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Microsoft’s video game development studio ZeniMax votes to unionize
Software developers at Microsoft Corp.-owned video game studio ZeniMax Studios voted today to create what will become the first-ever union at the company. The vote is being hailed as a milestone moment for both Microsoft and the video games industry. About 300 quality assurance staff at ZeniMax voted to unionize with the Communications Workers of America ...
Tech job layoffs in 2022 rose more than 10 times over 2021
Technology firms have been laying off staff at the fastest rate since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, as companies look to scale back costs amid fears of a global recession in 2023. Layoffs.fyi, a website that tracks corporate layoffs and dismissals across dozens of industries, shows that 153,160 tech workers lost their jobs in ...
Data observability startup Chaos Genius raises $3.3M to help companies optimize Snowflake costs
DataOps observability startup Chaos Genius is looking to expand after closing on a $3.3 million seed funding round led by Elevation Capital. Y Combinator also participated in the round, together with angel investors such as former Cloudera Inc. General Manager Charles Zedlewski, Kabam Inc. co-founder Holly Liu and Sumon Sadhu. Chaos Genius, officially known as GoodHealth Technologies ...
Synaptics enables human presence detection in latest Dell and Panasonic mobile PCs
Synaptics Inc. announced today that Dell Technologies Inc. and Panasonic Corp. have launched the world’s first laptops that incorporate its Emza Visual Sense artificial intelligence technology. The technology enables what Synaptics calls “human presence detection” to allow the laptops to detect when the user walks away from the machine and conserve power until they return. ...
Airbus in talks to acquire minority stake in Atos’ cybersecurity business
Shares of the French information technology firm Atos SE rose higher today following a report that aeronautical giant Airbus SE is in talks to acquire a minority stake in the company’s nascent cybersecurity division. The report came from Les Echos via Reuters, citing anonymous sources familiar with the discussions. Airbus declined to comment on the ...
India’s Zomato loses its 4th senior executive in weeks as CTO steps down
Zomato Media Pvt. Ltd. co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Gunjan Patidar has resigned from the Indian food delivery startup, becoming the fourth senior executive to quit the company since November. Patidar, who had been with Zomato since it was founded almost 10 years ago, was the key executive in charge of building the company’s technology stack. ...
Meta delays decision on revoking Trump’s Facebook suspension until later this month
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. is expected to delay making a decision on whether or not to allow former U.S. President Donald Trump to return to its social media platforms until later this month. That’s according to a report today from the Financial Times, which cites sources involved in the matter as saying that ...
Sales of computer graphics cards slump to lowest level in two decades
Demand for graphics processing units sank to a 20-year low in the third quarter of 2022, according to new data from the industry analyst Jon Peddie Research. The report shows that desktop graphics card sales during the quarter fell to their lowest level since 2005, bringing further misery to chipmakers like Nvidia Corp. and Advanced ...
Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang takes charge of cloud infrastructure business
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Daniel Zhang Yong (pictured) announced today that he will directly oversee the company’s cloud computing business unit going forward, as it gears up for “aggressive development.” The change was announced as part of an annual leadership reshuffle at Alibaba. In an internal email sent to employees that was seen ...
New York signs weakened digital right-to-repair bill into law
New York has become the first U.S. state to sign into law a digital right to repair bill, putting a substantial measure of power back into the hands of consumers. Instead of paying for costly repairs, consumers will now be able to buy replacement parts for broken devices and fix them by themselves. The Digital Fair ...
