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Apple Fires Over 600 Workers From Silicon Valley Office In First Post-COVID Layoff By Company

April 5, 2024 5:00 pm

A Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) Notice released on Friday revealed that Cupertino-based computer and tech firm Apple will be firing 614 employees from their Santa Clara offices, resulting in their first post-COVID layoff. The San Francisco Bay...

Government Censorship on Trial: U.S. Supremes to Hear Arguments Monday

March 15, 2024 8:00 amMarch 15, 2024 11:49 am

The government-backed censorship-industrial complex goes on trial Monday when the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the most important free speech case in decades: Murthy v. Missouri. The lawsuit – brought by a pair of states and...

CPUC Announces Expansion of Paid Robotaxis in Bay Area & LA

March 2, 2024 6:42 amMarch 2, 2024 6:43 am

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) announced on Friday that Waymo, a Google-backed self-driving car service, would be able to expand their paid car service from just San Francisco into several other cities on the Peninsula, highways in San Francisco,...

The Consensus Machine and the True Peril of AI

February 26, 2024 6:48 amFebruary 26, 2024 6:48 am

The current explosion of artificial intelligence and machine learning uses has a lot of people worried. AI can replace human workers, write college papers, create very realistic internet deep fakes and so on – those are the worries that stand...

City Of San Francisco Sues CPUC Over August 2023 Robotaxi Expansion Decision

January 26, 2024 12:31 pmJanuary 26, 2024 12:33 pm

The City of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against the California Public Utilities Commission on Friday, asking them to review their decision made in August of last year to great expand robotaxi companies within the city. In 2022 and most...

Google, Twitch, Discord Announce Massive Layoffs As Bay Area Mass Layoffs Continue

January 12, 2024 2:30 amJanuary 12, 2024 2:31 am

Multiple San Francisco tech firms such as Google and Discord instituted mass layoffs on Wednesday and Thursday, increasing the number of unemployed tech workers in the Bay Area in a year where the region had been projected to begin to...

Unity Gaming Company Announces Mass Layoff of 1,800 In San Francisco

January 9, 2024 2:30 amJanuary 9, 2024 2:31 am

Unity, a San Francisco video game company specializing in game engines, let go 1,800 employees on Monday, becoming the Bay Area’s first major mass layoff a little more than a week into 2024. In the last few years, San Francisco...