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Apple released iOS 14.4 beta 2 on Wednesday, January 13th, and users are already finding surprising new features in the code of the software update. One report reveals that the code in iOS 14.4 suggests that Apple is going to add a warning for users that have had their cameras…

SAP today reported preliminary results for 2020, showing the German enterprise software vendor serving up flat revenue and slightly improving profits, along with a worryingly notable drop in licence sales. For the full year ending December 31, total revenue was down 1 per cent year-on-year year to €27.34bn. Within that,…

Synopsis The company plans to use the fresh proceeds to repurchase equity from existing investors as well as invest in growth and international expansion.TNNGlobal software consultancy ThoughtWorks has secured $720 million financing from Singapore's , Mubadala Investment Company, Siemens AG, and Fidelity Management and Research, valuing the company at $4.6…

By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read BERLIN, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Business software group SAP forecast flat revenue and a decline in operating profit in 2021, as it released preliminary annual results that came at the high end of guidance slashed last autumn. Walldorf-based SAP said it expected adjusted revenue,…

China’s short-video wars are heating up “WE AIM TO be the most customer-obsessed company in the world,” declares the opening line in the 700-page prospectus from Kuaishou, a Chinese video app. The firm, launched a decade ago by a former software engineer at Google and another at Hewlett-Packard, boasts more…

IT leaders are swapping out project-based IT service delivery in favor of product development models predicated on business outcomes. masterzphotois / Getty Images The shift toward product-centric IT has accelerated of late, as more IT leaders find project-based delivery models untenable for achieving their digital transformation aspirations. In traditional project…

The pandemic has ushered more robots into factories, warehouses and back offices. They are here to stay MARY BARRA, boss of GM, took to the virtual stage on January 12th to launch BrightDrop. The carmaker’s new logistics division will peddle such unsexy things as delivery vans and autonomous electric pallets…

Without a doubt, the biggest questions about dreaming are all variants on this question: Why do we dream? We began studying dreaming in the early 1990s and, between the two of us, have published over 200 scientific papers on sleep and dreams. Pulling together a variety of compelling neuroscientific ideas…

Fire Emblem--your favorite RPG franchise that combines chess and dating--and Gilmore Girls got a fan-made crossover. The creator, Marlowe Dobb, borrowed the power of both cult classics to create an hour-long Fire Emblem Sacred Stones mod with characters and plotlines from Gilmore Girls. Mods are asleep time to share my…

The worst manager I ever had could slip frictionlessly between enthusiasm and furor, high fives and reprimands. He liked to stalk through the restaurant where we worked, his shiny shoes and shiny hair possessed of the same stiff, lacquered sheen. In crossing his path, you risked falling victim to his…