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Employee laid off at 3 am after more than 16 years with Google: "Unexpected after hard work"

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Justin Moore, an Engineering Manager in Google, described the time he spent with the tech giant as ‘largely wonderful.’ Is isn't so painful to work for company around more than 10 years with full responsibility, and in return you got laid off. Google being an big Tech Giant it wasn't expected but due to flow of trend ( i.e. fear of future recession) & also due to decline in sale for some companies, every big companies are preventing by laying off. Review from manager got laid off ‘Big, faceless’ companies such as Google see employees as ‘100% disposable,’ said an Engineering Manager at the tech giant, who saId he is among the 12,000 employees who are being let go by Alphabet Inc, the parent company of the Mountain View-headquartered firm. “So after over 16.5 years at Google, I appear to have been let go via an automated account deactivation at 3am this morning as one of the lucky 12,000. I don't have any other information, as I haven't received any of th...

Meta - What is Meta?

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Meta Platforms, Inc., doing business as Meta and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, among other products and services. What is metaverse? The metaverse is a vision of what many in the computer industry believe is the next iteration of the internet: a single, shared, immersive, persistent, 3D virtual space where humans experience life in ways they could not in the physical world. Some of the technologies that provide access to this virtual world, such as virtual reality (VR) headsets and augmented reality (AR) glasses, are evolving quickly; other critical components of the metaverse, such as adequate bandwidth or interoperability standards, are probably years off or might never materialize. Virtual world: Imagine a virtual world where billions of people live, work, shop, learn and interact with each other -- ...

Google seeks help about AI with co-founder after introduction of Chat GPT

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Google CEO Sundar pichai, reportedly invited Co-founder of Google/Alphabet (Larry Page and Sergey Berin) to help them with AI after an huge lauch of Chat GPT by Open AI. Two founders who haven't spent much time with Google since 2019, use to held several meetings with executive.  On other hand, Sundar pichai reportedly issued 'code red' after Chat GPT launch. What is "Code Red "? A New Chat Bot Is a 'Code Red' for Google's Search Business. A new wave of chat bots like ChatGPT use artificial intelligence that could reinvent or even replace the traditional internet search engine.  Google has been aggressively building its own AI technologies, it's been slow to release them to the public, fearing how it might affect society, according to a memo viewed by The Times. Part of the reason is that answers are based on human-made data currently available online. That means racism, bias and misinformation can bleed into a chatbot's...

Can we Integrate Chat GPT with WhatsApp?

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ChatGPT , a brand-new AI chatbot, can write essays and respond to questions. ChatGPT has gained a lot of traction since OpenAI made it available last month.   It has attracted investment worth billions of dollars from the IT industry. Create a WhatsApp bot by accessing the WhatsApp Business API to connect ChatGPT with WhatsApp. After that, create an OpenAI API and connect it to your WhatsApp bot to complete the Chat GPT WhatsApp connection. A deity in a box, that is. Despite not having a direct connection, there are two ways to combine ChatGPT with WhatsApp: Create a WhatsApp bot and connect it to ChatGPT By setting your WhatsApp number using a Python script and launching ChatGPT at the same time Way 1: Create a WhatsApp Bot and Connect it to ChatGPT Build A WhatsApp Bot Register WhatsApp Business API > Create a flow for the chat > Utilize a chat builder > Test your chatbot > Put the API chatbot on your phone. Get OpenAI API  Create an ...

Forbes says that, "The Recession Will Begin Late 2023 Or Early 2024"

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First What happens during recession Rising inflation rates and negative gross domestic product (GDP) data are leading many Americans to worry about another recession. This might be a valid concern—since the U.S. economy appears to be slowing down after a moderate period of expansion. In basic terms, a recession is when the economy’s performance decreases for an extended period of several months, marked by GDP contraction, higher unemployment rates and lower consumer spending. "Recession is very likely in America’s future, but it will take its time arriving. Although we often want bad things to be done and over with, a long time to prepare will be valuable to those with foresight."- Forbes A recession might be avoided, but that’s highly unlikely. What can businesses do now to prepare for recession?  The best first step is contingency planning.  such as staff cuts, reductions in capital spending, tightening credit terms, and so forth. Currently, from mos...

Source confirms that Robert Downey Jr. Tony Stark’s Iron Man will appear at the end of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty

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So back to Iron man, it looks like from the sources and industry insider that RDJ is going to be there in next Marvel Avengers. A recent tweet by MCU Source confirmed that Robert Downey Jr. Tony Stark’s Iron Man will be appearing at the end of the Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. Owing to the fandom of the Marvel Cinematic Universe popularly known as MCU, the tweet has gone viral. This is exciting news as Iron Man had sacrificed himself in Avengers: Endgame a few years ago. Link to Tweet : Click here MCU fans are super excited about the same. However, at the same time, people are also commenting that is it not too good to be true. They also wondered how the character could come back from the dead. But As it is Cinematic and also from comic superheros book, there can be anything. If in movie it is shown that there is time machines. Then there is a chance of upbring dead to alive. And Iron Man surely deserves to come back in this movie as the Marvel Cinema...

