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Tim Cook said a year ago that layoffs would be a "last resort.” It appears that time has come.  Apple has cut more than 600 jobs, the majority of which were from the self-driving car project they recently shuttered. A filing in the…

OpenAI is sharing its Voice Engine technology with testers and trying to gauge its dangers. The tech can recreate someone's voice with just a 15-second recording of them reading a paragraph to create a synthetic voice that sounds like the…

Whenever a new gadget comes out, young people adopt and understand it first. Samsung's new spokesperson may turn that on its head. Meet Samsung's Grandma Fluencer.   Influencers sway the buying public by being young, in-your-face, and…

An earthquake hit Taiwan early on Wednesday with a current death toll of nine, 800 injuries, and expectations that the numbers will rise. The tremor, reported to be the strongest in 25 years, toppled at least 26 buildings across the…

The U.S. Army is funding fiber arts. Researchers at North Carolina State are creating yarn-shaped supercapacitors meant to be woven into clothing to power wearable technologies. According to a report from SciTechDaily, experts discovered…

The Star Trek Universe has inspired many modern technologies, from transparent aluminum (aluminum oxynitride or ALON) to communicators (smartphones) to AI (Majel Barret is the best) and more. If you want a rundown, ask a Trekkie and brace…

Tesla will offer its U.S. customers a one-month free trial of its driver-assist technology, Full Self-Driving (FSD). The company is trying to offset the slowdown in demand and pressures from price competition. The driver assistant…

Google-backed EV charging startup Gravity opened its first public charging location to provide what Green Car Reports calls  the "fastest EV charging in America." It is in a parking garage in Manhattan, and it features 24 charging stalls…

400 Stellantis workers received an unexpected pink slip email this week telling them not to report to work the following day. Instead, they were told to attend a mandatory remote meeting, where they were devastated to hear their jobs were…

Stellantis Ventures has invested in SteerLight, the developer of a new high-performance LiDAR technology. SteerLight LiDAR senses the surrounding environment in 3D with higher resolution and precision at a lower volume production cost…

Fully remote Dell employees will not be eligible for promotion beginning in May 2024. According to Business Insider, the change in policy is a reversal from the company’s previous work-from-home stance.  Not that long ago, CEO Michael Dell…

Brown University researchers just developed a novel approach for a wireless network that efficiently transmits, receives, and decodes data from microelectronic chips the size of a grain of salt. Their research is published in Nature…

EEG scans show specific changes in brain activity while petting, walking, and playing with "Man's Best Friend." Spending quality time with dogs reduces stress and increases the power of brain waves associated with relaxation and…

Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr is stepping down at Hertz Global Holdings as the company stopped betting the farm on electric vehicle (EV) rentals because of increasing repair costs and little demand for the cars. In January, Hertz announced it…

Researchers, including University of Massachusetts Amherst engineers, demonstrated that their analog computing device, called a memristor, completes complex scientific computing tasks that bypass the limitations of digital computing. Yes,…