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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Announces an Additional 9,000 Layoffs
In an email to staff this morning, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced another round of layoffs at the massive tech corporation — this time resulting in 9,000 Amazon employees losing their jobs. According to the memo, which was obtained by CNBC, the affected departments include Amazon Web Services, human resources, advertising, and Twitch live streaming.
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Parler’s Parent Company Laid Off Nearly All of Its Employees, Only Has 20 Left
Parlement Technologies, the parent company of the far-right social media site Parler, is working with a skeleton crew after laying off most of its employees, according to a new report by the Verge.
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Amazon Satellite Experiment Puts the Cloud in Low Earth Orbit
Satellite operators are often challenged by the horrendous amounts of data that satellites collect and transmit back to Earth. A recent experiment with prototype Amazon Web Services (AWS) software suggests cloud-based solutions, when used way above Earth’s actual clouds, can lessen the data load.
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Parler Enters the Cloud Service Business on an ‘Uncancelable’ Crusade
Today is as good a time as any to remember that the internet can always get worse. Parler, the right-wing social network that was once kicked off the net for its role in the January 6 Capitol riots, is entering the clouds. The revived version of the platform has acquired Dynascale Inc., a web hosting…