Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs
Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs Amazon is planning to axe around 14,000 corporate jobs. The mass layoffs were expected as part of the company’s cost-cutting drive, but are smaller than the 30,000 job losses previous reports had indicated. Beth Galetti, a senior executive at the e-commerce giant, broke the news to employees in a […]
First look: DJI’s Romo robot vacuum
First look: DJI's Romo robot vacuum The Romo P robot vacuum from DJI is now available in Europe for €1,899. Of all the companies that could have launched a robot vacuum in 2025, I didn’t have DJI in the running – but here we are. The drone and camera manufacturer released the DJI Romo robovac […]
Pluribus’ Vince Gilligan on making shows that ‘attract really smart viewers’
Pluribus' Vince Gilligan on making shows that 'attract really smart viewers' Rhea Seehorn in Pluribus. Now he’s best known for the crime-fueled duology of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, but when Vince Gilligan was first starting out in television, it was in the realm of sci-fi. Over seven years he penned a number of […]
Trump’s DHS is recruiting ICE officers with a Halo meme
Trump's DHS is recruiting ICE officers with a Halo meme After using the original Pokémon theme song in a montage of ICE raids, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using another popular video game franchise to promote itself on social media: Halo. This morning, the DHS posted an image featuring Halo characters, a Warthog […]
Spotify finally brings video podcasts and music videos to its Apple TV app
Spotify finally brings video podcasts and music videos to its Apple TV app You can now watch your favorite video podcasts on your big screen with Spotify’s new tvOS app update. | Image: Spotify Spotify has announced a redesigned version of its Apple TV app that the company says has been “rebuilt from the ground […]
The last-gen Kindle is a steal at just $65 refurbished
The last-gen Kindle is a steal at just $65 refurbished The last-gen Kindle is a great budget-friendly e-reader. In case you didn’t know, the last-gen Kindle is nearly just as good as the current model. Not only is the reading experience nearly identical, it also has the same sharp 300PPI display with dark mode, an […]
GM isn’t ready to rip off the CarPlay/Android Auto band-aid quite yet
GM isn't ready to rip off the CarPlay/Android Auto band-aid quite yet Last week, General Motors CEO Mary Barra caused a stir when she said that the company would eventually kill Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in all of its gas cars. The company had already successfully removed phone mirroring capabilities from most of its […]
LexisNexis CEO says the AI law era is already here
LexisNexis CEO says the AI law era is already here Today, I’m talking with Sean Fitzpatrick, the CEO of LexisNexis, one of the most important companies in the entire legal system. For years — including when I was in law school — LexisNexis was basically the library. It’s where you went to look up case […]
‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS
'There isn't really another choice:' Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS After last week’s major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took Signal along with it, Elon Musk was quick to criticize the encrypted messaging app’s reliance on big tech. But Signal president Meredith Whittaker argues that the company didn’t have any […]
Tesla rehashing old threats to get shareholders to approve Musk’s $1 trillion pay day
Tesla rehashing old threats to get shareholders to approve Musk's $1 trillion pay day Tesla’s board of directors issued a stark warning to shareholders today: approve Elon Musk’s unprecedented $1 trillion pay package or risk losing him as CEO. It’s a familiar threat, one that the board has used before, and if history offers any […]