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Hey Strangers, #tesla #Bad DETROIT (AP) — Tesla’s second-quarter net income fell 45% compared with a year ago as the company’s global electric vehicle sales tumbled despite price cuts and low-interest financing. The Austin, Texas, company said Tuesday that it made $1.48 billion from April through June, less than the $2.7 billion it made in the same period of 2023. It was Tesla’s second-straight qu...

Hey Strangers, #assassinscreed #ubisoft #gaming Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Ubisoft’s upcoming entry to the 17-year-old franchise, has seen a ton of controversy since its announcement. The recent hike in interest and criticism for the game within Japan itself prompted Ubisoft to react and issue an apology, promising to fix historical inaccuracies. ======================================= I had to Mak...

Hey Strangers, #avakristyson #mrbeast #streamers Ava Kris Tyson has announced she will be leaving the Mr Beast team following a recent slew of allegations pertaining to grooming an inappropriate behavior. Taking to Twitter, of which Ava has recently deleted of her past posts, she said, “I would like to apologize for any of my past behavior or comments if it hurt or offended anyone. It was not my i...

Hey Strangers, #indiegame #gaming #ai Video games—and the people who make them—are in trouble. An estimated 10,500 people in the industry were laid off in 2023 alone. This year, layoffs in the nearly $200 billion sector have only gotten worse, with studios axing what is believed to be 11,000 more, and counting. Microsoft, home of the Xbox and parent company to several studios, including Activision...

Hey Strangers, #kamalaharris #best #vicepresident Jurors in the New York criminal trial against former President Donald Trump have convicted him of 34 felony counts of falsified business records. Former President Donald Trump appears for his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on Thursday, before a jury of New Yorkers convicted him on 34 felony counts. The jurors said they unanimously agr...

Hey Strangers, #crowdstrike #explaing #cybersecurity Major IT outages have hit industries across the world after a CrowdStrike update issue pushed global IT systems offline and prevented Windows systems from starting up. Flights are grounded in airports around the world, hospital systems are offline, and global TV channels and news broadcasters have been taken off air as a result of the incident....

Hey Strangers, #amazon #wfh #rto Amazon is now monitoring the hours corporate employees spend in the office. This move is intended to crack down on people who are trying to skirt the company's return-to-office policy, Business Insider has learned. Several teams across Amazon, including the retail and cloud-computing units, were told in recent months that a minimum of two hours per visit is req...

Hey Strangers, #microsoft #DEI #tech Microsoft has reportedly laid off a team devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion after pouring millions of dollars into the initiative — becoming the latest major company to ditch the “woke” policy. The Big Tech giant disbanded the DEI team at the beginning of the month due to “changing business needs,” according to a July 1 email obtained by Business Inside...

Hey Strangers, #crypto #jdvance #tech MILWAUKEE, July 16 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's choice of J.D. Vance for a running mate raised the hopes of Silicon Valley conservatives on Tuesday that they stand to gain having a fellow "tech bro" within reach of the White House for the first time. "WE HAVE A FORMER TECH VC IN THE WHITE HOUSE. GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH BABY," Delian Asp...

Hey Strangers, #openai #sue #snitching July 13 (Reuters) - OpenAI whistleblowers have filed a complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, calling for an investigation over the artificial intelligence company's allegedly restrictive non-disclosure agreements, according to a letter seen by Reuters. "Given the well-documented potential risks posed by the irresponsible deploym...

Hey Strangers, #ai #help Generative AI is everywhere these days, but Amazon Web Services has been perceived in some circles as being late to the game. In reality it’s still early, and the market is still shaking out. On Wednesday, AWS might have raised its generative AI street cred with a new tool called App Studio. App Studio promises to help you create an enterprise software application from a w...

Hey Strangers, #assassinscreed #wrong #breakingnews In Japan, a Change.org petition has surfaced to ban Assassin’s Creed Shadows. It has now been a fair few weeks since Ubisoft lifted the lid on this year’s Assassin’s Creed title, announcing a dual protagonist adventure set in Feudal Japan – a setting that fans have been desperate to experience for many years. However, Japanese fans of the franchi...

