Google, Microsoft and Meta have stopped publishing data on workplace diversity

Some American technology The giants are abandoning their decade-long practice of publishing statistics on the racial and gender composition of their workforce. Google, which helped pioneer the publication of annual diversity, equity and inclusion reports, has no plans to disclose the information this year, according to four employees familiar with internal discussions. Microsoft and Meta…

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Four rich companies’ ‘stratospheric’ AI spending reaches $360 billion for data centers alone

“Perhaps you have I’m listening that artificial intelligence is a bubble ready to burst“,” writes a Washington Post technology columnist. “Maybe you have I’m listening that it’s not. (Nobody really knows anyway, but that won’t stop the brothers from blabbering about it constantly.)” “But I can tell you for sure that the money being spent…

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What I learned after cutting the cord

For many of us, streaming was supposed to be the end of expensive cable packages. A way to pay only for what we really saw. But somewhere along the way, that promise began to crumble. Each show seemed to live on a different platform, subscription prices rose, and the once-simple pleasure of channel-flipping became a…

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