Thanks to hundreds of millions of people working, teaching or studying from home in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global PC industry just had its best year since 2015. According to new estimates from Gartner, global PC shipments grew 10.7 per…
After Samsung saw its profits dip in 2019, things are looking up since the latter half of 2020. On Friday, the South Korean electronics giant announced that it expects its Q4 profits to soar 25 percent to more than $8 billion when figures are released …
Americans are growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of information surrounding the slow rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine across the country. Federal guidance on how to determine and schedule eligibility for the vaccine has been scarce, leaving m…
The Biden administration takes the reins of the U.S. government in a little over a week. A surging pandemic, spiraling misinformation and politicization and a continuing economic crisis put the 78-year-old president-elect in one of the toughest spots f…
A new survey by Ipsos shows that two thirds of Americans think that outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump carried either a good or a great deal of the blame for the rioting that ensued on the capitol grounds in Washington D.C. last week. 67 percent said…
Two surveys, carried out by Ipsos in October and December, show that vaccination intention for COVID-19 declined in most countries out of a selection of 15. The exception to this rule is the U.S., where vaccination intent rose from 64 to 69 percent.The…
At an estimated total of $2.1 billion, the North American box office just had the worst year in more than three decades. With earnings down more than 80 percent from the previous year, movie theaters and the film industry have been hit incredibly hard …
In the wake of last Wednesday’s events at the U.S. Capitol, Twitter went a step beyond attaching warning labels to President Trump’s tweets and the company locked his account permanently. Trump relied on the platform to bypass traditional media channel…
An ABC News/Ipsos poll conducted in the aftermath of Wednesday’s storming of the Capitol has found that a majority of the U.S. public supports removing President Trump from office before Joe Biden is sworn in on January 20. The research found that 56 p…
Having long been considered a performance-hampering security risk, one of the technologies that shaped the face of the world wide web for the past two decades is quietly saying goodbye this week. On January 12, 2021, Adobe will officially pull the plug…