Wayfair to cut-off 1000 Employees

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Wayfair Inc . is an American e-commerce company based in Boston, Massachusetts that sells furniture and home goods online.  it was founded in 2002, and currently offers 14 million items from more than 11,000 global suppliers. It has offices and warehouses throughout the United States and in Canada, Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Wayfair to Layoffs 5% of its global workforce Another such company, Wayfair Inc has also announced a round of job cuts, said a person familiar with the situation on the condition of anonymity, adding that more than 1,000 employees will lose their jobs, according to Bloomberg news.  At initial Wayfair announced for 870 layoff of its global workforce now they have increased it to 1000. Layoffs are accelerating across the technology world since 2022. Many companies including Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, Meta, and Ola have recently fired many employees and slashed the job opportunities.  And in queue Wayfair also joine...

Paper Cups got banned in Ahmedabad

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No more paper cups in Ahmedabad, Got banned. Ahmedabad municipal corporation decision of banning paper cup results in the use of glass cup & kulhad. "According to Harshad Solanki, Director of Solid Waste Management Department at AMC, Ahmedabad disposes about 25 lakh paper cups every day." "disposal of paper cup is difficult and they create a lot of litter,” Solanki said. The department was running a campaign for the past 15 days discouraging the use of paper cups and convincing vendors to switch to the alternatives. The civic body has claimed to have received a positive response.

Twitter bird statue fetches $100,000 as Musk auction

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Twitter bird statue fetches $100,000 as Musk auctions New Twitter chief Elon Musk has started the 27-hour online auction of San Francisco headquarter items like furniture, decorations, kitchen equipment and many others A Twitter bird statue fetched $100,000 on Wednesday, according to the news agency AFP.  A Representative of Heritage Global Partners told Fortune magazine last month that “this auction has nothing to do with their financial position." Still, more cash is likely welcome for Musk, who is trying to cut costs radically at the company, and has failed to pay rent for another San Francisco address, attracting a lawsuit. Other offices, including its Asia-Pacific base in Singapore, have also not been spared, with staff there being asked to clear out and work from home, as per Bloomberg reports.  Musk said that severe cost cuts at Twitter had repaired the company's dire finances as he set out to find a new CEO for his troubled social me...

Apple being the only tech giant that still hasn’t announced layoffs

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Unlike its tech peers, Apple grew much more slowly during the pandemic and its hiring over the past few years has followed the same general trend since 2016. With Biggest fear of recession some of largest tech company are laying off staff. On January 18, Microsoft announced it will lay off 10,000 employees. Amazon began conducting layoffs that will eventually slash over 17,000 jobs. Even with Meta (Facebook) cutoff 11,000 jobs. Most companies going through layoffs are blaming macroeconomic conditions and the possibility of a future recession for their belt-tightening.  Apple, on the other hand, is an exception. Over the past two years, it has not increased its hiring rate and has not announced any layoffs.

GPT-4 Coming soon...?

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What after GPT-4 introduction: expecations about GPT-4 and what the OpenAI CEO recently said about it. "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says don't expect an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)" Altman says Multimodal AI is a certainty. OpenAI CEO says the rumor that GPT-4 has 100 Trillion parameters is false. GPT-4, is said by some to be “next-level” and disruptive, but what will the reality be? CEO Sam Altman answers questions about the GPT-4 and the future of AI. What will GPT-4 (Multimodal AI?) In a podcast interview (AI for the Next Era) from September 13, 2022, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed the near future of AI technology. Of particular interest is that he said that a multimodal model was in the near future. Multimodal means the ability to function in multiple modes, such as text, images, and sounds. OpenAI interacts with humans through text inputs. Whether it’s Dall-E or ChatGPT, it’s strictly a textual interaction. An AI with multimod...

Ukraine’s allies arguing about tanks?

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Defence officials from 50 countries are meeting in Ramstein, Germany, on Friday to agree on more military aid for Ukraine. At the top of the list for discussion is whether they should send modern western-designed heavy battle tanks, an item until recently considered taboo for Kyiv’s allies. Such tanks are deemed essential for Ukraine’s efforts to retake territory from Russia, which has mobilised 150,000 troops for a renewed offensive. Moscow has also put the country’s defence industry on to a war footing in order to refit and rearm its forces. The next six months are critical, for both sides. Some countries ready to send modern battle tanks? To help Ukraine break the deadlock on the battlefield and retake its territory from Russian occupying forces.  Tanks are a crucial element in so-called combined arms manoeuvre — mobile operations involving infantry and artillery — to take territory. Moreover, western tanks would give Ukraine an advantage over Russian one...