Once upon a time, you could watch a keynote presentation from any major computer chip company and rest easy in the confidence that the name “Apple” would never pass the lips of any presenter. The message always seemed to be, as per the classic Mad Men meme, “I don’t think […]
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Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon speaking at the company’s investor event in 2021. Qualcomm Qualcomm is poised to take on the laptop processor business in force with its next-generation chips. At least, that’s the vision outlined Tuesday by Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano Amon at the company’s Investor Day 2021 event. […]
Qualcomm is ramping up its efforts to compete with Apple’s new M-series chips for the Mac. The chip maker today held its 2021 investor day event, focused on unveiling its “next-generation” technology, including new CPU hardware designed by Nuvia. For those keeping track, Nuvia is the chip startup founded by […]
Apple is taking the PC world by storm with its first debut of Apple Silicon chips inside of Macs, taking what it learned from developing the iPhone and iPad A-series of chips and bringing that architecture to laptops and desktops. Today, The Information said that Apple has no intent of […]
RestOfWorld.org tells the story of a libertarian ‘startup city’ in Honduras that was “supposed to be a privatized, Silicon Valley-funded paradise.” Co-founded by 37-year-old Venezuelan Erick Brimen, “Próspera’s founders promised to enrich the local community, even supplying water to a nearby village. But relations with neighboring communities deteriorated. Then, Próspera […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) – A startup wants to use new technology to bring back the woolly mammoth. The project already has $15 million in funding, and the technology may actually be there to make it happen. It sounds like a scene from “Jurassic Park,” but it’s true. Using CRISPR […]
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (KGO) — With many people out of work and unemployment benefits ending, a Sunnyvale startup is helping train people for tech jobs, no experience needed. Andrii Blyzenko had a career in construction sales and project management but when the pandemic hit he was laid off. “They pretty much […]
A TECH companying looking into ways to stop ageing is being ‘backed’ by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, according to a new report. Altos Labs is a Silicon Valley firm that’s been offering scientists big salaries to do some anti-ageing research and biological reprogramming. 1 Bezos is said to be backing […]
If RSA’s attendees were even able to score an Airbnb, it was second to the tech companies who’d, for years, packed employees into expensive rentals that once were on the normal-person market. Companies whose fat salaries also pushed rents out of reach for locals. Both had ensured a steady flow […]
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