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Impact assesses the role of technology and its effects on evolving industries, society and environment. It explores moral conundrums, environmentally friendly fixes, and revolutionary technological uses that tackle world issues. This section emphasizes how technology has the power to change people’s lives and create a lasting impact.

Disney Pulls the Plug on YouTube TV as Deal Talks Stall

Disney Pulls the Plug on YouTube TV as Deal Talks Stall

Disney's networks, including ESPN and ABC, went dark on YouTube TV after the two companies failed to reach a new...

ChatGPT Outage Affected Some Free Users Here’s What to Know

ChatGPT Outage Affected Some Free Users Here’s What to Know

One day, lots of ChatGPT fans found they couldn't get to the AI thing, like a door slammed shut. It...

Nintendo Offers Massive Discount on Super Mario Kart Mini RC Car Almost a Giveaway

Nintendo Offers Massive Discount on Super Mario Kart Mini RC Car Almost a Giveaway

Mario's been well-liked for ages, and that love stays strong with Nintendo's Super Mario Kart 8 upside-down small RC car....

Websites Affected by the Global Microsoft Outage are Now Back Online

Websites Affected by the Global Microsoft Outage are Now Back Online

A significant global hiccup struck Microsoft's web help on Wednesday, messing up spots and online services in all fields for...

Azure Outage, 365 Outage Strikes Microsoft Ahead of Earnings Report

Azure Outage, 365 Outage Strikes Microsoft Ahead of Earnings Report

Microsoft's cloud infrastructure buckled Wednesday morning as thousands of users found themselves locked out of Azure and Microsoft 365 services,...

Amazon Streamlines Corporate Ranks, 14,000 Positions Cut

Amazon Streamlines Corporate Ranks, 14,000 Positions Cut

Four months after CEO Andy Jassy told employees that artificial intelligence would "change the way our work is done," Amazon...

Amazon 30,000 Layoffs Signals The Rise of Gig Economy 

Amazon 30,000 Layoffs Signals The Rise of Gig Economy 

Amazon has expressed plans to layoff 30,000 of its permanent employees, while hinting at hiring seasonal workers for the forthcoming...

Australia explores plans to modernize its interbank settlement system

Australia explores plans to modernize its interbank settlement system

Australia's main bank said that it would start to check out ways to fix its bank payment setup next year....

Meta cuts 600 jobs from its ‘overstaffed’ AI division as Wang strengthens leadership role

Meta cuts 600 jobs from its ‘overstaffed’ AI division as Wang strengthens leadership role

Meta said more people are getting fired around 600 workers from their computer brain division. This action seems like the...

Full Story Behind Iraq’s National Security Ban on Roblox

Full Story Behind Iraq’s National Security Ban on Roblox

On a quiet Sunday evening in October 2025, Iraq became the latest nation to sever access to Roblox, the massively...

Venmo Restores Service After AWS Outage Disrupts Payments and More

Venmo Restores Service After AWS Outage Disrupts Payments and More

Guess what? Venmo, a super liked way to pay friends in the U.S., got shut down Monday when Amazon Web...

Amazon AWS Cloud Service Back Online After Global Outage Disrupts Businesses

Amazon AWS Cloud Service Back Online After Global Outage Disrupts Businesses

After a huge global mess, Amazon put its cloud back, helping folks get back to work. On Monday, a big...

Snapchat Outage Stokes ‘Internet Crisis’ Fears as ‘C14A’ Error Spreads

Snapchat Outage Stokes ‘Internet Crisis’ Fears as ‘C14A’ Error Spreads

Snapchat users woke to a digital nightmare this morning as thousands reported being locked out of their accounts, greeted only...

AWS Outage Takes Down Thousands of Apps, Raising Questions About Cloud Monopoly

AWS Outage Takes Down Thousands of Apps, Raising Questions About Cloud Monopoly

On Monday morning, October 20, 2025, millions worldwide found themselves locked out of essential digital services when Amazon Web Services...

Wikipedia Loses 8% of Human Visitors as AI Summaries Replace Click-Throughs

Wikipedia Loses 8% of Human Visitors as AI Summaries Replace Click-Throughs

As the Wikimedia Foundation announced that human pageviews to Wikipedia had fallen 8% year-over-year, Marshall Miller, senior director of product,...

TikTok’s Fake Divorce: How ByteDance Keeps Control Through Licensing

TikTok’s Fake Divorce: How ByteDance Keeps Control Through Licensing

When Representative John Moolenaar declared on October 16, 2025, that licensing TikTok's algorithm would raise "serious concerns," he exposed the...

Venmo and PayPal experiencing outages for some users, reports monitoring service

Venmo and PayPal experiencing outages for some users, reports monitoring service

On Thursday morning, many users of PayPal and its mobile payment app Venmo encountered account-related issues. Users began to report...

Amazon leads the AI Layoff Wave as AI Becomes The Boss 

Amazon leads the AI Layoff Wave as AI Becomes The Boss 

AI is taking over in every field from people who have learnt those skills after an enormous amount of time...

E-Commerce: Simple Way to Track Any Parcel Online

E-Commerce: Simple Way to Track Any Parcel Online

For most online shoppers, waiting for a delivery has become a ritual, one that’s equal parts excitement and uncertainty. Refreshing...

China says Qualcomm acknowledged acquiring Auto talks without notifying authorities

China says Qualcomm acknowledged acquiring Auto talks without notifying authorities

China has triggered an antitrust investigation of the United States semiconductor conglomerate Qualcomm after the company revealed it had not...