This week HP and Valve announced that they are working on a new VR headset, there’s lots of Microsoft news, Google announced the Stadia Maker Program and, Patreon announced impressive growth due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, Nintendo held a Direct, Sony announced a re-org and, NASA announced that they signed a contract with SpaceX for the Gateway program. HP/Valve VR Headset On Monday, HP teased that they are working with Valve on a new VR headset. The announcement coincided with the release of Valve’s long-awaited VR game Half Life: Alyx. Not much is known about the headset but there’s … Continue reading This Week In Tech – March 29, 2020

This week Disney+ launched, Apple announced some new hardware, Microsoft held their xO conference, and, Twitters new policy on political advertising

On Tuesday, Disney launched their long-awaited streaming service Disney+ in the US, Canada and, The Netherlands after some technical difficulties. On Thursday, Disney announced that they surpassed 10M subscribers.

Apple Announcements

On Wednesday, Apple announced some new hardware in a blog post. The first thing they announced is a new Macbook Pro. The base model has a 16-inch screen, 16GB of DDR4 RAM, an Intel i9 processor, a Radeon Pro 5300M with 4GB of GDDR6 memory and a 512GB SSD. It starts at $2399 US in stores now. They also announced in a different post that the previously announced Research app is now available.

X019

At X019 Microsoft announced that xCloud will be coming out next year and so will a few games including Minecraft Dungeons and a few others (See Post Here).

Twitter

A week or two ago Jack Dorcey announced that Twitter will stop allowing political advertising in a tweet-storm. On Friday twitter released a blog post detailing the official policy changes.

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This week Microsoft showed off a cool update to Xbox Live, Lots of Apple news, Tesla hosts an event, a couple Interesting Links and, more in the Other News Section Xbox A few months ago there were rumours that Xbox Live was coming to Moblie and Nintendo Switch. Those rumours were kind of accurate. On Thursday, Microsoft announced Game Stack in a press release. This is an important SDK that simplifies lots of stuff for game developers easier. In that announced an SDK that brings Xbox Live to mobile. Apple Spotify submits Antitrust against Apple On Thursday Spotify filed an anti-trust … Continue reading This Week In Tech 03/10-03/16/2018

This week Samsung held their annual Unpacked event, there’s lots of space news, lots of gaming news, some Apple news, Ev is leaving Twitter and more, in the Other News section. Samsung Unpacked 2019 On Wednesday, Samsung held its annual Unpacked device announcement event. At the event, they announced more info about their long rumoured foldable phone that they showed off at SDC last fall. They also announced the Galaxy S10 and a few other products. Galaxy Fold The Galaxy Fold has a 4.6 inch AMOLED cover (phone) display and a 7.3 inch Super AMOLED inside (tablet) display. It also … Continue reading This Week In Tech 02/17-02/23/2019

This week was CES, lots of space news, There’s a new Ring Doorbell security flaw, lots of Google news, Bell Canada may be tracking you, some great new in the Cambridge Analytica case, fake 5G, Samsung Unpacked event announced and, more in the Other News section. CES I know that CES was last week but I’m still working on a few articles about CES. Intel talked about their next-gen chips. Lots and lots of TVs were announced some of them with Google Assistant and Alexa. Space News Forming Black Hold Spotted For First Time On Thursday, Raffaella Margutti talked to Space.com … Continue reading This Week In Tech 01/06-01/12/2019

This week Austrailian anti-encryption bill passes, Waymo is commencing service, Lots of data breaches, The Game Awards awards lots of games, the YouTube Rewind was released, lots of Google/Alphabet news, Huawei CFO gets arrested in Vancouver, OSIRIS-Rex and, more in the Other News section. OSIRIS-Rex On Monday, NASA got OSIRIS-Rex into orbit of asteroid Bennu. It is there to study and collect samples from the asteroid and information about it. The mission also wants to get an idea of how the solar system formed. Huawei CFO On Tuesday, Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou for extradition to the United States with charges of violating the US’s sanctions … Continue reading This Week In Tech 12/02-12/08/2018

This week Marriotts Starwood reservation server was hacked. the first gene edited baby was born, USPS was hscked, NASA successfully lands InSight, lots of Google news, more on the Boring Company and, more in the other news section. The Hacks Marriott On Friday, Marriott announced that their Starwood reservation system had been hacked. In the breach they lost names, email addresses, passwords, social security numbers, passport information, credit card information and, possibly actual reservation information. The situation is interesting because the Starwood system was actually merged into Marriott system in August. USPS On Monday, the USPS admitted that they had … Continue reading This Week In Tech 11/25-12/01/2018

This week there’s been lots of Tesla,’ The Paris Calls, a Cloud Tax in Chicago, Valve rewards a massive bug bounty for a bug in Steam, Amazon HQ2, leaks, reports and, rumors, and more in the Other News section. Tesla This week Tesla made a couple of important announcments. Firstly, the Model S and Model X are getting a price bump. Also announced this week, Tesla is ending free Supercharging for new Tesla owners. Model S 75D now starts at $78,000 (up $1,000 from $77,000) Model X 75D now starts at $84,000 (up $1,000 from $83,000) Model S 100D now starts … Continue reading This Week In Tech 11/11-11/17/2018

This week there was lots of important tech news. Samsung held an event, the French may impose a Bitcoin tax, SapceX an a smaller version of the BFR, news about Disney’s streaming service, the Co-founder of VIne talked more about his new social network and, so much more in the other news section. Samsung Event On Tuesday, Samsung held their annual developer confrence SDC. At SDC they announced lots of new things. Also they announced that they are opening up an API for Bixby to developers. The final thing that was announced was the heaviy runored fodable phone, For more … Continue reading This Week In Tech 11/04-11/10/2018