A California-based outsourcing firm discriminated against Americans for information technology (IT) jobs in the United States, preferring to hire only foreign workers imported on H-1B visas, a Department of Justice (DOJ) settlement reveals. This month, federal prosecutors announced a settlement with SpringShine Consulting Inc. for soliciting employment applications for IT jobs in the U.S. exclusively from foreign H-1B visa workers. According to the settlement, SpringShine sought employment applications on a job recruiting website — seeking foreign IT consultants only on H-1B visas. The recruitment post excluded all other job applicants, most notably qualified Americans. “Employers that discourage applicants based on their citizenship or immigration status, or save certain employment opportunities only for applicants who require sponsorship to work in the United States, violate the law and must be held accountable,” the Justice Department’s Kristen Clarke said in a statement. … [Read more...] about DOJ: Outsourcing Firm Discriminated Against Americans, Offering Tech Jobs Only to Foreign H-1B Visa Workers
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PCIe 7.0 standard with up to 512 GB/s of bandwidth now in development
What just happened? We've only just started to see companies reveal their blisteringly fast PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs for consumers, but the PCI Special Interesting Group (PCI-SIG) is always looking to the next generation. Now, it has announced what we can expect in 2025: PCIe 7.0. At the PCI-SIG Developers Conference 2022, taking place in California, the future version of the PCIe specification was announced. This comes after the consortium released the final PCIe 6.0 specification in January. As with previous generations, PCIe 7.0 doubles the bandwidth of its predecessor, from 64 GT/s to 128 GT/s, equal to up to 512GB/s of bi-directional throughput (before taking into account encoding overhead and header efficiency) via the x16 connection. Looking at it another way, PCIe 7.0 has four times the bandwidth of PCIe 5.0. The new specification will use 1b/1b flit mode encoding and is based on Pulse Amplitude Modulation with four levels (PAM4) that was introduced with PCIe 6.0. … [Read more...] about PCIe 7.0 standard with up to 512 GB/s of bandwidth now in development
Rocket Report: SpaceX steamroller rolls on; Russian rocket workers are idled
Welcome to Edition 4.47 of the Rocket Report! It has been a big week for NASA, with the near completion of its wet-dress rehearsal test for the Space Launch System rocket. Assuming final preparations go well, this sets up a huge launch in a couple of months that we will be following with great interest. As always, we welcome reader submissions , and if you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar. South Korea successfully launches its own rocket . The three-stage Nuri rocket, built by the government’s Korea Aerospace Research Institute with hundreds of local companies, blasted off from the Naro Space Center in Goheung on Tuesday, The New York Times reports . Seventy minutes after the liftoff, South Korea announced that Nuri had … [Read more...] about Rocket Report: SpaceX steamroller rolls on; Russian rocket workers are idled
ola: Ola Electric’s HR Director quits as top executives depart
The resignation drive of senior executives at Ola Electric continues and now, its Director HR Ranjit Kondeshan has decided to move on. According to sources, Kondeshan would depart from Bhavish Aggarwal-run electric mobility company on July 2, just 14 months after joining. According to his LinkedIn profile, Kondeshan joined Ola Electric Mobility from Visa where he worked for three years in Mumbai. Before Visa, he was Senior HR Manager at Bajaj Allianz Life. Ola Electric, facing a government probe in battery fires along with other EV players, has seen some high-profile exits in recent months. Nidhi Chaturvedi Jha quit Ola Electric as regional head in May and joined Amazon . In April, chief marketing officer Varun Dubey left the company due to "personal reasons". Earlier, Dinesh Radhakrishnan , who was the chief technology officer (CTO) at Ola Electric, moved on from the company. According to his LinkedIn profile, he was appointed CTO at … [Read more...] about ola: Ola Electric’s HR Director quits as top executives depart
Optimum vs. Verizon Fios: Which Should Win Your Home Broadband Vote?
If you live in the northeastern US, you may likely be considering either Optimum or Verizon Fios for your home internet. These two internet service providers offer broadband to some major metro areas in that portion of the country and if you live in parts of Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, you might even have a choice between the two. According to the latest data from the Federal Communications Commission , Optimum is available to just shy of 13 million people and Verizon Fios is offered to nearly 36 million potential customers. So there may be quite a few of you out there looking into these two ISPs and wondering what the differences are between them. Let's take a look. Sarah Tew/CNET Optimum Good speeds, great prices Out of the gate, there's a lot to lure you to Altice's Optimum internet service. You get incredibly competitive introductory pricing, fast speeds and decent perks. Along with those positives, you get unlimited data, no … [Read more...] about Optimum vs. Verizon Fios: Which Should Win Your Home Broadband Vote?