Cheugiest tech moments of 2021

Technology has come a long way in 2021. There’s widespread mRNA vaccines! An asteroid-deflecting space mission! A very powerful laptop with a very controversial notch! But it’s unfortunately easier to think about the cringiest moments of the year than it is to remember times when we marveled at indoor farming robots.  So hop aboard the choo-choo-cheugy […]

The Year In Video Game Companies Buying Other Video Game Companies

The video game industry went on a shopping spree in 2021. Throughout the year, a handful of larger companies consistently bought up a boatload of smaller ones, at a rate where it seemed a new acquisition was announced every few weeks.Read more…

アジア発コンテンツの世界戦略から、ストリーミング配信における“環境負荷”の可視化まで：『WIRED』日本版が振り返る2021年（Netflix編）

「イカゲーム」を筆頭にNetflix発のオリジナルコンテンツが世界を席巻した2021年。韓国や日本発コンテンツの世界戦略から、ストリーミング配信における“環境負荷”を可視化して二酸化炭素排出量の削減を目指す取り組みまで、2021年に「WIRED.jp」で最も読まれた記事とともにNetflixの現在地を考える。
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Squid Game Creator In Talks With Netflix For Season 3

It wasn’t that long ago that Hwang Dong-hyuk didn’t seem up for more Squid Game, telling Variety, “It is quite tiring just thinking about it.” Then, the show exploded in popularity around the world, becoming Netflix’s most watched show. The creator soo…

AWS just can’t catch a break

For the third time this month, AWS today suffered an outage in one of its data centers. This morning, a power outage in its US-EAST-1 region affected services like Slack, Asana, Epic Games and others. The issues started around 7:30 a.m. ET and the knock-on effect of these issues continues to plague the service as […]