Hayley Tsukayama

Twitter heard you: The 140-character limit is here to stay

August 21, 2019 at 11:13 p.m.

There's good news for the Twitter faithful Friday: the network's signature 140-character limit isn't going anywhere. Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey told the Today Show's Matt Lauer that the limit...

"I really had this conviction that no one was going to write reviews for the heck of it," Yelp founder Jeremy Stoppelman said of the site's humble beginnings.

Yelp’s founder once thought no one would want to post opinions on the Internet

June 9, 2018 at 5:17 a.m.

As of this weekend, Yelp has officially logged 100 million reviews on its site — something that chief executive Jeremy Stoppelman said he couldn't have dreamed of when he first...

A picture shows emoji characters on the screens of two cellphones in Paris on Aug. 6, 2015.

Do yourself a favor and try unplugging for a day

June 11, 2018 at 8:36 a.m.

We all spend much of our lives surrounded by screens. And there's no denying that they're pretty great - even occasionally indistinguishable from magic, to borrow from Arthur C. Clarke....

Try using shorter, simpler sentences in emails to get co-workers and friends to reply to your messages.

How to write emails if you want people to actually respond

June 12, 2018 at 7:51 a.m.

Having trouble getting replies to your emails? Apparently, one of the best ways to get a reply is to write as if you're 9 years old. That's according to the...

The Sphero BB-8 remote-controlled droid is on display at CES Unveiled, a media preview event for CES International, on Jan. 4, 2016, in Las Vegas. The robot is controlled by an app for a mobile device.

Five things from CES that you may actually want to buy

May 23, 2019 at 6:59 p.m.

CES, the largest consumer electronics show in the world, kicked off with a sneak peek at what some companies will be exhibiting on the show floor this week. Even with...

CES 2016: Four exciting trends we’re watching

May 23, 2019 at 6:59 p.m.

CES, one of the tech industry's biggest annual consumer electronics shows, kicks off in Las Vegas this week. The show draws exhibitors and press from across the globe to share...

In recent months, Twitter has become a go-to example of the lack of diversity in the technology industry.

Twitter faces backlash over its new diversity leader

May 31, 2019 at 8:29 a.m.

It's safe to say that Twitter has a bit of an image problem when it comes to diversity - and a recent hire to address that problem seems to be...

Facebook's not saying what caused it to tell users they've been friends with each other for 46 years, but it seems to be due to something called "epoch time."

Why is Facebook saying you’ve been friends for 46 years?

May 23, 2019 at 6:59 p.m.

Like many of you out there in Internet land, I woke up Thursday morning to an interesting bug on my Facebook page. According to my own account, I had a...

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