Monthly Archives: August 2022

The Metaverse Report Preview

The metaverse can be considered any mixed-reality realm that, while rooted in real life, lets participants collaborate and transact in immersive virtual spaces via augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) headsets and controllers. The metaverse has the potential to disrupt everything from business travel and the future of work to gaming, health and fitness, entertainment,…

Germany wants to shift from Russian to Canadian natural gas supplies at ‘warp speed,’ but developing LNG export capacity could take years

German finance minister Scholz holds news conference on tax revenues, in Berlin Reuters Germany wants to move away from Russian natural gas at “warp speed,” the German chancellor said Tuesday. Although Canada has said a partnership with would be doable, researchers doubt extra supplies will come from Canada soon enough.  Canada currently doesn’t have export…

Paul Pelosi changes his plea to guilty and is sentenced to 5 days in jail in California DUI case

United States Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi in London in 2021. Leon Neal/Getty Images Paul Pelosi has been sentenced to five days in jail after a DUI charge in May this year. The husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, previously plead not guilty to the charges. But…

A whistleblower said Jack Dorsey was disengaged about cybersecurity, but the former Twitter CEO has brushed off such concerns before, reportedly saying experts ‘like to whine a lot’

Jack Dorsey co-founder and chairman of Twitter and co-founder and CEO of Square. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Jack Dorsey was “disengaged” about cybersecurity in his final year at Twitter, alleges a whistleblower.  Dorsey dismissed fears about hacking at Twitter and Block as early as 2011, saying cybersecurity experts “whine a lot.”  Twitter rebuffed the whistleblower allegation,…

Microsoft and Amazon reportedly halt plans to build data centers in Ireland

Power shortages and the threat of rolling blackouts in Ireland likely means no new Microsoft and Amazon data centers. The Timesreported that a moratorium on new connections by Ireland’s state-owned electric utility EirGrid means a planned €2 billion data center expansion by the tech giants will be put on hold. The country’s existing data centers…