Hashtag Trends Nov 15 – Meta employee fired. Jeff Bezos wants to donate his net worth.Amazon layoffs

A Meta employee was laid off after traveling across the country just two days before starting work. Jeff Bezos is about to donate most of his net worth. Amazon is laying off.

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A Meta employee says he was fired from the company just two days after moving from India to Canada for work. The software engineer from India wrote in a LinkedIn post last week that he was one of many employees affected by Meta’s mass layoffs, stranded without a job. This isn’t the first time Meta has fired someone after a job transfer, he was fired two days ago when another software engineer who moved to Canada from India joined the company. Meta’s Canada mass layoffs at his office come eight months after the company announced plans to open his hub of engineering, based in Toronto, which would create more than 2,000 jobs for him. I was.

Source: Business Insider

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plans to donate most of his $124 billion net worth during his lifetime. In an interview with CNN, he said he would dedicate most of his fortune to fighting climate change and supporting those who can help close deep social and political divisions. This is the first time Bezos has announced plans to donate most of his money. Bezos has donated his $10 billion, or about 8% of his current net worth, to his Bezos Earth Fund over a ten-year period. Its priorities include reducing the carbon footprint of construction-grade cement and steel, encouraging financial regulators to consider climate-related risks, and building natural plant-based carbon sinks.

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On the subject of Amazon, the company’s employees have been relatively shielded from the mass layoffs happening at Big Tech. but, wall street journal It suggests the company is ready to join the likes of Meta and Cut Staff. According to the report, Amazon will cut about 10,000 jobs in its corporate and technology divisions starting this week. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, as Amazon released disappointing third quarter financial reports. The company currently employs approximately 800,000 people across all its operations.

sauce: wall street journal

Believe it or not, a scientific team has found a way to use mushroom skins to make chips and batteries. This new material aims to replace the plastic polymers used to make the substrates on which the chips rest. According to an article in New Scientist, Johannes his Kepler University scientist in Linz, Austria, has attempted to use mushroom skins to act as biodegradable electronic substrates. When the researchers removed the skin and dried it, they found it to be flexible, a good insulator, and able to withstand temperatures of over 200°C. If kept away from moisture and UV rays, the skin can last for hundreds of years, indicating that it can survive the life of an electronic device. More importantly, it breaks down in the soil in about two weeks , can be easily recycled.

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