JEFFREY SONNENFELD is having what he calls a Marshall McLuhan moment—“15 minutes of prominence soon to subside back into obscurity”. That is because, not long after Vladimir Putin sent his troops into Ukraine on February 24th, the 68-year-old professor at the Yale School of Management drew up a list of firms withdrawing from Russia, helping…
It looks like Google’s Pixel 6a is coming to Canada. Canada’s Radio Equipment List approved the upcoming mid-range phone on April 11th,…
Acquiring game studios is old news — Nintendo has its sights on land Nintendo aims to break ground on a brand new…
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) announced that it is launching a new digital platform that soccer fans can access around the…
The self-styled Technoking may be overextending himselfWHAT WILL he do with it? That was the big question after Elon Musk let it be known on April 4th that he had amassed a stake of 9.2% in Twitter, making him the social-media firm’s largest shareholder. Will the world’s richest man buy more shares or even take…
WITH EYES like saucers, nine-year-old Ralph Miles slowly removes his Quest 2 headset. “It was like being in another galaxy!” he exclaims. He has just spent ten minutes blasting alien robots with deafening laser cannons—all the while seated silently in the home-electronics section of a London department store. Sales assistants bustle around, advertising the gear…
Big oil’s most reluctant decarboniser lays out its green planDARREN WOODS made some revealing remarks this week about global warming. His ruminations matter in America’s oil industry for he is the boss of Exxon Mobil, the largest Western oil major. His firm has historically been less enthusiastic than rivals about taking climate change seriously. But…
“SOUTH OF THE Huai river few geese can be seen through the rain and snow.” In classical Chinese this verse is a breakthrough—not in literature but in computing power. The line, composed by an artificial intelligence (AI) language model called Wu Dao 2.0, is indistinguishable in metre and tone from ancient poetry. The lab that…
One of Apple’s creativity and productivity apps that is well developed and polished, and yet only finds itself being used by a…
This is one of the first instances where Cook has spoken out publically about sideloading During his keynote speech at the IAPP…
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