Twitter this week suspended several accounts for the purpose of posting messages from Donald Trump. The former US president himself was permanently banned from his medium of choice in January. On Thursday, the social network confirmed that it took action against these accounts after it was reported in American […]
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Technology group Microsoft is about to close a billion-dollar deal in artificial intelligence (AI) and speech technology. The company has now also formally confirmed this. Insiders report to Bloomberg news agency that the American company is conducting extensive talks to acquire the US-based Nuance Communications. The acquisition would cost […]
A series of European Union institutions, including the European Commission, has become the target of a significant cyber-attack over the past week. A spokesman for the EU has confirmed this to business newspaper Bloomberg. The IT infrastructure behind the institutions would have been the victim of ‘a security incident’. […]
An investigation warns that chip production is very vulnerable to disasters, geopolitical tensions or other problems. But solving that costs a lot of money. That the production of computer chips, be it for cars, game consoles, computers or other purposes, is under pressure is an understatement. There has been […]
South Korean technology company Samsung Electronics is considering postponing a new smartphone model later this year due to a shortage of computer chips. This problem mainly used in the automotive sector, but technology companies are now also expressing their concerns about the issue. Usually, Samsung will release a new […]
Microsoft has come up with a workaround to ensure that Windows 10 no longer crashes when you try to use specific network printers. The problem surfaced last week after updates sent out during Patch Tuesday. As a result, some users got the error “APC_INDEX_MISMATCH” during a blue crash screen […]
Sony wants to prepare the PS5 for an internal memory expansion this summer via an update. Bloomberg reports that. It is difficult to expand the storage capacity of the game console, while the latest games often consume a considerable amount of memory. The standard edition of the PlayStation 5 […]
Google, one of the inventors of container technology Kubernetes, wants to use the service to make it easier to run and manage containers on the platform. Software containers are a fast-growing technology, but the system is not the easiest to manage. So says Drew Bradstock, product lead for Google […]
Streaming service Spotify will come ‘later this year’ with a new subscription formula for audio in a higher resolution. According to the company, Spotify HiFi, as the new formula is called, offers ‘music of CD quality’. The news was announced on Monday evening during an online press event of […]
Electronic chip factories in the US state of Texas are forced to close their doors for a week due to the cold snap. The closure is inconvenient because there is already a global shortage of semiconductors. NXP Semiconductors, a significant supplier to carmakers and smartphone manufacturers, says it is […]
