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The Oculus Go’s operating system is being unlocked, John Carmack announces

The Verge

The Go was officially discontinued in 2020. This opens up the ability to repurpose the hardware for more things today, and means that a randomly discovered shrink wrapped headset twenty years from now will be able to update to the final software version, long after over-the-air update servers have been shut down.

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Irrigation tech startup led by farming experts blossoms with revenue growth and new cash

GeekWire

The startup, based north of Seattle, has raised a $750,000 seed round and is now FarmHQ , which is also the name of its irrigation hardware and software platform. The two returned home and launched their startup in 2020. FarmHQ Photo) The tech: Smaller farms have historically irrigated using labor-intensive, manually operated systems.

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Windows turns 35: a visual history

The Verge

While Apple had been ahead in producing mouse-driven GUIs at the time, it remained focused on the combination of hardware and software. Microsoft had already created its low-cost PC DOS operating system for IBM PCs, and was firmly positioned as a software company. With Windows 1.0, Where it all began: Windows 1.0

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

“The core reason for purchasing an IBM Z is these workloads that require massive amounts of transactions at very high speeds, but then the second reason is to use the modernizations on the system to do all these additional value-generating things with it,” he says. IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000.

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Linux has been ported to run on Apple’s M1 Macs

The Verge

Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, has previously ruled out official support for natively booting alternate operating systems like Windows or Linux. Hector Martin, a developer who regularly gets Linux running on a variety of hardware, is also porting Linux to M1 Macs.

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Ransomware Detection at Chip Level? Yes, Says Intel

SecureWorld News

Intel recently announced it is adding hardware-based ransomware detection and remediation to its new 11th gen Core vPro processors. This is possible, the company says, because of improvements to its Hardware Shield product and more powerful Threat Detection Technology (TDT). Intel's Hardware Shield and Threat Detection Technology.

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Tech Moves: Convoy vet joins Xembly; Seattle climate firm hires Goldman Sachs exec; and more

GeekWire

based hardware company MTI promoted Allen Auchenpaugh to CEO , from VP of global services. Breaux was previously CEO of AirNow media and co-founded Airpush, a mobile advertising technology company acquired by Appscatter in 2020. billion campus development plan and its effort to achieve net-zero emissions. Hillsboro, Ore.-based