Google Assistant on touchscreens means competition for Alexa in the workplace

This week, Google unveiled that Assistant is coming to four new touchscreen devices from LG, Sony, JBL, and Lenovo. With voice commands and a screen, the new devices will be able to make video calls, and serve up things like YouTube videos, directions, cooking help, or your favorite photos. The devices, which made their debut […]

2018 Independent Games Festival announces Main Competition finalists

The 2018 The Independent Games Festival (IGF), which honors the most influential, innovative and acclaimed projects in independent game development, revealed the award finalists for its 20th annual awards ceremony. The IGF Awards take place on March 21, 2018 during the Game Developers Conference, and will be hosted by Trent Kusters, co-founder of League of […]

Star Wars 8 Last Jedi facing surprise box office competition from THIS movie

The LucasFilm smash is well en route to crossing the $ 1 billion mark, en route to becoming one of the Top 10 highest-grossing films of all time. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Last Jedi should cross $ 504 million in the US alone before New Year’s Eve – just in time to eclipse […]

Call of Duty WW2 news: COD getting major PS4 and Xbox One competition in 2018?

Call of Duty WW2 remains a top selling title following its successful launch on PS4, Xbox One and PC. The latest stats have revealed that it has taken the popular new COD a very short amount of time to cement its place at the top of the charts. The NPD Group’s rankings for video game […]

Cheers! Aldi bottle of port wins top award at prestigious international wine competition

The Maynard’s 1992 Late Bottled Vintage Port was given a gold medal at the International Wine Challenge after “delighting the judges with its fig, prunes, damsons and cinnamon notes.” Aldi describes the £19.99 wine as “smooth and velvety, a full bodied port with flavours of blackberry, blackcurrant and cherry.” Its 40-year old Maynard’s Tawny Port […]

AT&T and Comcast lawsuit has nullified a city’s broadband competition law

Enlarge (credit: Google Fiber) AT&T and Comcast have convinced a federal judge to nullify an ordinance that was designed to bring more broadband competition to Nashville, Tennessee. The Nashville Metro Council last year passed a “One Touch Make Ready” rule that gives Google Fiber or other new ISPs faster access to utility poles. The ordinance […]

'World's Fastest Gamer' competition winner lands McLaren F1 simulator job

LONDON — A Dutch sales manager whose teenage hopes of a motorsport career ended when the money ran out won an eSports competition on Tuesday to become a McLaren Formula One simulator driver. Rudy van Buren, 25, a once-promising junior go-karter, came out on top at the end of a “World’s Fastest Gamer” competition that […]

French truckers block borders to protest ‘unfair competition’ from eastern Europeans

Published time: 21 Nov, 2017 21:53 French truck drivers have blocked traffic at border crossings with Italy, Belgium, Spain and Germany to protest EU regulations which they say fail to protect their jobs from a cheaper Eastern European workforce. The drivers blocked the Frejus tunnel in Modane before dawn Tuesday, with 200 trucks gathering on […]

What annual reports say, or do not, about competition

What explains the remarkable strength of corporate profits and the sluggish growth of real wages in recent years? One explanation is that industries are getting less competitive. Work by The Economist found that two-thirds of American industries were more concentrated in the hands of a few firms in 2012 than in 1997. Research by AXA […]

’Most popular rugby competition in the world’

ANDREW Forrest has detailed how he plans to build “the most popular rugby competition in the world,” with the mining billionaire hoping to obtain both World Rugby and the ARU’s tick of approval in the next three weeks. Forrest has revealed key details of the mooted Indo-Pacific Rugby Championship, vowing to fund a six-team league […]