Oracle's $28.3 billion deal to buy Cerner could address a major challenge in healthcare. Medical records and information are hosted on a range of platforms, making it difficult for providers to collaborate. The lack of interoperability can prevent clinicians from getting a 360-degree view of patients, analysts say.

The James Webb Space Telescope will be 100 times as powerful as the Hubble Space Telescope. It will reveal the outer reaches of the universe in more detail than ever before. The telescope will launch Friday.

AT&T Inc. will sell online advertising platform Xandr Inc. to Microsoft Corp. , ending its bid to become a major force in digital marketing. Microsoft said Xandr’s digital ad marketplace will help boost its digital advertising and retail media capabilities. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. Last year, The Wall Street Journal reported that AT&T was considering a potential sale of its digital advertising operations, as it scaled back its media ambitions.

The metaverse is the next big wave in tech where users will be fully immersed in a virtual world. Over the next several years, the metaverse will become more and more commonplace in daily life.

The EU's competition regulator has given the all-clear to Microsoft’s $19.7 billion purchase of transcription tech firm Nuance. The EU said today there are no competition concerns for the region if the acquisition goes ahead.

The TSA is planning to support Apple Wallet IDs in two airports in February. If successful, the test will expand to airports in two more states the following month. Apple announced its plans to expand Apple Wallet to cover conventional ID cards at WWDC 2021. The new system also supports hotel keys and was the subject of a partnership with Hyatt this month.

President Biden said today that Americans will soon be able to order free COVID tests from a government-run website. Details on this website are murky, however. “We’ll have websites where you can get them delivered to your home,” he said of the 500 million at-home tests the government is purchasing.

Japanese universities asked to provide details of foreign nationals working in sensitive areas of science and technology. Netflix attracted 16 million new subscribers in just three months in 2020. The company now has over 214 million subscribers worldwide. The service has signed multi-year deals with big names like Kevin Hart and Steven Spielberg. It also purchased the rights to Roald Dahl’s entire catalog.

Google Voice now lets you create rules that dictate how the service responds to incoming calls from specific contacts. You can set up a rule that forwards calls from a contact (or a group of contacts) to any of your linked numbers.

Biogen is slashing the price of its Alzheimer's treatment in half months. The drug debuted to widespread criticism for an initial cost that could reach $56,000 annually. The company will cut the wholesale acquisition cost of the drug by about 50% next month.

Tech executives and engineers are quitting Google, Meta, Amazon and other large companies for what they say is a once-in-generation opportunity with crypto.

Meta shareholders are pushing the Facebook and Instagram parent company to take a harder line against “harmful content’ on its site. A group of shareholders slammed Meta in a letter made public on Monday, criticizing the company for profiting from unsavory posts. The mounting shareholder pressure comes as Meta faces outrage over damning reports about its products’ effects on teen mental health.