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Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet Lluis Gene | AFP | Getty Images Days after Google announced the largest round of layoffs in the company’s 25-year history, executives defended the job cuts and took questions from a concerned workforce during a town hall meeting on Monday. Google CEO Sundar Pichai led the companywide meeting and told employees that executives will see their bonuses cut. He pleaded with staffers to remain motivated as Google faces heightened competition in areas like artificial… Source link

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, in a plot that feels way too similar to the hit show “Schitt’s Creek,” is now the owner of a small town in Texas. Cuban purchased the town of Mustang, Texas, this week, according to The Dallas Morning News, and now controls all 77 acres of the Navarro County, Texas, community. The longtime “Shark Tank” investor said a good friend needed to sell it, which is why he went through with the deal in the first place. “I don’t know what, if anything, I… Source link

A Chevron station in the 900 block of Alameda Street in downtown Los Angeles has gas prices just under $6 a gallon. The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose Friday for the 11th consecutive day, the largest week-to-week increase since March. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) It’s not your imagination. California, like the rest of the nation, is paying more at the pump. Prices are so high — and consumers are so perplexed — that a Google search of… Source link

Battalion Chief Sergio Mora reacts as the Dixie Fire tears through Plumas County, Calif., on Wednesday. (Noah Berger/AP) Nichoel Farris had been living on an apple farm in Greenville, Calif., for four years with her husband, Paul. The farm, located in the High Sierra of Northern California, about 150 miles north of Sacramento, was where they grew sunflowers, raised chicks, rode horses and grew apples. Now all that’s left is a pile of ash and blackened tree trunks. The Dixie Fire, driven by… Source link

Yandex has partnered with Amer’s Deli to deliver food with the Rovers, six-wheeled delivery bots that weigh about 150 pounds and are large enough to carry the equivalent of five large pizzas. By fall, the company anticipates adding more restaurants to its delivery offerings here. Ramping up those operations this spring is not as arduous as starting from scratch, Vorobev says, in part because Yandex already has self-driving test vehicles on Ann Arbor roads. The company deployed seven of its… Source link

Yandex has partnered with Amer’s Deli to deliver food with the Rovers, six-wheeled delivery bots that weigh about 150 pounds and are large enough to carry the equivalent of five large pizzas. By fall, the company anticipates adding more restaurants to its delivery offerings here. Ramping up those operations this spring is not as arduous as starting from scratch, Vorobev says, in part because Yandex already has self-driving test vehicles on Ann Arbor roads. The company deployed seven of its… Source link

An Austrian town, famed for it’s name, will be renamed come January 1 next year, after locals reportedly got sick of English-speakers sniggering and stealing signs. F**king, a village of some 100 people located 350km from Vienna will change its name in the new year to ‘Fugging’ the local council has revealed. The municipal council revealed the name change will take effect on January 1. As it turns out the locals were growing tired of English-speaking tourists stopping off to take photos… Source link