Tag: Tesla
Tech Digest daily roundup: Google to cut 12,000 jobs worldwide
Google's parent company Alphabet will cut 12,000 jobs, in the latest staff redundancies to hit the tech industry. Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said he took "full responsibility" for the cuts, in an internal email. The cuts will affect 6% of Alphabet's workforce worldwide, in teams including recruitment and engineering. This comes days after…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Microsoft to cut 10,000 jobs
Microsoft will cut 10,000 jobs in the latest round of staff redundancies to hit the tech industry. It will affect up to 5% of its global workforce and cost the business $1.2bn (£972m) in severance and reorganisation costs. Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said that while customer spending had grown during Covid, more people were…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Goodbye Google Stadia
Google has just released the last ever game for the Stadia platform, ahead of its shutdown today (January 18). After much speculation, Google confirmed that the Stadia would be shutting down last September, with the cloud gaming service set to shut up shop today. Ahead of the shutdown though, Google has released one last game…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Woman to pay damages for ‘time theft’
A woman in Canada has been ordered by a civil tribunal to pay damages to her former employer for "time theft" after she was caught claiming for unworked hours by tracking software. Karlee Besse, who was a home-based company accountant in British Columbia, initially argued she had been wrongfully sacked and sought $5,000 (£3,056) compensation…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Smart appliances could stop working after 2 years, claims Which?
Smart appliances could stop working properly after just two years because manufacturers are failing to provide tech updates, according to Which? Research by the consumer champion found products like expensive dishwashers, TVs, and washing machines - which might be expected to last more than a decade - are "being abandoned" by brands. A lack of…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Tesla delivered record number of EVs in 2022
Electric car maker Tesla says it delivered a record 1.3m vehicles last year, 40% more than in 2021. It comes after the company delivered more than 405,000 vehicles in the last three months of 2022. However, that figure missed Wall Street forecasts of around 430,000 deliveries for the period. This year the motor industry is…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Tesla shares plunge once again
Shares in Tesla plunged by more than 8 per cent in early trading on Tuesday as Elon Musk’s erratic Twitter ownership appeared to weigh heavily on the electric vehicle maker. Tesla stock had cratered to under $113 by 12pm, setting a new 52-week low, and has lost more than two-thirds of its value since Mr Musk first offered…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Crash Tesla in ‘full self-driving mode’, report says
The driver of a 2021 Tesla Model S told California authorities the vehicle was in “full self-driving mode” when the technology malfunctioned, causing an eight-vehicle crash on the San Francisco Bay bridge last month. The crash on Thanksgiving Day resulted in two juveniles being transported to hospital and led to lengthy delays on the bridge. The…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Twitter users vote for Elon Musk to step down
Twitter users have voted in favour of Elon Musk stepping down as the platform's chief executive after the billionaire ran a poll on his future. A total of 57.5% voted "yes" after Mr Musk asked his 122 million followers whether he should stand down. Mr Musk, who bought Twitter for $44bn (£36bn), said before the…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Google not rushing forward with AI chatbots
The success this year of powerful new generative artificial intelligence models like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, have laid the groundwork for a new era of AI tech set to explode even further in 2023. Google, though equipped with its own powerful (but definitely not sentient) LaMDA AI chatbot, says it doesn’t plan rushing its models out…
