Announcements
A required lull for Autonomous Vehicles
Elon Musk's New Master Plan did not reveal a path forward for self-driving vehicles. However, this seems to be a conscious decision. There's a required slow progress path adopted by the industry for the capability to come through, which is also reasonably needed.
Globalization of Technology
Advancements in technology brought down the costs of moving goods, the costs of moving ideas and transferring knowledge, and the costs of remote access and usage of services, speeding up the role of technology in transforming economic structures.
Technology, Globalization, and War
Russian invasion of Ukraine and the international sanctions that followed it have given glimpses of the impact of technology industry and how the dynamics of this war could permanently change everything about a technology's influence or spread.
Google Cloud acquires Mandiant
Google's acquisition of the cybersecurity firm Mandiant Inc. enables it to provide a suite of end-to-end cloud security services to its customers. It should also help the company better compete with Microsoft and Amazon and raise its defenses against sophisticated cyberattacks.
Apple's TV+ Strategy. It raises many questions but receives only a few answers.
Apple has taken a unique path for its Apple TV+ service ever since its launch on November 1, 2019, considering how competitive online content streaming has gotten.