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Advice and Resources for Tech Workers Coping With Job Loss

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Tens of thousands of tech workers have been laid off by companies recently, including at Amazon , Dropbox , GitHub , Google , Microsoft , and Vimeo. Beef up your tech and leadership skills with online courses Although Xu isn’t a financial advisor, he says the first thing to do when you lose your job is to “slim down financially.”

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AI Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

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Open AI, taking a page from Facebook’s ‘move fast and break things’ code book, just dumped it all out. I believe hose tools could be used in a more decentralized way, rather than within the auspices of centralized big companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Facebook. But that’s not the trajectory it’s going in right now.

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Tesla owner implants a chip to unlock his car and more

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Brandon Dalaly, a Tesla owner, has a unique way of unlocking his car: with his hand. “The whole idea was that I would have my house key in my left hand and my car key in my right hand. Could this be the tech version of tattoo addictions? Brandon works in tech and `is always trying to be on the cutting edge of everything.

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The environmental impact of electric cars

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If you’re looking at electric cars , environmental impact is probably high on your list of priorities. Are electric cars better for the environment? That’s why the UK Government has banned the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030. There are plenty of benefits of making the switch to driving an electric vehicle (EV).

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Opinion: GM Shouldn’t Kill Apple CarPlay, Android Auto

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Right after that passage, MT mentions that GM’s planned Ultifi infotainment will integrate apps like Google Maps and Spotify. It also prevents drivers from opting for a car that doesn’t have factory nav but does have CarPlay capability – thus forcing buyers to pony up more if they want factory navigation and other infotainment features.

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Editorial: GM’s CarPlay resolution is daring however extremely dangerous

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To make sure, aiming squarely at era behemoth Apple is a daring technique, despite the fact that now not a book one. GM follows EV chief Tesla and upstart competitor Rivian Car in locking Apple out of the middle stack and the entire decent knowledge dwelling there. in keeping with era analysis company Counterpoint.

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Transparency Depends on Digital Breadcrumbs

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But in order for investigators to identify suspects amidst a mob of thousands, it had to cast a very wide net and sought the cooperation of tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Snap and carriers like Verizon and T-Mobile. The writer David Brin foretold a version of our current panopticon in his 1998 book The Transparent Society.

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