[ad_1] A woman tries out augmented reality (AR) glasses at Xreal’s booth at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai 2023. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — Less than a year since augmented reality glasses startup Xreal started sales, the Alibaba-backed company is claiming shipments will soon reach 200,000 units. Augmented reality (AR) […]

[ad_1] A union representing port workers in Western Canada officially began striking, an action that could have ripple effects reaching beyond the U.S.’s northern neighbor. The International Longshore & Warehouse Union Canada’s Longshore Division announced its labor strike began in a Saturday Facebook post signed by union president Rob Ashton. More than 99% of members […]

[ad_1] Two people hold two Shein bags after entering SHEIN’s first physical store in Madrid, Spain, June 2, 2022. Cezaro De Luca | Europa Press | Getty Images Chinese fast fashion giant Shein on Friday denied a Reuters report that said it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the U.S. “Shein denies […]

[ad_1] Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at a cloud computing conference held by the company in 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — Google is having productive early conversations with regulators in the European Union about the bloc’s groundbreaking artificial intelligence regulations and how it and other companies can build […]

[ad_1] Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is a “dead man walking” after leading a botched rebellion against Vladimir Putin, according to Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group. The weekend’s armed revolt by Prigozhin, a former Putin ally who founded the Wagner private militia group, was widely seen as the biggest threat to the Russian president’s […]

[ad_1] The PMC (Private Military Company) Wagner Center logo on the new building. PMC Wagner Center opened in St. Petersburg. Maksim Konstantinov | Lightrocket | Getty Images Long at odds with Russia’s military leaders in the war in Ukraine, Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin took his feud to a new level Friday when he leveled accusations that […]

[ad_1] An undated photo shows tourist submersible belongs to OceanGate begins to descent at a sea. Search and rescue operations continue by US Coast Guard in Boston after a tourist submarine bound for the Titanic’s wreckage site went missing off the southeastern coast of Canada.  OceanGate | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images The race against […]

[ad_1] Skills-based hiring is becoming increasingly popular among companies, while formal qualifications like degrees are becoming less important Xavier Lorenzo | Moment | Getty Images Skills-based hiring is becoming increasingly popular among companies, while formal qualifications like degrees are becoming less important — especially as labor markets remain tight. Many firms are still struggling to […]

[ad_1] Thomas Trutschel | Photothek | Getty Images In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft’s flagship office suite — including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps — and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed responsibility, saying it flooded the sites with junk traffic in distributed denial-of-service attacks. Initially reticent […]

[ad_1] PARIS — Eutelsat is one of the biggest satellite companies in the world, but has faced declining revenue in its traditional businesses at a time when it is handling a huge acquisition and facing disruption from billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Eutelsat CEO Eva Berneke is betting on that massive acquisition of a […]