President Xi Jinping’s administration will stifle innovation and alienate entrepreneurs as it looks to centralize power. Read More
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Who’s making early waves at COVID-dampened CES 2022
Sony, Samsung, and chip makers created buzz ahead of the annual tech convention in Las Vegas. Read More
Here’s why Colts/Jags should be the game everyone watches out for in Week 18
Imagine you’re taking part in an annual contest at your workplace to determine the finalists for a coveted prize. Everybody wants this prize. People have cheated, backstabbed, and played dirty in the past in order to win this prize. It’s that great. As the time period for determining who the finalists will be closes… Read […]
There’s no getting around it, the NFL despises women
There was a time in my life when nothing was as exciting as the start of the NFL season, the particular Bears season, here in Chicagoland. Read more…
Big Tech split leads to demise of Internet Association
Enlarge / Street sign for K Street, the Wall Street of political influence in the US capital. (credit: Bjarte Rettedal | Getty Images) Growing tensions between Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Apple lie behind the death of the Internet Association (IA), the nine-year-old lobby group that was Big Tech’s voice in Washington, according to insiders […]
Google urges developers to adapt Android apps for Chromebooks
Enlarge / Google is putting more emphasis on Android apps on Chromebooks. (credit: Google ) The number of people using Android Apps on Chromebooks grew 50 percent year over year, according to a blog post from Chrome OS product managers Fahd Imtiaz and Sanj Nathwani this week. The execs cited internal Google data recorded from […]
5 tech winners that (mostly) don’t want 2021 to end
A tech giant thrived, a novel product took off, and an under-siege behemoth somehow survived. Read More
No jab, no job: Google will fire unvaccinated employees
Enlarge / People walk out of a Google office building in Taipei, Taiwan, on January 29, 2021. (credit: Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto) Google is giving employees until January 18 to prove that they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 or apply for an exemption, according to a report from CNBC. News of the requirement broke late Tuesday, but […]
Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
Enlarge / Search engines Glass for Enterprise. Google’s job listings suggest that the new device and platform would be more mass-market than the one picture here. (credit: Google) Yahoo was one of the early leaders in the first wave of modern augmented reality (AR) research and devices, but the company has appeared to cool to […]
The British are coming for Silicon Valley
The past month shows the UK is serious about regulating American tech mergers. Read More