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Sony highlights PS5 momentum as hardware sales top 50 million

Sony is seeing strong momentum for its PlayStation 5 console, a senior games executive said, with lifetime sales exceeding 50 million units and the company recording its best-ever Black Friday period sales for the device.The entertainment conglomerate is looking for a strong performance from the PS5, which is in its fourth year on the market, durin...

Entry into force of the new Data Protection Act with Ordinance on 1 September 2023 - the most important facts in brief

hat's the latest?At its meeting on 31 August 2022, the Federal Council confirmed the entry into force of the new Data Protection Act (DPA) on 1 September 2023. The Federal Council also published the new Data Protection Ordinance (DPO) (as well as the new Ordinance on Data Protection Certification (ODPC), which will enter into force together with th...

June 2023: Data Implications for AI

We'll cover new ways for IT managers to be more productive and efficient in managing enterprise data and storage and making the best decisions, to dealing with ever-changing compliance issues, working with departments on data strategies, and understanding the new requirements for data management and AI. On that note, we’re launching our newslette...

Accenture forecasts Q2 revenue below estimates on muted IT spending

IT services provider Accenture forecast second-quarter revenue below Wall Street targets on Tuesday, anticipating cautious spending by clients as macroeconomic uncertainty remains an overhang.Analysts expect IT services expenditure to remain muted in the near term as businesses typically decide their annual budgets only after February. Accenture it...

Elon Musk: Social media platform X could go behind paywall

Elon Musk has suggested that all users of X, formerly called Twitter, may have to pay for access to the platform.In a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the billionaire said a payment system was the only way to counter bots."We're moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the system," the Tesla and SpaceX boss sa...

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Technology

9 COMMON USES OF CLOUD COMPUTING

There are many uses of cloud computing that can offer significant business advantages to companies. Cloud computing is a computing model and set of technologies that allows consumers to access cloud services using the Internet on a pay-as-you-go basis.Despite being a relatively new paradigm that came into mass favour only within the last several ye...

Industry

The next era in aerospace supply chain evolution?

Shortly after becoming CEO of Ford Motor Co., former Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief Alan Mulally was asked if he was ready for the complexity of the automotive industry. “An automobile has about 10,000 moving parts, right? An airplane has 2 million, and it has to stay up in the air,” he reminded his Detroit audience. It is no surprise t...

Materials Science: The Unsung Hero

Few recognize the vast implications of materials science.To build today’s smartphone in the 1980s, it would cost about $110 million, require nearly 200 kilowatts of energy, and the device would be 14 meters tall, according to Applied Materials CTO Omkaram Nalamasu.That's the power of materials advances. Materials science has democratized smartpho...

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Microsoft's boost in profits and revenue as it pushes AI

Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, reported a strong boost in profits and revenue for its fiscal third quarter, driven by strong sales of its cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) services.The company reported revenue of $41.7 billion for the quarter, up 19% from the same period last year, while net income rose to $15.5 billi...