Hey Strangers, #assassinscreed #japan #fact In Japan, a Change.org petition has surfaced to ban Assassin’s Creed Shadows. It has now been a fair few weeks since Ubisoft lifted the lid on this year’s Assassin’s Creed title, announcing a dual protagonist adventure set in Feudal Japan – a setting that fans have been desperate to experience for many years. However, Japanese fans of the franchise were...

Hey Strangers, #assassinscreed #japan #love In Japan, a Change.org petition has surfaced to ban Assassin’s Creed Shadows. It has now been a fair few weeks since Ubisoft lifted the lid on this year’s Assassin’s Creed title, announcing a dual protagonist adventure set in Feudal Japan – a setting that fans have been desperate to experience for many years. However, Japanese fans of the franchise were...

Hey Strangers, #figma #Ai #work Figma’s new tool Make Designs lets users quickly mock up apps using generative AI. Now, it’s been pulled after the tool drafted designs that looked strikingly similar to Apple’s iOS weather app. Figma CEO Dylan Field posted a thread on X early Tuesday morning detailing the removal, putting the blame on himself for pushing the team to meet a deadline, and defending t...

Hey Strangers, #assassinscreed #japanese #love Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has spoken out about "malicious and personal online attacks" that have been directed at his employees and partners, citing it as one of his major concerns in the games industry at the moment. Guillemot gave a wide-ranging interview that was posted on the Ubisoft website on Thursday, speaking about various topics in...

Hey Strangers, #ai #power #technology Late last week, both Bloomberg and The Washington Post published stories focused on the ostensibly disastrous impact artificial intelligence is having on the power grid and on efforts to collectively reduce our use of fossil fuels. The high-profile pieces lean heavily on recent projections from Goldman Sachs and the International Energy Agency (IEA) to cast AI...

Hey Strangers, #drdisrespect #cooked #twitch Dr. Disrespect—aka Guy Beahm—has been in the news again, nearly four years after he was banned from Twitch in 2020, the online streaming platform where he made a found fame and notoriety. Now it sounds like the popular streamer may be calling it quits indefinitely. The reason for the ban was never revealed by Twitch or Dr. Disrespect, though the latter...

Hey Strangers, #eldenring #easy #skillissue Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion is currently being reviewed poorly by some players who believe that it’s just too hard compared to the base game, and their high level characters keep getting 2-3 shot while they do minimal damage in response. Well, Bandai Namco, the game’s publisher, has come out with some extremely blunt advice to rectify th...

Hey Strangers, #bitcoin #scam #technology Key Takeaways TechLead, a popular YouTuber with over 1.1 million subscribers, launched a token called Million last week. TechLead has used his social media channels to promote the token, suggesting that investors could earn lucrative returns by buying into the project. The account that minted the token was found to have dumped large batches of the token on...

Hey Strangers, #kids #internet California Governor Gavin Newsom has pledged to “get smartphones out of schools.” “I look forward to working with the Legislature to restrict the use of smartphones during the school day. When children and teens are in school, they should be focused on their studies — not their screens,” he said in a statement on Tuesday. Newsom plans to work with the California legi...

Hey Strangers, #juneteenth #tech #ai There are many ways to celebrate Black History Month. Learning about amazing Black figures in American history. Discussing solutions to problems in diversity, equity, and inclusion at the office. Reading stories written by great Black authors. The list goes on. One thing we wanted to do at Purpose Jobs was highlight the contributions Black folks have made in th...

Hey Strangers, #nvidia #stockmarket #ai Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab became the world's most valuable company on Tuesday, dethroning tech heavyweight Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab as its high-end processors play a central role in a scramble to dominate artificial intelligence technology. Shares of the chipmaker climbed 3.5% to $135.58, lifting its market capitalization to $3.335 trillion...

Hey Strangers, #ai #freelancer #job Many employees, especially those working in creative fields, are understandably worried by the prospect of AI stealing their jobs - and new research has found it may not be an unfounded fear. A report from the Imperial College Business School, Harvard Business School, and the German Institute for Economic Research, found the demand for digital freelancers in wri...

Hey Strangers, #assassinscreed #yasuke #assassinscreedshadows Assassin’s Creed Shadows has run into a bizarre controversy surrounding its protagonist Yasuke. A small corner of the internet contends Yasuke’s status as a Samurai, and has accused Ubisoft of misrepresentation in a series that was never historically accurate to begin with. Unsurprisingly, none of this kerfuffle seems to have impacted p...