People might have moved indoors during the 2020 pandemic, but they didn’t stop shopping. In a wave that caused a reported 10-year jump in online buying technologies, e-commerce became de rigueur. Businesses that kept up were able to stay afloat and ride unprecedented Black Friday weekend waves. Companies Helping... Read more

Creepy or hilarious? Still not sure which… A24 From the studio behind Midsommar and Hereditary comes one of the weirdest movie concepts yet: a horror movie about a man and a woman raising a half lamb, half human child.  No, I’m not joking. And not only does this movie... Read more

On June 7, Isabelle de Silva, a little-known French regulator, made global headlines. After a painstaking investigation, which de Silva describes as the most complex she has been involved in, the French Competition Agency, or FCA, hit Google with a $260 million fine. Google, de Silva ruled, had been... Read more

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, took some time during the company’s analyst call on Monday to spell out the company’s efforts on diversity, equity and inclusion. Diversity rarely comes up during Wall Street analyst calls for... Read more

Jason Katims, the showrunner of Friday Night Lights, knew he had to be judicious when it came to deploying his show’s most famous catchphrase. The catchphrase, of course, is “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose,” a rallying cry that unites first the Dillon Panthers high school football team and... Read more

Getty Images Let’s say you’re a large company that has just shipped an employee a brand-new replacement laptop. And let’s say it comes preconfigured to use all the latest best security practices, including full-disk encryption using a trusted platform module, password-protected BIOS settings, UEFI SecureBoot, and virtually all other... Read more

It’s not 2028, but it might as well be from a digitization standpoint. According to McKinsey Research, the digital portfolios of many companies leapt forward by a whopping seven years. Why? Covid-related shifts in both workforce operations and consumer behaviors prompted organizations to change — and change fast. In... Read more

The Asus Chromebook Flip CM5 is ready for cloud gaming. Josh Goldman/CNET The Asus Chromebook Flip CM5 is different than what you might be used to seeing in the world of Chromebooks. It’s not bland gray and plasticky like entry-level models, but it’s also not slim and silver aluminum... Read more

Before the game reveals at Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest last month, the host took to Twitter to announce several accessibility initiatives for his event. Not only would disabled viewers have access to an ASL costream led by Chris “DeafGamersTV” Robinson, they also had the opportunity to tune into... Read more

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. The traditional way for a database to answer a query is with a list of rows that fit the criteria. If there’s any sorting, it’s done by one field at a time. Vector similarity search looks for... Read more