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LinkedIn Cuts 281 California Jobs Amid Tech Layoffs

Image Credits: PixabayLinkedIn, the job-focused social network owned by Microsoft, is reducing its workforce. A recent filing with the California Employment Development Department shows the company is laying off 281 employees in the state."Earlier this month, Microsoft announced 6,000 job cuts, about 3% of its workforce, affecting LinkedIn and California staff."LinkedIn Follows Tech Industry...

Visa, Mastercard Launch AI Shopping Tech

Credit: PixabayArtificial intelligence is expanding beyond startups, with major credit card companies like Visa and Mastercard joining the movement. On Wednesday, Visa introduced “Intelligent Commerce,” a system that allows AI to assist with shopping and purchases based on users’ preset preferences.Consumer-Controlled, Visa-Managed Shopping ExperienceAccording to Visa’s Chief Product and Strategy Officer Jack Forestell, consumers...

Meta’s Inaugural LlamaCon Reveals the Tech Giant Is Still Trying to Catch Up

Credit: PixabayIf you were hoping, like I was, that Meta's LlamaCon keynote would unveil the reasoning model it hinted at earlier this month or its teacher model, Behemoth, get ready for disappointment. At its first AI developer conference today, Meta didn’t release any new models. While there were a few updates that help it...

Particle Accelerator Tech from CERN now Treats Brain Tumors

Timepix3 was originally designed for particle detection for giant accelerators like the one at CERNCERNTransitioning from colossal 26 km (16 miles) particle accelerators to operating rooms for brain surgeries, a particle detector initially engineered by physicists at CERN is now employed by researchers in Germany to enhance the precision and safety of brain tumor...

Video-to-Sound Tech Helps Visually Impaired Recognize Faces

Sensory substitution devices translated basic faces and other shapes into auditory waveforms that blind and sighted subjects were trained to recognizeGenerated by DALL-ENeuroscientists have demonstrated that blind individuals use the same brain regions as sighted people to recognize basic faces, even when the facial information is presented through audio rather than the visual cortex....