The end of China’s ban on video game consoles won’t change anything – Quartz
This week, China said it will lift a ban on selling video game consoles and games in the country, the latest in a series of rules aimed at loosening restrictions on sales. But despite the nice-sounding sentiment that China is opening up, the fact is…
AT&T’s DirecTV Acquisition Completed After FCC Approval – InformationWeek – InformationWeek
Hours after the FCC gave final approval to the deal, AT&T announced it had completed its acquisition of DirecTV, a deal estimated at $49 billion. The integration of the two companies will occur over the coming months. 10 Most Reputable Tech Companies In The US…
Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It | WIRED – Wired
I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold. Though I hadn’t touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting, chilling the sweat on my back…
Kanye West’s Pan Am Games gig shows Toronto dreaming big – Canada – CBC … – CBC.ca
Kanye West has been awarded more than a dozen Grammy Awards, sold millions of albums and married into America’s reality TV royalty. But, for some Canadians, the rapper’s resumé is missing one key word to qualify him as a headliner for the Pan Am Games’ closing ceremony — Canadian. The organizers’…
Big data analytics accelerates Williams’ Formula One performance – V3.co.uk
Formula One cars are essentially big data factories on wheels. They have hundreds of sensors across many components collecting data on everything from fuel levels and engine performance, to oil temperature and tyre pressure. Turning that data into useful information to tweak a car’s performance…
Networks Are Like Mullets – Light Reading
Remember mullets? The unfortunate late-20th-century men’s hairstyle was neat and trimmed around the face and long and flowing down the neck. “Business in front, party in the back,” was the slogan. Service provider networks have become mullets. The parallel occurred to me during a panel…
Are Marketers Keeping Up With Evolving Buyer Behavior? – Business 2 Community
This screenshot from Shar VanBoskirk’s presentation deck offers stark truths about how we make decisions. Are marketers staking too much on their perceptions of their buyers’ journeys? Recent research from Forrester and Google suggests that buying behaviors are changing dramatically, throwing many marketing assumptions into…
Romancing the drone: Demand takes off in South Florida – Miami Herald
Step inside Animusoft’s Kendall offices, and you’ll see drones everywhere — large ones, little ones, drones that inspect, drones that pick fruit, and a few just for fun. Some are half-built; 3D printers are working 24/7 to create new parts. You might think this is…