The Verge

OCTOBER 30, 2020

You’ll have to wait a bit longer for Panic’s odd little handheld: In an update published today , the company announced that Playdate will slip from its original 2020 window and now ship in early 2021. The hardware for the Playdate is finalized and approved by the FCC, meaning it can head into production next month. Image: Panic.

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The Verge

JULY 24, 2020

These plans changed once it was clear Build would be held virtually due to the pandemic, and Microsoft also pushed back its Windows 10X dual-screen plans to far beyond 2020. While some developers already have access to dual-screen developer units, Microsoft had planned at one point to get Surface Duo to developers a lot sooner.

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The Verge

JUNE 6, 2021

On Monday, the company will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference ( WWDC 2021 ) during one of the most fraught moments for developer relations in Apple history. Developers have known or suspected these things for years, and at first, online reactions seemed muted. We treat every developer the same.”

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Panic has announced new plans for the debut of its retro-styled, Pacific Northwest-developed portable gaming device, the Playdate, after COVID-related shutdowns forced the company to abandon its original 2020 release date. — Playdate (@playdate) October 30, 2020. (Source: Playdate press kit). in May of last year.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Bill Gates appears on a monitor in Seattle during a virtual discussion as part of the 2020 GeekWire Summit on Thursday. The first week at the 2020 GeekWire Summit made news, and we’ve got many more insights ahead from leaders in tech, science, business and healthcare. GeekWire Photo / Holly Grambihler). Day 2: Thursday, Oct.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Paul Hudson (@twostraws) November 17, 2020. The same interplay between hardware and software that has led to such huge successes on the iPhone and iPad has now come to the Mac. Apple’s software is designed to make the most of that hardware. Apple appears to be playing an entirely different game on an entirely different level.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So in that vein, this year’s Mac apps list is going to focus on some of the software that has already been optimized for this new era of Apple hardware. iMazing also recently added the option to clearly see which apps on your system are universal or developed for Intel.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2020

He landed his first job at 15 years old, helping to develop a patient record system for Jacksonville Hospital. Rob Shurtleff , who helped to recruit Vellon to HP, remembered him in a note to their former colleagues as “the very tall Cuban American wizard developer we hired out of college back in the HP150 days.”

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The four generations of Xbox hardware, as of 2020. In an hour-long conversation with Takahashi, Fries talked about the Xbox console, its development, his personal history with it, and his current business, a venture capital fund that specifically invests in up-and-coming game developers. GeekWire Photo/Thomas Wilde).

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2021

Cyberpunk 2077 released in early December 2020, and — controversy surrounding its notoriously poor performance on consoles aside — it’s a fun, gorgeous game on PC, especially if you have Nvidia hardware that enables ray-traced graphics. The seller provides free shipping and allows for a 30-day return window. Image: Dell.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

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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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Quick take: The Microsoft special to be held in New York will reveal new Surface devices and groundbreaking AI features for Windows, Office, Bing, and more. With the departure of Panos Panay, the former overseer of Windows and Surface, industry eyes are keen to see how Microsoft’s AI ambitions will evolve under new leadership.

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The Verge

JULY 23, 2020

Did Microsoft convince you that you wouldn’t need to next-gen hardware to play Xbox Series X games? Again, these are all games published by Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios, created by developers that Microsoft owns. Future 1P titles are developed for Xbox Series X first. aarongreenberg) July 23, 2020. Aaron Greenberg ????

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The Galaxy Note 7 is possibly the best gadget on this list; a herald of the success of big-screened smartphones, packed with the latest specs, top-tier camera tech for the time, and superb design and hardware… except for the fact that it had a tendency to burst into flames. Oh, Windows Phone. and Windows Phone 10 successors).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 5, 2024

The delegation of six companies includes robotic barista maker Artly — a Seattle-based startup founded in 2020 in a bid to use tech to make the perfect cup of coffee — and others. The new Copilot key, to the right of the Alt key on a Windows 11 keyboard. ( Michael Koukoullis Photo / Flickr Creative Commons ) The Washington State Dept.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

The first Mac with Apple silicon is coming by the end of 2020, but Apple expects the full transition process to take two years. But it also means that apps that were developed for Intel’s architecture originally won’t run natively on Apple’s upcoming hardware.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

He argues they’ve entangled their operating system and app stores to the point that they’re doing developers a disservice. Windows 11 will demonstrate that “disaggregation” in at least two big ways. Windows chief Panos Panay is also open to Steam and the Epic Games Store being part of Microsoft’s app store.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Welcome to Technology Short Take #123, the first of 2020! Servers/Hardware. dll , a core Windows cryptographic component) that was rumored to be fixed the next day (January 14) on the first “Patch Tuesday” of 2020. Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps!

