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via Warner Bros. In a day full of bombshells and surprises from DC Studios, one of the biggest was that in what’s growing to be an uncharacteristic move for the studio, they are retaining at least one of the actors involved in Justice League, the movie that should have been the flagship film of a shared DC universe — and to make matters more complicated, it’s the actor long considered to be the most problematic: Ezra Miller of The Flash. Miller is reportedly now in treatment following a string of bizarre and…

Image Source : FREEPIK 219 tech firms fired around 68,000 employees in January, more layoff expected: Know-more January 2023 has been tough for most of the employees working in the tech industry. The year certainly started on a very bad note as a number of the considered and known tech giants started laying off it's employees across the globe. With a number of huge…

Scientist Rose Abramoff (left) chained to a White House fence in April 2022. Photo: Will DicksonLast April, Tennessee-based soil scientist Rose Abramoff was arrested after chaining herself to a White House fence. She was one of about 1,000 scientists around the world who engaged in civil disobedience that week, organized by Scientist Rebellion. They demanded “emergency decarbonization” and wealth distribution. Before then, she says, she had done her best to remain apolitical. She worked behind the scenes to support…

One of World of Warcraft Classic's lead developers is no longer with Blizzard, having been terminated after protesting a controversial Activision Blizzard quota policy.Brian Birmingham, a Blizzard veteran of more than 16 years and the technical lead for WoW Classic, refused to participate in an Activision Blizzard policy known as stack-ranking. The policy requires that a certain percentage of employees be given a "developing" rating by managers that would affect the employee's profit sharing and have a…

It seems like being a part of Star Wars these days is like joining a secret society. Scripts are stored under lock and key, cast members shuffle around in cloaks, and until production is finished — no one has any real idea what’s going on. With each new entry onto Disney Plus or otherwise, the folks tasked with making these stories are sworn to absolute secrecy, and it looks like The Acolyte is no different. This upcoming Sith-centric series follows a former Padawan and their Jedi Master as they investigate a…

Amazon Prime Air is Amazon’s drone delivery program that is supposed to deliver a 5 pound or less package to you in less than 30 minutes. Image: Scott Eisen (AP)Amazon’s foray into drone delivery has been a bumpy road, according to a former Amazon manager who worked with the tech. Cheddi Skeete says that he was fired from the company after raising concerns over the safety of Amazon’s drone delivery program.According to The Seattle Times, Skeete says that there was no onboarding process for new employees working on the…

PUBG parent Tencent fires over 100 employees for bribery, embezzlement amid regulatory crackdownChinese tech giant Tencent has recently announced that it had fired over a hundred employees for violating company policies, some of whom have been referred to police and later found guilty of bribery and embezzlement. This Hong Kong-listed company is the world's top video game maker and the owner of the popular super-app WeChat, but it has been struggling under a broad regulatory crackdown on China's tech sector initiated in…

Tencent Holdings Ltd, Asia's biggest internet company, on Monday said it fired more than 100 employees for violating law and company policies in 2022, citing reasons including suspected bribery and embezzlement.In a statement on its social network WeChat, the Shenzhen-based company said incidents spanned more than 70 cases across business lines as varied as video games, livestreaming and advertising, and that it had reported more than 10 people to law enforcement authorities.The disclosure comes after Tencent's founder…

Amazon India employees are breaking down in their offices after being informed about their termination, according to a post on Grapevine - an online employee community platform. “75% of my team is gone. Although I am in the remaining 25%, I don’t feel motivated to work. They are firing people in cabins. People are crying in the office,” an employee with an anonymous profile wrote on the platform.ETtech has reached out to Amazon India for a response on the employee comments made on Grapevine.Amazon announced recently that…

Mehul Reuben DasJan 11, 2023 14:49:54 ISTWhen Elon Musk took over Twitter and fired nearly half of its original staff, his team assured that employees who have been terminated and those who chose to leave the organisation would be given a pretty handsome severance package, which would include health insurance for a couple of months, as well as other benefits. Elon Musk had assured the fired staff of Twitter that they would be given a handsome severance package along with some benefits. However, the actual severance pay…