Masayuki Uemura, a Japanese home computer game pioneer whose Nintendo consoles sold millions of units worldwide, has died, according to the university in Kyoto where he taught. He was 78. Uemura, the lead architect behind Nintendo Co.’s trailblazing home game consoles, died Monday, Ritsumeikan University said in a statement. The cause of his death was […]
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France has opened 400 investigations into networks providing fake COVID-19 health passes, the interior minister said Sunday, as virus-related hospitalizations rise sharply across the country. The case of a woman with the virus who died in a Paris regional hospital after showing a false vaccine certificate has drawn attention in French media in recent days. […]
When social networking titan Facebook emerged to the scene back in 2004, no one predicted the global and social overtake of what soon became a digital and societal phenomenon. The impact this company had on a worldwide scale presented to other social networking companies, such as Twitter, Snapchat, and LinkedIn, the needed means to flourish […]
A critical vulnerability in a widely used software tool — one quickly exploited in the online game Minecraft — is rapidly emerging as a major threat to organizations around the world. “The internet’s on fire right now,” said Adam Meyers, senior vice president of intelligence at the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. “People are scrambling to patch,” […]
General Motors and a joint-venture partner plan to build an electric vehicle battery factory in Lansing, Michigan, their third such factory in the U.S. The companies’ plans were revealed Friday in documents posted on the city’s website. They say the plant would cost up to $2.5 billion and employ as many as 1,700 workers. The […]
Technology companies led a rally on Wall Street that powered the S&P 500 to an all-time high and gave the index its best weekly gain since February. The S&P 500 rose 1%, enough to recoup its losses from a day earlier. The benchmark index closed higher four of the last five days, finishing 3.8% higher […]
General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle subsidiary plans to start running a fully autonomous taxi service in San Francisco next year. Doug Parks, GM’s product development and purchasing chief, told analysts Thursday that he has ridden in a Cruise vehicle with no driver and the company is very close to deploying the service. “The technology is […]
In its bid for Julian Assange extradition, the U.S. government won on Friday an appeal in its year-long battle to involve the WikiLeaks founder in litigation, to face charges of espionage for publicizing confidential documents from the State Department. In January, the UK high court ruled that the founder will not be expedited for the […]
As the world grows ever more digitalized, infrastructure has been thrust into the limelight; and with the relative emergence of 5G, smart city development, and cloud gaming around the world, the need for Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) companies continues to exponentially grow. According to a recent report by ResearchandMarkets, the IaaS market is expected to reach $74.63 […]
General Motors has taken two more steps to make sure it has the raw materials for the transition from petroleum to battery power, this time lining up magnets for electric vehicle motors. On Thursday the company said it has a deal with MP Materials to supply rare earth metals and finished magnets for the motors […]