental illness. It’s a novel approach, but not everyone is sold. https://wapo.st/3FbQ9AB

Who’s the boss? At Musk’s companies he is, but also young loyalists.

Now that Elon Musk is the owner-apparent of Twitter, the question turns to how he will run it. A look at who runs his other companies offers some clues. https://wapo.st/3ygPvAn

Google is letting you limit ads about pregnancy and weight loss

Google is letting people opt out of ads about sensitive topics including pregnancy, parenting, dating, weight loss, alcohol and gambling. Here's where to find the settings. https://wapo.st/3Lqvnz7

Elon Musk found not liable in trial over Tesla’s SolarCity acquisition

The judge said the "verdict is for the defense on all claims." https://wapo.st/37SaIp9

Twitter stock drops, signaling investor concern about Elon Musk deal

Twitter's stock fell below Elon Musk's purchase price, signaling investor doubt about the deal. https://wapo.st/38tzwnE

‘Nintendo Switch Sports’ is a grab bag of great games and duds

Is "Nintendo Switch Sports" good? It depends on the sport. https://wapo.st/3MwaDGs

What to do if you lose your phone and can’t access your accounts

Two-factor authentication can help secure your life online, but it often has a weak point: your phone. But if you act fast, there are ways to keep strangers from accessing data they shouldn't. https://wapo.st/3kjkhQE

Elon Musk and tech’s ‘great man’ fallacy

Jack Dorsey welcomed Elon Musk as “the singular solution” to save Twitter. That obscures a key factor in Musk's success at Tesla and SpaceX: a team of talented employees who bought wholeheartedly into his vision. https://wapo.st/3LsmkOk

Biden’s tech agenda gets a reality check as Elon Musk buys Twitter

Washington’s hands are largely tied as the world’s richest person acquires an influential social network, an impact of the regulatory void around social media companies. https://wapo.st/3vl533S

The success of ‘Elden Ring’ had nothing to do with the pandemic

“Elden Ring" is a triumph. For that, you can thank the people who made the game, and the people who play it — not circumstance. https://wapo.st/3xp2L5c

Does traveling to every country count if you don’t post on the Internet?

The field of travel influencers is lucrative and largely unregulated. A recent lawsuit against the self-proclaimed “first woman to travel to every country” attempts to correct the record. https://wapo.st/3jvOFXM

Elon Musk’s Twitter tirade offers clues to board seat debacle

With Twitter staying mum on the details, Elon Musk’s tweets offer clues — albeit fuzzy ones — about what really went down as he declined to join the board. https://wapo.st/3JuWVli

USC scholarship aims to help Black, Indigenous workers enter games industry

The scholarship is funded by Take-Two Interactive and Microsoft. https://wapo.st/3LX3Bu7

Apple CEO escalates fight over App Store regulation in rare D.C. speech

Apple CEO Tim Cook warned that proposed legislation to improve competition in the tech industry "would undermine privacy and security," using a keynote speaking slot at a conference in Congress’s backyard to bring greater public attention to his company's attack on antitrust regulation. https://wapo.st/3jxctdS

Before you click agree: Tax sites want your data for more than filing

We investigate why Turbo Tax and H&R Block ask you to give up your return’s basic federal privacy protections — and explain how to demand your data back https://wapo.st/3JzNIIn

In Ukraine, Facebook fact-checkers fight a war on two fronts

Facebook’s third-party fact-checkers in Ukraine are trying to police a deluge of misinformation while also trying to survive. https://wapo.st/37Inp5q

Teachers say PlayVS wields partnerships to monopolize scholastic esports

PlayVS, a for-profit start-up, sent cease-and-desist letters to high school esports organizations claiming exclusivity it did not have. https://wapo.st/3rhmuzQ

Amazon’s $2B housing push has mostly left out D.C. area’s poorest

Amazon has committed more than $750 million to build and preserve more affordable units, but the help is overwhelmingly flowing to renters with incomes on the high end of a range the company targeted. https://wapo.st/3JwZraO

Help Desk Quick Fix: How to back up your phone before you lose it

Help Desk Quick Fix: Your lightning-fast guide to the tech in your life. https://wapo.st/3Kyk5bL

Elon Musk no longer joining Twitter’s board, in a major reversal

Twitter said last week he would join the board of the social media platform after amassing a 9.2 percent stake in the company. https://wapo.st/3xjDqtw

Amazon filing outlines plans to fight the New York union vote

Amazon filed its objections to the Staten Island union vote, in which workers last week for the first time chose to unionize one of the company’s U.S. warehouses. https://wapo.st/3umI6wK

SpaceX launches first all-private mission to International Space Station

A crew of three wealthy entrepreneurs and a former NASA astronaut, who is serving as their guide, will spend eight days on the station in an endeavor commissioned by Axiom Space, a Houston-based company. https://wapo.st/3ulg1WC

