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For the past year, contractors associated with Google’s YouTube Music Content Operations Team have been attempting to collectively bargain with the tech giant. Those workers won the right to unionize last April in a historic victory and, since that time, have been trying to get Google to come to the bargaining table. On Friday, amidst yet another effort to spur negotiations, Google simply laid off many of the workers associated with those efforts.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery”…

Knud Bergslien's painting "Birkebeinerne" (1869) shows the Birkebeiners Torstein Skevla and Skjervald Skrukka fleeing from the Baglers with the little Håkon Håkonsson, the king's son, to the Birkebeiner's "capital" Nidaros in 1206. The Birkebeiners were a rebellious party in Norway, formed in 1174 around the pretender to the Norwegian throne Eystein Meyla. The name, which means birch legs in Norwegian, comes from the idea that they used birch bark to…

A staggering new survey into the spending habits of American streamers has revealed that on average, customers are spending nearly $1,000 a year on subscriptions. As reported by ZDNet, a new Bango survey titled ‘Subscription Wars 2024’ has revealed that “the average American subscriber pays $924 yearly for subscriptions,” $77 a month. Moreover, a quarter of those surveyed (5,000 people) pay more than $100 a month, while 5% pay an eye-watering $200 a month. Beyond the exorbitant overall costs of streaming and…

In January of 2024 tech companies laid off more than 32,000 employees. Experts however, believe that they are set to terminate more people as they face as economic uncertainties The tech sector has kicked off 2024 with…

Microsoft has confirmed it is set to lay off 1900 members of staff who work across Xbox and the newly acquired Activision Blizzard. First announced back at the start of 2022, Microsoft’s £57billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard was finally approved last October but today (January 25), the company has confirmed roughly 9 per cent of its gaming division has been laid off. Most of the staff affected work for Activision Blizzard but some Xbox and ZeniMax employees will also be impacted. Activision Vision president Mike…

Yet another video game company has announced layoffs in the first month of 2024. This time it's Black Forest Games, a subsidiary of THQ Nordic (itself a subsidiary of gaming giant Embracer), most known for developing the Destroy All Humans! remake and its successor, Destroy All Humans 2: Reprobed.As part of an extensive list of all games industry layoffs that have occurred already in 2024, Kotaku reported that Black Forest Games is just the latest to announce layoffs. The THQ Nordic internal studio has…

A Google software engineer, who has been with the company for nearly two decades, has been laid off as part of the latest round of job cuts. Earlier this week, the tech giant confirmed that it has cut several hundred jobs across hardware, core engineering and Google Assistant teams.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine LearningVisitIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science For ManagersVisitIIM KozhikodeIIMK Senior…

When Mark Zuckerberg announced last year that Meta was laying off 10,000 workers, he described 2023 as a "year of efficiency" defined by removing layers of middle management to create a "leaner org." Turns out the company still isn't done restructuring its organization. According to Business Insider, Meta recently told at least 60 of its employees at Instagram that it's eliminating their position altogether. The affected employees are technical program managers, the people who go in between Meta's tech workers, including…

Google is in the news again. This time it has announced yet another round of layoffs that is happening and this time it is all about those working on the voice-activated Google Assistant software and other departments. The number of lay offs is quite large and runs into hundreds. Apart from hundreds of people being laid off who were working on its voice-activated Google Assistant software, parent company Alphabet also eliminated a similar number of roles in the company's Devices and Services team. The Google layoffs at…

Game publisher Versus Evil has announced that it will shut down its operations just days before the Christmas holidays. The game publisher which focuses on indie games including The Banner Saga and Pillars of Eternity II, said in a post on X it is shutting its doors.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Digital TransformationVisitNorthwestern UniversityKellogg Post Graduate Certificate in Product ManagementVisitIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data…