Here are the top trending news from the world of technology. News that we feel every tech enthusiast should keep a tab on.
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Microsoft fires top technical officer for watching porn
Alex Kipman, the technical head of Microsoft’s HoloLens project, has been reportedly fired from the company. This development came days after Kipman was allegedly caught watching a porn movie inside the Microsoft office. This porn incident, by the way, was not the only reason for Kipman’s firing. The top technical officer was often accused of sexual misconduct behavior by his co-employees. In fact, many Microsoft co-employees described Kipman as a ‘sex addict.’ But what’s really more interesting is that Kipman is considered to be very close to Satya Nadella, who we all know is the CEO and MD of Microsoft.
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Elon Musk attacks Youtube for its scam ads
Elon Musk, the man who is always in news for one reason or another, has yet again sparked a fresh controversy. This time the tech billionaire has brutally trolled Youtube on Twitter for promoting non-stop fake ads on its platform. Musk’s tweet immediately went viral, fetching thousands of likes and retweets within hours of posting it. Musk also got support from one of America’s top Youtube personality Jimmy Donaldson, who is better known as Mr. Beast. Mr. Beast replied to Musk’s tweet by claiming he himself has fallen prey to many Youtube scam ads. By the way, Google, which owns Youtube, has denied these allegations.
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International VPN companies are leaving India
As was expected, international VPN companies have started shutting down their servers in India. ExpressVPN has already shut down its Indian server a few days back while SurfShark said that it will also do the same in the next few days. This is happening all because of new tough VPN laws adopted by the Indian government. When these new rules were announced for the first time, back then many international VPN companies had said that they won’t follow these rules come what may. These new rules will come into effect by the end of this month. According to these new rules, every VPN company operating in India has to mandatorily maintain the log sheet and IP address of every customer for at least five years.
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Mark Zuckerberg should resign, says Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen
Remember Frances Haugen. The young ex-Facebook employee who blew up the Facebook scam last year. Well, Haugen has now said that Mark Zuckerberg has to resign if Facebook, which is now known as Meta, wants to regain its glory days back. She pinned all the blame on Zuckerberg for all the crisis and problems that Meta has been facing recently. She even predicted that Zuckerberg’s costly bet on Metaverse will prove to be a big flop. While Haugen may be right about Zuckerberg, but Zuckerberg will still continue to have huge influence over Meta’s operation. That’s because Zuckerberg owns a majority of shares in Meta. So, Zuckerberg isn’t going anywhere from Meta. Not at least for the time being.
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Binny Bansal backed startup Rupeek lays off 200 employees
Layoffs and job cuts continue to haunt the Indian startup industry. Rupeek, the gold loan startup backed by Flipkart founder Binny Bansal, has become the latest startup to opt for layoffs. According to the Entrackr, the Bengaluru based startup has slashed nearly 200 jobs due to massive fund crunch. Rupeek has now joined scores of Indian startups that have opted layoffs during the last few months. This includes unicorn and high-profile startups like Unacademy, Vedantu, Cars24, Meesho, MPL, Trell, OkCredit and many more.