Samsung De Facto Leader Lee Jae-Yong to Face Two Years and Six Months For Bribery
South Korean authorities have sentenced Lee Jae-Yong, Samsung s de facto leader, to two years and six months following the infamous bribery scandal in 2017. Yong is the only son of Samsung s early-day patron, Lee Kun-hee, leading the South Korean tech-manufacturing giant. His father stepped down from the position due to health issues in 2014.
Jae-Yong, also known professionally in the West as Jay Y. Lee, has been involved in the bribery case alongside South Korea s former president and first lady, Park Geun-Hye, who was sent to jail because of the same issue in2017. After a series of investigations and arrests, Jae-Yong managed to dodge the jail time in 2018, only to be sentenced again this year and transferred to Seoul Detention Center.
Australia vs. Google: Government Bashes Tech Giant for Blocking Local Small Websites
The Australian government has thrown Google under the bus after the search engine behemoth admitting that it has blocked local Australian sites from its homepage. Many news outlets believe it s a show of extraordinary power.
Earlier this week, Google ran an experiment to measure the impacts of news business and Google Search on each other. It will reach about 1% of users in Australia and end by early February. As the BBC reported, the government has been fighting over the tech giant s plans and attempting to impose a code on Google and Facebook that would force them to pay a fair price for displaying local Aussie content.
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Jan 13, 2021 04:21 AM EST
(Photo : Clker-Free-Vector-Images/Pixabay) Parler an online app was banned and censored by big tech as it was accused of fostering violence on its platform. Prior to this platform, like Twitter and Facebook weren’t censoring leftist posts only conservatives were affected.
Parler, an online app, was banned and censored by a big tech allegedly fostering violence on its platform. Before this, platforms like Twitter and Facebook weren t editing leftist posts; only conservatives were affected.
The free-speech platform got shut down last Monday after several big media companies that include Amazon, Apple, Google saying the app violated their rules.
CES 2021: Electronic Contact Lenses Introduced, How Do They Work?
Claiming to be the only company to publicly display this capability to integrate display circuitry into modern, soft contact lens materials, InWith has pioneered integrating reliable circuits into hydrogel material, which allows them to expand and contract in the normal manufacturing process.
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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2021 has rolled out a plethora of brand-new technologies we have never heard. One of them the highlights of the show is when InWith Corporation introduced its first-ever electronic contact lenses. The InWith technology being premiered at CES is a configuration to enable developers to place augmented vision display chip applications into any soft hydrogel contact lens that millions of people can wear daily. the company writes on its official website.
Intel CEO Bob Swan to Be Replaced Next Month By VMware Boss Pat Gelsinger
Intel CEO Robert Bob Holmes Swan will step down from his position at the tech giant company, and VMWare CEO Patrick Pat Gelsinger will replace him. Swan stepped up as Intel s boss in January 2019 after taking an interim basis a year following the shocking resignation of Intel s previous CEO, Brian Krzanich. Gelsinger is a highly respected CEO and industry veteran with more than four decades of technology and leadership experience, including 30 years at Intel, where he began his career, the company announces on its official website.