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FP StaffNov 23, 2022 09:03:20 ISTGoogle became the latest tech company to announce the truncation of its workforce. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, recently announced that they will be laying off about 10,000 or 6 per cent of its workforce, after identifying the “weak performers” across various teams and verticals. Google is expected to carry out the assessment over the next month, place some employees on a performance improvement plan, and start laying off people in early 2023. Image Credit: AFP A report by The…

Mehul Reuben DasNov 23, 2022 09:43:29 ISTWhen Elon Musk took control of Twitter, the social media platform had over 7,400 employees on its payroll. However, in the weeks to follow, Musk would go on to gut the workforce, firing nearly half of all Twitter employees, and thousands of contractual content moderators, and forcing thousands of other on-roll employees to resign. All in all, as of 8:30 AM Monday (Indian Standard Time), Twitter has just a little over 2,700 employees on the payroll. The number of engineers who have…

Mehul Reuben DasNov 23, 2022 11:14:58 ISTWhile trying to assuage advertisers and users on the platform after he took over, Elon Musk announced that he will take no decision on unbanning or reinstating banned accounts and that he would be creating a Moderation Council which will be made up of people with “widely diverse viewpoints.” However, despite his “promise,” Musk went on to reinstate the banned accounts of several figures without forming the Moderation Council. While Elon Musk blames leftist political and social…

Mehul Reuben DasNov 23, 2022 12:44:04 ISTElon Musk, when he took over Twitter, had envisioned that Twitter’s DM or Direct Messaging system would be one of the best in the world. In fact Musk had planned to revamp the way DMs function on Twitter and place it behind a paywall so that users can subscribe to a set of features. In a recent all-hands meeting with the employees of Twitter, Musk reiterated the importance of encrypting DMs on Twitter, and how a former employee, Moxie Marlinspike wanted to work on the feature, but…

Mehul Reuben DasNov 23, 2022 13:43:56 ISTAmazon is currently in the middle of one of the biggest mass layoffs in its history. The e-commerce giant plans to terminate about 10,000 people by 2023, and also plans to refocus finances and efforts away from the hardware division. The Alexa team at Amazon, responsible for not only the voice assistant, but the devices as well, is one of the hardest hit divisions, with more than half of all employees in the vertical, either being reassigned or terminated. Amazon has not been able…

Mehul Reuben DasNov 23, 2022 14:46:34 ISTIn a bid to turn Twitter profitable, Elon Musk has decided to several employee benefits and get rid of several perks that employees at Twitter had come to enjoy. It should be noted that since its inception, Twitter has never been profitable. Employees at Twitter were informed that they would no longer be entitled to allowances and perks like training and development, daycare facilities for children of staff, quarterly team activities and amenities for employee wellness and…

Mehul Reuben DasNov 23, 2022 16:42:20 ISTIt seems that Elon Musk recognises game when he sees it. While Musk may come across as a brash troll at times, the Tesla and Twitter CEO surely respects tech skills and people who demonstrate their technical prowess and know what they are doing. George Hotz was one of the first people to hack into an iPhone. He also rejected a job offer from Tesla before starting his own tech company that made autonomous driving systems for older cars. Image Credit: AFP Elon Musk has hired George…

Anirudh Regidistudio18Nov 23, 2022 17:43:37 IST  We’ve reached that point of maturity with laptop design where you no longer need to choose between a gaming laptop or a productivity laptop. You can now buy hybrid designs that embody the best of both worlds, offering understated elegance in a slim form factor as well as unrestricted performance for gaming. The devices that best embody these ideals are MSI’s Stealth GS line of laptops. For the creatively inclined, MSI also has a dedicated line of ‘Creator’ laptops. Let’s…

FP StaffNov 24, 2022 17:58:49 ISTThe world’s first smartphone with the all-new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC will be the Vivo X90 Pro+. While the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC will power most flagship Android phones that will be launched in 2023, Vivo is beating everyone to the punch and releasing before the new year, when they launch the smartphone in China in early December this year. Looking at the specifications that are available from online sources, we see that the Vivo X90 Pro+ gets a 6.78-inch, 3200×1440, OLED display…

Mehul Reuben DasNov 25, 2022 10:47:48 ISTA couple of days ago, Elon Musk asked his followers via a Twitter poll if the social media platform should give amnesty to people who were banned from the platform and reinstate their banned accounts. Of the 3 Million of Elon Musk’s followers who voted in the poll, about 72 per cent voted ‘yes’ to reinstate most banned accounts on Twitter. Image Credit: AFP Because most of his followers voted ‘Yes’ overwhelmingly, the Twitter and Tesla CEO has now announced that Twitter will be…