Author: Adam E. Williams

Author: Adam E. Williams

Knotwords mashes Wordle with crossword puzzles – #incaseyoumissedit #knotwords #wordle #puzzles | #RoadmapforSuccess
April 28, 2022 Entertainment, Technology Adam E. Williams

For years, designer Zach Gage has been enamored with the works of famed Japanese game publisher Nikoli. The company is best known for popularizing sudoku, and is renowned for its minimalist takes on puzzles like nonograms (which Nintendo fans might recognize as Picross). For Gage, creating that kind of clean, straightforward, and accessible puzzle was

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New technology export rules in China could affect TikTok sale to a US company – #tiktok #technology #export #China #US #sale | #RoadmapforSuccess
April 25, 2022 Technology Adam E. Williams

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Plans for a TikTok sale may have a new obstacle, with China implementing new rules on AI technology exports, The New York Times reported. The new export control rules, which focus on technology the Chinese government considers sensitive, could mean that TikTok’s parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance, might need

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Apple News just lost The New York Times – #apple #news #thenewyorktimes | #RoadmapforSuccess
April 25, 2022 Technology Adam E. Williams

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge The New York Times has announced that, as of today, it will no longer be distributing articles in the Apple News app, making it one of the largest publishers to end its association with Apple’s publishing platform. In a memo announcing the change, Meredith Kopit Levien, chief operating

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Mastercard partners with Microsoft to help users shop online safely – #mastercard #microsoft #partner #onlne #shopping #safety | #RoadmapforSuccess
April 25, 2022 Technology Adam E. Williams

American multinational financial services corporation Mastercard Inc. has announced the launch of an enhanced identity solution to tackle digital fraud, thereby improving the online shopping experience. Mastercard has developed the next-generation identity technology with the help of Microsoft. Mastercard has integrated Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection’s proprietary risk assessment “to better enable real-time intelligence sharing

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11 New 3D Cities are now available – #incaseyoumissedit #bing #bingmaps #webxt #services #gps #mapping #3D #cities | #RoadmapforSuccess
April 25, 2022 Bing Maps Adam E. Williams

It is no secret the Microsoft Maps team partners with world builders from the video game industry to create experiences like Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (https://www.flightsimulator.com/). Microsoft takes petabytes of high-definition aerial imagery from specialized cameras and feeds them into a specialized Azure pipeline to automatically create detailed, fully textured, 3D models. This rich 3D

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Twitter accepts buyout, giving Elon Musk total control of the company
April 25, 2022 Technology Adam E. Williams

Twitter has accepted Elon Musk’s offer to purchase the company for $44 billion, the company announced in a press release today. Musk purchased the company at $54.20 a share, the same price named in his initial offer on April 14th. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town

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