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AI’s Dual Nature, Regulatory Battles, & Platform Shifts: Weekly Tech Roundup

Sam Greenwood

The past two weeks in the tech world witnessed a rapid expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities across diverse products, revealing both extraordinary potential and significant inherent flaws. This period highlighted AI’s dual nature as a powerful tool for innovation and a source of concern regarding accuracy, privacy, and security. Concurrently, governments intensified their efforts to regulate the digital sphere, leading to landmark legal battles and policy adjustments aimed at reining in tech giants and addressing user safety. These developments, alongside strategic maneuvers within major industry players and evolving dynamics in the gaming and content sectors, underscored a landscape in … Continue reading AI’s Dual Nature, Regulatory Battles, & Platform Shifts: Weekly Tech Roundup

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This Week In Tech 02/03-02/09/2019

Sam Greenwood

This week There’s lots of Apple news, lots of Spotify mews, Lots of Samsung news and Apex Legends. Apple Angela Arands Leaving On Tuesday, Apple sent out a press release saying that Angela Ahrendts is leaving the company. She is currently the VP of retail, her job was basically running Apple Stores. Safari Updates In an update to safari announced this week Apple said that they are going to remove Do Not Track mode from Safari/ Spotify Podcasting Acquisitions On Wednesday, Spotify announced that they were acquiring two players in the podcasting business Anchor and Gimlet Media. Anchor is a … Continue reading This Week In Tech 02/03-02/09/2019

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This Week In Tech 05/13-05/20/2017

Sam Greenwood

This week, Google hosted its I/O conference, HTC announced its U11 phone, right-to-repair is in, Nintendo hosted another Direct, and Biz Stone is back at Twitter. At I/O, Google announced many updates to Google Assistant, Photos, and more. They also announced Google Lens. For more information, see my post on I/O. And also lots of stuff, this summer Google Home is coming to Canada, Australia, and a couple of other countries. Android also got some updates (the beta version of Android O is out; you can enroll at android.com/beta. On Tuesday, HTC announced the HTC U11. It features Edge Sense, which … Continue reading This Week In Tech 05/13-05/20/2017

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This Week In Tech 05/13-05/19/2017

Sam Greenwood

This week in tech Google announced Google One. YouTube retooled Red, Sony is gong to be ending manufacturing of Vita game cards, the Xbox adaptive controller, PayPal acquires iZettle, Intel 10nm chip. Google announced Google One a new cloud storage service. Google One isn’t Drive and storage is cheaper. There are also a whole bunch of other perks. Here’s a link to a TechCrunch article about Google One. YouTube is ending YouTube Red but not really. YouTube Red is being split into two it will become a Spotify like music service and YouTube Premium which is the rest of YouTube … Continue reading This Week In Tech 05/13-05/19/2017

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This Week In Tech 04/30-05/06/2017

Sam Greenwood

On Tuesday Microsoft hosted an event I didn’t write about it because I was really busy. They announced the Surface Laptop, Microsoft Teams for Schools, and lots more. A link to an article about the event by The Verge will be at the end of this article In other news Pokémon is one of this years inductees in to the Video Games Hall Of Fame. Also before I forget Microsoft announced that they are having an event in Shanghai on May 23rd. The Turkish government this week decided to censor Wikipedia because they claim that Wikipedia pages connect the country to … Continue reading This Week In Tech 04/30-05/06/2017

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This Week In Tech 04/09-04/15/2017

Sam Greenwood

This week Nintendo announced sales data for Switch, also that they are killing of the NES Classic Edition, also hosted a direct. EA announced release info for Star Wars Battlefront II. Nintendo said the Switch console has sold 906,000 units after 28 days on sale, while the accompanying Zelda Breath of the Wild actually sold more copies than physical consoles at 925,000. and also announced that they are going to stop manufacturing the NES Classic and hosted a Direct on Wednesday I wrote a full article about it. On Saturday Electronic Arts announced a release window for Star Wars Battlefront … Continue reading This Week In Tech 04/09-04/15/2017

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This Week In Tech 03/26/2017 -04/01/2017

Sam Greenwood

This Week Samsung hosted their Unpacked event, SpaceX reused a rocket, you can play Ms Pac-Man in Google Maps, and the EU is looking at putting a backdoor in encrypted messaging apps.  At their Unpacked event Samsung showed off their off their Galaxy S8 and their new AI assistant called Bixby.  On Thursday SpaceX launched a reused rocket for the first time.  Google now allows you to. play Ms Pac-Man in Google Maps.  This week The Next Web published an article about an EU Commissioner who purposed a law that would force encrypted messaging apps to install a backdoor. Here … Continue reading This Week In Tech 03/26/2017 -04/01/2017

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This Week In Tech 03/19-03/25/2017

Sam Greenwood

This week, Apple announced an upgrade to the iPad, released new Apple Watch bands, and launched a Snapchat clone. Consequently, Snap Inc. stock went up 15%. In other news, FedEx will pay you to use Flash, Google Chrome will no longer trust Symantec certificates, the US Senate voted to kill broadband privacy rules, and Super Mario Run is now available on Android. On Tuesday, Apple announced the “iPad” (simply named iPad), replacing the iPad Air 2. It features an A9 chip and a 9.7-inch screen, starting at $329 for 32GB. While the iPad mini 2 has been discontinued, the Mini … Continue reading This Week In Tech 03/19-03/25/2017

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This Week In Tech 03/12-03/18/2017

Sam Greenwood

This week Nintendo announced that Super Mario Run will be available on android soon and stuff about the Switch. Netflix announced new features and features updates. And more this is your week in tech. This week Nintendo announced that Super Mario Run will be available on android on March 23rd and also that they will be increasing production of the Switch. Also Netflix is testing a bunch of added and updated features. The new features include the ability to skip intro sequences of. TV shows and Netflix might eventually make different cuts of TV shows and movies depending on what … Continue reading This Week In Tech 03/12-03/18/2017