NASA Rolls Out SLS Rocket to Launch Pad in Florida 10 Days Before Artemis I Launch

NASA Rolls Out SLS Rocket to Launch Pad in Florida 10 Days Before Artemis I Launch

NASA rolled out its largest-ever rocket, Space Launch System (SLS), to a launch pad in Florida on Friday and will try again 10 days from now to blast off on a much-delayed uncrewed mission Artemis I to the Moon. After two launch attempts were scrubbed this summer because of technical problems,…

Elon Musk’s Twitter Faces Lawsuit for Mass Layoffs: Here’s All You Need to Know About WARN Act

Elon Musk’s Twitter Faces Lawsuit for Mass Layoffs: Here’s All You Need to Know About WARN Act

Twitter has begun laying off employees under its new owner, Elon Musk. The San Francisco-based social media giant is expected to terminate up to 3,700 people — half of its workforce — on Friday, according to internal plans reviewed by Reuters this week. Twitter is already facing a proposed class action claiming the…

Elon Musk Fires Twitter’s Ethical AI Team, Sacked Employees Confirm Layoffs Through Tweets

Elon Musk Fires Twitter’s Ethical AI Team, Sacked Employees Confirm Layoffs Through Tweets

Elon Musk, the new Twitter head, has been laying off employees across teams in global offices. The SpaceX CEO has recently sacked the entire Ethical AI team, as confirmed by fired employees in their tweets. The Director of the ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability team at Twitter, Rumman Chowdhury, shared…

Google, Facebook, Big Tech Should Pay for Network Costs, Suggest EU Telcos

Google, Facebook, Big Tech Should Pay for Network Costs, Suggest EU Telcos

Telecom operators are pushing the European Union to implement new laws that would make Big Tech pay for network costs, following Australia’s example, according to four sources close to the matter. Europe’s telecoms operators have lobbied for a financial contribution from US tech firms such as Alphabet‘s Google, Meta‘s Facebook and…

Switch Mobility Appoints Mahesh Babu as CEO After Andy Palmer Resigns

Switch Mobility Appoints Mahesh Babu as CEO After Andy Palmer Resigns

Electric vehicle manufacturer Switch Mobility on Friday said its Vice Chairman and CEO Andy Palmer has offered to step down, citing personal reasons and has elevated Mahesh Babu as its new chief executive officer with immediate effect. Palmer has requested the management to let him step down as Vice Chairman…

Samsung India Sells Smartphones Worth Rs. 14,400 Crore During Festive Season

Samsung India Sells Smartphones Worth Rs. 14,400 Crore During Festive Season

Samsung India sold mobile phones worth Rs. 14,400 crore between September and October and recorded 99 percent growth in the premium category smartphones in the first three quarters of 2022, a senior company official said on Friday. Samsung India senior director and head of product marketing Aditya Babbar told PTI that…

PayPal Shares Dropped Nearly 6 Percent as Company Warned About Bleak Holiday Quarter

PayPal Shares Dropped Nearly 6 Percent as Company Warned About Bleak Holiday Quarter

PayPal Holdings shares dropped nearly 6 percent in morning trade on Friday after the digital payments heavyweight lowered its annual revenue forecast, warning of a bleak holiday quarter as consumers cut back on discretionary spends. Decades-high inflation has hit the purchasing power of consumers who also have to contend with the…

Elon Musk Blames Activist Groups Pressurising Advertisers for “Massive” Drop in Twitter’s Revenue

Elon Musk Blames Activist Groups Pressurising Advertisers for “Massive” Drop in Twitter’s Revenue

Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk said on Friday that the social media company had seen a “massive” drop in revenue and blamed activist groups pressuring advertisers. Musk, who took control of the firm last week, said the revenue decline came “even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we…

MoneyGram Will Let US Users Trade, Sell and Buy Crypto on Mobile App

MoneyGram Will Let US Users Trade, Sell and Buy Crypto on Mobile App

MoneyGram International, the global peer-to-peer payments company, has announced the launch of a new service that allows US-based users of its MoneyGram mobile app to buy, sell, and hold cryptocurrencies. Users can now use the MoneyGram app to access Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. The company also indicated that it intends…

Twitter India Fires Majority Employees From Engineering, Sales, Communications Teams Under Mass Layoffs

Twitter India Fires Majority Employees From Engineering, Sales, Communications Teams Under Mass Layoffs

Twitter has fired the majority of its over 200 employees in India as part of mass layoffs across the globe ordered by its new owner Elon Musk who is looking to make his $44 billion (nearly Rs. 3,61,600 crore) acquisition work. Sources said the layoffs are across engineering, sales and marketing,…