Month: May 2022
YouTube Go is going away
Audio player loading… After six years and 500 million downloads, the YouTube team has announced that it will be discontinuing its YouTube Go app this August. The reason for this discontinuation is that YouTube doesn’t see the app as necessary anymore. YouTube Go was originally created as a stripped version…
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The company behind celebrity cameo videos has laid off a quarter of its workers
Cameo, the company that lets you pay a celebrity to record a custom message or hop on a video call with you, has announced that it’s laying off 87 people, or around a quarter of its staff, according to The Information. According to the report, employees got the news at…
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Cisco says its new tech can predict your network issues well in advance
Audio player loading… Network issues can lead to huge and costly disruptions for businesses which is why Cisco has developed a new technology that can predict them before they happen. While networks have evolved to detect and react to issues in order to maintain performance and reliability, the next logical…
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President Biden wants to give the US quantum computing industry a boost
Audio player loading… President Biden has signed two directives aimed at ensuring the US retains its lead in quantum computing while also safeguarding the country from future attacks carried out using this emerging technology. For some time now, the US has been a global leader in quantum information science (QIS)…
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Google bought a MicroLED display company that could help make AR headsets better and cheaper
Today Google hardware boss Rick Osterloh confirmed that the company has acquired Raxium, a five-year-old startup with MicroLED technology that could be key in building a new generation of augmented, virtual, and mixed reality headsets. This adds to the evidence that Google’s next big AR move is growing closer: it…
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Intuit owes you money if it tricked you into paying for TurboTax “Free Edition”
Intuit, the company behind TurboTax, has agreed to pay out $141 million after it “cheated millions of low-income Americans out of free tax filing services,” in the words of New York Attorney General Letitia James. Most of that money will go to consumers that were tricked into paying for its…
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