On April 26 2024, the NHTSA, the government body responsible for keeping roads safe, found Tesla's Autopilot and Full-Self-Driving software... more

Hi Better Offline Fans! Take a listen to the trailer of our newest show Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) About the show:... more

Ed Zitron walks you through how career manager Adam Mosseri pushed out Instagram's original founders, turning it into an ultra-profitable... more

In this episode, Ed Zitron tells you the disgraceful story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads -... more

The growth-at-all-costs management consultant mindset has turned most of the modern internet into a painful and profitable social experiment -... more

In the last few weeks TikTok and other social networks have been flooded with memes about a chinese glycine manufacturer... more

Every major tech firm is betting billions of dollars that the generative AI revolution will change society - yet when... more

It’s been just under a year and a half since ChatGPT - an AI-powered chatbot launched by so-called non-profit OpenAI... more

Wikipedia, a non-profit encyclopedia that anybody can edit, remains one of the few trustworthy and reliable websites left online. Ed... more

The media industry has laid off over 30,000 people in the last three years as a result of an executive... more

Ever wonder why Silicon Valley stopped making anything new or interesting? It's because of the same growth-at-all-costs mindset that's destroyed... more

A New York Times investigation revealed this week that Musk's $7 billion "Musk Foundation" regularly fails to donate enough money... more

In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook to Meta, claiming that it was now a "Metaverse company," throwing the entire tech... more

Though the Winklevoss brothers are best known for their role in the early days of Facebook, you'll be surprised to... more

Ever wonder why Google results are getting worse, or why you aren't seeing your friends on Instagram? It's all because... more

Apple's $3500 face computer is here, and after spending far too many hours inside it, Ed Zitron has found Apple's... more

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s growing influence over society, and how startups, venture capitalists and... more