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Low-code platform provider Airtable enacts new round of layoffs
Low-code software company Airtable announced its second round of job cuts in nine months, laying off around 237 people, or approximately 27% of the company.The cuts are part of a plan to focus the company on winning large enterprise clients and getting spending under...
iPhone 12: Fade away, and radiate?
What’s up with the iPhone radiation story? On the eve of Apple’s big iPhone 15 reveal, France demanded the company remove iPhone 12 from sale in that country because it said the product radiates too much.Now that demand seems to be spreading across Europe.What’s...
Amazon deploys generative AI to write sales listings
Amazon has launched a new generative AI tool that creates copy listings for users selling items on the company’s e-commerce platform.Designed to simplify the selling process, the new tool reduces the need for sellers to enter many pieces of specific product data when...
5 steps to a lean, clean Windows machine
These days, a relatively clean and uncomplicated Windows 10 or 11 system disk might be home to more than 250,000 files and 90,000 folders. A more complex, application-heavy system disk might contain between half a million and a million files. My Windows 11 production...
The evolution of Apple’s iPhone
The iPhone has come a long way since its arrival in 2007.First iPhone IDG / Apple After months of rumors and speculation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone on Jan. 9, 2007. The device, which didn’t actually go on sale until June, started at $499 for a 4GB...
This year’s biggest tech IPO begins as ARM hits Nasdaq
The year’s most hotly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) in tech opened at the starting bell this morning, with ARM Holdings’ (ARM) stock beginning the day on Nasdaq at $51 per share. That’s the cost per share for the 10% of the company (95.5 million shares)...
EU said to be proceeding with Microsoft Teams antitrust investigation
The European Union is reportedly planning to move forward with a formal complaint against the way Microsoft sells Teams, even though the company publicly announced in August it would start unbundling the collaboration app from Office and Microsoft 365 packages in...
Does Apple’s double-tap gesture solve the mobile/human interface problem?
Smartphones are arguably more powerful than PCs. Consider that the iPhone 12, at 11 teraflops, outperformed the Cray 2 supercomputer by over 5000 times. And that’s a now-three-year-old phone.Even Samsung argues that modern smartphones are more powerful than PCs. Even...
AI language models need to shrink; here’s why smaller may be better
Large language models (LLMs) often appear to be in a fight to claim the title of largest and most powerful, but many organizations eyeing there use are beginning to realize big isn’t always better.The adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools is on a...
Microsoft Teams suffers another outage in the North America region
In yet another incident of an outage this year for Microsoft 365, enterprises using the company’s North American infrastructure for running Teams faced disruption on Wednesday evening, resulting in delay in sending or receiving messages over the productivity...
Alphabet layoffs: Company trades recruitment team for tech talent
Google-parent Alphabet late on Wednesday let go of hundreds of employees from its recruiting team in continuation of its efforts to operate more efficiently as macroeconomic uncertainty looms.The company, which faces stiff competition from Microsoft, AWS, IBM, and...
UK gov’t announces new $1.1B supercomputer and AI research facility
As part of its commitment to AI R&D, the UK has announced the development of a new supercomputer and research facility to be housed at the University of Bristol.