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The big three in 2019: Apple, Google and Microsoft’s upcoming hardware year

CTOvision

While 2018 was a year of iterative updates, Apple, Google and Microsoft all released some of their best products yet, even if they weren’t as innovative as some would like. While many flagships went without any upgrades – we didn’t even see a new MacBook or Surface Book – devices like the MacBook Air and […].

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Apple has a new head of hardware engineering in latest executive shuffle

The Verge

John Ternus, Apple’s new senior vice president of hardware engineering | Photo: Apple. Apple’s hardware team is getting its biggest shakeup in nearly a decade, as Dan Riccio — who served as the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering since 2012 — transitions to “a new role” at the company. Photo: Apple.

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The 8 biggest announcements from the Google I/O 2019 keynote

CTOvision

Google typically hops between each I/O year to focus on either hardware or software news, and this year brought on more devices than we got from 2018. Now that the keynote’s wrapped, we can confirm a few rumors from the past few months: the Pixel 3A is real, as is the leaked Nest Hub Max […].

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Amazon Aurora development team wins the 2019 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award

All Things Distributed

This week, the developers of Amazon Aurora have won the 2019 Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) Systems Award.

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Google Stadia is celebrating its second birthday with hardware for free or cheap

The Verge

On November 19th, 2019, Google launched its Stadia cloud gaming service as a work in progress , and it’s arguably still one today. You should now be able to purchase a Stadia Premiere Edition hardware kit with the Chromecast Ultra and Stadia Controller for just $22.22 Google has given away a lot of hardware already.

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New "Downfall" vulnerability that can steal passwords and encryption keys discovered in Intel processors from 2015 to 2019

TechSpot

He writes that it is caused by memory optimization features in Intel processors that unintentionally reveal internal hardware registers to software, allowing untrusted software to access data stored by other programs, which should not normally be accessible. Google researcherer Daniel Moghimi discovered the new vulnerability, dubbed Downfall.

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Analogue is launching limited-edition transparent versions of its Pocket handheld

TechSpot

The original Analogue Pocket was introduced back in late 2019 and launched just over two years later following numerous delays brought about by the pandemic's impact on the global supply chain. The FPGA-based handheld is inspired by Nintendo's iconic Game Boy but with far more advanced hardware including a 3.5-inch.

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