This week there’s been lots of Apple news, There’s a new Facebook data leak, the EU proposes AI regulations and, The IOC announces a new Olympic video games tournament. Also, there’s a new proposed privacy bill in the US, HTC Vive Air leaks and, more in the Other News section (with a new format).
Continue reading “This Week In Tech – April 25, 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
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
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
On Tuesday, Apple their ‘Hi-Speed’ Event. They announced details about this years iPhones and a few other things. This event didn’t have any mentions of Macs, so I assume that there will be another event next month focusing on Apple … Continue reading Apple ‘Hi-Speed’ Event
On Tuesday Apple held their annual September product announcement event. Like WWDC it was a prerecorded event which was good but I think that the format works better for WWDC. At the event they announced updates to the iPad and Apple Watch lineups, they also announced a lot of updates around services. Apple Watch At the event they announced two new Apple Watch models the SE (budget model akin to the iPhone SE) and the Series 6. They also lowered the price of the Series 3 to $199. SE The SE is has most of the features that the past … Continue reading Apple ‘time flies’ Event
