Month: February 2022

Microsoft on Wednesday courted the favor of antitrust regulators scrutinizing its plan to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard, promising that any app store it builds will treat developers fairly. Microsoft president Brad Smith laid out a set of “Open App Store Principles” that will apply to the store it runs for Windows-powered computers and
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Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. This article is contributed by Nick Hodges, developer advocate at Rollbar. It’s been about 20 years since the Agile Manifesto was released. While the manifesto itself is great, many of us have been a touch misguided in our implementation of it. 
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Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to provide low-latency broadband Internet connectivity to remote areas around the globe through a constellation of small satellites in low-Earth orbit suffered an expensive blow recently, but there’s little Musk or SpaceX could do about it. On February 3, SpaceX launched 49 satellites into orbit but a geomagnetic storm destroyed nearly
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The metaverse will open up more ways for businesses to make money, an executive from Facebook parent Meta Platforms told an advertising conference on Monday, in a presentation complete with a video showing holographic avatars fencing and playing basketball. The company’s head of metaverse, Vishal Shah, cited opportunities for brands around digital goods and immersive shopping,
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Samsung Galaxy S22 series featuring the South Korean company’s latest flagship smartphones were launched on Tuesday (February 9) at its Galaxy Unpacked 2022 event. Just like last year, Samsung has launched three new S-series smartphones, and this year’s lineup includes Samsung Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22+ and Galaxy S22 Ultra. The smartphones are equipped with the
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Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. This article was contributed by Steve Escaravage, senior VP and leader of Booz Allen’s analytics practice and AI services business. Today, almost any organization can prove AI’s capability in a non-production, innovation laboratory setting — but fielding AI in real-world environments
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President Joe Biden’s top science adviser Eric Lander resigned, hours after the White House confirmed that an internal investigation found credible evidence that he mistreated his staff, marking the first Cabinet-level departure of the Biden administration. An internal review last year, prompted by a workplace complaint, found evidence that Lander, the director of the Office
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