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Canadian man gets angry after receiving ‘Happy Diwali’ message from Netflix. A Canadian man’s outburst on receiving an email wishing him on the occasion of Diwali went viral on social media as he did not mince his words to abuse Indians and got equally trolled for his meltdown. Diwali is a Hindu festival which has…
Amazon fired Ahmed Shahrour, a software engineer working for the company’s Whole Foods division in Seattle, on Monday following a five-week suspension, according to CNBC. The termination came after Shahrour posted messages on internal Slack channels criticising Amazon’s involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli government.“In the next 24hrs…
Amazon has fired a 29-year-old Palestinian engineer who protested against the e-commerce giant’s ties to the Israeli government. Ahmed Shahrour was among a group of seven current and former tech workers who occupied Microsoft President Brad Smith’s office in August this year. According to a Bloomberg report, Ahmed Shahrour worked as a software engineer in…
María Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for defending Venezuela’s democracy. (Getty Images) Oslo loves a plot twist. Donald Trump—who touts himself as the man who “stopped wars” from the Middle East to Central Africa and dabbled in DRC–Rwanda peacemaking—was back in the Nobel chatter. But when the card was read, it wasn’t his…
Scott Sutfin-Glowski, a principal software engineer at Microsoft for 13 years, announced his resignation Thursday in a mass email sent to thousands of colleagues, protesting the company’s continued cloud services contracts with the Israeli military. “I can no longer accept enabling what may be the worst atrocities of our time,” Sutfin-Glowski wrote, choosing to leave…
Anna Menon is an accomplished American engineer and astronaut candidate whose remarkable career bridges the worlds of NASA, SpaceX, and private spaceflight. Born in Houston, Texas, she has played key roles in advancing human spaceflight — from managing astronaut operations at SpaceX to serving as a mission specialist on the historic Polaris Dawn mission. In…
Zoho founder and former CEO Sridhar Vembu recently said that being a dedicated engineer is like being a Rishi. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Vembu highlighted that the company’s recently launched messaging platform – Arattai may see a “simple product” on the surface, but “has a lot of depth inside”. Praising the Arattai…
A roti, Pranoti Nagarkar likes to say, is a non Newtonian fluid—its behaviour shifts with pressure, temperature and time. That scientific itch sits at the heart of Rotimatic, the robot she conceived to automate a task millions consider both quotidian and maddening. “You don’t have perfect parameters every time,” she says. “Even humans adjust along…
Google’s senior director of product Ryan J. Salva has a clear message for aspiring software engineers: “There’s no more hiding from AI if you’re a software engineer.” Salva, who leads product management at Google told Business Insider that artificial intelligence (AI) is now at the center of software development. With AI being used to generate…
