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This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022 The pandemic rubber band is hitting the tech industry. Microsoft (MSFT) made headlines this week when reports emerged that it slashed nearly 1,000 jobs, making it the latest tech giant to respond to economic turmoil. The company characterized its layoffs as “structural… Source link

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Let’s be real for a second: most smartwatches are deeply boring to behold in person. Even in the remarkably staid standards of “real” horology—where the 50-year-old AP Royal Oak still counts as a hype watch—it took half a decade for most new wearables to coalesce around exactly the same aesthetic. You know the one: all-black, chunky build, wouldn’t be seen dead in it outside of a half marathon. So as much as Google’s Pixel Watch might not be a perfect smartwatch, it does deserve… Source link

BRUSSELS, Oct 17 (Reuters) – More than 40 European rivals to Google’s shopping service urged EU antitrust regulators on Monday to use newly adopted tech rules to ensure the Alphabet unit complies with a 2017 EU order to allow more competition on its search page. The European Commission fined Google 2.4 billion euros ($2.33 billion) five years ago and told the firm to stop favouring its shopping service. The company subsequently said it would treat its own shopping service the same as… Source link

Good news for anyone who’s sick of Zoom calls but also hates talking to people in real life: Google’s Project Starline is becoming more widely available. Google introduced Starline in 2021 with the goal of making video calls less weird and awkward. It’s essentially a very complicated video conferencing booth that uses cameras, depth sensors, and three-dimensional imagery to approximate face-to-face conversations between two remote participants. A suite of cameras even track both… Source link

The TechCrunch newsroom fears only one thing: the coming of April 1. Because, I’m just going to say it, the tech industry isn’t very funny. But Google Japan’s ongoing series of ridiculous keyboards, where they completely commit to the joke, suggests we may have found the first known exception. The latest is the “Gboard Bar Version,” (or stick version depending on the translation), a keyboard about 1.6 meters feet long (down from 2.4 meters in the prototype) with all the… Source link

Amazon (AMZN) has telegraphed to investors and the world that deals are key to its future, but those transactions create antitrust risks — and investors are taking notice, Jefferies analyst Brent Thill told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). Amazon has made headlines for its big-ticket dealmaking in recent months. The company acquired both subscription health care provider OneMedical (ONEM) and Roomba-maker iRobot in quick succession, for $3.9 billion and $1.7 billion respectively. However,… Source link

Topline The Supreme Court will consider to what extent tech companies can be held legally liable for the content that gets published on its platforms, as the court announced Monday it will take up a case that concerns whether Google was in the wrong for recommending YouTube videos that helped encourage ISIS recruitment, and by extension a separate case brought by Twitter over similar content. The Supreme Court will consider whether Google can be held legally liable after YouTube… Source link

A year ago, Tony Rizzo worked for Uber Freight, enjoying a Silicon Valley salary alongside perks such as free meals, phenomenal health care and, of course, Uber credits. Then last October, the suburban LaGrange resident took a business development job at Isometric Technologies, an early stage transportation-tech startup based in Northern… Source link

Texas Tech beat No. 22 Texas 37-34 in overtime after star Texas running back Bijan Robinson fumbled on the first play of overtime. Texas (2-2) forced overtime as time expired in regulation on a field goal by Bert Auburn. But any hope the Longhorns had of coming back to win the game was dashed when Robinson was hit at the line of scrimmage after a handoff and the ball popped free. The Red Raiders (3-1) got inside the Texas 10 on the first play of their possession and Trey Wolff kicked the… Source link