China is Russia’s most powerful weapon for information warfare

Russia's ability to sow propaganda has been crippled because social media companies have banned or restricted its state news channels. But Chinese state media, which has an even larger audience than Russia's, is amplifying Russian talking points. https://wapo.st/3E7EPVD

Meet the 1,300 librarians racing to back up Ukraine’s digital archives

Over the past month, 1,300 librarians and archivists across the world, have used open source tools to back up everything from Ukraine's historical records and census data to children’s poems and Ukrainian basket weaving techniques. https://wapo.st/38p2ODF

Elon Musk to address Twitter staff after internal outcry

After days of internal outcry, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal will host a town hall AMA with Elon Musk for Twitter employees. https://wapo.st/370JEne

Activision Blizzard converts over 1,000 QA testers to full time roles

Activision Blizzard also plans to bump up the minimum hourly rate for QA staff to $20 beginning April 17. https://wapo.st/38pzZHe

Will Elon Musk bring Trump back to Twitter?

Republicans are rejoicing at his appointment to its board. They might be disappointed. https://wapo.st/37sqQgv

Setting up a password manager isn’t as hard as you think

Choosing a password manager is only half the battle. Here's what you need to know to get your manager up and running and how to export passwords from iCloud Keychain and Google. https://wapo.st/3754PVf

Elon Musk delayed filing a form and made $156 million

Elon Musk was required by the SEC to reveal that he had acquired more than a 5 percent interest in Twitter. He missed the deadline by 11 days, and it earned him $156 million. https://wapo.st/3KhoQWZ

Apple restores opposition app to its App Store in Russia

Apple removed the opposition app last September under threat from the Russian government. https://wapo.st/3xa14sc

Will Smith’s slap became crypto. Inside the wild world of memecoins.

Once considered a humorous version of cryptocurrency, memecoins are now rife with scams, critics say, making it a particularly dangerous product. https://wapo.st/3jcHaEQ

Welcome to the girlbossification of crypto

Gwyneth Paltrow, Mila Kunis and other celebs push NFTs as a way for women to get rich. https://wapo.st/3Ka8QGl

Some women shared the messages they get on Instagram. It’s not pretty.

A study finds that Instagram failed to act on 90 percent of abuse sent via direct message to five high-profile influencers on the platform, including actress Amber Heard. https://wapo.st/3uV4TyN

Tomb Raider is back. Let Lara Croft enjoy raiding tombs again.

If games want to address colonialism, it’s probably best left to a series not called “Tomb Raider.” https://wapo.st/3uaELAJ

Elon Musk joins Twitter, promises ‘significant improvements’

The Tesla CEO took a $2.9 billion stake in Twitter after questioning its commitment to free speech. https://wapo.st/3Jayp8L

Trump’s Truth Social in trouble as financial, technical woes mount

Here’s a truth former president Donald Trump doesn’t want to hear: His social network, Truth Social, has begun to implode. https://wapo.st/36RtKf9

Hybrid work for many is messy and exhausting

Employees say working both remotely and in the office can complicate collaboration, tech tools and work-life balance. https://wapo.st/3uSjlYx

An ex-cop fell for Alice. Then he fell for her $66 million crypto scam.

A former police officer lost $15,000 overnight as part of a large-scale crypto swindle. It underlines the startling increase in these scams — and their growing power to affect anyone. https://wapo.st/3KaemJb

Semantle is like the Dark Souls of Wordle

In this brutal puzzle, each guess is "hot" or "cold" for how close it is, contextually, to the day's mystery word. https://wapo.st/37c4bVK

Rechargeable batteries cause fires. Here’s how to properly dispose of them.

Choosing the wrong way to recycle products with rechargeable batteries can be as bad as not recycling them at all. Rather than toss them in your curbside bins, do this instead. https://wapo.st/3K9erNa

Amazon workers celebrate a shocking victory in N.Y.

Workers said the Amazon Labor Union’s Staten Island campaign’s authenticity and their frustrations with “exploitive” work environment drove the win. https://wapo.st/3LE2Cir

Meet Chris Smalls, the man who organized Amazon workers in New York

Union leader Chris Smalls became the first successful organizer of Amazon workers in the U.S. He’s now popping a bottle of champagne. https://wapo.st/3Dv1B9i

Amazon workers vote to join a union in New York in historic move

The Staten Island Amazon warehouse move could herald a new era for labor at the company. https://wapo.st/35wKTKn

‘Halo Infinite’ to feature content from the TV series

Like most things with "Infinite" right now, there's no schedule on when this might happen. https://wapo.st/3LzYtf8

From Russia with money: Silicon Valley distances itself from oligarchs

Silicon Valley investors with ties to Russia are now distancing themselves. Documents obtained by The Post show one investor touted her connections to oligarchs. https://wapo.st/3LBfeGK