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Boeing to start large temporary furloughs amid Seattle strike
TechXplore· 2024-09-18 16:27
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Workers have been picketing 24 hours a day outside Boeing factories in the Seattle area since late last week. Boeing said Wednesday it would start temporary furloughs of professional and white-collar staff as it seeks to conserve cash amid a labor strike that has shuttered Seattle manufacturing plants. The furloughs, which per ...
Google to invest in satellites and AI to better detect wildfires
TechXplore· 2024-09-18 13:42
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Deep Rajwar from Pexels Amid an outbreak of recent wildfires in California, Google announced a commitment to spend $13 million to improve satellite imaging to help track and detect wildfires, starting as early as next year. FireSat, a constellation of more than 50 satellites, will be able to detect wildfires as small a ...
EU court trims Qualcomm fine to 238.7 mn euros
TechXplore· 2024-09-18 10:33
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An EU court on Wednesday largely upheld an antitrust fine against US chipmaking giant Qualcomm but reduced the penalty slightly to 238.7 million euros ($265 million). The European Union hit Qualcomm with a fine of 242 million euros in 2019 after it found the company had engaged in "predatory p ...
Microsoft-BlackRock team to raise $100 bn for AI data centers
TechXplore· 2024-09-18 08:30
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Microsoft and investment powerhouse BlackRock on Tuesday said they have teamed up to raise as much as $100 billion for data centers and infrastructure to power artificial intelligence. The alliance includes Global Infrastructure Partners and the advanced technology investment firm MGX, created ...
Google faces another test in EU court over 1.5-bn euro fine
TechXplore· 2024-09-18 08:20
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: The European Commission, the EU's powerful antitrust regulator, hit Google with the 1.49-billion euro fine in 2019. An EU court will rule on Wednesday on Google's appeal of a 1.49-billion euro ($1.65 billion) fine from the European Union, a week after the US tech giant suffered a stinging legal defeat over a bigger penalty. Re ...
Boeing not taking strike talks seriously, union says
TechXplore· 2024-09-18 08:10
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Boeing had been hopeful about averting a strike after reaching a preliminary deal that included a 25 percent general wage increase over four years. The union for striking Boeing workers said Tuesday the aviation giant was not "taking mediation seriously," after some 33,000 US employees walked out last week over a contract disput ...
Boeing, union resume talks as strike empties Seattle plants
TechXplore· 2024-09-17 18:50
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Striking Boeing workers and their supporters picket outside the Boeing Co. manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington on September 16, 2024. Negotiators from Boeing and the machinists union representing its workers resumed talks Tuesday after some 33,000 employees went on strike late last week, effectively shutting down two Se ...
Google says it will rethink its plans for a big data center in Chile over water worries
TechXplore· 2024-09-17 18:45
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Clouds hover over the Andes Mountains in Santiago, Chile, June 19, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File Google on Tuesday said it would halt plans to develop a major $200 million data center in Chile to address environmental concerns, a decision reflecting growing worries about the impact of power-thirsty projects around t ...
Google is worth more in Australia than major news outlets. Here's how it could better fund journalism
TechXplore· 2024-09-17 16:08
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The Global Media Internet Concentration Project examines the concentration of the communications and media in countries around the world. The latest data for Australia have recently been released, and they show just how big Google is here.Alphabet (Google's parent company) had 2022 revenue in ...
Intel stock surges on plans to make AI chips for Amazon and to turn foundry into subsidiary
TechXplore· 2024-09-17 12:59
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger speaks during an event called AI Everywhere in New York, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File Shares of Intel are surging before the market opens Tuesday after the chipmaker said its foundry business would make some custom artificial intelligence chips for Amazon Web Services as it a ...