Techstrong News Recap – December 20, 2022

Hi again, everyone here the headlines for September 20th. First up. The EU is Accused meta of breaching antitrust rules through its Facebook Marketplace.

The eu's executive commission said that tying Marketplace to its social network shouts out competitors to the unfair advantage that Marketplace receives. The commission additionally suspected that meta used its data that it collects the Target customer groups. If these concerns are confirmed meta would be in breach of EU antitrust rules for abusing a dominant Marketplace position.

Companies that are found to be in breach of these rules can be signed up to 10% of annual Global Revenue. Currently, there's no deadline for the investigation to end but medicin plead their case through writing or or hearings. Next HCC Vive is announced that will launch a competitor to the quest to VR headset.

Hcc's new flagship headset will contain features such as front and side-face and cameras that will allow for the device to use a mixture a virtual reality and augmented reality. HTC has planned for more details and for about the information of the headset to come next year. This announcement shows the HCC is ready to jump back into the VR space after taking the business to step back from what VR last year.

This comes as VR is becoming more and more of a Hot Topic with several companies buying the control of space ranging from meta and even Apple which is reported to be developing its own headset. In other news the current Chief Operating Officer of Activision Blizzard will join the board API Club nft maker you go Labs as its chief executive. Day, no leg race that he will succeed yugulab's currency.

Oh in the first half of 2023 after he finishes his current term at Activision. Allegra has worked at Activision Blizzard since 2020 and is experience there will help you collabs goal of turning into a metaverse gaming company. Earlier this year yugolabs.

Got a 450 million dollar funding round to develop its nftaverse and acquired two other nft collections to consolidate the nft space. Next up Phoenix Arizona Sky Harbor International Airport will offer the self-driving ride-hailing service. Waymo which will drive people from the airport to downtown Phoenix.

The self-driving tests have gone on for a month now at this point as the service is expected to expand to everyone in early 2023. Phoenix, which is a location of the 2023 Super Bowl is using this as one of its ways to developing a reputation for Innovation before the visitors arrive. It also marks the step forward for the autonomous vehicle sector a Sky Harbor will be the first airport in the world to have an autonomous driving service.

com. We have an article looking at how enterprise software Architects can design for more sustainability. All organizations are beginning to feel the pressure to use more sustainable practices, but these initiatives can only go so far.

Devops must certainly have a role to play here this article looks at what techniques companies are using to get the most out of the technology modernization efforts while also limiting their carbon footprint. com. On Security Boulevard, we've an article looking at how we need to move Beyond security awareness and towards security education.

While security awareness helps employees recognize threats social engineering attacks are effective enough that awareness training isn't enough. This article talks about why security education is needed where it is needed the most and how to better promote it to learn more could a Security Boulevard calm? Finally on container Journal we have an article looking at 10 predictions for cloud native in 2023.

2022 was a big year for cloud native technology, especially for kubernetes. But as we approach the New Year, it's time to ask what 2023 will have in store for us? Here are 10 predictions on what could happen with Cloud native in the next year?

com and that's today's text strong news recap.