âI Used to Like Schoolâ: An 11-Year-Oldâs Struggle With Pandemic Learning
Without home internet, Jordyn Coleman has had trouble staying connected to remote classes during the coronavirus pandemic.
Precious Coleman helping her son Jordyn, 11, on a class assignment. Her cellphone is the only internet-connected device he can use at home.Credit.
May 5, 2021Updated 6:57 a.m. ET
CLARKSDALE, Miss. â By the time Precious Coleman returned home from her overnight shift at a casino, it was past 9 in the morning. It had been another night of dealing with belligerent patrons who refused to wear their face masks and drunks who needed to be escorted to the curb. Her eyes stung.
Facebook Oversight Board Upholds Social Network’s Ban of Trump
A company-appointed panel ruled that the ban was justified at the time but added that the company should reassess its action and make a final decision in six months.
Donald J. Trump was barred from Facebook on Jan. 7 after he used the site to foment an insurrection in Washington.Credit.Erin Schaff/The New York Times
May 5, 2021Updated 1:25 p.m. ET
SAN FRANCISCO A Facebook-appointed panel of journalists, activists and lawyers on Wednesday upheld the social network’s ban of former President Donald J. Trump, ending any immediate return by Mr. Trump to mainstream social media and renewing a debate about tech power over online speech.
Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World
Jimmy Donaldson, 22, is out to become the Elon Musk of online creators.
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May 4, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Jimmy Donaldson, 22, a YouTube megastar better known as Mr. Beast, operates six YouTube channels with names like MrBeast,MrBeast Shorts and Beast Reacts that together have 91 million subscribers. People have viewed his videos more than 13 billion times. And last year as the pandemic raged, he became the most-subscribed YouTube creator in the country.
But unlike other YouTubers who have been satisfied with social media success, Mr. Donaldson wants more.
“I really want to be Elon one day,” he wrote last year on Twitter, referring to Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX and one of the world’s richest people. Mr. Donaldson later listed Mr. Musk as his “dream collaborator.”
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May 3, 2021, 7:31 a.m. ET
Verizon Communications, signaling that it has given up on its media business, said on Monday that it had agreed to sell Yahoo and AOL to the private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion.
The sale also includes Verizon’s advertising technology business. Verizon will retain a 10 percent stake in the overall business, it said in a statement.
“This next evolution of Yahoo will be the most thrilling yet,” Guru Gowrappan, Verizon Media’s chief executive, said in a memo to employees Monday, which was obtained by The New York Times.
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Google loves to be different. So it’s no surprise that the company has out-there ideas for the post-pandemic office.
As Google starts to bring employees back to offices in some regions, it plans to experiment with ways to give them more elbow room and blend elements of virtual work with in-person collaboration. The goal, as my colleague Dai Wakabayashi described in an article on Google’s vision of the new office, is to reimagine a happier and more productive workplace.
Dai spoke to me about what Google learned from the last year of employees working mostly away from offices, and whether a company with limitless resources will be a model of the future workplace.