Day: February 16, 2023

A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs

Announced on February 15 that it will impact 4% of its global workforce — or more than 100 employees. Announced on February 13 that it will impact around 17% of its global workforce, about 1,400 people. Announced on February 9, 20% of its staff, impacting 1,600 employees in its adtech business. Yahoo is the parent […]

Most sites claiming to catch AI-written text fail spectacularly

As the fervor around generative AI grows, critics have called on the creators of the tech to take steps to mitigate its potentially harmful effects. In particular, text-generating AI in particular has gotten a lot of attention — and with good reason. Students could use it to plagiarize, content farms could use it to spam […]

Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles over Full Self-Driving software safety concerns

Tesla will release an over-the-air software update, free of charge, to fix the issue. Instead, FSD includes a number of automated driving features that still require the driver to be ready to take control at all times. It includes the parking feature Summon as well as Navigate on Autopilot, an active guidance system that navigates […]

Apple TV+ unveils ‘Tetris’ movie trailer

Starring “Black Bird” actor Taron Egerton, who plays American video game salesman Henk Rogers, “Tetris,” tells the story of Rogers and his mission to secure the distribution rights of the game. Rogers travels to the Soviet Union during the end of the Cold War to meet the inventor, Alexey Pajitnov (Nikita Efremov), a Soviet software […]