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Apple lays off more than 600 workers in California in its first major round of post-pandemic cuts
TechXplore· 2024-04-05 13:52
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 Apple logo is illuminated at a store in Munich, Germany, Nov. 13, 2023. Apple is laying off more than 600 workers in California, marking the company's first big wave of post-pandemic job cuts amid a broader wave of tech industry consolidation. The iPhone maker notified 614 workers in multiple offices on March 28, 2024, that ...
Apple explores making personal robots: Report
TechXplore· 2024-04-04 08:57
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: Apple watchers have been waiting in vain for the company to launch a new product that disrupts a market the way the iPhone shook up the smartphone world. Apple engineers are working on making personal robots, a report said on Wednesday, just weeks after the iPhone-maker abandoned its efforts to develop an electric car. The tec ...
Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS
TechXplore· 2024-04-03 16:16
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 said Wednesday it's cutting hundreds of jobs in its cloud computing unit AWS as part of a strategic shift. The company will trim "a few hundred roles" in the team that overlooks technology for physical stores, a move that comes just a day after Amazon said it was ditching Just Walk Out ...
Amazon is removing Just Walk Out technology from its Fresh grocery stores in the US
TechXplore· 2024-04-02 18:15
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 is removing Just Walk Out technology from its Amazon Fresh stores as part of an effort to revamp the grocery chain. The company's well-known technology lets customers pay for items without standing in line and sends them receipts afterwards. Amazon says it will now be replaced by smart ...
Swan song for General Electric as it completes demerger
TechXplore· 2024-04-02 08:35
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 logo of US giant General Electric in Belfort, eastern France, on June 3, 2019. General Electric is breaking up into three entities as of April 2, 2024. The US conglomerate General Electric, co-founded more than 130 years ago by Thomas Edison, is opening a new chapter in its history on Tuesday: its break-up into three indepen ...
Google to delete incognito search data to end privacy suit
TechXplore· 2024-04-01 20:00
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: Google has said it is working to replace software 'cookies' that track where Chrome users go on the internet, replacing them with a way to effectively target ads while safeguarding people's privacy. Google has agreed to delete a vast trove of search data to settle a suit that it tracked millions of US users who thought they were ...
Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was Google's April Fool's Day joke
TechXplore· 2024-03-31 10:31
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: An ad for Google's Gmail appears on the side of a bus on Sept. 17, 2012, in Lagos, Nigeria. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin unveiled Gmail 20 years ago on April Fool's Day. Credit: AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ...
Conspiracy theorist tactics show it's too easy to get around Facebook's content policies
TechXplore· 2024-03-23 16:00
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: The Conversation During the COVID pandemic, social media platforms were swarmed by far-right and anti-vaccination communities that spread dangerous conspiracy theories. These included the false claims that vaccines are a form of population control, and that the virus was a "deep state" plot. Governments and the World H ...
Apple, Google and Meta set to face probes under new law: source
TechXplore· 2024-03-22 17:21
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 Apple, Google and Meta are set to face the EU's wrath next week as Brussels prepares to hit the tech giants with probes into potential violations of a landmark law, sources close to the matter said Friday. The European Commission, the EU's powerful antitrust regulator, has been in talks in th ...
Amazon under investigation for selling illegal electronic devices
TechXplore· 2024-03-22 15:31
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 is currently being investigated for selling illegal electronic devices, including radio signal jamming devices that can be used to confuse drones, thwart security systems and interfere with Wi-Fi networks. "We have several ongoing investigations into retailers, including Amazon, for po ...