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Sony CEO Delivers Reality Check On PlayStation 6 Release Date

In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, current Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki discussed the direction of Sony's entertainment business, including the future of the PlayStation 6. As Totoki notes, a CEO's "most important task" is ensuring the business' survival, and considers Sony's new direction a proper response to trade wars and supply chain issues. The new direction pivots more toward entertainment than the consumer electronics that Sony is best known for, since becoming a household name with the Walkman cassette player in 1979.

But Sony's Totoki-led push toward entertainment over hardware isn't totally new. After all, Sony purchased CBS Records in 1988, and then Columbia Pictures in 1989. The massive success of Sony's entertainment division across film, anime, TV, and games has been noteworthy, even when that content isn't exclusive to Sony's devices.

Obviously, the PlayStation's focus on system-selling exclusive gamesisn't going anywhere, and the PlayStation...

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PlayStation’s wireless gaming speakers launch in November

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Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month

Etched on Tuesday announced that it has raised another $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, led by Jane Street after the famed quant fund tested and bought the startup’s AI hardware. Even by AI standards, this valuation step-up is jaw-droppingly fast. Etched was valued at $5 billion in

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CISO's guide to decentralized identity: What works and what doesn't | TechTarget

Modern organizations can manage their digital credentials by either using a centralized identity provider or by relying on directly controlled, decentralized identity management. Decentralized identity lets individuals securely share data without having to use a centralized authority. It relies on verifiable, cryptographically secure credentials, offering IT leaders a new approach

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