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Has Apple Pay made it too easy to spend money?

Vox

Apple Pay leads the tap-to-pay market, which has exploded in popularity in the last few years. Apple released iOS 17 on September 18 and now that the new operating system is here, you can probably leave your wallet at home. It also marks a step forward in Apple’s steady march toward becoming a sort of bank.

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Qualcomm just bought a two-year-old startup founded by former Apple engineers for $1.4 billion

The Verge

The company Qualcomm is purchasing, Nuvia, was formed in 2019 by three former engineers and chip specialists, all of whom worked at Apple on the A-series chip line that powers the iPhone and iPad. 5G is further accelerating the convergence of mobility and computing. 5G is further accelerating the convergence of mobility and computing.

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Has Apple Pay made it too easy to spend money?

Vox

Apple Pay leads the tap-to-pay market, which has exploded in popularity in the last few years. Apple released iOS 17 on September 18 and now that the new operating system is here, you can probably leave your wallet at home. It also marks a step forward in Apple’s steady march toward becoming a sort of bank.

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Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

The Verge

Arm will operate as an division of Nvidia and will remain headquartered in the UK, and, will “continue to operate its open-licensing model, while maintaining its global customer neutrality,” the company said. The British company’s intellectual property helps power mobile device processors for companies including Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm.

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Quibi’s library will live on through the Roku Channel

The Verge

Roku’s announcement says the Quibi content it has licensed will feature stars including “Idris Elba, Kevin Hart, Liam?Hemsworth, Roku, one of the leading hardware companies in the streaming space, is trying to push more into software. Hemsworth, Anna Kendrick, Nicole Richie, Chrissy Teigen, Lena Waithe, and many others.”

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Fraunhofer’s new H.266 codec promises to cut the cost of streaming 4K video in half

The Verge

But Fraunhofer says VVC could be a path forward for the industry, as almost every major hardware and software company is currently tied up in a messy patent royalty system that dictates how much various stakeholders must pay to use different compression and transmission standards for devices, websites, and apps.

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Technology Short Take 170

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). As detailed in this article , it turns out BitLocker can be bypassed—assuming physical access to the hardware—with a cheap logic analyzer.

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