Apple is laying off dozens of sales employees, including longtime veterans, while simultaneously posting record-breaking revenue. The company says it’s streamlining, but affected workers point to a strategic shift toward third-party resellers.
The French Development Agency is providing Transnet with a R6 billion loan to accelerate its decarbonisation goals. The funding aims to shift transport from road to rail and boost green hydrogen development. But Transnet’s troubled history raises questions about execution.
Amazon just committed $50 billion to government AI projects as UBS predicts global AI spending will hit $375 billion this year. Meanwhile, IBM is quietly positioning itself to dominate the emerging quantum computing market that could be worth $170 billion annually by 2040.
Verizon is eliminating 168 positions across Washington state as part of broader restructuring. The layoffs come as the telecom giant lost 7,000 phone subscribers last quarter while competitors gained customers.
Android 17 is reportedly getting a Universal Clipboard feature that would sync copied content between devices. This would be Google’s answer to Apple’s popular cross-device copying feature. The feature appears to be in early development stages.
AT&T has deployed new 3.45 GHz spectrum hardware to 23,000 cell sites, boosting mobile download speeds by up to 80% and home internet speeds by 55%. The $23 billion spectrum purchase from EchoStar is now benefiting customers across 5,300 cities without immediate price increases. The upgrade represen
Former Sucker Punch artist Drew Harrison was fired over a Charlie Kirk assassination joke posted on Bluesky. In her first interview since the termination, she reveals Sony never asked her to delete the post or apologize before firing her. The incident sparked a harassment campaign against the Ghost
Before becoming known as the “godmother of AI,” Fei-Fei Li was running her parents’ dry cleaning business in New Jersey. Her creation of ImageNet in 2009 fundamentally changed artificial intelligence research and paved the way for modern deep learning. Today she’s advising world leaders and running
BioMADE has broken ground on a $40 million pilot-scale biomanufacturing facility near Ames, Iowa. The 15,000-square-foot multi-user site will open in 2027 and support defense and commercial product manufacturing while creating new revenue streams for farmers.
Mullvad VPN has introduced Lightweight WireGuard Obfuscation, a new feature designed to bypass censorship while minimizing performance impact. The protocol scrambles WireGuard packet headers to avoid detection by firewalls and network filters. It’s now available on desktop and Android, with iOS supp
