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Workday cuts nearly 2,000 employees

Workday cuts nearly 2,000 employees

​[[{“value”:” Enterprise HR platform Workday is the latest tech company to announce layoffs in recent weeks. Silicon Valley-based Workday laid off 1,750 employees on Wednesday, as originally reported by Bloomberg and confirmed independently by TechCrunch. That total represents approximately 8.5% of headcount. Unlike many other tech companies, including Meta and Microsoft, Workday has not held drastic […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Unique STEM Challenges Students Love (and you will, too!)

Unique STEM Challenges Students Love (and you will, too!)

​[[{“value”:” Unique STEM challenges are the best ones! It is so fun to hear students say ‘what?’ when I introduce one of these STEM activities. If you are ready to try a unique STEM Challenge I have some to share! This post is all about creating unique opportunities for STEM projects that are a little ‘outside the box’. What makes…

AI’s biggest stage awaits – TechCrunch Sessions: AI tickets available

​[[{“value”:” AI is heating up, and we’re diving in! TechCrunch Sessions: AI is officially open for registration. Secure your spot now and save up to $300 on select tickets before prices rise From startup founders to AI investors to aspiring innovators — TC Sessions: AI is where the entire AI ecosystem comes together. Whether you’re building, […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Google launches new AI models and brings ‘thinking’ to Gemini

​[[{“value”:” Google launched its much-anticipated new flagship AI model, Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental, on Wednesday. The announcement was part of a series of other AI model releases. The company is also making its “reasoning’ model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, available in the Gemini app. Notably, Google is releasing these AI models as the tech world remains […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Musk moves to dismiss suit over Tesla’s alleged use of AI-generated ‘Blade Runner’ imagery

​[[{“value”:” Attorneys for Elon Musk intend to move to dismiss a case that accuses the Tesla CEO, who is also the head of President Donald Trump’s DOGE organization, of using AI-generated, copyright-violating “Blade Runner”-inspired images at a Tesla press event. In a filing submitted to the U.S. District Court Central District of California, Western Division late […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Celebrating #OhioSustainsSpace Sticker Challenge and Regional Winners

Celebrating #OhioSustainsSpace Sticker Challenge and Regional Winners

​[[{“value”:” It’s time to celebrate the innovative minds of Ohio’s students as we announce the winners of the 2025 #OhioSustainsSpace Design Challenge and the Sticker Design Contest! In this year’s design challenge, students were tasked with a critical question: How do we improve the sustainability of life in low-Earth orbit, such as living aboard the Starlab space station? Participants were…

Cherry Ventures raises a new $500M fund for early stage and beyond, but will it be enough?

​[[{“value”:” It’s sometimes said that European VC doesn’t have the firepower to compete with VCs in the U.S., which regularly raise billion-dollar+ funds these days. Perhaps further evidence of this view persists in the news that Berlin-based Cherry Ventures has closed its latest fund at $500 million, to be split between early-stage rounds and follow-on rounds […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

CodeSignal wants you to practice soft skills with its AI-powered guide

​[[{“value”:” Both startups and big tech companies have aggressively used AI to help developers write code or learn programming better. People have used chatbots to prepare for different scenarios in life, like interviews. Tech assessment platform CodeSignal, which introduced a learning platform for technical subjects with AI assistants last year, launched soft skill courses on its platform […] © 2024 TechCrunch….