Moon Landers, Quantum Computing, and the End of Skype: Weekly Tech Roundup

It’s been another busy week in the tech world, from lunar landers making their way to the moon to quantum computing breakthroughs, the end of an era for a video calling pioneer, and Amazon’s latest move to compete with ultra-cheap e-commerce giants. Let’s dive into the biggest stories. Lunar Landers Galore: The Artemis Era is Here The race to the moon is intensifying as the Artemis era takes shape, with a surge of activity from private companies. Astroscale is making strides in satellite servicing and space junk removal, highlighted by their ADRAS-J mission’s successful rendezvous with a derelict rocket stage … Continue reading Moon Landers, Quantum Computing, and the End of Skype: Weekly Tech Roundup

This Week In Tech – January 17, 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 In Tech – Dec 6th 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