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: A sign for Microsoft offices is seen, May 6, 2021, in New York. Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay $14.4 million to settle allegations that the global software giant retaliated and discriminated against employees who took protected leave, including parental and disability, the California Civil Rights Department announced Wednesda ...

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: Julio Lopez from Pexels Meta on Thursday said it would delay the release of its most powerful generative AI models in Europe because of what it called unpredictable EU regulation. The European Union has passed a raft of tech rules in recent years, posing an unprecedented list of do's-and-don't for the mostly US-based t ...

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 Amazon saw record sales for Prime Day this week as Prime members purchased more items than ever before, the company announced Thursday. The Seattle e-commerce giant, which does not disclose how much it earns during the popular discount event, also said "millions" of customers joined Prime in ...

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 Five years after Amazon committed to an ambitious climate goal, the company says it is making progress on reducing emissions—but critics allege those calculations are misleading. In its annual sustainability report, released last week, Amazon said carbon emissions dropped 3% last year, largel ...

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 workers in the Pacific Northwest are set to vote to authorize a potential strike if contract talks stumble ahead of a September deadline. Tens of thousands of Boeing hourly workers have been called Wednesday for a vote in Seattle expected to authorize a potential labor strike if ongoing contract negotiations stumble. "W ...

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: People arrive for work at the Amazon distribution center in the Staten Island borough of New York, on Oct. 25, 2021. A report released by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders said Amazon's popular Prime Day sales event has been "a major cause of injuries" for warehouse workers who organize packages at its facilities across the country. C ...

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: Mustafa Suleyman co founder and CEO of Inflection AI speaks to journalist during the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, England, on Nov. 1, 2023. The Competition and Markets Authority said Tuesday, July 16, 2024 that its review of the hirings from Inflection AI turned up “sufficient information” to open an invest ...

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 Google parent Alphabet Inc. is in talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter. A deal may be worth as much as $23 billion, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing nonpublic information. That would make it the tech giant's ...

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 In January, Alaska Airlines flight 1282 nearly fell out of the sky when it lost a door plug at an altitude of more than 10,000ft, leading to rapid decompression of the main cabin of the plane. Although no one was killed, the incident happened after two similar Boeing-manufactured 737 Max plane ...

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: Rajakumari Chouta of Fremont got the news this past November that she would be laid off in January from her software developer job at Amazon in San Francisco, so she began applying for new positions internally. That's when, Chouta claims in her newly filed lawsuit against the e-commerce giant, she ran into a wall of sexism, sa ...