The big picture: One of the most interesting and longest-lasting trends to impact the world of enterprise computing has been the transition to cloud-based computing models. While some predicted that the transition to the cloud would happen quickly, the reality has been far different. In fact, until recently, it wasn’t completely unlike observing a sloth climb a tree or, frankly, do just about anything. Everything moves slower than you’d like, and there aren’t a lot of surprises about what’

TL;DR: The latest in Apple's war against cloud gaming comes in the form of squashing a workaround created by its own customers used to play Stadia on Apple devices. As of today, it has pulled the homebrewed web browser called Stadium that enabled users to use Google's game-streaming platform on the iPhone or iPad. The removal comes over a month after Apple initially approved and allowed it on the App Store.

Despite having said that it is not banning game-streaming apps from iPhones and iPads

In brief: What do you get when a laptop maker joins forces with the design branch of a car company? Apparently, you get the Porsche Design Acer Book RS -- that's quite the mouthful, but it's a real product, and the result of a new collaboration between Acer and Porsche Design (if you hadn't guessed that already).

The notebook was announced today , and it's Porsche Design's second attempt to create a sleek, branded laptop that "sets new standards

Editor's take: I’ve been preaching for years to anyone that will listen that when it comes to technology, you should have no reasonable expectation of privacy. New research from Upturn, a nonprofit based in Washington DC, further solidifies that stance.

Over the course of 2019 and into 2020, Upturn filed more than 110 public record requests with state and local law enforcement agencies to determine which have access to forensic tools to collect data from smartphones and how they use them

WTF?! You may be aware of a Chrome browser setting that allows you to "Clear cookies and site data when you quit Chrome." What you might not be aware of is that due to a "bug," not all of that data is being cleared. Specifically, information from Google-owned sites remains persistent.

According to iOS developer Jeff Johnson, even with the "Clear cookies and site data when you quit Chrome" setting enabled , not all of YouTube and Google Search data is deleted when you

In brief: We're living in an age where video game installation sizes are so big that some can't even fit on smaller SSDs anymore -- we're looking at you, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. However, every now and then, a developer manages to optimize their game so well that they actually reduce the file size - - substantially. That's precisely what Epic accomplished with Fortnite today.

For those who haven't been keeping up with Fortnite news, the game recently reached

Bottom line: PayPal’s involvement with cryptocurrency is a big deal for all parties involved. It will no doubt increase awareness of alternative payment methods and boost their validity while simultaneously providing merchants with more ways for customers to pay.

The rumor mill was spot on once again. Just a few months after word first surfaced that PayPal was working on a cryptocurrency program , the fintech giant on Wednesday confirmed it is launching a service that will grant users the ability to buy, sell and hold select cryptocurrencies directly within the PayPal digital

In context: Microsoft believes cloud computing is the future, and it might be right. However, if that's the case, the company will need a much better way to deliver those services to those in remote areas. Those areas might lack existing cloud infrastructure, or they might have limited access to the internet -- in either case, Microsoft already has a plan to tackle the dilemma

Microsoft has developed what it calls the Azure Modular Datacenter , or the MDC. It's a modular, portable data center

Bottom line: General Motors had teased the arrival of an electric version of its iconic Hummer SUV earlier this year. The automaker has now taken the wraps off the monstrous vehicle with plans to begin production in late 2021. Interestingly, GM will initially build a fully-loaded pickup version of the SUV, called the Hummer Edition 1, followed by three more affordable variants that will become available from 2022 onwards.

GM has electrified the iconic Hummer with nearly the same enormous dimensions, only this time