Reports that Musk will let go 25% of its workforce, or nearly 2,000 employees, come as tech billionaire overhauls company Twitter employees are bracing for extensive layoffs as the company restructures under new owner Elon Musk, amid reports of a first round of cuts that would target up to a quarter of staff. The Washington …
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Shonda Rhimes and Sara Bareilles are among celebrities leaving the platform, but others are struggling with the decision Twitter isn’t shaping up to be the party Elon Musk might have expected. Not long after the Tesla CEO officially gained control of the app, many users have contemplated an exodus – while others are debating the …
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World’s richest person plans revamp of social media platform, asking users if he should bring back Vine Elon Musk is considering charging Twitter users $20 (£17.30) a month or $240 a year for a blue tick on their account, as the world’s richest person prepares an overhaul of the social media platform. The Tesla chief …
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Musk, despite his wealth, good fortune and global influence, is not a serious person – but he is toying with dangerous ideas It took less than 48 hours for Elon Musk to reveal just how dangerous his new toy can be to this world. Replying to a tweet from former US secretary of state Hillary …
Disruption comes less than a week after multi-hour outage at WhatsApp, also owned by Instagram’s parent company, Meta Instagram is looking into the reasons behind an accidental wave of account suspensions, which have led many around the world to worry their access to the social network was curtailed for good. Users began reporting problems at …
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Unverified videos shared on Chinese social media showed people who are allegedly workers at the Foxconn plant climbing over fences and carrying their belongings along a road. Workers from China’s largest iPhone factory have reportedly been fleeing the factory amid fears of full-scale lockdowns in Covid-hit Zhengzhou. Foxconn, an Apple supplier headquartered in Taiwan, has about 200,000 …
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Mark Spencer spoke of possibility ‘some little man in China’ could be listening in to his conversations UK politics live – latest news updates A UK government minister has been criticised for using a “crass and archaic” trope when talking about Chinese people during a broadcast interview. The environment minister Mark Spencer referred to the …
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Setting one’s unease at delighting in hi-tech warfare aside, this is a precisely tooled, intensely immersive combat simulator It is almost comforting in this era of “games as a service”, where franchises exist as endless monetisation machines designed to consume every second of our free time, that Call of Duty still gets an annual retail …
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It’s close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in your console. Many things, in fact, but here are some of the top scarers, from eldritch Victoriana to teen slasher horror and the video game equivalent of black metal Folk horror meets point-and-click adventure in this richly atmospheric narrative yomp over the desolate moors of Victorian …
Smaller Android phone offers great software, smart AI and performance for much less than rivals Google appears to have triumphed again. The new Pixel 7 offers the same the top-flight software, camera and smart AI systems that have made its phones winners, but at a knockdown price that significantly undercuts rivals. Costing £599 ($899/A$1,299) it …
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