Author: Tech Support

    • Apple Silicon could end Wintel by forcing Microsoft to take Windows on ARM seriously, causing PC OEMs to migrate to ARM and Intel to make ARM PC chips (Jean-Louis Gassée/Monday Note)

    Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: Apple Silicon could end Wintel by forcing Microsoft to take Windows on ARM seriously, causing PC OEMs to migrate to ARM and Intel to make ARM PC chips  —  We’re about to enter an exciting, messy transition.  Not only will Apple Silicon make better Macs, it will force Microsoft to

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    • Profile of Ime Archibong, the Head of New Product Experimentation at Facebook and one of the most important voices in its efforts around diversity and equality (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

    Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Profile of Ime Archibong, the Head of New Product Experimentation at Facebook and one of the most important voices in its efforts around diversity and equality  —  – Ime Archibong became Facebook’s head of new product experimentation a year ago, tasked with finding the company’s next hit product. Profile of Ime

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    The anatomy of a fake news headline

    As confrontations between Black Lives Matter protesters and police erupted across the country earlier this month, some Oregonians, mostly older people, saw a Facebook ad pushing a headline about how a Republican politician “Wants Martial Law To Control The Obama-Soros Antifa Supersoldiers.” Needless to say, there was no army of left-wing “supersoldiers” marching across Oregon,

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    • Qualcomm Ventures says it will invest $97M in Reliance Jio Platforms to acquire a 0.15% equity stake (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

    Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Qualcomm Ventures says it will invest $97M in Reliance Jio Platforms to acquire a 0.15% equity stake  —  Qualcomm has become the latest high-profile investor in four-year-old Reliance Jio Platforms, which has raised more than $15.7 billion in the past 12 weeks from as many investors. Qualcomm Ventures says it will

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    SoftCore CPU Comparison

    Monty Python once did a sketch where people tried to summarize Proust in fifteen seconds. Although summarizing eight FPGA-based CPUs is almost as daunting, [jaeblog] does a nice job of giving a quick sketch of how the CPUs work with the Xilinx Vivado toolchain and the Digilent Arty board. The eight CPUs are:   VexRiscv, LEON3,

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    • Public records show that the US Secret Service awarded a four-year contract in May to Coinbase to use its blockchain analytics software, worth $183,750 in total (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

    Yogita Khatri / The Block: Public records show that the US Secret Service awarded a four-year contract in May to Coinbase to use its blockchain analytics software, worth $183,750 in total  —  Crypto exchange Coinbase is providing its blockchain analytics software to the U.S. Secret Service, according to a public record obtained by The Block.

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