After accounting startup Bench abruptly shut down on December 27 and was bought in a fire-sale by Employer.com, Bench customers are now learning they can’t easily just take their financial data and leave.  And some are very unhappy about it, three customers told TechCrunch. To recap: When Bench, a startup based in Canada that raised […]

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Amazon is now the latest company to curb some of its DEI programs, Bloomberg reports, after Meta announced that it, too, is ending its diversity efforts earlier on Friday.  An internal memo that was sent to staffers said that the company was looking to wind down outdated programs and materials as part of a review […]

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On Friday, the nation’s highest court heard arguments on whether to uphold or block a law that could effectively ban TikTok​ in the U.S. The bill, signed into law by President Biden in April 2024, gives TikTok’s parent company ByteDance until January 19 to divest its U.S. operations or face a ban in the country. […]

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While they didn't support Musk's allegations directly, the feds added weight to his interpretation of antitrust law.

It joins Walmart, McDonald's and other companies in a similar move regarding diversity efforts since Trump's re-election.

The announcement was part of Mr Huang's address at CES, an annual technology show in Las Vegas.

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote in a post on Friday that Apple is losing market share in China due to declining iPhone shipments

The company is in the process of "winding down outdated programs and materials" as part of a broader review of hundreds of initiatives.

Tesla's voluntary recall is related to issues that may cause rearview cameras to fail, according to filings out Friday.

OpenAI disbanded its robotics department. Then, it brought it back. Now, through a social media post from its hardware director and newly published job descriptions, OpenAI is revealing more about its plans for the revived team. In a post on X on Friday, Caitlin Kalinowski, who joined OpenAI to lead hardware last November from Meta’s […]

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Add another company to the growing list of those scaling back or scrapping their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, and it's a big one: Meta. Vice president of people Janelle Gale sent a memo over the company's Workplace internal communications forum, as first reported by Axios. According to Gale's post, Meta will no longer have...

Google Drive for desktop on Mac and Windows has been updated with faster file sync thanks to differential uploads.

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Apple’s biggest upcoming AI features will arrive in iOS 18.4, with a heavy focus on Siri upgrades. But it’s the Vision Pro that I’m most excited to use those capabilities on. Here’s why.

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From a cute little robot that blows on your hot drink to a sexy controller dongle, CES 2025 was full of funky gadgets we can't stop thinking about.

The company may have found a new way to keep its satellites from ruining telescope images.

Was someone spying on cell traffic at the political event?

As extreme wildfires become the new norm, scientists are trying to crack how to save lives.

The US health department on Friday declared a public health emergency for California in response to devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area that have so far killed 10 people and destroyed more than 10,000 structures.

As of Friday morning, 153,000 residents are under evacuation orders, and an additional 166,800 are under evacuation warnings, according to local reports.

Wildfires pose numerous health risks, including exposure to extreme heat, burns, harmful air pollution, and emotional distress.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan that the Biden White House sought to censor critical claims about Covid vaccines.

OpenAI was sending “tens of thousands” of server requests trying to download Triplegangers' entire site which hosts hundreds of thousands of photos.

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