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Microsoft is laying off 10,000 employees, and with it the company is axing social VR platform AltspaceVR and its XR interface framework, Mixed Reality Toolkit. We’ve written about the death of AltspaceVR once before. In the summer of 2017, the company announced...

For nearly a decade now, Apple’s Project Titan has remained the world’s greatest mystery on four wheels. What would an Apple Car look like? Why would a consumer tech company get into the car game? Who would build it, and how...

Amazon Air, the ecommerce giant’s dedicated cargo airline, has been launched in India with the aim of offering faster deliveries for more products, especially to customers in the top metros. While the company will continue to use third-party aircraft firms...

It might seem strange, but there is a bit of motorsport in all city cars. Just look at them a little closer. Even in the simplest sedan or hatchback, there are options that originated in motorsport, and only then became...

After a year in which technology companies announced massive layoffs, 2023 is looking no different — in fact, the year is starting off worse than 2022.The problem: Big Tech companies like Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce and Facebook went on a...

The server virtualization market has a new/old player that wants to make waves with keen pricing and a plan to improve its tech: XenServer. XenServer is a Citrix product the company acquired from XenSource in 2007 – a year in...

Life insurers could be overly optimistic about their ability to sell down assets in a crisis, the Bank of England has warned.The BoE’s Prudential Regulation Authority, which supervises the sector, put 16 life insurers through a stress test of credit...

Reports say that Microsoft could integrate AI within Bing as early as this year, and Google is also working on AI endeavors. But it you want to see what the future of AI-powered search engines are, right now, you need...

“IT spending remains recession-proof.” Thus spake John-David Lovelock, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner. This might raise eyebrows, given Big Tech’s big layoffs (more than 200,000 and counting) over the past 12 months. Lovelock’s views notwithstanding, Gartner very recently revised downward its...

Microsoft appears all in on artifical intelligence (AI), whether as an update to Windows 11 or a future “Windows 12” platform.During the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this month, Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay said AI is “the defining...