Enlarge (credit: Starry) Wireless home Internet provider Starry is cutting 500 employees, about half of its workforce, and canceling plans to expand into new states. Starry’s board of directors yesterday approved the plan to cut 500 jobs, the Internet service provider said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing today. “The decision was based on cost-reduction…
Enlarge (credit: chuchart duangdaw) While it’s going to be difficult for anyone to avoid any negative effects of our changing climate, the effects are going to be disproportionately felt by those least able to afford them. And this week brings more evidence that we’re already at the point where the poor are suffering from the…
IBM This week, IBM introduced the Diamondback Tape Library, reaffirming its position that magnetic tape is a form of data storage that’s here to stay. Yes, magnetic tape, kind of like what’s spooled inside the VHS tapes and cassettes of last century. “Tape has been known to live in the middle of the desert for…
Human drivers on the Lyft platform aren’t going to be replaced by autonomous vehicles anytime soon, company co-founder and president John Zimmer told the audience today at TechCrunch Disrupt. “I can’t imagine anytime in the next decade-plus where we would need any less drivers,” he said. While Zimmer envisions autonomous vehicles handling some percentage of…
For the longest time, Zapier, which launched in 2011, was content with helping its users automate simple workflows and build integrations between various business-critical tools. That’s been a great business for the company, but users today expect a bit more, and over the course of the last couple of years, the company decided it was…
There’s not a lot of advice I’d give out categorically, confidently, and in perpetuity. But I’m going to be brave, and I’m going to say one thing I will never regret: No one should ever trust a weight loss trend. Right now, that trend happens to be medicines used to treat diabetes that also curb…
AMD, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA have collaborated with the Linux Foundation and the Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation to introduce Caliptra, a re-usable silicon level IP block, which can be a, “scalable and standards-based solution for the benefit of the entire industry”. Caliptra is the group’s new open specification for a silicon Root-of-Trust (ROT) to…
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