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Lees meer26 megabytes of history are yours for the downloading Retro Tech Week Apple has given its blessing to the release of source code for its first mouse-powered marvel – the Lisa – to mark its 40th birthday.…
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Lees meerAnd not even close to mapping it all Astronomers have mapped over three billion objects shimmering in the Milky Way, providing the most detailed survey of our galaxy yet.…
Lees meerBut the next day it laid off 10,000 staff Comment As Microsoft employees went to sleep on Tuesday not knowing that the next day their jobs would be on the line, company execs hobnobbing in Davos hosted a private performance by a geriatric popster.…
Lees meerBids farewell to the 'Agile' job family which will be blended into 'existing engineering and product manager roles' The same day Google is allowing staffers to work from home while they process the news that it's firing 12,000 of them, fintech biz C…
Lees meerOh, snap... next gen networks suddenly not a must-have in this economic climate Sweden's Ericsson missed earnings estimates for the last quarter after telco customers reined in spending on 5G network expansion amid uncertainty about the future direc…
Lees meerYou’ve got 6 months to bring data processing ops into compliance, it tells comms app Ireland's data protection authority has fined WhatsApp Ireland €5.5 million for breaches of the GDPR relating to its service and told it comply with data processing…
Lees meerWhat is this... the Eurovision chip contest? Intel appears to be casting doubt on previous proposals to build a chip factory in Italy, as the company plays off European countries against each other for the privilege of hosting its production facilit…
Lees meerSpare a thought for the workers who read the worst content scraped from the internet to keep you safe OpenAI reportedly hired workers in Kenya – screening tens of thousands of text samples for sexist, racist, violent and pornographic content – to he…
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