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Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) today replaced Chief Information Officers (CIOs) as undervalued C-level executives. In fact, according to research by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), nearly a third (29 percent) of companies today do not have a CISO role or equivalent. And for those who play such a role, the CISO is …

I signed up for CLEAR about two years ago when I flew from Seattle to Washington DC. CLEAR is like "TSA PRE for VIPs". Basically, you pay $ 100 a year and at many airports – but not at all airports – you can jump the line TSA PRE. Also, you do not have to show ID if your biometric …

A position-based VR allows multiple people to jump into the same virtual space. This is not really possible at home. Everyone would need a PC, and you would probably have collided for only an hour. So far we have usually seen groups of about four people in the VR at the same time – although Zero Latency goes beyond that …

We have decided to step back from the latest news for a minute to give an overview of the development of seed and early-stage financing for US companies over the past decade. I'm pretty sure we all agree that the startup environment has changed dramatically in the last 10 years, in two ways: The development of seed funding as a …

Should antitrust regulations regulate how large technology companies collect large amounts of consumer data? This is a question that has received more and more attention recently as regulatory pressure from regulators and legislators on antitrust laws against large tech companies has increased. While the US is still having a long debate on this issue, European regulators have already investigated and …

Blockchain moves beyond early users and into a wider range of companies. It has the potential to disrupt traditional practices, especially in the areas of procurement and the supply chain. And it can reduce inefficiencies in operations and costs and open up new revenue streams. Blockchain is a technology that every business should consider. But it was also exaggerated. As …

On the eve of the biggest game developer conference, video game makers are struggling to get a shooter to take them to the top of New Zealand shootings. I have a deep heart for this event, with so much loss of life. And I'm worried that the aftermath will once again pull video games into a polarizing global discussion. It …

Blake Harris is a historian of video game wars. His first book – Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Changed One Generation – appeared in 2014 and broke the fight between Sega and Nintendo in the 1990s when Sega launched a march on Nintendo stole the Sega Genesis. The book was dramatically written and licensed for a film …

PC gaming has evolved into a fairly broad niche of people with some far-reaching similarities and differences. One thing they all have in common is excited rigs that rely on beefy GPUs. This is fine for users with dedicated devices, but PC games are not too friendly for those trying to do double duty on their everyday computer. Other underserved …

Blockchain and games have a tantalizing future. Companies are building a $ 100 million fund to get developers to develop games with Blockchain, which will provide secure and transparent decentralized Ledger technology that powers Bitcoin and other crypto currencies over the past year. A handful jump in and test the water. At the last Tron summit in January, I hosted …