Twitter offices are closed to employees except for those directly working on 'Elon critical' projects. The company sent out an email on Thursday evening to employees informing them that there will be layoffs on Friday. Employees that are being let go will be informed by an email sent to their personal inbox. Twitter will reportedly let go of more than 3,700 employees, around half of its workforce.
The Matter standard was recently launched at the Connectivity Standards Alliance's Matter Launch Event in Amsterdam. More than 190 devices have been certified for Matter since the standard was finalized in October. This article highlights some of the announcements and devices shown off by companies like Amazon, Samsung, Hue, Eve, and Aqara at the event. Most companies announced more new products with Matter support than updates to existing products.
Scientists believe that tiny molecular versions of the Turing machine could help make new drugs or materials with precise traits. Cells already have a natural form of this and can turn sequences of mRNA into proteins. There are no working examples of molecular computers, but experiments have shown that the fundamental processes of physics and chemistry can be used to relay information at the molecular level. The current 'read' processes are still very slow and scientists still haven't developed techniques for fabricating new materials at that scale.
New experiments show that zapping clouds with electricity can alter droplet sizes in fog and potentially help clouds to rain. The effect can be observed whether zapping fog with positive or negative charges. Electric charges can slow evaporation. These findings could be used in dry regions of the world to encourage clouds to release rain.
jc is a command-line tool and Python library that can convert the output of many CLI tools, file types, and common strings into JSON for easier parsing in scripts. It can be used in piped commands for further command-line processing of outputs. If used as a Python library, jc outputs either a Python dictionary, a list of dictionaries, or a lazy iterable of dictionaries.
OpenAI has launched a DALL-E API in a public beta. The API makes it easier for companies to add DALL-E's text-to-image functionality to their products. It will be rate-limited to begin with. Customers will not be vetted for how they will use the technology. There are three resolution tiers and customers will be charged per image generated.
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Amazon is freezing hiring for corporate roles in all of its businesses. It recently announced a hiring freeze for its retail business and it has expanded the freeze due to a worsening economic outlook. The pause will be in place for at least the next few months. Amazon will continue to hire for some targeted areas and to replace employees who leave.
This article presents a list of tips for people early in their careers. The tips are not in any particular order and they cover a wide range of topics. Examples include building combinations of competencies that are not usually found in one person, understanding the various career paths, and using public communications to force faster growth.
Affected staff will receive 14 weeks of severance pay, their 2022 annual bonuses, pay for all unused paid time off, the cash equivalent of 6 months of existing healthcare premiums, accelerated vesting, and career and immigration support.