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This will likely be the last Technology Short Take of 2020, so it’s a tad longer than usual. It’s not unusual to see “networking professionals need to learn developer tools,” but how often do you see “developers need to learn these networking tools”? Servers/Hardware. Sorry about that!

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The Verge

OCTOBER 18, 2021

All while getting processors that are years behind Windows devices, with screens that haven’t meaningfully changed since 2012, on computers that Apple charges a premium. There are theoretical benefits to the delay: developers have had a full year to transition their apps over to Apple’s M1 architecture.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2023

which became part of the Xbox network when Microsoft acquired its parent company ZeniMax Media in 2020. Starfield is the company’s first internally-developed original IP in more than 25 years. That’s the sort of thing that sells Game Pass subscriptions, and maybe even Xbox hardware. Broader implications.

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2021

At Microsoft, Trewin worked on new business and consumer products and helped scale products such as Windows and Xbox. Trigg is currently CEO of Outset Medical, which went public in 2020. She previously helped develop vaccines at Merck and prior to working in the pharmaceutical industry, researched influenza.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 11, 2020

Most notable on the business front is a section that breaks down Microsoft’s revenue into categories associated with its traditional product lines: Office, Windows, Xbox, etc. Windows grew by 9% to $22.3 billion in its 2020 fiscal year, according to the filing. billion in revenue for the year.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Nintendo’s latest financial highlights covers its software and hardware sales for the nine-month period that ended on Dec. Between its records in both hardware and software, Nintendo’s profits surged to 376.6 Between its records in both hardware and software, Nintendo’s profits surged to 376.6 billion yen ($3.6

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Redfall , a cooperative vampire-hunting action game by Dishonored developer Arkane Studios, will launch in the first half of the year as an Xbox/Windows exclusive. While New World has yet to get anywhere near the heights of its September 2021 launch window, it seems to have found a stable enough audience to continue.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

Apple insists it treats all App Store developers equally, but it’s clear big players like Amazon have gotten special treatment because of their sheer number of users. For context, the App Store brought in more than $60 billion in 2020 , which would be quite a lot to burn through without realizing.)

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The deal, worth a reported $400 million over five years — and later extended in 2020 — was originally set up to be all about Xbox, according to Hall. Microsoft had to develop a custom, ruggedized, weatherproof version of its “tablet PC,” which had just debuted to the public in 2012. GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota).

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Apple hit Intel hard with its first M1 chips, offering a rare step-change improvement in performance with its 2020 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro. While Windows laptops had looked increasingly tempting to the Mac crowd over the past five years, Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips shift the balance , particularly in the GPU realm.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2022

It may be because the organization hasn’t developed a comprehensive set of asset management resources. If a network analysis shows that an old instance of Windows XP still has nodes in a foreign country where the organization doesn’t even have operations, IT should shut the instance down. And who can they call to get it fixed?

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Unless you’re enrolled in Apple’s developer program, this is your first opportunity to try out the new software in beta. Before we start, the usual word of warning about beta software: these releases may seem stable for general use, but they could contain bugs that won’t be squashed until the final releases roll out later in 2020.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2022

It laid off a huge portion of its workforce and changed CEOs in 2020 , scrapping its mass-market AR plans to focus on healthcare, manufacturing, and defense. I checked out an extremely unofficial Magic Leap Beat Saber clone, but it’s hard to judge hardware performance from a rough prototype app.).

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

Marvel’s Spider-Man served as a tech demo for showing off how quickly the PS5’s hardware could render the city’s horizon, so it’s not a huge surprise to see a sequel coming. Insomniac says that the PS5 hardware enabled the team to stream in new planets and environments quickly without the need for loading screens.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

That’s still an open question — because at Apple’s 2020 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the company shied away from giving us any definitive answers. The closest we got to a comparison was effectively, “is machine learning faster with hardware acceleration turned on?”. a handful of canned demos and vague promises.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2022

The hardware differences between 2020’s Tab S7 / S7 Plus and this year’s Tab S8 versions are such: New Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor. Just like before, the hardware is impressive, and either tablet provides an excellent video watching experience. The Tab S8 Plus has a 12.4-inch Wi-Fi 6E support.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

Thread is a wireless communication standard that was developed from the ground up for smart home purposes and is designed to replace legacy technologies such as Z-Wave and Zigbee. Benefits of Thread include more reliable connections between devices, faster response times, and longer battery life.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

inch panel that’s underneath the main display that makes the Wing 2020’s most unique-looking phone. The idea is that when in “swivel mode,” you’ll use the main display for whatever your primary task is, while the second display serves as a supplemental window for another app or extended functionality. The first is a standard 6.8-inch

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Outside of its hardware announcements, one of the bigger takeaways from yesterday’s Samsung event was its ever-closer relationship with Microsoft. They even announced that you’ll soon be able to use and control multiple apps from your Samsung phone directly on your Windows 10 PC, as well as use your Samsung tablet as a secondary display.

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