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Japan May Force Big Tech Companies to Disclose Their Algorithms

Big tech companies such as Meta (Facebook), Google, Amazon, Twitter, and others have always tried to keep their algorithms close to their hearts. At the end of the day, these long stretches of code are main contributors to the company’s revenue streams. Whether it is in marketing, advertisement selection, recommendation, search optimization, or other functionalities, […]

Soccer-Semi-Automated Offside Technology Approved by FIFA for 2022 World Cup

Semi-automated offside technology will be used at this year’s World Cup, promising decisions that are more accurate and a lot quicker, world soccer’s governing body FIFA said on Friday. In what can be considered an extraordinary development in the officiating of the game, technology will be able to resolve contentious offside calls with a speed […]

Back to The Future? Cargo Giant Cargill Turns to Sails to Cut Carbon

In a new take on ancient technology, Cargill, one of the world’s biggest charterers of ships, is to add state-of-the art sails to a vessel early next year to test whether wind power can cut its carbon emissions, a top company executive said. With about 90 percent of world trade transported by sea, shipping accounts […]

How Did India Benefit from Western Technology?

Over the past few years, India immensely benefited from Western technologies in various aspects. For a country with a relatively fractured economy, technology swooped in to simplify and accelerate mass production for an extensively increased population, allowing them to improve their production of raw materials, typically traded in global economies. Adopting western technology in India […]

U.S. Tech Companies Yank Job Offers, Leaving College Grads Scrambling

One by one, over the last week of May, Twitter Inc rang up some members of its incoming class of new hires who had recently graduated from college and revoked the job offers in 15-minute calls, according to some of the recipients. “It was traumatic,” Iris Guo, an incoming associate product manager living in Toronto, […]

Crypto Giant Tether to Launch Sterling-Pegged Stablecoin

Major crypto firm Tether said on Wednesday it will launch next month a “stablecoin” pegged to the British pound, a move that comes as London draws up plans to regulate the fast-growing type of digital currency. Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies designed to keep a steady value against traditional currencies or commodities such as gold. They seek […]

The Big Tech Telecoms Convergence: Dream or Disaster?

Big Tech’s entry into telecoms is shaking up the industry 2021 was a huge year for tech giants and telecoms with Google, Verizon and most recently Amazon Web Services (AWS) all announcing plans to enter the telecoms space. The convergence of Big Tech telecoms is nothing new and each company has their own plans to […]

Computer Chip Giant ASML Places Big Bets on a Tiny Future

ASML, a semiconductor industry and stock market giant, has to think smaller. Or maybe bigger. It is building machines the size of double-decker buses, weighing over 200 tonnes, in its quest to produce beams of focused light that create the microscopic circuitry on computer chips used in everything from phones and laptops to cars and […]

Top Tech Skills to Learn in 2022

The future is for the techies. For some years, technology firms have been the most profitable businesses worldwide. It appears that tech businesses will maintain their dominance in the coming decades. If you are looking for a career that is challenging, financially abundant, and guaranteed to expand, then the following the below tech are the […]