With costs rising, wages stagnant, and global uncertainty delaying any strong recoveries, people are having a rough time financially at the moment. In the world of the financial elite, where billions are made and lost from day to day, some people are feeling the sting, too. Mark Zuckerberg, one of the better-known billionaires and a regular on the top 10 list of the world's richest, has managed to lose half of his net worth since the first of January. While you're unlikely to see Zuckerberg skipping a mortgage payment or lining up at a food bank, he is still an astonishing $70 billion down since December 2021.

A group of privacy-focused organizations have signed a letter imploring US Congress leaders to schedule a vote on a bill that would hamper data collection by tech giants and promote user access to online privacy tools.

After the Federal Trade Commission began investigating a massive Uber data breach in 2016, the tech company was hit with another breach that was seemingly just as concerning. Rather than report the second data breach to the FTC and risk further public embarrassment, then-Uber security chief Joe Sullivan consulted with lawyers and then negotiated with the hackers. He allegedly set up a deal under which Uber paid the hackers a $100,000 "bug bounty" to delete the data, then pretended the data breach was part of a planned test of Uber's security and had the hackers sign a nondisclosure agreement.

If there's anyone Apple might wanna impress, it's Steve Jobs' daughter, but the fact is she's far from blown away by the new iPhone ... which she thinks is pretty much the same as the previous edition. Eve Jobs, daughter of Steve and Laurene Powell Jobs, reacted to Apple's Wednesday announcement of the new iPhone 14 by posting a popular meme ... and adding her own twist of shade.

About 650 Google workers have signed a petition asking the company to protect users' abortion-related location data and search history. The move comes over concerns that law enforcement agencies will seek such data from Google to prosecute abortion seekers.

Many Big Tech companies have been laying off then employees and the latest company to join the list is Google. According to reports, Google executives have warned workers to either boost performance or prepare to leave. Insider report revealed that a company-wide message said that if the next quarterly earnings has not improved there will be "there will be blood on the streets".

High-tech startups are reassessing their prospects for the future as interest rates rise and investors get queasy.

For much of the past two decades, the ethos of Silicon Valley was largely defined by Facebook's former motto: "move fast and break things." But in a sudden and dizzying shift, the current mood in the tech sector could perhaps best be described with a far more restrained mantra: "cut costs and try to survive."

Scientists may have found the answer to smaller and faster chips that could usher in the future of processors, and that answer might be using silicon-28 nanowires. Although the technology was initially dismissed as not very effective, further research and tweaks showed that the material may be able to conduct heat up to 150% more efficiently.

The proliferation of digital devices has already become a big problem for the planet, but it’s still not receiving the attention it should. Once they come to the end of their useful lives, electronics just get discarded. The recycling rate is still poor, despite the fact they contain valuable minerals that could be used once more and have economic value. Now, scientists are calling to ramp up the recycling of e-waste, describing the expansion of mining as unsustainable.

Meta’s first fully AR-ready smart glasses might arrive in 2024, opening the hardware floodgates for users to engage with CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s lofty metaverse experiences. According to a report from tech publication The Verge, Meta’s high-end AR smart glasses code-named Project Nazare will make their debut in the next couple of years. And it appears that the company is leaving no stones unturned as it attempts to deliver the best experience possible.

It's an expensive job keeping Mark Zuckerberg safe. Meta spent a record $26.8 million on security and private jets for Zuckerberg and his family in 2021, according to a company filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). That's up from $25 million in 2020 and $23 million in 2019.

News of Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk taking a board seat at Twitter has some Twitter employees panicking over the future of the social media firm's ability to moderate content.

Intel Corp Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger earned 1,711 times as much as the average worker at the U.S. chipmaker in just 11 months since he joined in February last year, a regulatory filing showed on Wednesday.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse will be full of opportunity, and entrepreneurs are already finding ways to financially benefit from it. But it comes with significant risk. And the risks associated with this new technology should scare you.

A lobbying group whose members include Apple and Google is being accused of pushing for weak privacy legislation in a bid to pre-empt stronger measures by individual states. As Congress makes little progress toward a federal privacy law, individual states are implementing their own legislation …

In a Tweet, Parag Agrawal, the new CEO of Twitter, who took over from Jack Dorsey, announced that he’d continue the option of working remotely “forever,” as other tech companies are calling for workers to return to the office.

In the jaw-dropping saga of disgraced health-tech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, there was one aspect that attracted most of the public’s attention: her voice. Despite lying about her “revolutionary” pin-prick blood test technology that failed to work, then duping her patients with false diagnoses (she was convicted of four counts of defrauding investors earlier this year) it was her appearance – the Steve Jobs-esque black turtleneck jumpers and signature red lipstick – and her deep baritone, masculine-affected voice that people really zoned in on.

All things must die, according to the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, but that could be about to change. A growing number of tech billionaires have decided they want to use their enormous wealth to try to help humans "cheat death."

Amazon will raise its maximum base pay for corporate and tech workers to $350,000 from $160,000, Geekwire reports. Why it matters: The move is intended to bring Amazon in line with competitors like Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, and to help ensure the company retains employees and recruits top talent.