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Drones, radars, pizza makers among finalists for Hardware of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

The finalists for this year’s hardware and gadget category at the GeekWire Awards run the span of aviation to anchovies. Aerovel is developing a new drone it calls the Flexrotor, which is designed to take off and land vertically, like a helicopter , then transition into horizontal flight using wings for lift, like an airplane.

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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

These roles include data scientist, machine learning engineer, software engineer, research scientist, full-stack developer, deep learning engineer, software architect, and field programmable gate array (FPGA) engineer. It is used to execute and improve machine learning tasks such as NLP, computer vision, and deep learning.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

Still, software developers seeking to leverage graphics chips for non-graphical applications had to wrangle their calculations into a form that could be sent to the GPU as a series of instructions for either Microsoft’s DirectX graphics API or the open-source OpenGL (Open Graphics Library).

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First ARM Macs will be MacBook Pros and an all-new iMac: report

The Verge

At WWDC 2005, Apple announced that it would move from PowerPC processors to Intel for performance reasons, then in January 2006 the company released its first Intel-based Macs: an iMac with a Core Duo inside the old G5 chassis, and the all-new MacBook Pro that replaced the PowerBook G4.

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The mainframe is dying: Long live the mainframe application!

CIO Business Intelligence

Meanwhile, IBM has yet to announce any end to sales or support of its Z Series machines, and like Fujitsu, it too continues to develop its mainframe product line. According to IBM’s official mainframe life cycle history , each generation of hardware typically remains on sale for 4.1 years after its launch in June 2006.

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Robotics pioneer Yoky Matsuoka’s Panasonic venture debuts personal assistant service in Seattle

GeekWire

In addition to its app and service, Yohana has put a heavy focus on developing behind-the-scenes tech tools and data repositories to make personal assistants “superhuman,” as Matsuoka puts it. It was developed especially with moms in mind, although it’s by no means limited to them. “We’ll get there.”

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Medical device repair startup Summit Imaging fires back at Philips over device ‘hacking’ claims

GeekWire

Philips alleged that Summit built software designed to hack into its ultrasound machines and other devices as a way to get around stringent access controls regulating how the hardware can be used. Summit CEO Lawrence Nguyen, a veteran of companies including AT&T and Microsoft, launched the company in 2006. Summit Imaging Photo).