Tag: TECHNEWS
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Google parent Alphabet cuts 6% of its workforce impacting 12,000 people, saying it had ‘hired for a different economic reality’
Image Credits: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Alphabet, parent holding company of Google, has announced that it’s cutting around 6% of its global workforce. In an open letter published by Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, the narrative followed a similar trajectory to that of other companies that have downsized in recent months, noting that the company had “hired…
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Apple unveils M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, featuring new Neural Engine and more
Apple this morning announced new Macbooks powered by the latest generation of its in-house, custom-designed PC chipsets. The chipsets — the M2 Pro and M2 Max — feature a more powerful CPU and GPU, up to 96GB of unified memory and what Apple claims is “industry-leading” power efficiency. M2 Pro Image Credits: Apple Built using a second-generation 5-nanometer process…
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Norton LifeLock says thousands of customer accounts breached
Thousands of Norton LifeLock customers had their accounts compromised in recent weeks, potentially allowing criminal hackers access to customer password managers, the company revealed in a recent data breach notice. In a notice to customers, Gen Digital, the parent company of Norton LifeLock, said that the likely culprit was a credential stuffing attack — where previously…
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The TikTok That Will Be the Great Unsolved Mystery of This Era
Here’s why your social media feeds might be haunted by posts about 26-year-old nursing assistants. THE MONITOR IS a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. This became clear Thursday when a friend sent a tweet to one of my group chats containing a screenshot of the TikTok…
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Sam Bankman-Fried launches Substack: ‘I didn’t steal funds, and I certainly didn’t stash billions away’
FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried launched his own Substack newsletter today, in a very unusual move for someone who was recently arrested and is facing eight counts of U.S. criminal charges. In a post titled “FTX Pre-Mortem Overview,” Bankman-Fried maintains his innocence surrounding the collapse and bankruptcy of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange he founded in 2019 that went on to…
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Netflix adds the SAG Awards to its growing list of livestreams
/ The SAG Awards will stream directly on Netflix beginning in 2024, but the company will stream this year’s ceremony on YouTube. It’s the company’s latest push into livestreaming, which already includes a Chris Rock special for March. Netflix will live stream the Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards beginning in 2024, the company announced on…
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McLaren Applied and Elaphe partner to enhance EV efficiency and driving dynamics
McLaren Applied has partnered with in-wheel motor specialists Elaphe to develop a powertrain that combines the British engineering and technology pioneer’s next-generation IPG5 800V silicon carbide inverter with the Slovenian company’s range of in-wheel motors. The joint electric drive will offer automakers significant space and weight savings, creating a highly efficient system. At just 3.79L…
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Seattle school district sues TikTok, Meta over youth mental health crisis
SEATTLE — A public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth. Seattle Public Schools filed the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court. The 91-page complaint says the social media companies…
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Square launches support for Apple’s Tap to Pay technology
/ Sellers can now use just their iPhones to complete transactions Square now lets merchants use Apple’s Tap to Pay feature to process transactions. In a press release, the company announced that sellers with a compatible iPhone can use Square’s Point of Sale (POS) app to accept contactless payments. Apple first rolled out Tap to Pay on…
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WhatsApp adds one-click links to join a call and tests 32-person video chats
/ Now you can grab friends for a voice (or video) group chat just by sending them a link, and soon, you’ll be able to see up to 32 of them at the same time WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature that allows users to share a direct link to a call, making it…
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