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Apple’s first-gen M1 chips have already upended our concept of laptop performance

The Verge

In both early benchmarks and head-to-head comparisons for compiling code , Apple’s M1 chip appears to hold its own against even Intel’s most powerful Core i9 chip for laptops. Keep in mind this comparison is deeply unfair: my 16-inch MacBook Pro was literally maxed out just a year ago – 8 cores, 64GB RAM, and much more, costing $6000.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the business of Windows

The Verge

Microsoft wants to make Windows 11 more flexible and open We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today — I’m talking to Satya Nadella, the CEO and chairman of Microsoft. And I definitely wanted to know about the decision to run Android apps on Windows. Nadella also mentions “aggregators” in the context of the Windows store.

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Is a single management solution required for multi-hypervisor environments?

Virtualized Greek

Or should I say, I haven’t seen a great operating model for seamlessly managing both Windows and Linux. For instance, there was the whole Windows vs. automobile industry meme that was going around a few years ago. That proved to be more of apples to oranges comparison, but I think the OS example is a good comparison.

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Technology Short Take 135

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. This is an older article, but hopefully still useful nevertheless: Brian Mathews explains how to use the linkerd sidecar to find and fix application issues on Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Lots of geekery in here!

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The LG Wing’s twisting screen offers a new spin on the dual-screen smartphone

The Verge

The idea is that when in “swivel mode,” you’ll use the main display for whatever your primary task is, while the second display serves as a supplemental window for another app or extended functionality. Video applications can use the second display for media and volume controls. The rest of the hardware is fairly standard.

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Xbox Series X and S: everything you need to know about the next-gen of Xbox

The Verge

Not only that, but Microsoft’s initial crop of first-party games will also be playable on its last generation Xbox, the Xbox One, as well as Windows PCs. And that’s before we get into Microsoft’s game streaming service, xCloud, which could mean you won’t need any Xbox hardware at all to play many of the latest games.

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Technology Short Take 92

Scott Lowe

This post is a bit older, but covers a challenge faced by cloud-native darling Netflix—how does one, exactly, identify which application used which IP address at a given point in time? Servers/Hardware. Jorge Salamero Sanz (on behalf of Sysdig) provides a similar comparison, this time looking at ECS, Fargate, and EKS.

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