541 Zomato Employees Lost Their Jobs Due to Automation One of the most popular food delivery platforms in India, Zomato, has reportedly fired 541 employees from its workforce. That translates to about 10 percent of the total strength of the company. Zomato justifies its action by citing automation to be the reason for this sudden layoff. The recent improvements in AI have made Zomato’s platform sophisticated to the point where the company no longer felt the need for a lot of humans for solving user queries since the number of direct order related queries have reduced....

A Developer Ported Microsoft’s Clippy to macOS Remember the good-old Clippy assistant from Microsoft Office that used to shower us with suggestions? Well, if you miss Clippy too much and happen to be a macOS user, I’ve some good news for you. You can actually use Clippy on your PC. A developer named Devran Uenal hasported Clippy to macOSas a standalone desktop assistant. As of now, it does nothing assistant related, which is actually good if I’m being honest as no one likes to be poked for silly reasons....

Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Dressed as a Rockstar at His Retirement Party Alibaba founder, Jack Ma, on Tuesday stepped down from his position as the Chairman of the company at a gala event attended by thousands of employees. During a four hour celebration which included songs, dances and parades with elaborate floats in an 80,000-capacity stadium, the billionaire entrepreneur handed over the reigns of the company to CEO Daniel Zhang, and seemingly fought back tears while talking about his own future....

Amazon Will Soon Let You Pick up Orders from Mumbai Stations Amazon has taken a huge step to ensure faster delivery of packages to its customers. The e-commerce giant now allows its customers to pick up their packages from railway stations in Mumbai. The company has partnered with Indian Railways to make this possible. Through this partnership, Indian Railways have granted Amazon India permission to set up pickup kiosks in four railway stations in Mumbai namely CSTM, Thane, Dadar, and Kalyan....

Apple Made Siri to Stay Neutral on Sensitive Topics like Feminism It appears like Cupertino giantAppledoesn’t want to take any chances to get backlashes on sensitive topics like feminism. A recent report suggests that Apple made Siri as neutral as it can due to the rise in questions in topics like the Metoo movement. According toThe Guardian, Apple had an internal project for rewriting the responses of Siri for “sensitive topics”....

Chinese Traffic Police Uses Drones for Maintaining Law and Order China has always been a leader in implementing cutting-edge technologies in law and enforcement, a department that usually has slow exposure to technology in other countries in the world. Recently, we sawrobot traffic policeand now, a drone reminded a man to wear the helmet. “The handsome young lad on the black electric scooter in dark green clothes and glasses – please put on your helmet!...

Daimler Starts Testing Automated Trucks on Public Roads of Virginia Daimler, the German automobile giant behind Mercedes-Benz, has started testing automated trucks on the roads of Virginia. The testing is done in the presence of safety drivers trained in automated systems, vehicle dynamics, and engineers for overseeing the whole process. Daimler’s automated trucks have been developed in a partnership with a robotics-based startup Torc Robotics. The trucks will utilize self-driving software provided by Torc....