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It’s yet to materialize, as it joined other major players, including Unity and Amazon, in laying off workers just after the start of the year. Recent companies to announce layoffs include: Discord: The instant messaging and communication platform told employees this week that it would lay off 17% of its staff, or 170 people. In an internal memo obtained by The Verge and others, Discord CEO Jason Citron said the company has grown its workforce too quickly over the past few years, taking on more projects and becoming “less efficient in the way we operate.” Audible: Amazon’s audiobook company announced…

It’s just under 300 days until Election Day—but those in D.C. have already been thinking about the election for months. All eyes will be on the presidential race, but votes cast on Nov. 5 also have the potential to make a big impact on the cast of characters who oversee NASA on Capitol Hill. IN THE SENATE Ten of the 33 senators up for election this year serve on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, including three in prominent roles: Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), the chair of the full committee who has spearheaded a bill to clean up orbital…

Apple is asking its developers and partners to describe its upcoming Vision Pro headset as a “spatial computing” device; It’s a smart move that allows the company to avoid the boring AR-VR-XR nomenclature. For years, “virtual reality” has been used to describe a headset that blocks out the outside world and displays digital images that can move with the user’s head movements. “Augmented reality” meant smaller glasses that displayed digital images within clear lenses. In reality, Apple’s Vision Pro looks more like VR. The front of the device is not transparent. But calling it VR ignores the fact that the…

After a dizzying 24 hours that included market-moving false alarms and boundless anticipation from crypto enthusiasts, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) confirmed late Wednesday that it had approved a series of proposed exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. The price of Bitcoin. The approval of 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs includes ETFs from the most successful companies such as Grayscale, BlackRock, Fidelity, Invesco and others. The move is seen as a major endorsement of digital currencies by the country’s primary securities regulator, which has long expressed concerns about widespread fraud in the crypto world and even fought in court over the issue.…

Twitch, the video game streaming platform that Amazon bought a decade ago for nearly $1 billion, is laying off more than 500 employees as the company tries to make its hugely expensive division profitable. Even with cost cuts and increased efficiency, the platform is “still meaningfully larger than needed given the size of our business,” Twitch CEO Dan Clancy said in an email to employees. “For some time, the size of the organization has been determined not by where we are today but by where we optimistically expect our business to be in 3 or more years,” Clancy wrote. Amazon…

If there was one technology that would dominate 2023, it was artificial intelligence. Chatbots like ChatGPT and AI image generators like Midjourney have brought the concept of AI into the public consciousness like never before. A new report from Data.ai shows that awareness has translated into downloading and using AI-related apps on the smartphones people use every day. Data.ai’s State of Mobile 2024 report finds that the mobile economy is having a pretty good year, especially compared to a lackluster 2022. App store spending reached $171 billion, an increase of 3% compared to the previous year, while mobile advertising spending…

Headspace has begun combining mindfulness content and clinical mental health services into a single platform. The end-to-end mental health support offering comes nearly two and a half years after the platform merged with Ginger, an on-demand mental health service. Enterprise customers who sign up for Headspace’s fully integrated offering can give their employees access to Headspace’s mental health and mindfulness content, one-on-one mental health coaching, therapy, psychiatry and work-life services starting this month. “What we want to do here is create the brand that people think of when they think about mental health,” Headspace CEO Russell Glass tells Fast…

BEIJING (AP) — Tesla is recalling more than 1.6 million Model S, X, 3 and Y electric vehicles exported to China due to problems with auto-assist steering and door latch controls. China’s State Administration of Market Regulation announced the recall on Friday. It was stated that Tesla Motors in Beijing and Shanghai will use remote upgrades to fix the problems, so in most cases vehicle owners will not need to visit Tesla service centers. The recall applies to 1.6 million imported Tesla Model S, Model X, Model 3 and Model Y due to problems with the automatic steering assist function.…

Eric Siegel had been working in the machine learning world for over 30 years before the rest of the world caught up. Siegel is a machine learning (ML) consultant for Fortune 500 companies, an author, and a former Columbia University professor, and according to him, AI excitement has been out of control over the past year. While the world has embraced artificial intelligence as our great technological future, it is often difficult to distinguish from classical machine learning, which has actually been around for decades. ML predicts what ads we’ll see online, keeps inboxes free of spam, and powers facial…

More than fifty years after the end of the Apollo program, two private companies are now scrambling to get the United States back into the game. It’s part of a NASA-backed effort to launch commercial lunar deliveries as the space agency focuses on getting astronauts back there. “They are the scouts who will go to the moon before us,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. Pittsburgh’s Astrobotic Technology is first in line with the launch of a planned lander on Monday aboard United Launch Alliance’s brand-new rocket called Vulcan. Houston’s Intuitive Machines aims to launch a lander with a flight with…