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Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., is reducing its workforce by laying off hundreds of employees from its hardware, voice assistant, and engineering teams as part of its ongoing cost-cutting efforts. According to the company, the cuts are impacting employees in the company’s voice-activated Google Assistant software, its augmented reality hardware team, and workers in the central engineering organization. The changes follow a pledge by executives at Google’s parent, Alphabet, to reduce costs and focus on the tech giant’s biggest

Apple faces the risk of being surpassed by Microsoft as concerns about iPhone sales contribute to a recent decline in the Silicon Valley tech giant’s stock. But it’s not just a case of two giant trading places: Microsoft’s market cap is also higher than that of Apple, and it stands to become the world’s most valuable company sooner rather than later. The market cap a measure of the value of all outstanding shares of publicly traded companies is the most

In our fast-paced world, recovery is just as crucial as the workout itself. To meet the demands of active individuals and fitness enthusiasts, Theragun has introduced the Theragun Prime massage gun – a cutting-edge device designed to revolutionize your recovery routine. The Power of Percussive Therapy: The Theragun Prime utilizes percussive therapy, a groundbreaking approach to muscle recovery. This innovative technology delivers rapid pressure bursts into the muscle tissue, enhancing blood flow, breaking up knots, and reducing muscle soreness. Whether

Computer chipmaker Nvidia surged to a record close on Monday after the world’s most valuable chipmaker unveiled new desktop graphics processors taking advantage of artificial intelligence. The Santa Clara-based company is a crucial beneficiary of the AI computing boom, and its forecast for surging sales propelled its stock into the constellation of Big Tech’s brightest stars. The maker of the GPU chip that’s used in videogames and other consumer electronics unveiled its GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series of graphics processors,

Despite fears that BlackRock’s ETF would be priced too much for investors, the asset manager has set a fee that is notably lower than some peers. On Monday, the asset manager disclosed the fee for its iShares Bitcoin Trust in amended S-1 filings. The fund will charge 20 basis points for the first year, or until it reaches $5 billion in assets, before settling at 30 bps. This aligns with what Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst James Seyffart had expected. BlackRock’s

Dell has refreshed some of its XPS laptops as it prepares for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2024, scheduled from January 9 to January 12. The company says its XPS 13 clamshell and XPS 14 notebooks have been updated with Intel’s latest Meteor Lake processors and a new Neural Processing Unit (NPU). This NPU is said to increase support for the inbuilt AI-backed features on Windows 11. The XPS 13 is still the same premium-looking machine I reviewed earlier this

Several fiction and nonfiction authors have launched legal action against tech companies over the alleged misuse of their work to train AI programs. But the New York Times’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft marks one of the largest to date and raises questions about how the companies might defend themselves in a legal battle that could set a precedent for how AI models are built. The suit was filed Friday in Manhattan federal court by two nonfiction authors who say

Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft’s expansive open-world game set in a faraway galaxy, was briefly known to be eyeing a? late 2024 release window. That has since been corrected to reflect a general timespan this year, with the publisher confirming to Kotaku that the timing was incorrectly displayed. This may seem like a minor change, but it does mean that the publisher’s latest addition to its franchise is likely to be delayed until later this year. A fall release would allow

On Thursday, the rocket and satellite maker SpaceX sued a U.S. labor board that had accused it of illegally firing workers who sent a letter to company executives calling CEO Elon Musk a distraction and embarrassment. A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint in November 2022 accusing SpaceX of violating federal labor law that allows co-workers to advocate for workplace issues in an open letter. The complaint said SpaceX interrogated employees about their involvement in