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Amazon reveals a secret about its Project Kuiper satellites: They’re using laser links

GeekWire

This system is designed fully in-house to optimize for speed, cost and reliability, and the entire architecture has worked flawlessly from the very start.” Four years ago , Project Kuiper’s job postings signaled that it was planning to develop a 100-Gbps laser link system. Space Force’s Space Development Agency.

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Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 4100 features much-needed improvements for the next Wear OS watches

The Verge

They’re big promises, but put simply, Google’s Wear OS badly needs this kind of hardware overhaul. It’s actually shipping two SKUs to developers. But for developers that don’t want or need to offer always-on features, Qualcomm will also offer a standard Snapdragon Wear 4100 model, which just offers the SDM429w SoC.

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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. This approach to providing software for hardware partners to sell their own machines created a huge platform for Microsoft. Microsoft moved to a 32-bit architecture and introduced the Start menu.

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Qubit by qubit, the quantum computers of tomorrow are coming into being

Vox

Which makes sense — much of the architecture inside is composed of cooling equipment that keep the three IBM Heron quantum processors “colder than deep space,” as IBM senior vice president and director of research Darío Gil told me in an interview. But appearances can be deceiving.

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Google’s Tensor chip is only the first step toward truly great Pixel phones

The Verge

Google hasn’t given a lot of information about what Tensor’s actual architecture is going to look like for things like the CPU, GPU, modem, or other major components of the SoC beyond the TPU. Tensor is just a first-generation product.

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The M1 chip saved the MacBook — but now Apple has to win back the Pros

The Verge

When Apple first announced that it would be transitioning its entire product lineup over to Apple Silicon products in 2020 (and away from the Intel chips that it had used since its last major architecture switch in 2005), it announced a two-year goal of getting all its products switched over. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.

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Reinventing IT by Developing a Digital Framework for all Structural Components

Future of CIO

How to reinvent IT by developing a digital framework for all structural components? Information systems are business oriented, integrate hardware, software and many other pieces of IT components to help business users accomplish business objectives. a lack of productivity with technology. a lack of productivity with technology.