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Grim future for Australia’s ‘new city’
Construction of a new “green and connected” city in Sydney’s outer west is currently underway.Bradfield City Centre is the NSW government’s latest billion-dollar investment presently in the works with the goal of becoming “Australia’s…
Inside ‘insidious’ rise of deepfake porn
As artificial intelligence becomes more commonplace, an “insidious” issue is on the rise – one victims say is as traumatic as a sexual assault. Deepfake – a portmanteau of ‘deep learning’ and ‘fake’ – media overlays an image or video onto…
Startups, new-age firms shouldn’t consider growth and profitability as trade-offs: panel at ET…
Startups and new-age companies should not consider growth and profitability as trade-offs -- that was one of the key messages to emerge from a discussion at the Economic Times Global Business Summit. The panel of leaders from the new…
Sex toys in the mail: How paedos track survivors
Australian survivors of child sex attacks are being forced to personally scour the web for images of their abuse — and ask big tech to delete them.Technology companies don’t have an obligation to search for the material — only to remove it…
Tech industry reversal intensifies with new rounds of layoffs
BY DANA MATTIOLI | UPDATED JAN 08, 2023 05:30 AM EST
Companies that grew rapidly during pandemic are now reducing spending and staffing, sometimes repeatedly Tech’s…
Big tech layoffs may further disrupt equity and diversity efforts
2023 is shaping up as a challenging year to be a woman or minority working in the tech sector, or even a person with one too many years under their belt.
Surging firings by technology companies last year are disproportionately affecting…
Workers sacked just in time for Christmas
A start-up backed by business giants has let go 22 per cent of its staff just ahead of Christmas. Willow, a property and infrastructure start-up which creates digital representations of companies’ physical assets, announced on Friday it has…
Billionaire’s calls on Google staff cuts
The billionaire owner of a hedge fund that is a major investor in Google and YouTube’s parent company Alphabet has made an extraordinary demand for the company to make “aggressive” cuts to staff numbers and reduce the pay of remaining…