UnitedMasters announces a $50 million investment led by Apple. …read more Source:: CNet

It’s all about driving down costs on OCI… so it can compete with AWS, claims analyst Oracle has launched a free service it hopes will convince more customers to shift their applications to the cloud – Oracle’s cloud, that is.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Less than 20% of those from less privileged backgrounds have managed to work from home through the Covid-19 pandemic; digital models are playing a key role in education and consumption of goods, according to a new study. …read more Source:: ZDNet

One of our most precise mechanisms for controlling matter has now been applied to antimatter atoms for the first time. From a report: Laser cooling, which slows the motion of particles so they can be measured more precisely, can make antihydrogen atoms slow down by an order of magnitude. Antimatter particles have the same mass…

An anonymous reader shares a report: In 2019, the U.S. sanctioned two major Chinese telecom firms, temporarily cutting them off from a vital supply of semiconductor chips — bits of silicon wafer and microscopic circuitry that help run nearly all our electronic devices. Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. promised a way out, toward self-reliance in…

Today, March 31st is World Backup Day 2021, the 10th anniversary of the inaugural World Backup Day in 2011. Though the day serves as a reminder to backup your data, this process should be done frequently to offset the risk of data loss – or the intentional or unintentional destruction of information, which may be…

Global pandemic and sanctions? Yes, they played a bit part too Huawei was forced to rely solely on the buying power of its domestic customers in calendar 2020 as foreign trade melted away in the face of US-led sanctions and a global pandemic.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Another report posits a timeline for a mixed reality device from Apple. …read more Source:: CNet

Luxury vehicles are the best buys, while a Tesla Model 3? Not so much. …read more Source:: CNet

‘We’re hacking the process of creating qubits’. Quantum Motion says that its latest experiment paves the way for large-scale, practical quantum computers. …read more Source:: ZDNet