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Intel slashes employee, exec pay amid PC market downturn

Intel slashes employee, exec pay amid PC market downturn

-- 2023-02-01 20:52:51

Intel Corp said on Tuesday that it had made broad cuts to employee and executive pay, a week after the company issued a lower-than-expected sales forecast driven by a loss of market share to rivals an...

Will the layoff season by the tech giants see its end?

Will the layoff season by the tech giants see its end?

Samin Yasar 2023-01-31 15:02:55

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and other tech giants are laying off employees faster than they hired during the pandemic. The million-dollar question remains - is it 'Artificial Intelligence' or the...

China's Baidu to launch ChatGPT-style bot in March

China's Baidu to launch ChatGPT-style bot in March

-- 2023-01-30 11:12:55

Chinese internet search major Baidu is planning to launch an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot service similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT in March, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters news agen...

All you need to know about ChatGPT's AI revolution

All you need to know about ChatGPT's AI revolution

Tanjim Istiaque Chowdhury 2023-01-29 17:09:28

ChatGPT is a long-form question-answering AI from OpenAI that conversely responds to complicated inquiries. It's a ground-breaking technology since it's been taught to understand what people mean when...

Twitter says users will be able to appeal account suspension

Twitter says users will be able to appeal account suspension

-- 2023-01-28 10:20:31

Twitter users will be able to appeal account suspensions and be evaluated under the social media platform's new criteria for reinstatement, starting February 1, the company said on Friday. Under the...

Google makes changes to Android in India after antitrust setbacks

Google makes changes to Android in India after antitrust setbacks

-- 2023-01-26 13:54:31

Google said on Wednesday it will allow device makers in India to license its individual apps for pre-installation and give an option to users to choose their default search engine, announcing sweeping...

Meta's social media apps back up after brief outage

Meta's social media apps back up after brief outage

-- 2023-01-26 12:09:02

Meta Platforms' social media apps appeared to be back up after facing a brief disruption in the United States on Wednesday, data on outage tracking website Downdetector.com showed. At the peak o...

Meta says it will reinstate Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts

Meta says it will reinstate Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts

-- 2023-01-26 09:56:49

Meta Platforms said Wednesday it will reinstate former US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, following a two-year suspension after the deadly Capitol Hill ri...

Nvidia CEO says AI will need regulation, social norms

Nvidia CEO says AI will need regulation, social norms

-- 2023-01-25 16:39:55

Nvidia Corp Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang on Tuesday said that the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence will create powerful tools that require legal regulation and social norms that hav...

Microsoft cloud outage hits users around the world

Microsoft cloud outage hits users around the world

-- 2023-01-25 16:27:09

Microsoft Corp on Wednesday was hit with a networking outage that took down its cloud platform Azure along with services such as Teams and Outlook, potentially affecting millions of users globally. A...

Twitter faces lawsuits over unpaid rent for US HQ, UK office

Twitter faces lawsuits over unpaid rent for US HQ, UK office

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-25 11:16:15

More landlords are taking Twitter to court over unpaid rent, this time at the social media company’s headquarters in San Francisco and its British offices — the latest sign that owner Elon...

Microsoft to invest more in OpenAI as tech race heats up

Microsoft to invest more in OpenAI as tech race heats up

-- 2023-01-24 10:38:12

Microsoft Corp on Monday announced a further multibillion dollar investment in OpenAI, deepening ties with the startup behind the chatbot sensation ChatGPT and setting the stage for more competit...

Australian park rangers say 'Toadzilla' could be world's biggest toad

Australian park rangers say 'Toadzilla' could be world's biggest toad

-- 2023-01-22 18:19:20

Australian park rangers believe they have stumbled upon a record-breaking giant toad deep in a rainforest. Dubbed "Toadzilla", the cane toad, an invasive species that poses a threat to Australia's ec...

Musk says higher priced Twitter subscription won't carry ads

Musk says higher priced Twitter subscription won't carry ads

Reuters 2023-01-22 10:01:25

Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted on Saturday that a higher priced subscription of the social media platform will not carry advertisements. The billionaire also said that ads are "too frequent on Twitt...

Study documents worldwide light pollution

Study documents worldwide light pollution

REUTERS 2023-01-20 16:35:50

Light pollution caused by the incessant nighttime glow of electric lights appears to be intensifying, according to research using observations from tens of thousands of people at various locations aro...

Google vows to cooperate with India antitrust authority after Android ruling

Google vows to cooperate with India antitrust authority after Android ruling

Reuters 2023-01-20 12:29:46

Google said on Friday it will cooperate with India's competition authority after the country's top court upheld an antitrust order forcing the US firm to change how it markets its popular Android plat...

