B Nairflipped into News Global1 day agoSamsung latest to face ‘blasphemy’ wrath in Pakistan. Protesters find a QR code anti-Islamtheprint.inViolence in the name of the Prophet and alleged blasphemy—Pakistan saw it again on Friday. Except this time, it wasn’t an individual but a simple QR …
B Nairflipped into News Global5 days agoChina has plans to make Minority Report a reality for its citizensTechSpot - Adrian PotoroacaWTF?! The Chinese government's surveillance efforts are now focused on what can only be described as the perfect Orwellian nightmare. Apparently, …
B Nairflipped into India today4 days agoFCC commissioner calls on Google and Apple to ban TikTok from their app storesTechSpot - Rob ThubronWhat just happened? Brendan Carr, a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, has called on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their …
B Nairflipped into News GlobalAir Canada throws off more than 20 passengers from flight without explanationThe Independent - Laurene Rey-MilletSome 25 other passengers were ejected from an Air Canada flight on Tuesday 21 June, with no explanation given as to what they had done wrong. Passenger Jess McFadyen was onboard flight AC866 to London Heathrow from Montreal when she filmed the moment, calling it “absolutely disgraceful”. Air Canada confirmed that 25 passengers were “deplaned” from the flight. A statement from the airline said: “‘We are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding this incident involving a group of 25 customers who were removed from our flight from Montreal to London Monday night, due to disruptive behaviour.” Click here to sign up for our newsletters. Read More British Airways workers at Heathrow vote to strike over pay dispute Boris Johnson claims voters ‘absolutely fed up of hearing about things I stuffed up’ Barrel Children: The families Windrush left behind
B Nairflipped into India todayNetflix lays off several hundred more employeesverified_publisherNPR - Shauneen MirandaNetflix is laying off roughly 300 more of its employees. The decision comes shortly after the company laid off 150 employees in May. "Today we sadly let go of around 300 employees," a spokesperson said in a statement Thursday. "While we continue to invest significantly in the business, we made these …
B Nairflipped into India todayIndian startups laid off over 10,000 employees in the first six months of 2022verified_publisherQuartz - Ananya BhattacharyaAs investors put pressure on startups in India to cut costs, employees are collateral damage. In the first six months of this year, more than 10,000 staff have been laid off by at least 27 startups across the country, according to Inc42’s analysis. Why are Indian startups on a layoff spree? In a …