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Alphabet Inc Chief Executive Sundar Pichai received total compensation of about $226 million in 2022, more than 800 times the median employee’s pay, the company said in a securities filing. Pichai’s compensation included stock awards of about $218 million, the filing showed. The pay disparity comes at a time when Alphabet, the parent company of …

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Alphabet Inc’s Google said it will update Bard, its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, to help people write code to develop software, as the tech giant plays catch-up in a fast-moving race on AI technology. Last month, the company started the public release of Bard to gain ground on Microsoft Corp. The release of ChatGPT, …

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Specs Key details Colour and dimensions Length: 95.25mm, Width: 95.25mm, Thickness: 16.7mm, Weight: 142g, Colour: Black Video quality 4K (3840 x 2160) Processor Quad-Core Cortex-A55 Graphics ARM Mali G31 MP2 Memory 2GB Storage 8GB OS Google TV Wireless connections Wi-Fi: 2.4GHz/5GHz, Bluetooth: 5.2 Video features Up to 4K 60FPS, Supports Dolby Audio and DTS-HD, Supports …

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Software firm Amplitude lays off 13% of workforce globally Cloud and security services firm F5 Inc said on Wednesday it was reducing its workforce by 9% and cutting bonuses of senior executives to bring down costs. The technology industry has seen a wave of layoffs over the past few months as it grapples with slowing …

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Chipmaker Intel Corp said on Tuesday it has discontinued production of its bitcoin mining chip series, just a year after its introduction. A rout in the cryptocurrency market hurt some chip companies including Nvidia Corp, whose high-end graphics chips became popular for crypto mining. Intel expects to stop taking orders for the series, called Blockscale, …

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Trading and investing platform eToro said it has partnered with Elon Musk-led Twitter to let users access real-time prices for cryptocurrencies, stocks and others assets. The trading data will be available through Twitter’s Cashtags feature, which was launched in 2012 and allows users to interact with content around an asset by inserting a dollar sign …

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The U.S. wants to hobble Beijing’s bid to dominate global chip production and stop it acquiring semiconductors that could enhance its military power. EU countries and lawmakers are likely to clinch a deal on a multi-billion euro plan to boost the bloc’s semiconductor industry on April 18, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said …

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Tesla sold 88,869 units of China-made electric vehicles (EV) in March for both domestic sales and exports, up 35.0 per cent from a year ago, data published by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) showed on Tuesday. That was up 19.4 per cent from February, when the U.S. electric car maker delivered 74,402 China-made Model …

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Siemens has launched an investigation after Der Spiegel reported a former programmer from Russian IT company NTC Vulkan – which has reported links to Russian security services – worked for the German engineering and tech company. The German news magazine said the worker was now employed by Siemens in Munich. “We take this seriously and …

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Troubled Indian car service and repair startup GoMechanic has been acquired by a consortium led by Lifelong Group, the auto parts firm said. It did not give any financial details of the transaction. The development comes barely two months after the startup’s co-founder Amit Bhasin admitted to errors in the company’s financial reporting. The company …

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