Nvidia postpones its GTC 2020 news due to Coronavirus
Promises tons of content from researchers and developers
Nvidia has decided to postpone its GTC 2020 news for some better times and almost completely cancel the event, scaling it down to just content from researchers and developers.
Amazon to hire 100,000 workers
Online orders surge
Amazon.com is hiring 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers in the United States to deal with a surge in online orders, as many consumers have turned to the web to meet their needs during the coronavirus outbreak.
Microsoft Teams crashes under coronavirus pressure
Cloud had no silver lining
Microsoft Teams was not ready for huge numbers of people working from home due to the coronavirus.
Apple fined for running another cartel
Repeat offence
The fruity cargo cult called Apple does not appear to have learnt its lesson and has been caught operating another cartel to shut out its rivals.
Steam growing on the back of coronavirus
More than 20 million users
One of the knock-on effects of people working from home and practicing social isolation as coronavirus spreads is that more people than ever are using Valve's digital gaming platform.
Windows 10 now on a billion machines
If you don’t want it you have to self-isolate
Windows 10 is now running on over 1 billion monthly active devices, just six months after passing the 900 million device milestone.
Microsoft spills the beans on Xbox Series X
Full specs out
Microsoft has provided detailed tech specs for its forthcoming Xbox Series X gaming console.
Dixons Carphone shuts down
2,900 jobs gone
Dixons Carphone has said it will axe 2,900 jobs under plans to close all 531 of its standalone Carphone Warehouse stores.
Tech industry still favours younger developers
Experience is a bad thing for engineers
The tech jobs marketplace at Hired.com crunched some numbers on 400,000 interview requests and job offers over the last year to produce their annual "State of Software Engineers" report and discovered that software engineers with more than ten years of experience get 20 percent fewer interview requests than engineers with four to ten years coding.
Amazon and Google ramp up data gathering from speakers
Smart speakers require continuous status-change updates from devices
Since 2019 smart speakers from Amazon, Google have been requiring continuous status-change updates from devices.