Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Uber reports 'strongest quarter ever' while the rest of Silicon Valley stalls

Uber on Wednesday reported strong revenue growth in the final three months of last year, defying a slowdown that has pummeled much of the rest of the tech sector.

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Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Zoom will lay off 1,300 employees and CEO is taking a massive pay cut

Zoom on Tuesday said it will lay off about 1,300 employees, or approximately 15% of its staff, becoming the latest tech company to announce significant job cuts as a pandemic-fueled surge in demand for digital services wanes.

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Sen. Daines's Twitter account suspended after posting profile picture of himself hunting

Twitter has suspended Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines's account for violations of the company's sensitive media policy.

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US senators seek answers from Meta on whether user data was accessed by China, Russia and others

Top US lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee want answers from Meta on a newly disclosed internal investigation it conducted in 2018 that found tens of thousands of software developers in China, Russia and other "high-risk" countries may have had access to detailed Facebook user data before the company clamped down on that access beginning in 2014.

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Microsoft Outlook email experiences outage

Microsoft Outlook experienced an outage late Monday night and into Tuesday morning.

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Chinese search engine giant Baidu announces ChatGPT-style AI bot

Chinese search engine giant Baidu says it will be launching its own ChatGPT-style service.

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Monday, February 6, 2023

Google unveils its ChatGPT rival

Google-parent Alphabet on Monday unveiled a new chatbot tool dubbed "Bard" in an apparent bid to compete with the viral success of ChatGPT.

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Dell to lay off 5% of its workforce

Dell plans to lay off roughly 5% of its workforce, the company said in a regulatory filing Monday, in the latest example of tech companies cutting costs in an uncertain economic climate.

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Foxconn January sales hit record high after production restored at world's biggest iPhone factory

Apple supplier Foxconn says its January monthly sales hit a record high as it bounced back from Covid-19 disruptions in China.

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Friday, February 3, 2023

Why Twitter users are upset about the platform's latest change

Users are once again worried about Twitter's future and overall culture following the platform's announcement that it will no longer provide free access to its API. Here's what API is and how this change could affect Twitter.

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