I'd imagine that both Walmart and Amazon are both being impacted by the increased tariffs in China. Suddenly, half of the cheap plastic crap that they sell costs 10% more, and they're going to need to find new suppliers for much of their house branded products.

That said, Amazon still has the cloud hosting business help shore up their growth prospects for this year.

The laser projection "screen" was kind of a cool piece of technology. I'd imagine that some indie game developer could have come up with a really cool use case for that, but now that HP owns the patents it would probably be too expensive to develop into a real product.

I don't think that people being forced to return to a city they don't want to visit is really going to spur much economic revival. I'd imagine that many people will avoid going to the major corporate owned restaurants out of spite, knowing that they probably lobbied Bezos and Jassy to force them to return to the office.

Well... considering that it's YouTube, you're probably going to have to watch about an hour of ads spaced out 8 minutes apart from each other to finish watching your two hour movie.

Just because it's "free", it doesn't mean that viewing experience is going to be enjoyable.

I'll bet that their entire Quantum Computing project ends up in the Google Graveyard before then.

If they can't use it to sell ads or subscriptions, there is no long term interest at Google.

Silly Slashdot poster, how would Meta make any money off of this plan? Cheap, open, and no user tracking? What do you think this is... Linux?

Yeah, I tried the Remote Desktop experiences on the Meta Quest 3S headset, and found them highly lacking. The screen resolution just isn't good enough yet. I'd imagine that the $3,500 Apple VR headset is much better... or at least it should be at that price point.

Well... you have Beat Saber and Half Life: Alyx, and... OK, that's about it right now. Those are the only two "blockbuster" VR games at the moment. Kinda pathetic considering the money that's been invested in the platform.

I got a Meta Quest 3S for Christmas, and found that the list of available VR software is pretty slim and they do their damnest to block 3rd party downloads on the device. Either you need to use the Meta store, or you're going to need to jump through a bunch of hoops to get your application installed.

This certainly isn't a "hardware hacker friendly" device at all.

Mine got one in the mid 1980's. It was mostly filled with Apple II and Apple IIe computers and there was a rush to be the first kid to get the two sets of Oregon Trail disks out of the storage box.

I think that Zuck saw what Bezos's trophy wife was packing at the Trump inauguration, and decided that he needs to make some life upgrades! I wonder if the divorce laws are more friendly than they are in California...

Probably 20 years from now, when he gets sick or dies. He's making boatloads of money, and that's what the shareholders really care about.

Sure, but what are are the other options? Microsoft's work from home solution? Google's? Amazon's? Apple's? They all made their employees return to the office months ago.

Hell, even Zoom made their employees return to the office, and they were the COVID era poster child for remote meetings.

You're being too generous, and probably not cynical enough. When I read that Gartner "study", the first question I had is how much Broadcom paid for those inflated time and cost estimates.

Nvidia makes sense. They already own the GPU space, and they're getting into the CPU space. Sure, they can probably take slow road to eventual domination with their own ARM processors, but with their insane valuation right now it might just be easier to buy Intel and instantly become the market dominator.