Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, February 10th, 2023.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

More job cuts at Microsoft make me wonder if the HoloLens is still even a thing.

But also we have data to explain why Apple.

Maybe hasn't done layoffs yet.

More AI Chatbot announces coming fast and furious, but the other kind of bots, actual mechanical

robots had their biggest year ever last year.

And of course, the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Layoff news tends to come at the end of

weeks if you haven't noticed in fact they sometimes come late on Friday theseoff announcements, so we sometimes miss them.

But unfortunately, we were not able to miss these.

Yahoo plans to lay off more than 20% of its workforce and restructure its ad tech unit impacting more than 50% of the unit or more

than 1,600 people.

The CEO of Yahoo says the cuts are strategic, but the words I would use would be deep and

drastic. Microsoft's GitHub is cutting 10% of its staff or an estimated 300 or

so folks. GetLab is cutting 7% or an estimated 114 people.

Get-Hub will also reportedly be closing offices and shifting to remote work to further cut costs.

And sources are telling Bloomberg that.

Microsoft is cutting jobs in its surface halo lens

and Xbox units.

Heavy cuts in the h Holo Lens Hardware team, raising questions

about the Goggles third version ever coming, like will we ever see it?

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