After a decade of streaming, Google pulls the plug on its Chromecast family of devices. Google isn’t giving up on streaming hardware however. The company will still compete with AppleTV 4K and Firesticks with the Google Streamer. The Chromecast debuted in 2013 after Apple proved its hobby, Apple TV, was a viable business unto itself....
Technology is poised to take the tallest podium at this year’s Olympics. The Paris 2024 games will be the first streaming-first Olympics and AI will be used everywhere. Streaming Forward The 2024 Olympics is being dubbed as a streaming-first Olympics. In previous years, NBC spread Olympics coverage across its network properties: USA, Telemundo, E!, and...
Yesterday, Rite-Aid, the United States’ third largest pharmacy chain, reported 2.2 million customers data have been exposed to hackers and would-be thieves. The breach included names, addresses, phone numbers, and drivers license numbers. Who Was Affected? Rite-Aid claims consumers in Oregon, Vermont, Maine, and Massachusetts were potentially in the leak. Also, the breach affected customers...
Earlier this week, the International Olympic Committee and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced the Olympics Esports partnership. Over the next 12 years, the IOC will be hosting a standalone Esports Olympics competing in racing games, strategy games, and of course Call of Duty. The Esports edition of the Olympics will feature equal competition with...
(Image credit, Associated Press) Nvidia surpassed Microsoft as the world’s most valuable company this week. At $135 per share, Nvidia closed yesterday’s trading day with a $3.34 trillion valuation. Microsoft closed the trading day at $3.32 trillion. Nvidia is being pushed by the mania surrounding the AI marketplace. June has been a wild month for...
After Wendy’s ended its demand pricing scheme and tested its own AI ordering systems, McDonald’s has decided to pull the plug on its agent based ordering experience. The system was a collaboration between Mickey D’s and IBM. One hundred restaurants originally signed on to pilot the project. McDonald’s customers would roll up to the drive...
I don’t know who will play Elon Musk in a biopic documenting his successes and failures in life as an industrialist and family man. Whoever plays him will hopefully nail the irrationalism that once made him an admired ‘Howard Hughes of Gen X’, to whining poster boy of social derelict nerds. Musk’s latest tantrum was...
You may not have known this, but if you drive specific cars from GM and other automakers your driving data may have been sold to insurance companies. Say What? Yesterday, Verisk, a company that sold drivers’ performance data to GM, Honda, and Hyundai has stopped receiving driving data from automakers. Verisk collected driving analytics from...
On Sunday, Santander Bank announced it was hacked by a group attempting sell customer and employee data on the dark web. Santander is reporting all of its staff information has been leaked, and millions of customer account and personal details are compromised. Santander is reporting NO TRANSACTIONAL DATA including credentials, passwords, and other information that...
There are two things that turn push me beyond being purely patriotic, and into jingoistic territory. One is the US Space Program, especially NASA’s run up to the Space Shuttle Program. The US Space Program impact has given commercial space flight companies, a tax payer funded edge in bringing about consumer space travel. The second...