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Facebook Parent Meta Slashes Another 10,000 Jobs
By Tom Ozimek Facebook parent Meta has announced that it’s slashing another 10,000 jobs and won’t fill 5,000 open position, as the beleaguered social media giant struggles to cut costs amid profit pressure. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke the bad news to staff in a statement on Tuesday, in which he gave an update on…
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2023 Tech Layoffs on Pace to Surpass Last Year’s by 300 Percent
By Ryan Morgan Roughly 109,000 technology industry employees from 392 companies have been laid off since the start of the year, according to the industry employment tracking website Layoffs.Fyi. At the current pace, about 650,000 tech employees could lose their current jobs, which is about a 300 percent increase from 2022, when 160,997 people got pink slips,…
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Study Offers Glimpse Into How Much We Trust AI
By Nina Nguyen Fear and worry are the dominant emotions of Australians towards artificial intelligence (AI) despite the technology’s increasing popularity and capability, a study by the University of Queensland has revealed. Published on Feb. 22, the study is the first deep-dive global examination of the public’s attitudes towards AI use. It surveyed more than 17,000 people from 17…
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Google Announces ‘Bard,’ an AI Chatbot Rival to ChatGPT
By Mimi Nguyen Ly Google on Monday announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot called “Bard” that will rival the currently popular ChatGPT. “Two years ago we unveiled next-generation language and conversation capabilities powered by our Language Model for Dialogue Applications (or LaMDA for short),” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post. “We’ve been working on…
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Gmail Creator Warns ChatGPT Challenges Google’s Search Engine Dominance
By Amy Gamm Gmail’s developer Paul Buccheit thinks that the new artificial intelligence (AI) bot ChatGPT could dethrone Google’s online search capability. “Google may be only a year or two away from total disruption,” Buccheit wrote in a tweet on Dec. 1, 2022, the day after San Fransisco-based tech company OpenAI launched its chatbot ChatGPT. “AI will eliminate the Search Engine…
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Lithium Crystal Unlocks Potential Next-Gen Microchip
By AAP The next generation of microchips could be used for anything from navigating the moon’s surface to helping farmers determine whether the fruit is ready for harvest. Lithium niobate is a lab-grown crystal discovered in the late 1940s that has come back in vogue as scientists search for alternatives to the silicon chips used…
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State Governments ‘Weakest Link’ in Protecting America From ‘Enemy’ Cyberattacks
By John Haughey United States federal agencies and the Pentagon over the last decade have imposed a matrix of restrictions on purchasing technology from companies owned or influenced by China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but few of the nation’s 50 states have taken similar precautions. In fact, many state governments apparently aren’t aware—or haven’t…
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Supreme Court’s Section 230 Case Could ‘Upend the Internet’: Google
By Bill Pan An upcoming decision in the U.S. Supreme Court case regarding online social media companies’ liability for content posted on their platforms could transform the internet for the worse, Google said in a court filing. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear Gonzalez v. Google next month and answer important questions surrounding the scope of Section 230 of the…
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US Chip Ban on China Requires Strict Enforcement to Thwart Circumvention by Beijing: Experts
By Venus Upadhayaya While many have credited the Biden administration’s extensive export bans on semiconductor technology to China as dealing a huge blow to the Chinese regime’s economic and military ambitions, the success of the measures ultimately depends on enforcement, according to experts. The Department of Commerce in October imposed extensive export controls aimed at restricting the…
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Apple Being Sued by New Yorker Alleging ‘Racial Bias’ Against Minorities on Watch’s Blood Oximeter
By Bryan Jung Apple is facing a federal class-action lawsuit in New York over claims that a blood oxygen reader app on the Apple Watch yielded inaccurate results for minorities. Alex Morales, a New York resident, filed the lawsuit on behalf of several customers against the tech giant on Dec. 24, alleging that the Apple Watch’s blood oximeter had…
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