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Apple announced M1 Ultra, the next giant leap for Apple silicon and the Mac. Featuring UltraFusion - Apple’s innovative packaging architecture that interconnects the die of two M1 Max chips to create a system on a chip (SoC) with unprecedented levels of performance and capabilities - M1 Ultra delivers breathtaking computing power to the new Mac Studio while maintaining industry-leading
The world is 100% behind Ukraine minus the Russians and Chinese and from that business has been suspended in mass in Russia. The list grows longer by the day with Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Amex all shutting off business. Isolating them financially and even Coinbase has been blocking individuals.
Both Visa and Mastercard announced that they were suspending their operations in Russia. They each made their own statements. Bloomberg reported that each company gets about 4% of its net revenue from business linked to Russia. Visa posted a statement on its website titled: “Visa Suspends All Russia Operations”. Here is Visa’s statement: Visa today announced it is suspending its
Epic Games and Activision Blizzard have joined several other gaming companies by suspending sales of their games in Russia. These decisions are in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine. On March 4, 2022, on the Activision Blizzard website, President and COO Daniel Alegre posted a message in an employee letter, and then shared that letter publicly. It included the
TikTok posted information about its state-controlled media policy in a Newsroom post titled: “Bringing more context to content on TikTok”. Some social media companies already have put in place similar policies. Those who don’t have one will probably create one now. Last year we began working to develop a consistent and comprehensive state media policy, as we recognize that an
Both Facebook and Twitter were blocked by Russia on Friday, amid President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing military invasion of Ukraine, BuzzFeed News reported. According to BuzzFeed News, Roskomnadzor, Russia’s communications regulator, posted a statement on Friday, explaining the decision was made to “block access to the Facebook network” after at least 26 cases of “discrimination against Russian media and information resources”
Google late Thursday suspended all advertising in Russia, a move that came shortly after the country’s communication censor accused the company’s YouTube video service of spreading misinformation and stoking protests, The Wall Street Journal reported. According to The Wall Street Journal, Google said the new mandate covers YouTube, search and display marketing in Russia. Earlier this week, Google blocked access