Credit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority There will be another 5,000 T-Mobile layoffs. That’s 7% of the company’s workforce, mostly from executive positions. T-Mobile said it would keep its pre-merger employee numbers when it acquired Sprint. When T-Mobile acquired Sprint in 2020, the combined company had about 80,000 employees. One of the things T-Mo committed
Read MoreIn case you’ve ever wondered how the South Pole research stations are powered, then a recent blog post, South Pole Electrical Infrastructure by anonymous IT engineer [brr] is for you. Among the many issues covered, let’s look at how the electricity is made and, spoiler alert, how the specially formulated AN8 fuel blend is transported
Read MoreSuzanne Kapner / Wall Street Journal: Shein acquires ~33% of Forever 21 parent Sparc, and Sparc takes a minority stake in Shein, allowing Shein to sell Forever 21 items and operate inside its stores — Online fashion giant invests in company that operates retailer, paving way to sell its products — Shein and Forever 21
Read MoreIn an aerial view, burned cars and homes are seen in a surrounding that was destroyed by a wildfire on August 18th, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. | Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Tech giants have accumulated vast properties across Hawaii while Native Hawaiian residents fight to keep their land. It’s a fight that’s
Read MoreRussia tightly controls its information space—making it hard to get accurate information out of the country. But open source data provides some clues about the crash.
Read MoreBrendan Case / Bloomberg: Walmart partners with Alphabet’s Wing to test drone deliveries of up to six miles at two stores in the Dallas area, dropping off food and household essentials — – Project boosts aerial range capabilities for the retailer — Service will be offered at two stores in the Dallas area
Read MoreImage: Larian Studios There’s a big subset of gamers that have not yet been able to experience the chaotic joy of Baldur’s Gate 3 — console players. While we know that BG3 is releasing on the PlayStation 5 on September 6th, Xbox players have had no idea when to expect the game to hit their
Read MoreA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in 2020. | Image: Joe Burbank / Orlando Sentinel / Tribune News Service via Getty Images The US Department of Justice is suing Elon Musk’s SpaceX over allegations that it discriminated against asylees and refugees in hiring. In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, the DOJ claims from at least September
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile is laying off “a little under” 7 percent of its workforce, affecting about 5,000 roles at the company. The move will mostly impact workers in corporate, back-office, and technology roles, with those in retail or customer care positions remaining unaffected. Other carriers, including AT&T and Verizon, are
Read MoreThe second-generation CZ Smart launched a few months ago. Both the company and reviewers have found serious technical issues.
Read MoreImage: Getty Images A deal struck by Shein and Forever 21 could see the digital retailer and legacy fast-fashion brand converge online and in person. Shein, the biggest online retailer for womenswear, has acquired a third of Forever 21 operator SPARC Group, which also owns brands like Reebok, Brooks Brothers, and Eddie Bauer. As part
Read MoreNathan McAlone / Insider: OnlyFans reports revenue up 17% YoY to $1.1B in the FY to November 30, 2022, profit up 24% YoY to ~$404M, creators up 47% to 3.2M, and users spent $5.6B in 2022 — – The OnlyFans business is still booming. — OnlyFans users spent $5.6 billion on the platform in 2022,
Read MoreImage: Cherry It’s a big day in the mechanical keyboard world. Cherry, the German manufacturer behind the ubiquitous Cherry MX, has announced a redesigned version of the switch called the Cherry MX2A that it says should feel smoother to press, sound quieter, and still be rated to survive millions of actuations. The new switch will
Read MoreImage: The Verge Meta is finally launching a much more capable web app for Threads, the company announced on Tuesday. You’ll be able to post, interact with other posts, and look at your feed, spokesperson Christine Pai tells The Verge. It’s set to roll out over the next few days, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said
Read MoreImage: Epic Games It’s that time again: Epic Games is launching another major season of Fortnite on Friday, and a day ahead of the start of the season, the company debuted a cinematic trailer that hints at some of what you can expect. A big feature of this season appears to be heists. The trailer
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Hugging Face confirms it raised a $235M Series D from Salesforce, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and others, bringing its total raised to $395.2M — As first reported by The Information, then seemingly verified by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on X (formerly known as Twitter) …
Read MoreAbraham Augustine / TechCabal: Canada-based LemFi, which offers remittances and other payment services for immigrants worldwide, raised a $33M Series A, bringing its total funding to ~$34M — On the back of successfully serving African migrants in Canada and the UK, LemFi has raised $33 million in Series A funding …
Read MoreCode Llama may spur a new wave of experimentation around AI and programming—but it will also help Meta.
Read MoreEmilia David / The Verge: Meta releases Code Llama, a tool built on top of Llama 2 to generate new code and debug human-written work, under the same community license as Llama 2 — Meta has released a tool called Code Llama, built on top of its Llama 2 large language model, to generate new
Read MoreMolly Schuetz / Bloomberg: Filing: T-Mobile plans to cut ~7% of its global staff, or ~5,000 jobs, mostly in corporate and tech; AT&T has cut 74,130 jobs, or 32% of its staff, since 2021 — T-Mobile USA Inc. will cut its global workforce by just under 7%, the wireless carrier said Thursday.
Read MoreBloomberg: Study: in May 2023, ~150K nonconsensual porn deepfakes, with 3.8B total views, appeared on 30 sites, up 9x since 2019, aided by services from big tech companies — To stay up and running, deepfake creators rely on products and services from Google, Apple, Amazon, CloudFlare and Microsoft
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max service is making a bigger push into news with a new 24/7 CNN stream that’s scheduled to debut on September 27th. It’s called CNN Max, and in a press release this morning, the company said the new service will “be part of an open beta for news that
Read MorePlatinum Black Ford F-150 Lightning with a smoked light bar and matte black finish. Ford’s making a special new factory matte black Platinum Black edition of its all-electric F-150 Lightning truck. Revealed today, this Lightning looks like Batman’s Tumbler Batmobile from The Dark Knight trilogy, with some glossy finish remaining on the door handles, roof,
Read MoreTwo new studies show that AI-powered devices can help paralyzed people communicate faster and more accurately.
Read MoreConway’s Game of Life has been the object of fascination for computer hobbyists for decades. Watching the generations tick by is mesmerizing to watch, but programming the data structure and implementing the rules is also a rewarding experience, especially if you’re just getting acquainted with a new computing platform. Just as rewarding can be creating
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