Michel Devoret, a Google Quantum AI chief scientist, John Martinis, who left Google in 2020, and John Clarke win the Nobel in Physics for quantum computing work
all 3 @UofCalifornia professors. Home to groundbreaking physicists, including 2 immigrants leading the world in innovation and possibility, California is proud to dream big and deliver even bigger. @e...
Microsoft shut down Skype on May 5, capping a remarkable 21-year run for software that for many embodied the open internet and had 300M+ users in its heyday
you were right about almost everything WPXI-TV : End of an era: Skype is officially shut down Ronil Thakkar / KnowTechie : It's the end of the road for Skype Hassam Nasir / Tom's Hardware : Microsoft ...
Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023
Microsoft has announced it is discontinuing … Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial : Microsoft to shut down Skype in two months, company says switch to Teams David Phelan / Forbes : Microsoft Kills ...
Sources: Amazon aggregators Branded and Heyday plan to merge; Branded would acquire Heyday in exchange for $521M in equity in a new company to be named Essor
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TechCrunch+'s founding editor about its launch to complement TechCrunch's ads and events revenue and its failure due to issues with finding business reporters
January was a brutal month for journalists, globally from death and locally from layoffs. The latter hit home this week … Threads: @firstadopter . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @mjburnsy , @rez...
Stability AI raised a $101M seed, a source says at a ~$1B valuation, and its CEO says Stable Diffusion has 10M DAUs and its web app DreamStudio has 1.5M+ users
no billionaires, big funds, governments or anyone else with control of the company or the communities we support. We're completely independent," The future is open-source🔥 https://twitter.com/... Jim ...
China's crackdown and economic downturn have led to massive layoffs in its tech sector, but some workers are relieved to exit the industry's “996” work schedule
Viola Zhou / Rest of World : Tweets: @vickiturk , @cengizyar , and @alvinfoo Tweets: Vicki Turk / @vickiturk : A highly-paid tech job was the dream for China's young workers. Now, amid widespread lay...
Seven startups, including Thrasio and Heyday, hoping to become conglomerates like P&G have raised a combined $950M to acquire small Amazon Marketplace sellers
Start-ups including Thrasio, SellerX and Heroes are rolling up small brands, hoping to become the new P&G or Unilever Tweets: @fercany , @macrotactical , @tim , and @colarusso42 Tweets: Fercan Yalinki...
Heyday, which buys and launches Amazon businesses, raises $175M Series A from General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and others
Twitter says it accidentally pushed incorrect iOS app release notes on Wednesday that said it would now let all users limit who can reply to their tweets
they can't Tweets: Andy Beal / @andybeal : Shame, because I can't wait for the troll filter. Maybe I will use Twitter like I did in its heyday. https://www.theverge.com/... via @Verge