Only 4% of supply chain leaders are ‘future-ready,’ Accenture says

Only 4% of supply chain leaders are ‘future-ready,’ Accenture says

The pandemic accelerated digital transformation, but that doesn’t mean change comes easy. According to new research from consulting company Accenture, 81% of supply chain leaders say the pandemic has been their organization’s greatest stress test and that they’re facing technological change at “unprecedented speed and scale.” What’s more, only 4% say they’re “future-ready,” while 34% … Read more

Google launches Android 12 Beta 2 – News

Google launches Android 12 Beta 2 – TechCrunch

Google today launched the second beta of Android 12. The first beta, which launched at Google’s I/O conference in May, introduced us to the first glimpses of Google’s new “Material You” design system, though many of the promised new features and design tweaks weren’t part of this first beta yet. With this new beta, Google … Read more

Apple’s new ShazamKit brings audio recognition to apps, including those on Android – News

Apple’s new ShazamKit brings audio recognition to apps, including those on Android – TechCrunch

Apple in 2018 closed its $400 million acquisition of music recognition app Shazam. Now, it’s bringing Shazam’s audio recognition capabilities to app developers in the form of the new ShazamKit. The new framework will allow app developers — including those on both Apple platforms and Android — to build apps that can identify music from Shazam’s … Read more

Crossplay will be the key to the $42B double-A market

Mechs need bayonets, too.

Binary is back in the video game industry — not for coding, but for development strategy, with the focus being on super-hits or indie games, with not much in between. Launch the stores or subscription services on any of your consoles right now, and you’ll find the latest menu of triple-A fare gracing the homepage … Read more

Google ditches pay-to-play Android search choice auction for free version after EU pressure – News

Google ditches pay-to-play Android search choice auction for free version after EU pressure – TechCrunch

Google is ditching a massively unpopular auction format that underpins a choice screen it offers in the European Union, it said today. Eligible search providers will be able to freely participate. The auction model was Google’s “remedy” of choice — following the 2018 EU $5 billion antitrust enforcement against Android — but rivals have always … Read more