Despite his relative youth, sociologist and economist Philipp Staab (Nuremberg, 1983) is already considered one of the most influential German intellectuals. A professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin, this expert on technology and labor market issues has just published his latest book in English, Markets and power in digital capitalism (Ed. Manchester University Press, […]
Tag: Technological
US sues Apple for monopoly and closes siege on its big tech companies
The US government filed a lawsuit against Apple this Thursday, accusing the multinational company of creating a monopoly in the iPhone model smartphone market. The suit, filed in federal court in New Jersey, is the first major antitrust effort by the Biden administration against Apple. “We argue that Apple strengthened its monopoly power, not by […]
Escrivá announces a new state fund of 20,000 million for technological investments
Digital Transformation Minister José Luis Escrivá announced Monday in Barcelona the creation of the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT), which will concentrate all investments in strategic technological sectors and which may include state participation in Telefónica. In an intervention to the press within the framework of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), Escrivá explained that […]
Carriers are turning their networks into ‘supercomputers’ to compete with big tech companies for services
The big telcos find themselves in a part of the digital business they don’t want to be in. In recent years, their position in the value chain has reduced them to mere infrastructure providers, with a costly commitment to maintain and expand it, but without the wide profit margins enjoyed by the technology companies that […]
Taylor Swift vs. Artificial Porn Shows Tech Companies Still Don’t Protect Women (or Democracy)
Taylor Swift is perhaps the most famous woman on the planet. It’s not just to represent the biggest musical event of the moment, but to give new meaning to the phenomenon of fandom, to fight against the recording industry in favor of the rights of singers or to re-record their own songs to escape their […]
Our Everyday Cyberpunk: Technological Progress, Collapse, and Humanity on the Brink
One of the fathers of literary science fiction, EG Wells (The Invisible Man) characterized the inclusion of socialist ideas in his novels. And this is not what everyone likes. We often remember the phrase attributed to him by the brilliant GK Chesterton (The Man Who Was Thursday): Wells was a storyteller who sold his natural […]
We drive Mazda’s latest technology ‘rara avis’
Although it is not the only brand that maintains a similar point of view, Japan’s Mazda stands out for the way it defends technological diversity as the only effective way to achieve car decarbonization. According to the Hiroshima firm, the world is wide as the needs of consumers differ depending on where they live in […]
Gaza, Taiwan and technological warfare mark the second face-to-face agenda between Biden and Xi.
US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have not spoken in person since the G20 summit in Bali exactly one year ago. Then, after a three-and-a-half-hour meeting, they wanted to begin a rapprochement after a breakdown in military communications following a visit to Taiwan in August 2022 by Nancy Pelosi, then the […]
People vs. Big tech companies: Key to US macro lawsuits against Meta, Amazon and Google
There are people are the first three words of the US Constitution. People vs. It is also the formula used in state courts when the state faces a third party in a lawsuit. Now, for the first time in almost 20 years, the index finger The village It targets the big tech companies in Silicon […]
Dan Lyons, Technology Journalist: “Quitting social media is like quitting cigarettes: It makes you a healthier person.”
“There is no need to argue on Twitter. You don’t look intelligent, witty, or dominant. You don’t look like intellectuals engaging in philosophical debates. You are like a person who goes to the zoo to fight monkeys who shoot each other. You can’t win. You seem stupid and weak. Go”. This provocative advice is one […]
Douglas Rushkoff: “Tech Billionaires Know They’re Driving the World to Collapse and Want to Escape”
When you talk to technologists from outside Silicon Valley, they all agree that workers in the Valley have their own ideologies that aren’t as prevalent outside of it. “They see computers as the inevitable future of humanity, almost like a religion,” a computer scientist working at DARPA, the US Advanced Research Projects Agency, explained to […]
European Justice Opens Door to Competition to Control Privacy Breach by Tech Companies
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) recognized the right of each country’s competition authorities to investigate possible violations of data protection regulations within the scope of their activities. In a ruling published this Tuesday, the Community Magistrates give competition agencies the power to monitor these violations by technology companies and order them […]
Austral: a hybrid with four-wheel drive and the best technological display
Accustomed to large volumes, Renault is one of those brands that is remembered from generation to generation for promoting technologies that hardly fit into a more or less affordable price scenario. And it is that when the French group puts a new model on the market, it is natural to start seeing it in every […]
250,000 Tech Layoffs Are Already Up: What Are Those Left Behind?
The end of 2022 was black for technology employment. A wave of layoffs began, destroying more than 150,000 jobs. The problem is that 2023 is off to a much worse start: January broke all records for job losses, with another 88,000 layoffs in a single month. Almost a quarter of a million people have lost […]
Tech companies’ profits slow after pandemic boom
Big technology companies in the United States have slowed growth since the pandemic boom, a reversal of the trend that is expected to lead to its 2022 stock market crash and which is now reflected in the latest results released this Thursday night. After a spectacular performance in 2021, last year Amazon registered its first […]
Tech layoffs continue: IBM and SAP put another 6,900 out of a job
The end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023 are bleak for workers in the technology sector. IBM and German giant SAP have joined the list of multinationals cutting workforces. They agreed on both the timing of the announcement and the number of employees to be laid off: 3,900 by IBM and 3,000 by SAP. […]
Microsoft joins technology hiring spree by cutting 10,000 jobs
Microsoft announced this Wednesday that it plans to lay off 5% of its workforce throughout 2023, which equates to roughly 10,000 workers. In a statement sent to employees, the multinational described the decision as the need to cut costs due to the decline in digital business following the pandemic and international economic difficulties. Also due […]
Hyundai Kona produces a design more in line with its technological load
The Korean firm Hyundai recently presented the futuristic design that the new generation of one of its most successful models, the Kona, will exhibit in its 100% electric variant. With its updated aesthetics, this compact SUV refreshes an image that has become somewhat outdated and, above all, is more in line with the technological load […]