Bloodbath

At least one automaker will avoid cutting EV prices to compete with Tesla. Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares took aim at Tesla, saying EV price cuts could lead to a “bloodbath,” and the brand is avoiding a race to the bottom. Stellantis will avoid EV price cuts, takes aim at Tesla After unveiling Stellantis’ second EV platform Friday, which will underpin the first Jeep and Dodge electric models in the US, Tavares said the brand must avoid price cuts that could pressure profits. It could even…

After a shockingly successful 2021 and a mixed 2022, the party seems to have truly come to an end for startups and venture capitalists in 2023.And while the doomsday economic scenarios many expected at the start of the year failed to materialize, the continued sense of malaise after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank earlier this year and a less-than-rosy IPO market isn’t painting an optimistic picture for the months to come.Much heralded IPOs from Instacart and Klaviyo, which many thought would signal the resurrection…

Posted in: Comics, DC Comics, Preview | Tagged: Comics, dc, previewsIs Titans #2 the beginning of the end for the team, or just another day in the life of a superhero? Crisis averted... or is it?Published Sat, 17 Jun 2023 13:26:11 -0500 by Jude Terror | Well, folks, prepare yourselves for yet another ostentatious display of superhero turmoil and tragedy in Titans #2, hitting shelves this Tuesday, June 20th. "A Titan is murdered!" they proclaim, as if we haven't seen that one before. Will this spell the end for the Titans,…

via Well Go USA Entertainment Netflix might have made a habit of funneling exorbitant amount of cash into star-studded blockbusters loaded up with big names and even bigger visual effects, but Furies is the latest international actioner to come along and enhance the widespread belief that the streaming service’s best ass-kicking originals almost always hail from outside the United States. A prequel to 2019’s Furie – which was helmed by Le-Van Kiet – who would go on to make the jump to Hollywood through shark…

Had the video been released in 2021, Meta would have likely loved it. A young employee showing off the perks of her role would’ve dovetailed perfectly with the company’s enormous hiring drive during the first two years of the pandemic when it hired an extra 27,000 people.Instead, it landed with a clang in October, as the company belatedly began to realise that things had turned south. It cut 11,000 jobs in November, heralding all the other companies’ cuts to come.And as brutal as those job losses were for the employees…

Following yesterday’s new of massive layoffs at the Comixology division of Amazon, further information confirms that calling it the “Comixology bloodbath” is sadly accurate: nearly everyone at the division has been let go, and those remaining are only there on “mop up” duty.  A subsequent tweet from Comixology employee “Scott” confirmed that 75% of the staff had been laid off.  UPDATE: Closer to 75%. The majority of the employees are gone. There's still employees working at Comixology. I have no information to share…

When reporting on gun deaths in the United States I always asked bereaved parents an open‑ended question about what they thought had made the tragedy possible. Generally they mentioned bad parenting, teenage pregnancies, absent fathers and a range of other cable TV talking points. The one thing they would never raise was guns. After 12 years in the US I concluded that many Americans regard gun deaths like traffic fatalities – an unavoidable, if horrific, consequence of everyday life.This sense of learned hopelessness…

XRP price could continue its ascent after a strong flip of the US$0.397 hurdle into a support level. XRP a stablecoin is on the rise this week. The price of XRP has risen by 20.96% in the past 7 days. The price increased by 0.59% in the last 24 hours. In just the past hour, the price grew by 1.65%. According to Coinmarketcap XRP is now ranked #7 amongst other cryptocurrencies and has a total market capitalization of $20.3 billion. Trading volume is up by 38.23% as all eyes are now on XRP as it is currently in the…

‘There will be blood on streets,’: Big tech execs warn employees about tech layoffs AI technology is contributing giant effects to the transformation of society and business in a positive manner. Although AI has multiple pros in upgrading and automation it also evolves some serious cons and Tech layoff is the result of automation technology. Over 180 big tech companies and tech start-ups have slashed more than 36,000 staff from their teams in the global economic downturn, in the past six months The Stack…

Screenshot: Warner Bros. DiscoveryAnother day, another round of the newly formed Warner Bros. Discovery boss finding some way to make HBO Max subscribers unhappy. This time, beloved animated series Infinity Train, OK K.O.!—Let’s Be Heroes, Summer Camp Island, and much more.Variety says the cuts—which include several Sesame Street Elmo specials, for goodness’ sake—are being made in order to save money by not paying residuals to the creators, stars, crewmembers, or whoever else stood to make money when someone watched the…