Since the pandemic began, the U.S. labor market has seen no shortage of twists and turns—from record-breaking job losses to the Great Resignation. And as 2022 comes to a close, workers are facing an uncertain year yet again.

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It’s no secret that Twitter’s employee base, business model, and overall reputation have plummeted since Elon Musk took over the platform last month. But in his short tenure, exactly how bad have things gotten at Twitter, and is there any way out for Musk?

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Hot on the heels of TikTok’s stateside launch of its in-app shopping tools earlier this week, American Express debuts a partnership that leverages TikTok influencers’ expertise to help market small businesses and attract new shoppers ahead of Small Business Saturday on November 26. The Amex #ShopSmall Accelerator is a new content hub where TikTok creators, including Sofia Bella (4.3 million followers), Anna Sitar (12.1 million followers), and Brandon Blackwood (61,500 followers) provide helpful tutorials, and tips on how to promote businesses on the platform.

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Since photo-sharing app BeReal exploded in popularity earlier this year, you might have gotten used to a new daily notification: “Time to BeReal.” Now, you can expect another one: “Time to Now.” That’s “Now” as in TikTok Now, the app’s answer to BeReal’s daily-prompt model, which just started rolling out globally. Here’s everything you need to know about the update.

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Elon Musk took the stand on Wednesday in a shareholder lawsuit that seeks to nullify the 2018 pay package he received as Tesla’s CEO—then and now, the world’s most lucrative such contract. The class-action suit argues that Tesla’s board of directors were unduly influenced by Musk, and failed to disclose crucial information about this deal to the shareholders, who then approved it. If Musk were to lose the case, it would undo around $50 billion in compensation, meaning he’d have to return more than a quarter of his current estimated net worth.

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The contagion from last week’s collapse of cryptocurrency giant FTX continues to show: On Wednesday, Genesis Global Trading, one of the largest institutional brokerages in the cryptosphere, said it was halting customer redemptions for its lending arm, Genesis Global Capital, after facing “abnormal withdrawal requests” amid “unprecedented market turmoil.”

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On Monday, many classes were canceled across the University of California’s 10 campuses due to what is being called the country’s largest-ever academic strike. Around 48,000 tutors, fellows, teaching assistants, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars joined the picket line to push for better benefits and compensation. The strike comes as faculty and students are caught up in the chaos of midterms, finals, and the holidays. Here’s what to know about the strike:

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When Airbnb unveils its new product called Setup this week—aimed at providing more guidance and resources to new hosts—the marketing push behind it will look and feel exactly like the product itself. Even the fun little animations will be the same.

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To help even physically separated coworkers find new ways to bond at work, Microsoft is rolling out multiplayer versions of some of its classic computer games, including Solitaire and Minesweeper.

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During the World Cup, it’s not always easy to change allegiances. The quadrennial international soccer tournament, which starts November 20, is watched by billions of spectators around the planet. For those with connections to any of the 32 teams in play, the gradual knockout of national teams leaves most fans reluctantly settling for backup favorites as the field narrows.

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It seems hard to believe now, but there was a time not that long ago when much of the country was sheltering in place and the federal government was hard at work doling out stimulus checks to millions of Americans.

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After being twice delayed, NASA’s Artemis I mission finally left earth. As Reuters reports, the space agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral at 1:47 a.m. EST with the Orion capsule on board.

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Airbnb announced a number of new safety and product upgrades Wednesday as the home-sharing giant looks to attract even more hosts to the platform and sign up more guests.

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Workplaces across the country are talking about returning to the office, returning to the pre-pandemic way of working, returning to the way it used to be. There is a range of reasons why many leaders are eager to return, from nostalgia to productivity paranoia.

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When the CEO of Rolls Royce recently singled out aviation companies for failing to meet climate targets, the comment hardly raised eyebrows at the London conference where he spoke. Nor did a new report on executive pay revealing the worst carbon emitters don’t even incentivize their CEOs for climate performance. And the growing horde of companies issuing SLBs, or sustainability-linked bonds, tie them to climate goals that are “weak, irrelevant, or even already achieved,” an analysis showed this week.

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Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a large metal chamber devoid of air and draped with the wires needed to control the instruments inside. A beam of particles passes through the interior of the chamber silently at around half the speed of light until it smashes into a solid piece of material, resulting in a burst of rare isotopes.

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