Alphabet plans to cut ~12,000 jobs, 6%+ of its global workforce; CEO Sundar Pichai says he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here”
read the memo CEO Sundar Pichai sent to staff Mary Yang / NPR : Google is cutting 12,000 jobs, adding to a series of Big Tech layoffs in January BBC : Google parent Alphabet to cut 12,000 jobs Abner L...
A look at the SMART Health Card, a minimal verification system that uses QR codes to check COVID-19 vaccine status, available to ~200M people in the US
The SMART Health Card is voluntary and minimal by design to protect personal information. About 80 percent of vaccinated people in the U.S. most likely have access to it. Tweets: @david_ingram , @rkl...
California releases front end and middle tier code for its Digital Vaccine Record on GitHub to help other states deploy SMART Health Card systems of their own
Rick Klau / California Department of Technology : Tweets: @drhew Tweets: David Rhew / @drhew : Thank you California Department of Technology (@rklau) for making available CA's digital vaccine record ...
California releases front end and middle tier code for its Digital Vaccine Record on GitHub to help other states deploy SMART Health Card systems of their own
By Rick Klau State Chief Technology Innovation Officer September 10, 2021 - Soon after we launched the Digital Vaccine Record portal in June … Tweets: @drhew Tweets: David Rhew / @drhew : Thank you Ca...
Google makes Workspace and Chat available to all and adds client-side encryption for data on Workspace
nicely, this time—what a disservice Google's blog posts were to the products it was trying to launch today. This is not an effective way to communicate. https://blog.google/... https://twitter.com/......
Early look at Google's Project Starline, a video booth with a 65" display and several sensors and cameras allowing for 3D representations of video call subjects
Our reporter tests out a “video booth” to glimpse of the future of telepresence. — OVER THE PAST several years … Tweets: @claybavor , @laurengoode , @mgsiegler , @delk , @paulm , @simulacracid , @dr...
Q&A with Rick Klau, an ex-Google product manager and California's new CTIO responsible for building apps and services for various departments across the state
Biz Carson / Protocol : Tweets: @bizcarson , @protocol , @bwjones , @rsquared , @rklau , and @protocol Tweets: Biz Carson / @bizcarson : I asked @rklau what shocked him about joining the government a...
Apple MacBook Air with M1 review: incredibly fast performance with no fan noise, decent gaming performance, and a great keyboard and trackpad
and quad-thread—consumer-available processor on the planet, it certainly isn't missing it by much.” ... and this is the first gen non-pro level hardware.... 😳 Really not making it easy to hold off! ht...
Expensify's CEO emailed all users to encourage them to vote for Biden, says “anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against democracy”
Trump has pressed every boundary of the office, beyond its breaking point in some cases. Michael Kapilkov / Cointelegraph : Charles Hoskinson calls for a different kind of apoliticism than Brian Armst...
Sources: Bill Maris, the CEO and founder of Google Ventures (now GV), is leaving this week, to be replaced by David Krane
Thursday, August 11, 2016 Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Bill Maris leaving GV (Google Ventures) after 8 years at helm Sumit Passary / Tech Times : Alphabet Loses Google Ventur...