Tesla's sales success in 2021 continued right to the very end of the year, delivering 936,172 electric cars in 2021, about 308,600 of them in the fourth quarter. While that isn't the magic 1 million figure the company might have hoped for, it's close to double the 499,550 Tesla handed to customers in 2020.
Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda says the company will release "decentralized games" starting in 2022. Matsuda: "Decentralization gaming" will enable self-sustaining game growth. The company is also promising “ample investments in the cloud space,” though it’s not clear if the company is talking about cloud gaming.
Exchange 2016 and 2019 servers were affected on New Year's Day. Microsoft was trying to store version date checks for its antivirus scanning engine in a 32-bit integer variable. Any date from January 1st, 2022 onward was too large and caused the engine to crash. The emergency fix uses a script to pause two services, replace the older antivirus engine files with newer ones that use a new number sequence, and restart operations.
Robotics is at a crossroads, says Andrew Keen. Keen: Are developers going to design "humanoids" that can barely be distinguished from real people? Keen: Or should we concentrate instead on creating increasingly multifunctional robots that allow us to become more human ourselves?
Riot Games agrees to pay $100 million to settle a gender-based discrimination class-action lawsuit. The company will pay $80 million to the members of the class- action suit. Riot Games will also have its internal reporting and pay equity processes monitored by a third party.
Tesla is poised to manufacture roughly 80% more vehicles this year than it did in 2020. The global auto industry is expected to produce around 1% more cars than last year and 15% fewer in 2019. Tesla is on pace for its fastest annual production growth since 2018.
Cloud mining prevents miners from investing in the powerful computing equipment to, rather they can lease the hardware from third parties and mine. Such mining rigs are usually located in areas where cheap electricity can be availed, and the climate is cooler. Cloud mining is beneficial for those who do not wish to dabble in the technicalities of mining yet reap the crypto harvest.
The Metaverse (sorta) took off this year. Apple continued to impress with its M1 chips and gave users a way to repair their own devices. Google’s first-ever mobile chip powered clever experiences on the latest Pixel phones. Reddit's day traders also deserve recognition for the way they've managed to manifest GameStop's slogan.
A new patent reveals Apple is working on a temperature sensor for its future Apple Watch. The sensor could also be used in AirPods or an Augmented Reality headset. The patent was filed in June 2020, but was revealed today. It covers miniature temperature sensing devices that can be incorporated into wearable devices.
The metaverse is a term for how companies perceive the next wave of online interaction, immersive technologies and cross-platform commerce. The term was coined in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, and since iterated for years, culminating in Facebook's rebranding as Meta. It's now a blanket term for a new wave of ideas after a pandemic that rewrote our definition of virtual.
