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Microsoft conducted another round of layoffs this week in the latest workforce reduction implemented by the Redmond tech giant this year. From a report: The cuts impacted multiple teams and geographies. Posts on LinkedIn from impacted employees show the cuts affecting employees in product and program management roles. "Organizational and workforce adjustments are a necessary and regular part of managing our business," a spokesperson said in a statement. "We will continue to prioritize and invest in strategi
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A single line of dialogue in the trailer sparked a frenzy of memes, and paved the way for how the superhero movie was received. Read more ›
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It comes just days after Biden's debate with former US president Donald Trump, which was marked by verbal gaffes and confusing statements. Read more ›
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A dietitian follows the 80/20 rule to help her avoid ultra-processed foods. Her favorite easy, healthy breakfasts include overnight oats. Read more ›
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Young professionals in China are sharing their "naked resignations" on social media — quitting their jobs without having another one lined up. Read more ›
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The Philippines is making a shift to counter China's rising might, but the hefty cost of buying a submarine could be better spent. Read more ›
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In a questionable new trend, supermarkets in the South now seem to be selling bullets right out of a dispenser. Read more ›
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Whether you're looking for something affordable or you want a phone that folds in half, here are our recommendations for the best Samsung Galaxy smartphones of 2024. Read more ›
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Biden suggested he would be OK losing to Trump in November as long as he gave it his all — undercutting the heart of his 2024 presidential platform. Read more ›
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The history of philosophy is mostly the history of various schools arguing with each other about what’s good or true. The Epicureans, the Empiricists, the Stoics, the Skeptics, the Positivists, the Pragmatists — you get the point. I’m not an official member of any of these clubs, but if you asked me to pick one, […] Read more ›
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Although many companies make diesels, the engines often come from just a small group of companies, like Cummins or Detroit Diesel. What's the difference? Read more ›
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Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer started as Bill Gates' assistant. Now he's worth $158 billion and owns an NBA team. Here's how he spends his fortune. Read more ›
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Samsung is about to reveal a bunch of new AI features for its smartphones just weeks after Tim Cook revealed Apple Intelligence. Read more ›
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John Timmer reports via Ars Technica: On Tuesday, the people managing the ITER experimental fusion reactor announced (PDF) that a combination of delays and altered priorities meant that its first-of-its-kind hardware wouldn't see plasma until 2036, with the full-energy deuterium-tritium fusion pushed back to 2039. The latter represents a four-year delay relative to the previous roadmap. While the former is also a delay, it's due in part to changing priorities.... Read more ›
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Nintendo has responded to concern over the inappropriate use of its characters online and said it would take "appropriate action" against anything that would make some players "feel uncomfortable". Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa was recently questioned by a shareholder who said they had "come across cases on social media where Nintendo IP and games are used inappropriately". This "inappropriate" use of Nintendo's characters "poses the risk of damaging" the company's... Read more ›
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Save hundreds on this this all-in-one Microsoft Office Pro 2019 for Windows: Lifetime License + Windows 11 Pro bundle. Read more ›
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Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski explained why he chose to give younger employees a shot at management and promote people within the company. Read more ›
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As AI companies increase their investments in infrastructure, their revenues are not growing that fast, financial analysts note, implying that AI could become a bubble. Read more ›
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Daniel Pietschnig and Jessica Madalena unknowingly wired their down payment for a house to a fraudster who had hacked into their broker's email. Read more ›
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Prime Day falls on July 16 and 17, but we’ve handpicked deals on WIRED-tested products—from tech to blenders to hair straighteners—sitting at some of their lowest prices ever. Read more ›
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The memification of Mark Zuckerberg continues — but lately, the CEO seems to be just as in on the jokes. Read more ›
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Digital audio broadcasting (DAB+) and internet radio have largely replaced traditional FM radio in Switzerland, with digital radio holding an 81% share of use in spring 2023. Due to the high costs of maintaining FM transmitters and declining financial resources, Switzerland plans to fully transition to digital radio by the end of 2026, phasing out FM broadcasting completely. From a report: DAB+ and the internet offer better quality and a... Read more ›
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"The outdoor-apparel brand Patagonia has given 90 U.S. employees a choice," reports Business Insider: "tell the company by Friday that you're willing to relocate or leave your job." [Alternate URL here.] The employees all work in customer services, known at Patagonia as the customer-experience, or CX, team, and have been allowed to work remotely to field calls and inquiries. These workers received a text and email Tuesday morning about an... Read more ›
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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to a Texas law requiring age verification to access online pornography, which opponents argue violates the First Amendment by discouraging adults from viewing such material due to privacy concerns. A federal judge blocked the law citing its chilling effect on free speech, but a divided appeals court upheld it, emphasizing the government's interest in protecting minors; the case will now be... Read more ›
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In 1994, college student Jim Hall created FreeDOS (in response to Microsoft's plan to gradually phase out MS-DOS). After celebrating its 30th anniversary last week, Hill wrote a new article Saturday for OpenSource.net: "What I've learned about Open Source community over 30 years." Lessons include "every Open Source project needs a website," but also "consider other ways to raise awareness about your Open Source software project." ("In the FreeDOS Project,... Read more ›
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What if across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, six high-voltage power cables stretched -- each over 2,000 miles long. CNN reports that a group of entrepreneurs "wants to build what would be the worldâ(TM)s largest subsea energy interconnector between continents, linking Europe and North America...to connect places like the United Kingdomâ(TM)s west with eastern Canada, and potentially New York with western France... "The Europe-US cables could send 6 gigawatts... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Sony plans to eventually stop producing consumer-grade recordable Blu-ray discs, but commercial products such as game and film Blu-rays will still be produced. Sony Group will lay off 250 employees at a division that produces recordable media discs, and start winding down the production of specific Blu-ray products, sources have told Japanese newspaper Mainichi. However, contrary to recent reports, this decision will not affect... Read more ›
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Bloomberg and The Washington Post "claim AI power usage is dire," writes Slashdot reader NoWayNoShapeNoForm. But Ars Technica "begs to disagree with those speculations." From Ars Technica's article: The high-profile pieces lean heavily on recent projections from Goldman Sachs and the International Energy Agency (IEA) to cast AI's "insatiable" demand for energy as an almost apocalyptic threat to our power infrastructure. The Post piece even cites anonymous "some [people]" in... Read more ›
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Half of the Netherlands' petrol stations are set to close in the next five to 10 years as electric cars start to take over the market, according to ING Research. From a report: The bank's economists say there will be insufficient earnings in future, with only some 2,000 of today's 4,131 gas stations remaining. "It is mainly the small, unmanned petrol stations that will disappear," says ING Research, as reported... Read more ›
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game of Asteroids An anonymous reader shared this report from The Hill: An asteroid the size of a football stadium threaded the needle between Earth and the moon Saturday morning — the second of two astronomical near misses in three days. Near miss, in this case, is a relative term: Saturday's asteroid, 2024 MK, came within 180,000 miles of Earth. On Thursday, meanwhile, asteroid 2011 UL21 flew within 4 million... Read more ›
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Netflix is following through on its plan to phase out its cheapest ad-free tier for existing subscribers. From a report: As spotted in numerous posts on Reddit, Netflix is now asking some basic plan subscribers to choose a new plan to stay subscribed to Netflix. One Reddit user received a notification on their Netflix app, saying "Your last day to watch Netflix is July 13th. Choose a new plan to... Read more ›
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