Apple rolls out Macbooks with new M2 chips

Apple rolls out Macbooks with new M2 chips

-- 2023-01-18 14:13:49

Apple on Tuesday unveiled MacBooks powered by its new and faster M2 Pro and M2 Max chips in a surprise launch weeks ahead of its usual schedule. The roll-out of the devices using Apple's latest...

Apple unveils new MacBooks powered with latest M2 Pro, M2 Max chips

Apple unveils new MacBooks powered with latest M2 Pro, M2 Max chips

-- 2023-01-17 21:13:23

Apple Inc on Tuesday unveiled new MacBooks powered with the latest M2 Pro and M2 Max chips made in-house, in a surprise announcement ahead of its traditional launch event. Apple Inc on Tuesday unveil...

Over 6000 computer viruses created every month

Over 6000 computer viruses created every month

Safrina Kabir 2023-01-17 18:20:31

Did you know that among the numerous emails we receive daily, 90 per cent contain some form of malware? As scary as it sounds, almost 6000 computer viruses are programmed and spread every month. Yes,...

Microsoft to expand ChatGPT access as OpenAI investment rumors swirl

Microsoft to expand ChatGPT access as OpenAI investment rumors swirl

Reuters 2023-01-17 09:43:10

Microsoft Corp on Monday said it is widening access to hugely popular software from OpenAI, a startup it is backing whose futuristic ChatGPT chatbot has captivated Silicon Valley. Microsoft said the...

First-ever AI-generated mini-comic book in Bangladesh launched

First-ever AI-generated mini-comic book in Bangladesh launched

-- 2023-01-16 19:49:06

For the first time in Bangladesh, a mini-comic book created with artificial intelligence (AI) was published on Sunday night. Science Bee, one of the largest science-based education platforms for yout...

What will happen if the earth suddenly stopped spinning?

What will happen if the earth suddenly stopped spinning?

Shuvro Saif 2023-01-14 17:52:37

The earth moves around the sun at a very high speed, precisely 1000 miles per hour. Yet, the planet is so big a landmass that we don't consciously feel this spinning speed. What if the earth stops s...

Twitter offers free ads to brands that advertise on its platform: WSJ

Twitter offers free ads to brands that advertise on its platform: WSJ

Reuters 2023-01-14 12:55:16

Twitter Inc is offering free advertisements to brands that advertise on its platform, an attempt to woo brands back to the social-media platform, which has seen its ad business deteriorate following E...

Spotify down for thousands of users: Downdetector

Spotify down for thousands of users: Downdetector

Reuters 2023-01-14 09:13:49

Audio streaming platform Spotify was down for thousands of users on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Downdetector, which tracks outages through a range of sources includ...

Scientists discover our galaxy's most-distant stars

Scientists discover our galaxy's most-distant stars

-- 2023-01-13 16:51:56

Astronomers have detected in the stellar halo that represents the Milky Way's outer limits a group of stars more distant from Earth than any known within our own galaxy - almost halfway to a neighbori...

France fines TikTok $5.4 million for online tracking shortcomings

France fines TikTok $5.4 million for online tracking shortcomings

Reuters 2023-01-13 11:27:45

France on Thursday fined TikTok 5 million euros ($5.4 million) for shortcomings linked to the short video platform's handling of online tracking known as "cookies", which the ByteDance-owned company s...

Google warns Android growth in India will stall due to antitrust order

Google warns Android growth in India will stall due to antitrust order

-- 2023-01-11 11:47:46

The growth of Google's Android ecosystem is on the brink of stalling in India due to an antitrust order that asks the company to change how it markets the platform, the US company has said in a Suprem...

Facebook, YouTube remove content backing Brazil attack

Facebook, YouTube remove content backing Brazil attack

Reuters 2023-01-10 09:25:10

Facebook parent Meta and Google's video platform YouTube said on Monday they were removing content supporting or praising the weekend ransacking of Brazilian government buildings by anti-democratic de...

Meta’s Oversight Board tells company to allow ‘death to Khamenei’ slogan

Meta’s Oversight Board tells company to allow ‘death to Khamenei’ slogan

-- 2023-01-09 17:20:01

Meta's Oversight Board on Monday overturned the company's decision to remove a Facebook post that used the slogan "death to Khamenei" to criticise the Iranian leader, saying it did not violate a rule...

Twitter further cuts staff overseeing global content moderation

Twitter further cuts staff overseeing global content moderation

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-08 10:27:07

Twitter Inc made further staff cuts in the trust and safety team handling global content moderation and in the unit related to hate speech and harass...