Over the course of the first two months of the year, video game companies have already announced plans to lay off more than 8,000 workers. It’s a big shift from the explosive growth the industry saw during and immediately following the pandemic—and, for many, a puzzling one.
Electronic Arts was the latest to trim its payroll, announcing plans late Wednesday to reduce its workforce by 5%, or roughly 670 people. That followed Sony Interactive Entertainment’s surpr
Duolingo’s stock surged more than 20% Thursday after the company reported 44% year-over-year revenue growth in 2023, totaling $531.1 million, during its earnings call Wednesday.
The language learning platform’s shares closed at $195.51 Wednesday and soared to $240.77 Thursday morning, nearing its one-year high of $245.87. The company’s shares dipped slightly during trading throughout the day, settling around $230 at the time of this writing.
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While the vendors pitched their latest voting machines in Concord, New Hampshire, this past August, the election officials in the room gasped. They whispered, “No way.” They nodded their heads and filled out the scorecards in their laps. Interrupting if they had to, they asked every kind of question: How much does the new scanner weigh? Are any of its parts made in China? Does it use the JSON data format?
The answers weren’t trivial. Based in part on
I’ve been working in IT for over 25 years, through the dotcom boom, the advent of the smart phone, and the sudden shift to hybrid/remote work early in the pandemic. What’s happening right now with the generative AI revolution is like nothing we have seen before.
It’s hard to believe we’re well over a year into exploring the possibilities since OpenAI first launched ChatGPT to the public, sending shockwaves through boardrooms and disrupting every industry&
In early 2021, stocks began behaving strangely. Retail investors, coordinating on internet platforms, decided to band together and coordinate their stock trades—chiefly, they plotted on Reddit.
On the subreddit WallStreetBets, as well as on its sister channel on the messaging app Discord, investors organized a historic short squeeze of GameStop in early 2021, an effort that bounced the video game retailer’s stock price up 1,700 percent in a matter of weeks and eventual
Medical imaging may not sound like the sexiest frontier in a digital health revolution that spans head-spinning advances from the rise of AI in medicine-making to robot-assisted surgery. It is, however, fundamental to medicine, allowing doctors to peer inside a human body to inform diagnoses and monitor patients. It’s also a field ripe for disruption through technologies that are smaller, easier to use, and can produce more sophisticated and high-quality images—with a smaller pr
Paul Halpern is a professor of physics at Saint Joseph’s University and the author of 18 popular science books, including Flashes of Creation, The Quantum Labyrinth, Einstein’s Dice and Schrodinger’s Cat, and Synchronicity. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
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February was another bad month for the tech industry as far as layoffs are concerned. The month began with job cuts at tech giants including Amazon and Snap. Now the final week of February sees even more big names added to the layoffs list, including Sony, Bumble, and, perhaps, Apple. Here’s the latest update on job losses in the sector:
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Yesterday, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced it will cut 900 jobs, or about 8% of its glob
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In Microsoft’s Mistral stake, some EU regulators smell betrayal
The French unicorn AI lab Mistral said Monday that it’s sold a small share of the company to Microsoft for $16 million. Founded by Google DeepMind and Meta alumni, Mistral has bille