Month: February 2021
Apple’s VR headset could feature dual 8K screens and an eye-watering price to match AR Glasses
Rumors around a set of presumed-to-be-in-development Apple Glasses have been circulating for several years at this stage, with patents on the potential mixed-reality headset from the Cupertino tech giant dating back as far as 2015, and now a flurry of recent speculation offers a tantalizing glimpse of what could be…
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Kuaishou, TikTok’s Chinese nemesis, surges 194% on IPO debut
Kuaishou, a Chinese video app that’s largely underappreciated outside China, has just completed a massive initial public offering in Hong Kong. The app is by far the biggest rival for Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese version, and unlike many Western video platforms that make money from ads and subscriptions, Kuaishou’s cash cow…
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AWS and Microsoft are dominating the cloud market – for now Google cloud services
Spending on cloud infrastructure services increased by nearly a third (32%) during the final quarter of last year to reach $39.9bn as customers continued to invest in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) according to new research from Canalys. This increase in cloud spending was driven by high demand for cloud…
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Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 release dates slip beyond 2021 Overwatch
The Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 release dates have slipped beyond 2021, according to Activision Blizzard in its earnings call for the latest quarter. The game publisher had an otherwise strong quarterly report, dominated by Call of Duty. The eagerly-anticipated Overwatch and Diablo sequels were formally announced at Blizzcon 2019…
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Chrome 88 update patches a zero-day that is being actively exploited
Google Chrome’s autoupdate feature means we don’t usually need to think about being on the latest version, but occasionally users will want to take a break and make sure they’re upgraded — this is one of those days. The version of Chrome 88 rolling o… Source
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House punishes Republican lawmaker who promoted violent conspiracy theories
Democrats in the House voted to strip freshman Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of some of her responsibilities Thursday, citing her penchant for violent, anti-democratic and at times anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Greene has expressed support for a range of alarming conspiracies, including the belief that the 2018 Parkland school shooting…
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