Technology

Fear and dread rippled throughout Twitter headquarters on Thursday, as 7,500 employees from San Francisco to Singapore believed that almost half of the staff will be laid off, according to current and former employees and message board messages published by Reuters. Since last week, when billionaire Elon Musk assumed control, he has kept employees in the dark. Multiple employees reported …

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, announced in a filing on Monday that he will serve as CEO of Twitter, the social media business he just acquired for $44 billion, a move that Wall Street analysts say will strain the billionaire’s resources. Musk, who also operates rocket company SpaceX, brain-chip startup Neuralink, and tunneling company the Boring Company, ousted Twitter’s former …

Instagram made the announcement that it has ended an outage that had begun on Monday evening and continued into Tuesday morning, November 1. Due to the outage, some users were unable to access their accounts, while others received a notification from Instagram stating that their accounts will be suspended on October 31, 2022. It also resulted in sudden declines in …

Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, tweeted an anti-LGBT conspiracy theory about the night US Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband was attacked, then removed the remark hours later. The contradictory actions of Musk, a self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist,” threw further doubt on the future course of the social media platform under his new ownership. It also highlighted the enormous megaphone …

The billionaire owner of Twitter Inc was inundated with pleadings and demands from banned account holders and world leaders within hours after Elon Musk inaugurated a new era for the company. As he had promised in an open letter to advertisers on Thursday, the CEO of electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Inc faces the challenge of restoring free speech while keeping …

Until recently, the US economy appeared to be able to withstand an onslaught of interest rate hikes. However, disappointing profits from the megacap businesses that have led the market higher for years are destroying their stock prices and sending a troubling message about the economy. Amazon was the latest corporate behemoth to offer bad news, announcing on Thursday that costs …

Luis, a Colombian student of 28 years old, works through the night to moderate videos on TikTok. He attempts to sleep throughout the day, but the films occasionally haunt his dreams. He recalls a video recorded at a party showing two individuals carrying what seemed to be bits of flesh. When they turned around, it seemed that they were carrying …

SpaceX expands its satellite internet unit’s venture into in-flight WiFi services with the launch of Starlink Aviation on Wednesday, offering clients a $150,000 airplane antenna in the face of intensifying competition in the airborne connectivity market. Starlink, SpaceX’s expanding network of thousands of internet satellites, will charge customers seeking broadband internet aboard private aircraft between $12,500 and $25,000 per month, …

In an effort to introduce its electric aircraft to global markets, Chinese electronic vehicle manufacturer Xpeng Inc.’s “flying car” performed its first public flight in the United Arab Emirates. A two-seater electric VTOL aircraft, the X2 is propelled by eight propellers, two of which are located in each corner of the craft. The manufacturer of the vehicle hailed Monday’s 90-minute, …

PLDT is requesting that Dito Telecommunity pay P429 million in service costs, which Dito Telecommunity has refused to pay. In a filing with the stock exchange on Friday, October 7, the Pangilinan-led PLDT notified Dennis Uy’s Dito of a material breach and demanded payment for the construction and provisioning of transmission facilities that Dito is currently utilizing to deliver telecommunications …