Thomas Trutschel/Getty Images Professional certificates and credentials can provide a nice little boost to your career prospects. They tell prospective employers that you took the time to learn a skill or focus on an area of study, to the point where you were competent enough to pass an evaluation. Don’t confuse certificates and credentials with … Read more
Half a decade after he was kicked off Twitter by the platform’s safety team, professional conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been welcomed back to the site, which is now called X. Zillow Says You’ll Buy Your Next House With… AI? | AI Unlocked You can thank Elon Musk for that. This weekend, Musk passed around … Read more
In July, software engineer Julian Joseph became the latest victim of the tech industry’s sweeping job cuts. Facing his second layoff in two years, he dreaded spending another couple months hunched over his laptop filling out repetitive job applications and blasting them into the void. Joseph specializes in user interface automation and figured someone must … Read more
LinkedIn, the business social networking platform owned by Microsoft, announced Monday it is laying off 668 employees, amounting to more than 3% of its staff, as part of its alleged organizational restructuring efforts. The decision marks the second round of mass layoffs at LinkedIn this year and will impact employee roles in engineering, product, talent … Read more
Image: Dennis Diatel (Shutterstock) It’s a rough day for tech workers, with layoffs at both LinkedIn and the recently-sold Bandcamp. Stack Overflow, the go-to Q&A forum for programmers, says it’s cutting about 28% of its staff. Hands-On With Meta Quest 3 Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar announced the layoffs Monday in a blog post, explaining … Read more
Job postings mentioning artificial intelligence are surging as the technology is booming. Gorodenkoff | Istock | Getty Images Since artificial intelligence began booming late last year, a steady stream of questions and concerns have come up. Will my job be impacted, will I be laid off, will my day-to-day change because of generative AI? There … Read more
Venture funding has taken a hit since 2022, as investors pull back on capital amid economic headwinds. According to a report from research firm Tracxn, total funding into Southeast Asian startups fell by 71% to $2.3 billion in the first half of 2023 — compared to the same period one year ago. Singapore startups attracted … Read more
Staff in Singapore are the world’s quickest in terms of adopting synthetic intelligence expertise, in accordance with LinkedIn’s newest Way forward for Work report. The report, which drew information from 25 international locations, discovered that Singapore has the best “diffusion charge” — the share of members including AI expertise to their profiles grew 20 occasions … Read more
Meta has unveiled a set of recent security instruments supposed to offer dad and mom extra oversight of their teen’s exercise on Messenger and Instagram DMs. Beginning at this time, dad and mom and guardians can view how a lot time their teen spends on Messenger, obtain updates on modifications to their contact lists and … Read more
Weeks after Meta launched a collection of generative AI-based instruments to assist advertisers create completely different campaigns, LinkedIn has launched its personal device to counsel completely different copies of an advert. The corporate mentioned that it makes use of knowledge from a marketer’s LinkedIn web page and Marketing campaign Supervisor setting together with goal, concentrating … Read more