As gaming hardware becomes increasingly obsolete, game makers are shifting their focus to the cloud. The cloud gaming industry remains nascent, but major players are staking out their influence in the space.

The potential of the cloud gaming industry is massive: In October, Newzoo estimated that a likely 31.7 million users could spend a combined $2.4 billion on cloud gaming services and games by the end of the year, and projected those numbers to reach $8.2 billion by 2025 with an estimated user count of 86.9 million.

However, even with its potential, cloud gaming still faces significant roadblocks that have thus far held it back from becoming the standard way to play games.

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This week’s policy news is heavy on everyone’s favorite topic: crypto.

Legislators hashed out concerns about how to regulate digital currencies, plus how to out-blockchain China. And the Senate Judiciary heard from yet another panel of AI experts, this time about whether and how to patents should credit AI.

Here’s our roundup of news from the intersection of tech and politics.

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How would you describe your job to someone who doesn’t work in tech?

When people think about data, it is usually dealing with privacy rights or some big company learning everything they can about you. I work in data, but with a very different approach. Quub gathers data using satellites to allow for better-informed decisions about anything from water usage to forestry management.

As a CEO, my job is to guide the company to hit the goals we set for ourselves. In order to be effective, I need to know hardware, software, production management, finance, customer relations, and a host of other elements. I don’t need to be an expert at any one thing, but I must understand the needs of all our stakeholders and make sure those needs are met.

It isn’t as glamorous as anyone makes it out to be. When a final decision needs to be made, I have to make it, and the company lives or dies on my actions. There can be a lot of pressure. As a rule, I don’t take myself too seriously, but I do take my work very seriously.

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Stat: 26%. The percentage of “employee respondents” to a survey conducted by Meta that “expressed confidence in leadership,” according to a Washington Post report.

Quote: “My first reaction is I am astounded. These are classic mechanical automotive engineering challenges that you have in pretty much any vehicle. I’m blown away that they would be struggling so much with the basics.”—An anonymous veteran automotive engineer, to Wired, in a story about a leaked report suggesting that the alpha Tesla Cybertruck had “basic design flaws”

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