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TechCrunch Meta lays off employees across multiple teams Multiple teams at Meta were hit by layoffs on Wednesday, the company confirmed in a statement to TechCrunch, noting these changes were made to reallocate resources within the company. "Today, a few teams at Meta are making changes to ensure resources are aligned with their long-term strategic goals and location strategy," said a Meta spokesperson in an emailed statement. One of the employees affected by Wednesday's layoff is Jane Manchun Wong, a software engineer who was hired to join the Threads team in 2023 after becoming known for revealing unannounced features coming to Meta apps.

Yahoo Sports Fantasy Film Room: 4 offenses we need fixed for fantasy | Yahoo Fantasy Forecast It's Thursday and 'Fantasy Film Room' is back with Nate Tice and Matt Harmon. The two look into four offenses that have gotten off to uneven starts to the season that have players the fantasy world is counting on. Harmon and Tice do a deep dive on the Arizona Cardinals, Jacksonville Jaguars, L.A. Chargers and Miami Dolphins. The two look at what's gone wrong so far and what ways each team can tweak, fix and evolve their offenses the rest of the season. The two also preview the 'instant classic' TNF matchup between the Denver Broncos and New Orleans Saints.

ODD taps $27M for diamond chips to clear radioactive debris at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Back in 2011, the world held its breath after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan suffered a failure of its cooling systems, in the wake of the country getting hit by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami. The worry was not unfounded: the resulting meltdown - which spread highly radioactive material in multiple directions - became one of the worst nuclear-related disasters of all time. Last month, the Japanese government began a testing procedure to remove radioactive debris in and around the plant - a significant step in the plant's decommissioning process, expected to be completed by 2051.

OroraTech's space-based wildfire detection brings in $25M to put more imaging satellites in orbit OroraTech is taking a space-based approach to "wildfire intelligence," and just raised $25 million to grow its market and cover more of the Earth. The German startup currently has two thermal-infrared imaging satellites in orbit, watching over a number of locations around the world and some 160 million hectares of forest land. OroraTech first used data from dozens of other imaging satellites and terrestrial sources, but now relies on its own and is planning on having an initial constellation of eight up and running by mid-2025.

After selling Drift, ex-HubSpot exec launches AI for customer success managers Elias Torres has achieved a lot for somebody who immigrated to the US from Nicaragua at 17 without knowing any English. About a year ago, Torres (pictured above) founded Agency, an AI-powered startup designed to automate tasks traditionally handled by customer success managers (CSMs). On Wednesday, Agency is coming out of stealth and announcing that it raised a $12 million seed round led by Sequoia and HubSpot Ventures.