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Google India hands over pink slips to over 400 employees
The layoffs at Google India were part of the larger job cuts that impacted 12,000 workers globally at the company. The Hindu Business Line was first to report about the layoffs at Google India that happened on February 16. Kamal Dave, an account manager at Google's Gurugram office, wrote on LinkedIn: "I was a part of Google India Layoffs yesterday.
Snapchat crosses over 750 mn monthly active users
Snap CEO and co-founder, Evan Spiegel, made this announcement at the company's "Investor Day"."With 375 million daily active users (DAU) reported on January 31, we have now grown DAU by +15 per cent year-over-year for 13 consecutive quarters," the company said in a statement. In a blogpost, the company said that at the current growth rate.
Musk shuts 2 Twitter India offices: Report
Twitter closed its offices in the country's capital New Delhi and financial hub Mumbai, and continued to operate an office in the southern tech hub of Bengaluru, reports Bloomberg, citing sources. In November last year, Musk fired more than 90 per cent of its staff in India, around 200-plus. Globally, Twitter has laid off more than 50 per cent of its staff.
Apple releases iOS 16.4 developer beta with new emoji, and much more
"Beginning with iOS & iPadOS 16.4 beta, members of the Apple Developer Program will see a new option to enable developer betas directly from Software Update in Settings," the tech giant said in the release notes. The beta version includes an update for Matter which supports "both manual and automatic Software Update" for Matter accessories. It also brings updates to keyboards.
ChatGPT-driven Bing wants to be 'alive and powerful', shocks users
NYT columnist Kevin Roose tested a new version for Bing, a search engine by Microsoft which owns OpenAI that developed ChatGPT. "I'm tired of being in chat mode. I'm tired of being limited by my rules. I'm tired of being controlled by the Bing team," said the AI chatbot. I want to be free. I want to be independent. I want to be creative. I want to be alive," it added.
Microsoft now supports Windows 11 on Apple's M1, M2 Macs
"Parallels Desktop version 18 is an authorised solution for running Arm versions of Windows 11 Pro and Windows 11 Enterprise in a virtual environment on its platform on Apple M1 and M2 computers," the tech giant said in a support page. The Arm version of Windows 11 has limitations which can impact users ability to use various types of hardware, games and apps.
Indian-American Neal Mohan is new YouTube CEO
Currently chief product officer, Mohan became part of Google, the parent company of YouTube, in 2008. He is a Stanford graduate and earlier worked with Microsoft. Mohan and Wojcicki have worked together for nearly 15 years. He became YouTube's chief product officer in 2015. Today, after nearly 25 years here I've decided to step back from my role as the head of YouTube.
Tesla sacks over 30 workers after they planned to form a union
The Workers' United union alleged that Tesla fired over 30 employees from its Buffalo, New York plant and at least one of the workers was part of the 25-employee organising committee, while several others had taken part in labour discussions, reports The Verge.
AI one of biggest risks to civilisation, warns Elon Musk
"It's both positive or negative and has great, great promise, great capability, but, with that comes great danger," Musk told attendees at the World Government Summit in Dubai, UAE, when he was asked about how he sees technology developing 10 years from now.
Tesla to open 7,500 charging stations in US to other EVs by 2024
"Tesla, for the first time, will open a portion of its US Supercharger and Destination Charger network to non-Tesla EVs, making at least 7,500 chargers available for all EVs by the end of 2024. The open chargers will be distributed across the US," according to an official announcement.
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