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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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