The Digital Markets Act is the most sweeping piece of digital policy since the EU put the world's toughest rules to protect people's online data into effect in 2018. The legislation is aimed at stopping the largest tech platforms from using their interlocking services and resources to box in users and squash emerging rivals. Violators of the law, which will take effect as early as later this year, could face penalties of up to 20 percent of their global revenue.
Netflix has far fewer development studios compared with companies like Microsoft and Sony, which produce gaming consoles and hit titles like Halo and Spider-Man. The company bought a studio called Night School in September, and this month it bought Next Games. Netflix would not say how much it paid for Boss Fight.
A new report from Flexera reveals where enterprises and SMBs are placing their bets on the world's three largest cloud providers. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are the three largest providers of public cloud services. Gartner predicts that public cloud revenue will increase 22 percent globally in 2022 year over year.
Apple is reportedly working on selling iPhones and iPads as part of a hardware subscription service. The monthly charge wouldn’t simply be the price of the device divided by 12 or 24 months, but rather be a still-undecided monthly cost. The move would fit into Apple’s ongoing push towards subscription services.
스탠포드 인간 중심 인공지능연구소(HAI)가 발행하는 2022년 AI 지수 보고서가 발표되었다. 보고서는 전세계의 AI 데이터를 추적,수집해서 시각화하여 AI를 이해하는데 도움이 되도록 구성한 자료이다.
Mercedes' Drive Pilot seems to be in operation like many other "traffic jam assistant" technologies already on sale today, but there's a key difference: Once you engage Drive Pilot, you are no longer legally liable for the car's operation until it disengages.
Mercedes' willingness to accept liability for its semi-autonomous vehicles will surely help its chance of satisfying various regulators, removing driver responsibility required massive technological improvement over existing Level 2 systems. Drive Pilot is designed to give drivers a 10-second warning before switching off, and has more redundancies, with additional power supplies to critical systems.
Mercedes' Drive Pilot is the first semi-autonomous system that is not leaning on the crutch of beta test or relying on the constant vigilance of a human operator, but Drive Pilot was smoother and more competent than any other semi-auto driver aid. The only snag was that the vehicle picked up on amber lights and confused them for emergency lights, prompting a 10 second warning and manual take-over.
Twitter has been spotted working on making TweetDeck a premium feature. The social media giant is adding the feature to its Twitter Blue subscription service. The feature would only be available to Twitter Blue subscribers in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The company is currently working on adding TweetDeack to the Twitter Blue feature list in its Android app.
Spotify Technology SA has reached a deal with Google to offer an alternative payment method within its app for users, the latest sign of the weakening grip that app stores have over third-party software. The streaming music service and Alphabet Inc.’s search giant announced the deal Wednesday, allowing Spotify’s app within the Google Play Store to offer a choice between its alternative payment method and Google’s own, which takes as much as a 30% share of revenue.
Stephen Wilhite invented the GIF in the 1980s while working at CompuServe. His wife, Kathaleen, says he created the GIF at home and brought it into work. He retired in the early 2000s and spent his time traveling, camping, and building model trains.
YouTube is letting users in the US stream thousands of free, ad-supported TV shows for the first time. That will put it into competition with OTA (over-the-air) TV and streaming services with ad tiers including Peacock, the Roku Channel, Tubi and others. YouTube will offer around 4,000 free TV episodes on top of the 1,500 movies already available.
Security service edge (SSE) market is growing at upwards of 21 percent year over year. Zscaler, Netskope and McAfee Enterprise are leading the global SSE market. By 2025, 70 percent of organizations that implement agent-based zero trust network access will choose an SSE provider.