On March 25th, Google announced the formation of the Android Ready SE Alliance in cooperation with suppliers to promote Android terminal hardware security modules and utilization. Accordingly, with the spread of smartphones, it is expected to use them as digital keys such as vehicles and homes, electronic money wallets, and future use of driver’s licenses and passports.
Of course, using a smartphone as a vehicle key has already been completed by Apple for the iPhone and Apple Watch. Android Ready SE is also a move to catch up. In addition, although it has not been mentioned as an example of use, it is expected that the vaccination certificate function, which is expected to increase in the future, can be expected.
Intel’s new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, announced IDM 2.0, a new strategy for expanding Intel foundry services at a press conference on March 23rd. Through this strategy, Intel plans to invest 20 billion dollars in its two production bases in Arizona, USA, to focus not only on manufacturing its own semiconductors, but also on the production of partner chips.
There are three main points. The first is to build a global corporate factory network for large-scale production.
Second, the capacity expansion of foundry of other companies Third is the establishment of Intel foundry services as a world-class foundry business. Intel is planning to become a major foundry-capable provider based in the US and Europe to meet the global demand for semiconductor manufacturing.
Next news. A lot of fake news is being shared on Facebook, and in August 2020, Facebook was fined for failing to block fake news propagation accounts. After that, the spread of fake news on Facebook did not stop, and on March 22, 2021, Reporters Without Borders announced that they had sued Facebook for the spread of fake news.
Reporters Without Borders argues that Facebook’s failure to prevent the spread of fake news is the Facebook Terms of Use prohibiting illegal and misconduct, discrimination, and fraud, and that the content displayed to users through Facebook must be trusted. It claims to be in violation of the Facebook community rules.
Reporters Without Borders filed a lawsuit against Facebook in Paris on March 22, 2021, for violating the French Consumer Law that Facebook should not make false claims to consumers under this situation. He added that another country is also considering the same lawsuit.
It is news that it was auctioned as a substitute token NFT, not the oldest tweet in existence, and was eventually auctioned for $3 million on March 22, 2021.
The winning tweets were posted by Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Doshi. On March 5, 2021, Jack Dorothy submitted this tweet to the auction site specializing in tweets as an NFT. NFT refers to a digital asset whose ownership is clarified using a blockchain method that accurately records transaction records.
On March 22, 2006, Jack Dorothy tweets were the first tweets after the start of the Twitter service, and many people who discovered the value participated in auctions, and the auction that started with $1 gradually increased and eventually won a bid for $29.15,835.47. The winning bidder is said to be the CEO of a crypto asset platform provider.
When Tesla bought an electric car, it started responding to bitcoin payments. The website’s support page guides you on how to pay for Bitcoin, and CEO Elon Musk tweets about the support announcement.
It was reported that Tesla had bought $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin in February, which caused the price of Bitcoin to skyrocket. CEO Elon Musk tweeted that it is now possible to purchase Tesla cars with bitcoin, saying that the bitcoin used for payment is not bound by the legal currency, but uses bitcoin as it is. However, only Tesla car purchases are currently supported in the US mainland, and outside the US will consider expanding support later. Thank you.