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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s become a vital skill for producing mobile devices and for developing embedded systems, IoT devices, and other consumer products. SoC helps reduce power consumption, and can help ensure devices require less space and cost less to build from discrete components, making it an appealing choice for businesses developing technical hardware.

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

The Verge

If you want a more powerful laptop or desktop, then you’re still getting the old Intel models — models that, while still not on Apple Silicon hardware, also haven’t been updated with new Intel hardware in over a year and a half either. But a year in, and only Apple’s least powerful devices have made the change.

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Fountainhead: The Beginning of the Non-Dedicated Device World?

Fountainhead

After all, millions of people own identical hardware/software configurations of iPhones, Android-based phones, tablets, laptops and other devices. Labels: Citrix , Mobility , Predictions. (4). Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). ► 2006. (2). More at [link]. Ken Oestreich. Infrastructure Orchestration. (31).

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ZmBIZI’s $550 Z2 phone pays you for your data usage

The Verge

We live so much of our lives on our smartphones these days that our mobile devices are just full of valuable data that we often unknowingly and freely give to all the major tech companies: our spending habits, our personal preferences, our locations, and much more. ZmBIZI is putting its bets on its new $550 unlocked 4G phone, the Z2.

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Stop using your phone number to log in

Vox

But even before the iPhone changed the mobile game, there were concerns over using phone numbers as identifiers. Mobile phones have what’s known as a SIM, or subscriber identity module. Use an authenticator app or hardware key instead. And, as Ugo’s story shows, there are unintended consequences when they do.

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Rosetta 2 is Apple’s key to making the ARM transition less painful

The Verge

But it also means that apps that were developed for Intel’s architecture originally won’t run natively on Apple’s upcoming hardware. The original Rosetta was released in 2006 to facilitate Apple’s transition from PowerPC to Intel. Apple claims improved performance over the original version of Rosetta from 2006.

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How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race

Vox

Over a decade ago, Nvidia made a failed gambit to become a major player in the mobile chip market , but today Android phones use a range of non-Nvidia chips , while iPhones use Apple-designed ones. Older gaming consoles like the PlayStation 3 and the original Xbox had Nvidia chips, and the current Nintendo Switch uses an Nvidia mobile chip.