Here are some of this week’s biggest tech news stories: Twitter BirdWatch – NBC News Plex Arcade – The Verge Facebook Oversight Board Makes First Set Of Decisions – The Verge More Alphabet Workers Union News – The Verge GameStop Stocks (Wall StreetBets) – The Verge Next week I’ll try to write a full article. I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold in for review I’ll post my review of it in a couple of weeks. Continue reading This Week In Tech – Jan 31, 2021
Here are some of the biggest tech stories of the week: Flash is Dead Intel hires new CEO Qualcomm acquires Nuvia Samsung Galaxy Unpacked New Pokemin Snap release date announced Apple extends TV+ free trial to July NASA ends InSight’s mole mission SLS fails Green Run I’ve been really tired lately so I didn’t have the energy to write a full article today. I’ll try to start writing a full This Week in Tech article next week. Continue reading This Week In Tech – January 17, 2021
CES All Virtual Edition was this week here are some things that were shown off. This year the conference took an all online format due to the pandemic and it wasn’t good. Overall the announcements were kinda dry this year but here some things that were announced there that I thought are cool or important: Infinity Game Table LG rolling transparent display TCL Rollable phone concept Intel announcements AMD 5000 Series mobile chips Asus Announces New Zenbook Duo Samsung announces new Exynos chips Samsung Bot Handy Razer’s Announcements Lenovo’s Announcements Acer’s announcements Dell announcements I’m too lazy to find all … Continue reading CES 2021
I’ve been very busy this week so I’ve not had time to write anything here are links to a few important stories of the week: FTC investigating data collection practices of tech companies SolarWinfs HackTwitter fined under GDPRTwitter is shutting down PeriscopeGoogle sued for antitrust twice this weekInstagram data leakUS Space Force official renamed to Guardians Continue reading This Week In Tech – Dec 20th 2020
This week there’s been lots of Uber news, the DOJ sued Facebook for antitrust and, Disney held their investors’ day where they talked a lot about their streaming strategy. Also, The Game Awards took place on Thursday and more in the Other News section. Uber News Over the last week, Uber announced that they sold off their Self-Driving car division and Joby Aviation. Both were very complicated deals that involved Uber acquiring stock in the companies that the divisions were sold to. I highly suggest reading the source articles I used to get a better idea about these deals. Facebook … Continue reading This Week In Tech – Dec 13th 2020
This week there were a couple of major acquisitions, the Brazilian Government suffered a data breach, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 888 chip and more in the other news section. Acquisitions On Monday, Facebook announced that they are going to be acquiring PRM startup Kustomer. The details of this acquisition haven;t been announced so price and other details are unknown. This one is kind of surprising because of the antitrust investigation into Facebook. But that’s not the biggest acquisition announced this week, Salesforce announced that they are acquiring Slack for $27.7 billion. Slack will become part of Salesforce Customer 360. Brazil … Continue reading This Week In Tech – Dec 6th 2020
This week Apple held a hardware event, Spotify acquired podcasting tech company Megaphone and, Trudeau Promises To Connect 98% of Canadians To High-Speed Internet By 2026. Also, the EU sues Amazon for anti-trust, there’s an update in the Epic/Apple case and. more in the Other News section.
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Today Apple their One More Thing event held an event where they announced the first Apple Silicon Macs. If you’re wondering what that means, basically in June at their developer’s conference WWDC they announced that they’re moving Macs onto their in-house chips. … Continue reading Apple Event November 2020 – Apple Silicon
This week Razer announced their first productivity oriented device, The Brazilian Superior Court was hit by ransomware attack, PS5 Reviews are in and, there’s lots of Apple news. Like always there’s the Other News section.
Continue reading “This Week In Tech – Nov 8 2020”Firstly, I intended to write an article last week because I did not have time. Last week the US Department of Justice sued Google for anti-trust. Experts and journalists think that the suit was rushed and that it did not do a good job of establishing the problems that it focuses on search instead of advertising. They talk about business deals like Google paying Apple and Mozilla to be the default search engine on their given platforms. I agree, Big Tech should be dealt with, but I don’t think that anti-trust/monopoly law is how to deal with it. I plan … Continue reading This Week In Tech – Nov 1, 2020
