 Walmart plans to hire 50,000 U.S. workers, including delivery drivers and data scientists, in the current quarter. The announcement comes after Walmart stated on Tuesday that it aims to hire 5,000 technology workers worldwide this fiscal year and open new tech hubs in Toronto and Atlanta. More: - The new technology positions include cybersecurity professionals, data scientists, software engineers, AI experts, and others.
- Several hundred new roles will be based at the Toronto tech hub. The first hiring phase in Atlanta will seek 140 full-time tech positions.
- With the two openings, Walmart will have 17 tech hubs worldwide and employ around 20,000 people on its Global Tech team, its fastest-growing corporate team, according to tech VP Suresh Kumar.
- Walmart has about 1.6 million U.S. workers and 2.3 million globally.
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 A portion of Apple's campus in Cupertino, California, was evacuated on Tuesday after first responders uncovered an envelope containing a powdery white substance. As of Wednesday morning, authorities have yet to say what the substance was. More: - The fire alarm and hazmat response occurred at the Apple Park campus and headquarters just after noon local time.
- Authorities later concluded that there were no hazardous materials, Apple told The Verge.
- The situation is now considered "resolved" and employees have returned to the building.
- Only a portion of Apple employees has returned to the office. The company plans to launch a phased approach to hybrid working in April.
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 Meta will add NFTs to Instagram "in the near term," Mark Zuckerberg confirmed. The CEO made the announcement while speaking at Tuesday's South by Southwest Festival in Texas. More: - Instagram plans to add the ability for users to display NFTs and potentially mint new ones, he said.
- Zuckerberg said NFTs will likely play a role in Meta's future metaverse — for example, by allowing avatar clothing to be minted as an NFT and transportable to different locations.
- However, Meta still needs to work out "a bunch of technical things" before that becomes a reality.
- "We're a few years off," Zuckerberg said regarding a functional 3D metaverse that users would access through AR/VR devices such as headsets.
- The update comes after top Instagram executive Adam Mosseri said the platform was “actively exploring” NFTs and plans to bring the tech to a wider audience.
Quotable: - At SXSW, Zuckerberg said the future "belongs to the people who believe in it more than others."
- "I believe that the metaverse is the next chapter of the internet," he said. "Just like we had the mobile internet, I think this is going to be the successor to that.”
- The metaverse will be driven by different user needs, according to Zuckerberg. "For some people, it'll be games, for some people it'll be productivity. One really interesting one that I've seen recently is fitness.”
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 iPhone 14 concept renders Apple's upcoming iPhone 14 lineup is not expected to have a "mini" version, according to 9to5Mac. The company is expected to introduce four new phone models during its annual fall iPhone event in September. More: - Apple will release the standard iPhone 14 along with the 14 Max, 14 Pro, and 14 Pro Max, which will come in 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch versions.
- The company is expected to discontinue the 5.4-inch iPhone mini form-factor.
- Only the 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max will carry the new A16 chipset, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
- The iPhone 14 and 14 Max will have the A15 Bionic chip currently available in the iPhone 13, he reported.
- All the iPhones will come with 6GB of RAM. They're expected to be released soon after the fall event.
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 Blockchain technology firm ConsenSys more than doubled its valuation to $7B following a recent $450M fundraising round. The crypto developer was last valued at $3.2B in November. More: - Founded by Joseph Lubin in 2014, ConsenSys owns the Ethereum-based MetaMask crypto wallet, which is used to buy, sell, and exchange tokens.
- The company sells products for developers and enterprises to build applications for the Web3 space.
- ParaFi Capital led the recent Series D investment and was joined by existing investors Third Point, Marshall Wace, True Capital Management, and United Talent Agency’s venture fund.
- New investors included Microsoft, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Temasek, Anthos Capital, Sound Ventures, and C Ventures.
- ConsenSys plans to use the funds to redesign its MetaMask wallet, which now supports 30 million+ monthly active users — a 42% growth in four months.
- It will also accelerate the worldwide adoption of Infura, its Ethereum development platform, which has 430,000+ developers.
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European regulators signed off on Amazon's planned $8.5B purchase of film studio MGM, saying it doesn't pose competition concerns in the EU. The mega-deal still needs to gain antitrust approval from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. More: - In its investigation, the commission concluded that the deal would not significantly lower competition in European markets for movie/TV production or retail supply of "audiovisual services."
- Specifically, the European Commission found that Amazon and MGM don't have significant overlaps in their audio-visual content.
- The regulator found that MGM's content isn't considered a “must-have" and it doesn't rank among the world's top production studios.
- Amazon itself faces strong competition in the video streaming market, the agency concluded.
- If approved, the deal is expected to add more programming to Amazon's video streaming service. MGM has the rights to James Bond and other franchises.
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 |  | Beth is a writer and analyst at Inside.com covering artificial intelligence and daily tech news. Since starting work at Inside, she has covered various topics including virtual reality, drones, and e-commerce. Prior to that she was a public policy and investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic, where she won a Pulitzer Prize nomination and First Amendment Award for reporting on the rising costs of pensions. Reach her at Beth.Duckett@inside.com. |   | | Editor | Eduardo Garcia is a writer and editor based in New York. He is writing an illustrated book about climate change that will be published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, Scientific American, and others. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade. | |
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