JD.com has opened two "robotic" stores in Leiden and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Shoppers can order products using an app and have them delivered via conveyer belts. The stores are the first of its kind in Europe and mark the company's first foray into bricks and mortar.
Sega has opened a new studio in Sapporo, Japan. The studio was established on December 1 of last year. It will see developers making game software and doing debug work. The new studio will be based in the city of Sapporo, which is located in Hokkaido.
Microsoft should spin out its Windows and Office franchises, Ben Slivka says. The move would boost its growing cloud-computing business, he says. Microsoft's Azure cloud infrastructure has become a company star. Slivkas says he wouldn't want internal strife to get in the way of the growth.
China’s car market snapped a three-year decline last year, helped by strong sales of electric vehicles, though the global chip shortage and Covid-19 outbreaks in the country disrupted some production. Sales of passenger cars in 2021 rose 4.4% from a year earlier to 20.1 million vehicles, the China Passenger Car Association said Tuesday.
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled the Federal Trade Commission can move forward with its revised antitrust case alleging Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook unit is abusing a monopoly position in social media, rejecting the company’s request to dismiss the government’s amended lawsuit. “Although the agency may well face a tall task down the road in proving its allegations, the court believes that it has now cleared the pleading bar and may proceed to discovery,” U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C., said in a 48-page opinion.
Intel and Microsoft are working together to give new mobile PCs an unprecedented leap in both battery savings and horsepower. The new 12th-generation Core architecture is radically different than its predecessors, with great potential for performance enhancements and battery life improvements. The two companies' hotly competitive battle with Apple for control of the desktop has taken on a new urgency since the work-from-home wave.
Tumblr has added a Sensitive Content toggle to its iOS app. The setting is enabled by default, and it keeps posts with sensitive tags out of recommendations. It also blocks search results and hides blogs that are "explicit in nature" Tumblr banned porn and realistic depictions of human genitals in December.
The way software is developed and functions has changed dramatically in recent years. We’ve moved away from linear software development to more agile methodologies that segment projects into smaller components that can be developed simultaneously. We've also moved away, in many cases, from on-premises applications to the cloud.
From cartoon apes to video clips, sales of NFTs reached some $25 billion in 2021 as the speculative crypto asset exploded in popularity, data from market tracker DappRadar shows, although there were signs of growth slowing towards the end of the year.
2022 promises to be another year of big business in space travel. Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant will travel on a NASA mission to the moon. Elon Musk's SpaceX is planning to put its 400-foot-tall Starship rocket into Earth's orbit. Federal regulators will grapple with what their role can and should be in this new era.