Nintendo has announced that it expects a decline in sales of its aging Switch console for the third consecutive year. The company forecasts sales to drop to 15 million units by March 2024, marking a 17 percent annual decrease. Despite supply chain issues easing and its games lineup strengthening, demand for the seven-year-old console is
WhatsApp is finally testing its much-awaited Wear OS app for compatible smartwatches. The feature was recently spotted in the latest WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.10.10 version. It is reportedly being rolled out to select WhatsApp for Android beta testers via the Google Play Store. Wear OS Support for Smartwatches According to a report by WABetaInfo,
Canadian airline, WestJet, has reached a tentative deal with its pilots union, following the cancellation of nearly 100 flights in anticipation of a strike. The Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA) had notified WestJet on Monday that 1,800 pilots would stop work starting early Friday morning if a deal was not reached with company executives
Sony Group is contemplating a partial spin-off of its financial business, Sony Financial Group, which includes life insurance and banking operations. The conglomerate is seeking to double down on its entertainment and image sensor businesses and is considering a timeline of two to three years to spin off Sony Financial Group. The newly listed business
On Friday, NASA announced that Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin had won a coveted contract to build a spacecraft that will send astronauts to and from the moon’s surface. This decision will give the agency a second ride to the moon under its Artemis program, after it awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX $3 billion in
MIT researchers have developed FlexBoard, a flexible breadboard that allows for rapid prototyping of interactive sensors, actuators, and displays on curved and deformable surfaces. The breadboard, which is made of thin plastic, connects two pieces of the same material via a living hinge pattern, similar to the caps of condiment bottles and the spines of
Microsoft has announced that China has unconditionally approved its plan to acquire video game company Activision Blizzard. China and the European Union are the two largest economies that have approved Microsoft’s planned $69 billion takeover of the California-based game publisher, which is responsible for popular titles such as World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and
The European Union’s antitrust regulators have launched a query to Microsoft’s rivals regarding the kind of customer data required by the US tech giant as part of their Azure cloud contracts. This inquiry comes six months after a trade group, Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE), which includes Amazon, filed a complaint about Microsoft’s
ClearML, an open-source AI solutions company, has unveiled its new generative AI platform named ClearGPT. The platform aims to enable organizations to deploy and utilize large language models (LLMs) at scale. ClearGPT’s unique feature is its customization of LLMs, aligning them with the specific data of an enterprise, and ensuring complete protection of intellectual property,
Twitter is accusing Microsoft of using the social media company’s data in unauthorized ways. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, an attorney for Twitter owner Elon Musk, sent a letter to Microsoft on Thursday, detailing the claims and accusing the software company of violating multiple provisions of its agreement with Twitter over data use. The letter