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• IT leads industries in remote jobs

  10-01-2023 23:11
  The number of remote and hybrid jobs increased 20% last year, continuing a pandemic-led trend that saw remote jobs jump 12% in 2021, according to a new report by online job site FlexJobs.While the rise in remote and hybrid jobs over the past two years isn’t surprising — the arrival of COVID-19 forced many companies to embrace workplace flexibility — the percent of remote or hybrid roles for manager- and senior-level positions is noteworthy.To read this article in ful
  
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• 15 years of iPhone put Apple into business

  10-01-2023 18:07
  When he laughed at the arrival of the first iPhone, then-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made it clear he thought Apple had no chance of success.Things have changed a lot since Apple introduced iPhone in January 2007.The product that changed everything
  At the time, Apple was an iPod company that made also-ran, underpowered PowerPC Macs, too. Today, it’s the iPhone manufacturer whose iPad devoured the netbook ‘industry’ and whose entry-level Macs with their custom silicon
  
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• Meta launches AI-based VRS system to reduce bias in advertising

  10-01-2023 17:00
  Meta has launched the AI-based Variance Reduction System (VRS) in the US, to reduce bias in the distribution of advertisements, after working in partnership with the Department of Justice for a year. The company had announced its plan to create VRS for equitable distribution of ads as a part of a settlement with the DOJ, which was representing the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in June last year. The development of VRS was part of the settlement for a complaint
  
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• The office is dead

  10-01-2023 13:30
  Elon Musk didn't make many friends when he took over Twitter, but some bosses liked that he banned remote work.Too bad he's already backed off that idea. When Twitter was evicted from its Seattle offices because Musk was no longer paying rent, he told Twitter's Washington state workers they now had to work from home. To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• Microsoft in talks to invest $10 billion in OpenAI: Report

  10-01-2023 12:09
  Microsoft is in talks to invest an additional $10 billion into ChatGPT owner OpenAI as it looks to integrate the GPT3-based chatbot into its search engine Bing, Semafor reported.In 2019, Microsoft had invested $1 billion in OpenAI to expedite efforts to further artificial general intelligence for “widely distributed economic benefits.”To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• This lawsuit against Microsoft could change the future of AI

  10-01-2023 12:00
  Artificial intelligence (AI) is suddenly the darling of the tech world, thanks to ChatGPT, an AI chatbot which can do things such as carry on conversations and write essays and articles with what some people believe is human-like skill. In its first five days,  more than a million people signed up to try it. The New York Times hails its “brilliance and weirdness” and says it inspires both awe and fear.To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• UK IT salaries for 2023: How much should IT pros be earning this year?

  10-01-2023 07:00
  After a difficult 2020 and an unpredictable 2021, employers and employees alike were hoping for some stability in the 2022 job market. Unfortunately, it wasn’t meant to be. Last year started with the "Great Resignation”, leading to a record number of vacancies caused by burnt-out and disgruntled workers seeking new employment opportunities, and ended with the some of the largest and most widespread rounds of layoffs ever to hit the technology sector.To read this article in
  
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