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Google has laid off over a thousand employees across various departments since January 10th. CEO Sundar Pichai’s message is to brace for more cuts. “We have ambitious goals and will be investing in our big priorities this year,” Pichai told all Google employees on Wednesday in an internal memo, part of which was shared with … Read more
Former Meta Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg announced Wednesday that she will step down from the company’s board of directors this year, shifting roles to an internal adviser. Sandberg, who served as the company’s COO from 2008 to 2022, is leaving to focus on philanthropic work but will remain on the board to “help ensure … Read more
The Apple Inc. iPhone 8, Airpods, and Apple Watch sit on the AirPower charger during an event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple will remove the blood oxygen feature from its latest Apple Watches, a move that will … Read more
A federal appeals court has decided to revive a U.S. sales ban on Apple’s premium watches while it referees a patent dispute revolving around a sensor, raising the specter that the company will pull the devices from stores for the second time in less than a month. The ruling issued Wednesday by the U.S. Court … Read more
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Pitchfork, the acerbic music site that defined album reviews in the early blogging era, is being hollowed out. Owner Condé Nast has decided to merge the music magazine with GQ, the men’s interest publication, according to a staff memo circulated by Max Tani of Semafor. Launched back when CDs were a thing, Pitchfork outlasted the … Read more
Google is cutting 100 employees at YouTube, the world’s most popular video platform, adding to the hundreds of other layoffs recently announced by the parent company, multiple outlets reported Wednesday. Google, which owns YouTube, told employees at YouTube’s operations and creator management teams that their jobs were eliminated, The New York Times reported, citing an … Read more
Big technology companies are recklessly pursuing profits from artificial intelligence and urgent action is needed to mitigate the risks from the rapidly growing sector, the head of the United Nations has warned. In a fierce attack on the technology multinationals, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, told the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos that … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Newly unredacted documents from New Mexico’s lawsuit against Meta underscore the company’s “historical reluctance” to keep children safe on its platforms, the complaint says. New Mexico’s Attorney General Raul Torrez sued Facebook and Instagram owner Meta in December, saying the company failed to protect young users from exposure to child sexual … Read more
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Facebook gets data on individual users from many thousands of companies, and a new study (PDF) from Consumer Reports tried to put more exact numbers on it. Researchers found that, on average, Facebook received data from 2,230 different companies for each of the 709 volunteers. One extreme example showed that “nearly 48,000 different companies were … Read more
A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected Apple’s request to pause an import ban on several of its smartwatches, once again barring the company from selling the products within the U.S. However, the decision comes just days after Customs and Border Protection (CBP) found that a redesigned version of the Apple Watch models that do … Read more
