Bob Chapek at D23 Expo 2017 in Anaheim, California. Image Group LA/Disney via Getty Images Disney is planning for a hiring freeze and potential job cuts, according to CNBC. CEO Bob Chapek issued an internal memo to the company’s executives Friday. The decision follows a 52-week low in the company’s stock. After hitting a new…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
We’re weirdly learning quite a bit recently about the presumably upcoming Pixel 7a from Google. I say weirdly because it’s November and the Pixel 6a was released only a few months ago. Am I going to complain? Nope, not when the rumors and leaks are pointing to the Pixel 7a as being a really, really…
Creating a website from scratch has become relatively easy in the past few years. Even if you have never worked on web design or development, you can create a professional website with minimal help using a website builder. Web.com is one of the many excellent website-building software and platforms available in the market today. It…
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge These days, there seems to be an almost daily upheavals at Twitter. You may be thinking about leaving the social network, or you may be determined to stay and see what happens. In either case, when an online app is experiencing that kind of sturm und drang, it’s…
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 15: Rainn Wilson attends “Jerry & Marge Go Large” premiere during the 2022 Tribeca Festival. | Photo by Dominik Bindl/WireImage Actor Rainn Wilson (you might know him as Dwight from The Office) had a grand scheme to bring his hilarious brand of climate advocacy to Twitter this week. That…
Enlarge / Intel’s Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs. (credit: Intel) Update, 11/4/2022: In a statement, Intel clarified to us that January 10 is the actual launch date for Sapphire Rapids CPUs; our original story implied that the launch date could still come after that. We still don’t know which CPUs will be available and when, but…
Enlarge / The body of Ruth Marie Terry as she was found in 1974 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. (credit: Public domain) A 12-year-old chasing after her barking dog discovered the mutilated body of a woman in the Race Point Dunes of Provincetown, Massachusetts, on July 26, 1974. Law enforcement was unable to identify the victim, who…
Enlarge / Chloë Grace Moretz stars as Flynne Fisher, a young woman who may or may not have witnessed a real murder. (credit: Prime Video) Sci-fi legend William Gibson’s 2014 densely layered novel The Peripheral ingeniously combines elements of noir murder mystery, time travel, and the author’s trademark cyberpunk futurism. It’s those features that make the novel…
Enlarge / NASA’s Space Launch System rocket at LC-39B on September 1, 2022. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann) NASA said on Friday that its Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft appear to have survived their encounter with Hurricane Nicole this week without incurring any significant damage. “Right now there’s nothing preventing us from getting to the…
According to layoffs.fyi, more than 23,000 tech workers have been laid off so far this month. For comparison, the site tracked 12,463 layoffs in October. Facebook’s parent company Meta announced the first major job cuts in its history this week, eliminating 11,000 jobs. Like Twitter, Stripe, Brex, Lyft, Netflix and other tech firms based in…