CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced Meta will lay off around 10,000 employees and 5,000 open roles at the company in the coming months. The cuts are part of Zuckerberg’s “Year of Efficiency” plan, adding to the 11,000 layoffs last November. Zuckerberg shared his announcement on Facebook, where he briefly laid out some of Meta’s restructuring… Read More: Meta to Lay Off 10,000 More Employees »
Enlarge / Customizing a Mesh for Teams avatar. Like many people on real-life video calls, the avatars only feature business attire from the waist up. reader comments 68 with Share this story There are plenty of reasons to turn your camera off during a Zoom or Teams meeting—maybe you’re cleaning your office and you don’t… Read More: Microsoft Teams is adding 3D avatars for people who want… »
Enlarge / Satellite broadband user terminals designed by Amazon’s Project Kuiper. reader comments 60 with Share this story Amazon has designed three satellite broadband user terminals and will start offering Internet service in 2024, the company announced today. The standard terminal, designed for residential and small business customers, is expected to cost Amazon less than… Read More: Amazon unveils three satellite user terminals, plans broadband service in… »
Ars Technica reader comments 154 with Share this story On Tuesday, OpenAI announced GPT-4, a large multimodal model that can accept text and image inputs while returning text output that “exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks,” according to OpenAI. Also on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that Bing Chat has been running on GPT-4… Read More: OpenAI’s GPT-4 exhibits “human-level performance” on professional benchmarks »
Inter’s Serie A title chase may be in tatters, but their European hopes are still alive as they carry a one-goal aggregate advantage with them to Portugal to take on Porto in the Champions League Round of 16. Both sides are falling behind in their respective domestic league tables, and therefore the importance of advancing in… Read More: Porto vs Inter prediction, odds, best bets, TV channel, live… »
Liverpool have history when it comes to UEFA Champions League comebacks, but even the club’s most ardent supporters will likely feel a 2022/23 Round of 16 turnaround is an improbable scenario. Having roared into a 2-0 lead, the Reds somehow collapsed against Real Madrid in the Round of 16 first leg, leaving them facing a… Read More: Biggest comebacks in Champions League history: Liverpool endure famous collapse… »
Bandai Namco has been running through popular Tekken fighters for its character-specific trailers, and the latest one is no different. This newest Tekken 8 trailer is all about Marshall Law, the series’ Bruce Lee-esque combatant. The footage has Law (who is not to be confused with his son, Forest Law) throwing down against Paul Phoenix,… Read More: Tekken 8’s Marshall Law Trailer Has Nunchucks & Speedy Combos »
A solitary exhibition led to a star-studded event. Focus Features held a red carpet premiere for their newest psychological thriller, Inside, at the Metrograph in New York City. This film, written by Ben Hopkins and directed by Vasilis Katsoupis, stars Willem Dafoe as Nemo, an art thief trapped inside a New York City penthouse after a… Read More: Inside Director and Art Curator Discuss Willem Dafoe Thriller »
Don Farrall/Getty Images reader comments 72 with Share this story In February, attackers from the Russia-based BlackCat ransomware group hit a physician practice in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, that’s part of the Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN). At the time, LVHN said that the attack “involved” a patient photo system related to radiation oncology treatment. The… Read More: Ransomware attacks have entered a heinous new phase »
A new partnership between NASA and Microsoft will allow Minecraft players to launch their own Moon rockets and experience life as an astronaut aboard an Orion spacecraft. NASA has set its sights on returning humanity to the Moon for the first time since the 1970s as part of its Artemis program. For this ambitious multi-decade… Read More: NASA Partners With Microsoft to Bring Space Missions to Minecraft »