Beleaguered

Cruise Beleaguered autonomous car startup Cruise has laid off 900 workers, equal to about a quarter of its workforce. The news comes a day after nine executives were also dismissed. The General Motors-backed firm has suffered a series of setbacks in recent months, triggered by an accident on the streets of San Francisco in October when one of its self-driving cars came to a halt on top of a woman, pinning her to the ground just moments after she’d been hit by a human-driven car. The incident caused the woman serious…

Being a gamer on a Mac isn't easy at the best of times -- and that's despite Apple recently releasing some of the best gaming Macs to date. The company struggles to get game developers to bring their wares to the Mac, and until that happens Apple can't hope people will consider MacOS a viable gaming platform. It's the classic chicken and egg situation. And things are about to get worse.If you're a gamer who happens to have macOS High Sierra or macOS Mojave installed, you might find that your games stop working soon.…

Could anyone have predicted this countercultural love letter to that most casually reviled demographic, the straight white man? Or that it would be written by one of our most popular feminist authors?The titular question, which sounds like a joke, was one Moran noticed being asked of her by the mothers of sons, in audience Q&As to promote her previous books How to Be a Woman and More Than a Woman. After years of dismissal, she took the bait, for her own subtly subversive reasons. “No man had got around to writing a…

In a sign that the office market slump is moving into a new phase, property owners are starting to unload troubled office buildings at fire-sale prices. In a sign that the office market slump is moving into a new phase, property owners are starting to unload troubled office buildings at fire-sale prices. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is…

IANS New Delhi, February 23 Edtech major BYJU’s is planning to wind up coding platform WhiteHat Jr, which it acquired for $300 million, as part of restructuring and cut costs. WhiteHat Jr, which at its peak had more than 8,000 employees across the country, now has some hundreds of roles left as it never picked up pace and brought revenues for the company, informed sources told IANS on Thursday. According to people close to the development, the discussions at the top level at BYJU's have happened to get rid of the…

Wells Fargo on Tuesday said it expects Walt Disney (DIS) to "come out swinging" when the entertainment conglomerate reports fiscal first-quarter results early next month. At the Club, we're slightly more cautious and will be looking closely for a detailed turnaround plan from CEO Bob Iger. When Disney releases its first-quarter earnings on Feb. 8, analysts expect earnings-per-share to come in at 80 cents a share, down 24.5% from the same period last year, while total revenue should climb 7% year-over-year, to $23.35…

Alec Baldwin is selling his beloved, longtime estate in the Hamptons, listing the 10,000-square foot home on 10 acres for $29 million, a report said Thursday. The controversial actor, still waiting to find out if he’ll be criminally charged in the fatal 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his Western film, “Rust,” did not respond to inquiries from the New York Post about why he’s selling his Amagansett farm, which he purchased in 1995 for $1.75 million. Alec Baldwin lists longtime Hamptons home…

Streaming outfit Netflix is reportedly getting ready to lay more people off just weeks after the last round of firings. May saw the beleaguered Netflix la off around 150 people amid ongoing concern relating to a recent loss of almost a quarter of a million subscribers. The company's share price has also taken a nosedive — it was worth around $600 per share at the turn of the year, while a single share of NFLX will now set you back just $175. Now, Variety reports that sources believe more layoffs are coming, although it…

Facing growing financial and legal hurdles, a company that owns a troubled research beagle breeding facility in Cumberland, Virginia, said last night it will shutter the establishment, which until recently supplied dogs to universities, major drugmakers, and the National Institutes of Health. Because of the growing cost of bringing the complex of several large buildings into compliance with the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), “We have decided we will not be investing further in this…