So far this week, several news have appeared that have caused interest and surprise in the technological world.
So far this week, several news have appeared that have caused interest and surprise in the technological world.
These are the main ones that have been talked about:
Android will “travel” with Ford from 2023
Starting in 2023, the entire Google suite will be available on Ford cars, thanks to a six-year agreement between the two US companies.
The use of the Android operating system and software such as Google Assistant, Google Maps and Google Play will serve to “accelerate Ford’s transformation and reinvent the connected vehicle experience,” according to the joint statement.
The agreement also means that Ford will begin to use Google Cloud as of the end of this year for the supervision and quality control of production robots as well as for the training of its employees and to improve the customer experience, although not in a way. exclusive.
Jeff Bezos will leave the Amazon address
Jeff Bezos, who took Amazon from being an initiative born in a garage 27 years ago to becoming a commercial and service emporium, took advantage of the presentation of record annual results last Tuesday, with a profit of 21.331 million dollars, to anticipate that he will leave the position of CEO in the middle of the year.
The richest man in the world, according to the Forbes list, will then become CEO and cede the top spot to Andy Jassy, who runs the firm’s most profitable business segment, Amazon Web Services.
The “gamers” take “virtually” Viña del Mar
Perhaps in this southern summer the airs of the Chilean Viña del Mar will not be filled with the musical notes of its traditional festival on behalf of the covid-19, but they will be plagued by thousands of megabytes per second that come and go in the ” EWU Summer Viña del Mar Open “, the world’s first virtual video game tournament.
Scheduled between January 28 and February 14, the event offers fans of the world “gamer” the chance to win up to $ 2,000 and products related to the industry.
Titles like “Call Of Duty Mobile”, “Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Mobile” and “Garena Free Fire”, the most downloaded for cell phones in 2019, are part of the contest.
“Let yourself be followed,” says Facebook
The “war” between Facebook and Apple is still open, and this time the giant co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg will launch a campaign on the social network and on Instagram to try to convince iPhone users to accept third-party web tracking and cancel thus the potential effects of the new privacy restrictions promoted by the company of the bitten apple.
Facebook explained that the campaign will consist of pop-ups in which web monitoring will be justified as a way to help companies and receive personalized advertisements and not as an interference in the privacy of personal data, as claimed by Apple.
Want to know more about the GameStop-Wall Street scandal? Watch it on Netflix
Less than a week has passed since a group of small investors shook Wall Street and Netflix is already preparing a film that will narrate the phenomenon whereby the high price of shares of GameStop, a company on the verge of bankruptcy, disrupted the multi-million dollar fund plans.
According to an exclusive from the newspaper Deadline, specialized in Hollywood, Netflix is negotiating a film about the case, which, according to the same medium, would star Noah Centineo (“To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before”, “Black Adam”) with a script written by Mark Boal.
In addition, it would not be the only film project on the event, as MGM has acquired the rights to the draft of a book on GameStop that will be written by Ben Mezrich.
A monkey that will play with the mind
Elon Musk is going one step further in every way. A company founded by him, Neuralink, implanted a chip in the brain of a monkey to use a video game with his mind, according to the controversial businessman.
“We have a monkey with a wireless implant in his skull, with little wires, who can play video games with his mind,” Musk said in a talk on various topics on the new ClubHouse video social network.
According to Musk, the animal is “not uncomfortable” and his goal is to see if the monkeys can be made to mentally play “Pong” against each other, as part of his research to develop a wireless brain-device interface. .
In Central America you have to look at “the cloud”
Today, looking at “the cloud” is not synonymous with being distracted, and perhaps the one who is “elevated” is the one who does not see the benefits of moving all the digital business strategy to a non-physical space.
