Tech Report: Tech companies are returning to the office

Employees at tech giants like Google and Salesforce say they are finally filtering back into the office, out of fear they’ll get cut if they don’t. Office occupancy has slowly been ticking up, according to data from Kastle systems which measures occupancy rates. Even San Francisco employees are coming back to the office, with 44 percent occupancy.

Netflix has been testing its password sharing plan. Reportedly, the company lost a million users to the password sharing crackdown in Spain. Of the more than 1 million users who stopped watching Netflix during that period, about two-thirds had been using someone else’s password, according to the firm’s data.

When translating from English to Spanish, even the most advanced machine translation approaches almost always follow “masculine” descriptions. One company has a new approach to produce gender-accurate translations. Smartling has a patent pending technology that produces gender-accurate translations. It’s able to address scenarios where a doctor or a senator is a female. The company says it also ensures that the entire translated sentence is grammatically fluent and factually accurate.

Amazon is bouncing back from a tough year last year. The company’s results beat expectations across the board. Amazon is also spending less on warehouse and more on AI.