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Lenovo ThinkPad deal cuts more than $2,000 off the price tag

Finding a deal with a discount of $2,326 is not an easy come-by, especially if it’s on a ThinkPad from one of the best laptop brands on the market. Before now, Lenovo sold the 13-inch ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga Intel for $3,579 but now offers it for $1,253, making this deal one of the best 2-in-1 laptop deals you’ll find today. That’s not even all – there’s an option for a $99/month payment for 12 months.  The ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga Intel offers enhanced life-like visuals from a 13.5-inch 2K (2256 x 1504) display…

Streamers say reported cuts to Twitch pay-outs won’t go down well

Top Twitch streamers are voicing their anger about reported plans by the Amazon-owned platform to boost profits by cutting pay-outs in its partnerships program. As reported by Bloomberg News, Twitch is considering a number of changes to increase the revenue it collects from its most popular streamers. These include encouraging streamers to run more ads; reducing revenue share for streamers from 70 percent to 50 percent (a favorable deal only available to some of the platform’s biggest draws); and introducing a new…

Elon Musk’s plans for making money with Twitter reportedly include job cuts

As part of his pitch to raise funds to acquire Twitter, Elon Musk apparently “floated” the idea of cutting jobs at Twitter to improve its bottom line, according to a Bloomberg report. “While nothing is set in stone — and Musk himself had no access to Twitter’s non-public financials at the time — he specifically mentioned job cuts” during discussions with banks, the report says. There are still a lot of uncertainties about what Twitter will look like under Musk’s ownership, assuming the $44 billion deal announced…

Google Cuts Racy Results by 30 Percent for Searches Like ‘Latina Teenager’

When US actress Natalie Morales carried out a Google search for "Latina teen" in 2019, she described in a tweet that all she encountered was pornography.Her experience may be different now.The Alphabet unit has cut explicit results by 30 percent over the past year in searches for "latina teenager" and others related to ethnicity, sexual preference and gender, Tulsee Doshi, head of product for Google's responsible AI team, told Reuters on Wednesday.Doshi said Google had rolled out new artificial intelligence software,…