Month November 2022

Amazon will be shutting down Amazon Academy, an online learning platform it launched in India for high-school students last year, the company said Thursday. The retailer says it will wind down the edtech service in the country in a phased… Continue Reading →

After a year of tumult at Warner Bros. Discovery, we can be thankful for at least one streaming blessing this holiday season: David Zaslav hasn’t kicked Doom Patrol to the curb…yet. Despite a raft of cancellation rumors this past summer,… Continue Reading →

Shipments of integrated and discrete graphics processing units dropped to a 10-year low in the third quarter as PC OEMs reduced procurements of CPUs, and gamers lowered their purchases of existing graphics cards while waiting for next-generation products. From a… Continue Reading →

Enlarge (credit: Theo Wargo / Staff | WireImage) When “Chief Twit” Elon Musk launched a poll to decide whether to reinstate Donald Trump’s Twitter account, many wondered what happened to Musk’s plan to form a “widely diverse” content moderation council… Continue Reading →

Shares of Zoom have tumbled about 90% from their pandemic peak in October 2020 as the former investor darling struggles to adjust to a post-COVID world. Reuters reports: The stock was down nearly 10% on Tuesday after the company cut… Continue Reading →

FeedLand has a really simple websockets interface that connects the browser-based client with the server. The same interface can be used in server apps, or other clients. Here’s a simple demo app in Node.js that shows how it works. Please… Continue Reading →

Back in my day, TV shows had the decency to return from hiatus every September, like clockwork. In the streaming arena, that clock is broken. Shows return whenever they feel like it. Two half-length seasons six weeks apart? A full… Continue Reading →