technologies

The European Commission has launched a more extensive competition investigation into Nvidia's proposed Arm acquisition. The Commission says it fears that the acquisition could lead to higher prices and reduced innovation in the chip…

Blue Origin has shared its plans for a future commercial space station called Orbital Reef. This space station is being built by various space companies and should become operational between 2025 and 2030.The station is to function, among…

Google appears to be supplying servers of the Stadia game service to AT&T behind the scenes. Customers of the American provider can play Batman: Arkham Knight for free this way. The name 'Stadia', on the other hand, is not linked to…

The European Parliament wants a total ban on facial recognition in public spaces. A majority of parliamentarians have voted in favor of a resolution advising that artificial intelligence surveillance technology should be banned in…

Google plans to enable two-step verification for 150 million Google accounts by the end of this year. As of November 1, 2 million YouTubers will also be required to enable this authentication method.That is what Google states in a blog…

An internal study by cloud backup company Backblaze shows that the failure rate of SSDs during the first fourteen months is not very far below that of traditional hard drives. After that period, 1.38 percent of HDDs failed. For SSDs,…

SoftBank has obtained about two hundred patents from Alphabet subsidiary Loon that Loon wanted to use for the internet balloon project. Loon has since stopped developing these balloons, but SoftBank still has its own, similar plan.Not all…

Google has released version 94 of its Chrome web browser. Google Chrome is available for Windows, Linux and macOS. There are also versions for Android and iOS, but they follow a slightly different release schedule. From this version,…

VPN provider ExpressVPN has been acquired by Kape, an IT security company that was formed in 2018 from the Crossrider company. As an affiliate, that company focused on offering ad injecting software. PIA also falls under Kape.Kape…

EA makes five patented accessibility-related technologies available to other developers. These include the Ping system from Apex Legends and options for colorblind people.In a so-called Patent Pledge, EA agrees not to take any steps…