The Apple Macintosh was first released on January 24, 1984 — 40 years ago today.
Wishing the Mac a happy birthday, the Folon Foundation shared a little-known anecdote: That Steve Jobs once commissioned Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon to come up with an illustrated character that would “live” in every machine and surprise the owner: Mr. Macintosh, aka Mac Man.
Mac designer Andy Hertzfeld recalled hearing the idea from Steve Jobs in 1982 in these words:“Mr.
Macintosh is a mysterious little man who lives inside each Macintosh.
My personal favorite: This original Mac Mac circuit board with Folon’s Mac Man emblazoned next to its copyright notice.
The Apple Macintosh was first released on January 24, 1984 — 40 years ago today.
Wishing the Mac a happy birthday, the Folon Foundation shared a little-known anecdote: That Steve Jobs once commissioned Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon to come up with an illustrated character that would “live” in every machine and surprise the owner: Mr. Macintosh, aka Mac Man.
Mac designer Andy Hertzfeld recalled hearing the idea from Steve Jobs in 1982 in these words:“Mr.
Macintosh is a mysterious little man who lives inside each Macintosh.
My personal favorite: This original Mac Mac circuit board with Folon’s Mac Man emblazoned next to its copyright notice.
The Apple Macintosh was first released on January 24, 1984 — 40 years ago today.
Wishing the Mac a happy birthday, the Folon Foundation shared a little-known anecdote: That Steve Jobs once commissioned Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon to come up with an illustrated character that would “live” in every machine and surprise the owner: Mr. Macintosh, aka Mac Man.
Mac designer Andy Hertzfeld recalled hearing the idea from Steve Jobs in 1982 in these words:“Mr.
Macintosh is a mysterious little man who lives inside each Macintosh.
My personal favorite: This original Mac Mac circuit board with Folon’s Mac Man emblazoned next to its copyright notice.
E-commerce company eBay said today that it plans to let go of 1,000 employees or around 9% of its workforce due to the ongoing economic conditions.
The company said in a blog post that it also plans to cut contract roles in the coming months.
The company’s CEO Jamie Iannone admitted that the company hired fast, but it didn’t grow enough to justify the headcount.
In Q3 2023, eBay registered $2.5 billion in revenue and $1.3 billion in profits.
The company also earned $2.2 billion by selling its equity in online ad business Adevinta to Permira and Blackstone last year.
Riot Games is laying off about 530 employees, which represents 11% of its workforce, the Tencent-owned company announced on Monday.
The League of Legends maker is also sunsetting its five-year-old publishing group, Riot Forge.
Riot Games wrote two posts about the changes, addressing the affected employees in one and its players in another.
He also highlighted two areas that’ll see “immediate impact” from the organizational changes– Riot Forge and the digital collectible card game Legends of Runeterra.
Riot Games joins other video game publishers making job cuts, such as Epic Games, which eliminated 830 employees in September.
Will AI automate human jobs, and — if so — which jobs and when?
“Like much of the recent research, we find significant potential for AI to automate tasks,” Thompson told TechCrunch in an email interview.
In conducting this study, the researchers surveyed workers to understand what an AI system would have to accomplish, task-wise, to fully replace their jobs.
maintaining an AI system) that didn’t exist before.
For AI researchers and developers, this work points to the importance of decreasing the costs of AI deployments and of increasing the scope of how they can be deployed.
Instagram has cut 60 technical program manager positions, eliminating a layer of management at the company, according to a new report from The Information.
The impacted employees have two months to apply for other jobs at the company.
After the two-month period, their employment will be terminated if they are unable to secure a different role at the company.
The changes mean that Instagram is going to sharpen its focus on supporting creators who are most likely to drive teen engagement on the platform.
Despite the continued and ongoing regulatory pressure that Meta is facing, Instagram is still focused on teen engagement and retention.
The affected divisions include voice-activated Google Assistant as part of the knowledge and information product team restructuring; and the Devices and Services PA (DSPA) team that manages Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit hardware.
Some teams are continuing to make these kinds of organizational changes, which include some role eliminations globally,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement.
The report also mentioned that Google will now have one core hardware engineering team instead of separate teams working on Pixel, Fitbit, and Nest.
Separately, the company has also let go of people working on the Google Assistant team, as reported by Semafor.
Last year, Google had rolling layoffs in different teams including the Waze mapping service in June, its recruiting team in September, and its news division in October.
Here in the States, the $2 trillion industry employs around eight million people — that’s nearly one New York City.
Even in financial boom times, however, these jobs can be difficult to keep filled, owing to physical demands and other potential dangers.
As evidenced from videos released by PaintJet, those sorts of older technologies remain intact here — albeit with an automated twist.
CEO Nick Hegeman tells TechCrunch, that in spit of looking like a fairly standard piece of heavy machine, “We have created 100% of the robotic system.
Of course, PaintJet is far from the only company vying to introduce robots to the world of industrial painting.
The recent layoffs at Unacademy shows that the startup is still struggling to find its feet. With such a large number of cuts just over four months ago, it seems…
