Technology

Following the withdrawals of multiple major companies from MWC 2020, the GSMA is reconsidering whether the show will be cancelled or postponed until spring due to the coronavirus pandemic. The deliberations are continuing as both exhibiting and attending companies bow out one by one from the event, most recently including …

(Reuters) — Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur whose unlikely White House bid evolved into a serious campaign thanks to grassroots enthusiasm, pulled out of the Democratic presidential race on Tuesday after New Hampshire delivered him a second straight poor showing. Yang, 45, who ran for president despite having no political background, surprised …

At its Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2020 event today, the South Korean tech giant announced the Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+, and Galaxy S20 Ultra, successors to the Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10, and Galaxy S10+. The company also announced the Galaxy Z Flip, but we’re just focusing on the main three. These …

Four out of ten enterprises report that they’re using Kubernetes, the open-source container-orchestration framework for automating app deployment, scaling, and management, in production environments. But challenges like management complexity, time-to-deploy, and unforeseen bugs threaten to diminish the productivity gains. That’s why former Apple senior manager Matt Provo in 2015 cofounded …

Intel became the latest tech company to drop out of the Mobile World Congress event coming up in Barcelona, out of fears about the spread of the coronavirus. “The safety and wellbeing of all our employees and partners is our top priority, and we have withdrawn from this year’s Mobile …

The White House’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 includes sizable increases in federal funding for AI and quantum computing projects. All told, the overall increase in federal R&D funding is 6% compared to fiscal year 2020, reaching $ 142.2 billion. Although much of the funding is aimed at R&D …

THQ Nordic has a new studio in Bratislava, Slovakia called Nine Rocks Games. This team plans to begin work on an unnamed “survival/shooter” game immediately. “We welcome the newest addition to the THQ Nordic network of studios: Nine Rocks Games,” THQ Nordic CEO Klemens Kreuzer said. “I personally think it …

Golf Pool VR does pretty much exactly what you would expect from it. That’s right — you play 8-ball pool with a golf club in VR. Golf Pool VR has five different environments across 10 single-player levels, and it also features a two-player competitive mode. The trailer shows one of …

Strategy is almost a foul word today, the result of too many costly, high-level strategy projects in which considerable effort concludes with a fancy presentation that is neither actionable nor practical. All too often, such projects fail to provide adequate information for companies to make sound strategic decisions, defeating the …