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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 was started in 2006 by Tad McGeer and Andy von Flotow, who were the founders of Insitu, an unmanned aerial system developer. And all of it comes with a pizza, if Picnic has its way. The Bothell, Wash.-based

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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.

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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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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.

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The mainframe is dying: Long live the mainframe application!

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Wazi is a suite of tools IBM introduced back in 2020 with which developers can write z/OS applications and then test them in a z/OS sandbox on their own x86 hardware.

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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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