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Amazon Wants to Hire 55,000 People Worldwide with Mainly Technological Profiles
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Amazon Wants to Hire 55,000 People Worldwide with Mainly Technological Profiles

E-commerce giant Amazon is looking for 55,000 new employees worldwide. That said, the new CEO Andy Jassy in an interview with Reuters. This mainly concerns technological profiles for robotics, engineering or the satellite program Project Kuiper.   The vast majority, about 40,000 jobs, are created in the United States. But the internet giant is also looking for 2,500 people in the United Kingdom. The other jobs mainly concern vacancies in Germany, India and Japan. According to the new CEO, Amazon needs the extra staff to keep up with its growth in retail, cloud computing, and advertising. In addition, there is the ambitious Project Kuiper, a competitor of Starlink (SpaceX, Elon Musk), in which satellites in space should provide better access to broadband internet. “We continue to gr...
Zoom’s Quarterly Revenue Breaks Through Billion Dollars
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Zoom’s Quarterly Revenue Breaks Through Billion Dollars

Video conferencing service Zoom has booked more than a billion dollars in a quarter for the first time. However, growth is beginning to slow, and investors sent shares in the United States down more than ten percent after hours.   Video meetings became a regular part of the working day for many people during the corona pandemic. That did not harm players like Zoom. Zoom was still able to grow in the second quarter of this year. Turnover was more than half higher than a year ago, at 1.02 billion dollars. Net profit rose more than seventy percent to $316.9 million. Zoom lived up to expectations. But investors mainly looked to the future, as more and more people start going back to work. As a result, zoom came out with a very cautious forecast, a disappointment to some. The company ex...
YouTube has Removed More Than A Million Videos With Disinformation About Coronavirus
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YouTube has Removed More Than A Million Videos With Disinformation About Coronavirus

YouTube has removed more than a million videos containing "dangerous misinformation about the coronavirus" since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The video platform of internet giant Google has announced this.   "We remove nearly 10 million videos every quarter, the majority of which don't get ten views," YouTube's Neal Mohan said in a press release. But "if we only look at what we delete, we miss the mountains of content that people see," he emphasizes. Overall, between 0.16 percent and 0.18 percent of videos would contain content that violates YouTube's rules. But, according to Mohan, when people search for news or information, "now get the best results in terms of quality, not sensationalism." YouTube is sending out an announcement to explain its strategy around disinf...
Facebook Hopes That from Now On You Will Meet in Virtual Reality
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Facebook Hopes That from Now On You Will Meet in Virtual Reality

With Horizon Workrooms, Facebook is putting forward a new app for meeting in virtual reality. Immediately a first look at what the metaverse could look like at Facebook.   While you are preparing for your next Zoom meeting or finishing a presentation that you will soon release on your colleagues via WebEx or Teams, Facebook is further preparing for the virtual reality era. Or at least that's the future the tech giant believes in. In 2014, Facebook paid $2 billion to acquire VR headset manufacturer Oculus. This now results in a new virtual reality app that is intended explicitly for remote working. The company's Oculus Quest 2 headsets allow users to join meetings as an avatar version of themselves. Horizon Workrooms is the app's name that is now being released to the general workin...
Facebook is Testing New Virtual Reality App for Remote Working
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Facebook is Testing New Virtual Reality App for Remote Working

Facebook has tested a new virtual reality app that can be used for remote working. The company's Oculus Quest 2 headsets allow users to join meetings as an avatar version of themselves.   Facebook's Horizon Workrooms app test comes as many companies decide to let staff work from home permanently. As a result of the corona pandemic, hardly any work was done in the office. Unfortunately, the virus also escalates in many places, often delaying decisions to work in the office. The world's largest social network has invested heavily in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). AR mixes the real world with the virtual world. The company developed various hardware such as its Oculus VR headsets. Time and money were also spent on developing AR glasses and technologies for smartwatch...
Samsung CEO is Released from Prison for Being Too Important
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Samsung CEO is Released from Prison for Being Too Important

Jay Y. Lee, vice president of Samsung, will be released on bail on Friday. Politicians, public opinion and businesses alike fear that Samsung will miss out on opportunities if the CEO cannot manage.   Jay Y. Lee is currently serving a prison sentence for, among other things, bribery and embezzlement. He bribed a good friend of the former Korean president. Getting and keeping Lee in jail proves difficult. In August 2017, the man was given a five-year sentence, of which he served one year before the sentence itself was suspended and subsequently reduced. He has been behind bars since January but is now released on bail. The reason for this is remarkable. Lee has repaid the embezzled amounts but can also count on broad public and political support. For example, Reuters says that lobb...
China is Now Also Attacking the Gaming Sector: Technological Drugs
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China is Now Also Attacking the Gaming Sector: Technological Drugs

Chinese state media has launched an attack on the computer games industry in the country. The Economic Daily newspaper talked about 'spiritual opium' and 'electronic drugs'.   Tencent, the market leader in China for video games, plunged 11 percent lower on the stock market due to the news. Investors seem to fear that Beijing will now want to take a stricter look at online entertainment after e-commerce, taxi services and online education. In addition to Tencent, game developers NetEase and XD were also hit on the stock market. Economic Daily, affiliated with the Xinhua state news agency, quoted a student as saying that his classmates play Tencent's Honor of Kings game for up to eight hours a day. Internet addiction is common among minors, and video games have a significant impact ...
German Court Imposes Rules on Facebook Account Blocking
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German Court Imposes Rules on Facebook Account Blocking

Facebook has the right to remove specific posts and block users, although it must adhere to certain rules. That is what a German court decided today.   For example, users should be warned in advance that their account will be deleted, and they should be allowed to explain their contributions. Furthermore, if a message is deleted, the users must be informed at least afterwards. The ruling concerns the terms of use on which Facebook relies to remove discriminatory or inappropriate content. However, not all contributions banned by Facebook are illegal under German law. In the two cases before the court, a man and a woman had made derogatory comments about Muslims and immigrants. According to the court, however, those statements fall under the freedom of expression. The court ruled t...
Tesla Boss Goes Slightly Loose on Apple During A Chat About Numbers
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Tesla Boss Goes Slightly Loose on Apple During A Chat About Numbers

During a so-called earnings call from Tesla, Elon Musk lashed out at Apple. The CEO denounced the closed system of the fruit brand, which he described as a 'walled garden', and criticized Apple's use of cobalt. According to news channel CNBC.   When discussion arose during the call about plans to allow Tesla competitors also to access Tesla's electric vehicle charging network, Musk noted that the company does not want to create a "walled garden" to thwart others, citing the strategy that Apple uses for its App Store: a mandatory commission for those who want to sell their software through the Store, knowing that this is the only (because official and safe) way to install apps on an iPhone or iPad. "We want to emphasize that our (Tesla, ed.) main concern is to support the emergence ...
Journalists and Activists Hacked with Israeli Spy Software
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Journalists and Activists Hacked with Israeli Spy Software

Israeli company NSO Group's Pegasus software has been used to hack into 37 cell phones belonging to journalists, activists and business leaders worldwide. Various international media, such as The Washington Post, Le Monde and The Guardian, report this based on their own research.   The phone numbers appeared on a list of more than 50,000 numbers that the researchers said may have been targeted for surveillance by governments using Pegasus. Sold to select governments and law enforcement agencies, Pegasus can hack into cell phones and secretly record emails, calls and text messages via a link. From a phone infected with the Pegasus spyware, files such as photos and emails can be downloaded remotely. The microphone can also be turned on remotely. According to the NSO Group, the softwa...