Paul Gluckman, Executive Senior Editor, is a 30-year Warren Communications News veteran having joined the company in May 1989 to launch its Audio Week publication. In his long career, Paul has chronicled the rise and fall of physical entertainment media like the CD, DVD and Blu-ray and the advent of ATSC 3.0 broadcast technology from its rudimentary standardization roots to its anticipated 2020 commercial launch.

Intel expects its plans to build new chip fabs will “benefit from investments from governments" that understand that a "healthy semiconductor industry is vital to their economic well-being and national security,” said CEO Pat Gelsinger on a Q3 call Thursday…Subscribe to Read >>

There’s rich historical precedent showing government subsidies can nurture private-sector tech growth, said panelists from some of the world’s biggest chip companies on a Semiconductor Industry Association webinar Thursday. But they agreed lack of high-skilled U.S. talent is a worrisome…Subscribe to Read >>

With Netflix Q3 net paid subscriber additions finishing about 25% better than projections (see 2110190070), the company thinks it’s getting toward the “tail end of the COVID choppiness of the pull-forward of sub growth” that began with 2020's Q2 lockdowns…Subscribe to Read >>

A Microsoft shareholder proposal up for a vote at the Nov. 30 virtual annual meeting asks the board to “generally prohibit sales” of facial recognition technology to law enforcement and all other “government entities,” and to publicly disclose “any exceptions…Subscribe to Read >>

Amazon supports “expanded government authority” for federal agencies to share “pre-seizure enforcement information with the private sector” to help reverse the explosive growth in e-commerce trafficking of counterfeit goods, Christa Brzozowski, senior manager-public policy, told a Center for Data Innovation…Subscribe to Read >>