"And in hindsight, it turns out, it’s really hard to do bold, disruptive innovation, to develop a boldly disruptive shoe on Zoom."
The Yorkshire Asian Business Community Action group is hosting the Building Connections workshops to build young people’s employability skills and boost their chances of landing a job. The first session, at Unity Enterprise’s Leeds Media Centre in Chapeltown, Leeds, saw Satvir Meen, project leader with YABCA, lead discussions about the importance of first impressions, confidence and having the right mindset. A YABCA spokesman said: “Throughout the session, Satvir imparted expert knowledge and...
SPACs saw an average return of –49%, but Mission Space Acquisition is betting there’s fertile ground in the aerospace sector.
Google employees in two different offices protested the company’s work with the Israeli government on Tuesday, objecting to a billion-dollar contract it signed with the U.S. ally in 2021. The protestors organized sit-ins in two locations, one in Sunnyvale, Calif., and the other in one of New York City's offices. The sit-in Sunnyvale office was
Picketers threatened its construction. Its design drew frequent comparisons to a washing machine’s agitator, and in some architectural circles, it drew whispers of plagiarism. After completion, it garnered a small degree of infamy for the uncannily breast-shaped shadow that the afternoon sun casts across its facade — a phenomenon that locals have nicknamed the “2 o’clock titty.” But despite the controversies that once swirled around it, the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption now stands...
Dozens of Google employees held sit-ins Tuesday at the tech giant's New York City and Sunnyvale, Calif., offices to protest the company's work with Israel. Google and Amazon have a cloud computing and artificial intelligence contract with the Israeli government and military, a deal known as Project Nimbus that is worth $1.2 billion. The employees participating in the sit-ins wore shirts that said "Drop Project Nimbus" and a banner was hung that read, "No tech for genocide." Protesters sat in the...
The company, formerly known as Square, now building a full bitcoin mining system.
Embracer Group is no more, as the company has made the decision to split into three separate entities, with various developers divided up amongst them. For the last year or so, it's not been a great time to be a part of Embracer Group. There have been almost 1400 staff laid off across various studios, and several closures too. Saber founder Matthew Karch doesn't think Embracer is evil, just a company "that everyone likes to pick on," despite the fact it spent ridiculous amounts of money on...
The American Red Cross of Southern Nevada is assisting 15 people who were displaced after an apartment building fire in the central Las Vegas valley.
A team of recruit firefighters from around Boulder County and beyond is spending this week getting hands-on experience with life-saving equipment with support from a local business.
A group of employees occupied Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office -- sharing letters from fellow workers during a live stream speaking out against the harassment, mistreatment and censorship of Palestinian, Arab and Muslim Googlers.
Minnesota’s Lower Sioux Indian Community is pioneering green building with its fully integrated hempcrete facility – a first in the countryWhen Earl Pendleton first heard about building houses out of hemp more than a decade ago, it seemed like a far-fetched idea.To start, it was still illegal to grow hemp – the non-psychoactive strain of Cannabis sativa – in the US. Importing it from overseas was prohibitively expensive. But Pendleton, a member of the Lower Sioux Indian Community, was intrigued...