Chipmaker NVIDIA announced Tuesday (Jan. 4) that its a free version of its Omniverse is available to millions of NVIDIA Studio creators using GeForce RTX and NVIDIA RTX graphics processing units (GPUs). “With Omniverse, NVIDIA’s real-time 3D design collaboration and virtual world simulation platform, artists,...
President Joe Biden has praised a deal between AT&T and Verizon that will allow the deployment of new 5G wireless in the next two weeks, saying it had prevented an air traffic safety emergency. As Reuters reported Tuesday (Jan. 4), two wireless companies agreed Monday...
The CEOs of AT&T and Verizon have both rejected calls to delay their new 5G wireless rollouts scheduled for Wednesday (Jan. 5) over aviation concerns, Reuters reported. Instead, both have offered to put in new safeguards for the time being. Despite warnings from Transportation Secretary...
The blockchain-based metaverse Decentraland is having a fashion show. A real — well, “real” — one, with models, catwalks and even afterparties. Actually, according to Decentraland partner UNXD, a luxury crypto marketplace that just hosted an NFT drop with real-world fashion house Dolce&Gabbana, it’s a...
Drawing the attention of tech firms to what it estimates is an $8.3 trillion market, AARP recently launched AgeTech Collaborative™ to drive tech innovation for seniors. Among the key partners at launch are Cooley, QED Investors, Walgreens and T. Rowe Price. In a statement, the...
Ferrari’s announcement on Monday (Dec. 20) that three senior managers are leaving the company and a new corporate structure will debut in January comes just over three months after a new CEO joined the company on Sept. 1. Perhaps reflecting the shape of cars to come, the background of that CEO,...
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said he isn’t sure about how the metaverse will mesh with normal, everyday work, Seeking Alpha reported. He said Slack has seen success with simpler technology. “It’s a little hard for me to imagine putting the goggles on all day,” he...
“Mama said there’ll be days like this,” says the 1960s hit song by the Shirelles — and for Amazon’s cloud service provider AWS, Tuesday (Dec. 7) was definitely one of those days. As news of the internet outages spread, reports of disruptions began to emerge,...
Business networks and communications are already moving to wireless networks and the cloud, and that will only increase as new applications for enterprise are built around the speed and capabilities of 5G. Börje Ekholm, CEO of Ericsson, outlined these developments Nov. 22 in a conference...
