What Amazon’s NBA deal means for the future of sports media rights

It was not exactly a fast break. When the NBA last week officially spurned Warner Bros. Discovery’s attempts to continue a 40-year partnership between the league and WBD subsidiary, TNT Sports, opting instead for a deal with Amazon Prime, it was the end of a long, slow,

Netflix plans compared: how to best balance price and features

I don’t mean to brag, but I’ve gotten pretty awesome at jumping back and forth between Netflix rate plans.

Why? Because they keep going up and I keep throttling down. I’m a cheapskate.

But I also have three kids, and their collective interest in Netflix—which ebbs and flows—determines which plan I need to subscribe to in order to keep them all happy.

And while I can assure you that Netflix will inevitably raise its rates at some point in the future, here’s what

Here’s how to get Apple Intelligence on your iPhone today before iOS 18 launches this fall. (But be warned)

If you’re excited to get your hands on Apple’s new generative AI platform, known as Apple Intelligence, I have some good news and some bad news for you. First, the bad news: Apple Intelligence, the flagship feature of the iPhone’s upcoming iOS 18 software update, will now reportedly not be immediately available when iOS 18.0 launches in September. The company has said

Justice Department sues TikTok for alleged child privacy law violation

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against TikTok and its parent company ByteDance on Friday, alleging that the social media company repeatedly violated a federal online privacy act. 

The Justice Department, along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), alleged that TikTok is in breach of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, also known as COPPA. 

The act

CIOs have never been more important to a company’s success

Despite all the technological innovation over the past 30 years, we are still asking the same data quality questions. Is my data accurate, complete, consistent? No wonder the issue isn’t going away: Without high quality data, enterprises can’t be data-driven. And if enterprises are not data-driven, there are greater instances of inefficiency, missed opportunities, and ultimately, financial loss. And no enterprise—regardless of size—can afford to operate like that. 

Gartner’s

CrowdStrike showed us the risks of over-automation. Will we heed the warning?

Last month’s CrowdStrike incident was preventable. Even though the company claims to have testing protocols, it still managed to release buggy software in an automated update that caused tremendous damage and inconvenience to thousands of people. There are many factors that contributed to this mistake, and some of them have to do with people, assumptions, and misapplied startup culture.

The computerized systems that run most of the world we depend on (shipping, rail and air freight

Intel stock plunges on layoffs and earnings report, sinking AI chip stocks Nvidia, TSMC,  and ARM too

Shares in Intel Corporation (ticker: INTC) are trading sharply lower in premarket this morning after the chip giant posted disappointing Q2 earnings yesterday, as well as announcing a massive round of layoffs to get its costs under control. As of the time of this writing, Intel shares are down over 20% in premarket trading.

Intel’s share price drop adds to a

Robocars vs. traffic lights: Which are better at controlling traffic flow?

Robotic vehicles can optimize the flow of traffic in cities even when mixed in with vehicles driven by humans, thereby improving traffic efficiency, safety, and energy consumption, my colleagues and I found.

Robot vehicles are no longer a sci-fi concept: Cities around the world have been testing

How crypto became an election issue again in 2024

Last week, Donald Trump spoke in front of the world’s biggest Bitcoin conference in Nashville. The Republican presidential nominee, who has for months positioned himself as the “crypto candidate,” reportedly raised $21 million at the event; just days after the conference he began selling a lim

Why people are trying to save NASA’s VIPER mission

VIPER isn’t going down without a fight. 

Planetary science fans are asking Congress to step in after NASA unexpectedly pulled the plug on the VIPER—short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover—mission this month. More than 2,000 supporters ranging from engineers to space enthusiasts signed a letter last week led by the Planetary Society asking lawma


Suche