TECHNOLOGY
Samsung likely to supply OLED displays for iPads, MacBooks
The Elec previously reported that Apple plans to release its first iPad Pro models with OLED displays in 2024 and said that Samsung would produce displays for those models in one of its existing lines, MacRumors reported. Samsung's future production line would be located at a different factory and be capable of creating OLED displays large enough for notebooks, paving the way for a MacBook Pro with an OLED display, which is rumoured to launch in 2025 or later.
Snapchat to display local restaurants nearby in Snap Map
Snapchatters from around the world will now automatically see Infatuation reviews in Place Profiles in more than 50 cities around the world. Last year, the photo-sharing platform introduced Layers as a new way for Snapchatters to find things to do with their friends on Snap Map. "Within just a few months, our first two Layers alone were used over 100 million times," Snapchat said in a statement on Friday.
Dorsey's Square service to begin beta testing for Apple's Tap to Pay
"Bringing Tap to Pay on iPhone into the Square ecosystem ensures that new sellers will have another free option to get up and running, while providing businesses of any complexity with more flexibility to adapt their commerce experiences to evolving consumer preferences and changing industry trends," said David Talach, Head of Financial Services at Square.
Global smartphone shipments to contract 3% to 1.36 bn units in 2022
Last year, the global smartphone shipments grew 4 per cent (on-year) to reach 1.39 billion units. According to Counterpoint Research, the overall supply situation is expected to gradually improve in 2022 compared to the previous year, although shortages of several parts have not been resolved yet. On the macroeconomic front, expectations for recovery are now falling sharply and more concerns are spreading centered on China's prolonged recession and the Ukraine crisis.
Elon Musk plans 10% staff cut at Tesla, freezes hiring
A Reuters report said on Friday that Musk has emailed Tesla executives, telling them the electric car-maker needs to pause hiring worldwide and cut its workforce by about 10 per cent. Tesla has nearly 1 lakh employees worldwide and Musk cites his "super bad feeling" about the economy for reducing the workforce. Tesla cut hundreds of workers in October 2017, about 9 per cent of staff in June 2018, and about 7 per cent in January 2019.
AWS, Intel help edtech CXOs take deep dive into key issues in India
The event brought edtech founders, CEOs, CTOs and CXOs, including those who use AWS to deliver their edtech solutions in India and the world, to meet and learn about each other's business and best practices. The founders discussed their startup missions and motivations to be in the edtech business and dived deep into their edtech business's key problems.
You may soon edit your sent messages on WhatsApp
According to WABetaInfo, the Meta-owned platform is now working on letting users edit their text messages for a future update of the app and this feature is under development so it is not ready to be released to beta testers. A screenshot shared by the website showed that the messaging platform is developing a new option that will let users fix any typo after sending a message.
Running companies hurts my heart: Elon Musk
After a Twitter user recalled Musk being replaced as CEO of X.com in 2000, he tweeted: "I never wanted to be CEO -- just wanted to work on product/technology. Bill Harris sounded like he would be a great CEO, given his Intuit experience, but he was not". "Running companies hurts my heart, but I don't see any other way to bring technology & design to fruition," Musk added.
After Meta's COO, another top executive to depart soon
The company said that Jerome Pesenti, Meta's VP of AI, will depart in mid-June after helping it through the early stages of the AI transition. "We are grateful for the incredible work Jerome has done over the past over four years in building, leading, and scaling a world-class AI function for Meta," the company said in a blogpost.
"In the new model we will distribute the ownership of these AI systems back to Meta's product groups," it added.
Chrome to soon block notifications from abusive, disruptive websites
According to a new code change, Chrome will soon be able to automatically revoke a website's permission to send notifications and block any future attempts to ask for the permission, reports 9To5Google. Between websites that constantly ask for permission to use cookies and apps that need to ask for many permission to work at all, it can be easy to unthinkingly click "Allow" when asked if you want to receive notifications.
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