Technology

It's another fight between two of the richest people in the world. News reports claim that Microsoft founder Bill Gates would donate money to boycott Twitter, which Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk calls a "shit prank".   “Sigh”. Just one word, but one with a lot of meaning. Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk wrote the word on Twitter in response to a news article alleging Microsoft founder Bill Gates donated “hundreds of millions of dollars” to groups behind a campaign urging advertisers to boycott Twitter. if Musk takes over the platform. Under another article with the same content, he wrote "What a dick move", which means "what a shitty prank". This is not the first time the two have openly argued. Gates has criticized Musk's possible takeover of Twitter in the past. He said Musk mig...

Video conferencing company Zoom has completed a new acquisition. With Solvvy, it adds customer support AI to its portfolio.   The move appears to be part of a broader plan to expand Zoom from its familiar voice and video chats to a platform for large businesses. With the lockdowns that made Zoom so popular in much of the world gone, the company has been expanding its portfolio for a while now. With Solvvy, it has acquired an automation platform for contact centres containing the necessary AI. Zoom already introduced Zoom Contact Center last year, allowing companies to provide their customers with the well-known video chat, but with voice, SMS and live chat. Solvvy's software fits neatly into this. The aim is to build the AI software into the Zoom Contact Center Platform. The acqui...

Nintendo expects to sell a lot fewer Switch consoles this year than last year. The Japanese game console company reported this when it presented its annual figures.   Nintendo made fewer game consoles last year due to the persistent chip shortage. Turnover was slightly lower than a year earlier due to lower sales than during the global lockdowns. However, many people were at home more than, and gaming became a welcome form of entertainment for many in the gloomy corona. In the current year, Nintendo expects to sell 21 million Switch consoles. Last year there were more than 23 million. Nintendo posted a turnover of 1.7 trillion yen in the past broken financial year, which ran until the end of March. That is almost 4 percent less than a year earlier. As a result, net profit fell by...