The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Apple’s former hardware leader, Dan Riccio, is now overseeing the company’s still-secretive work on augmented and virtual reality products, according to Bloomberg. Riccio stepped back from Apple last month , after serving as senior vice president of hardware engineering since 2012.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Running a business at the scale of Amazon, we often have to solve problems that no other company has faced before. When you’re a customer-centric company, you often find yourself in the great unknown because customers will always want more and better. You will need to invent on their behalf.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 10, 2020

It’s rare for a company like Nintendo to release a console that isn’t at least popular amongst its fans—even the Wii U sold over 13 million units. But the Virtual Boy was one of the company’s biggest flops, delivering a disappointing 3D experience that left gamers seeing red: literally.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Apple is launching a new subscription service for virtual fitness classes called Fitness Plus, the company announced during its presentation today. Apple reportedly intends for its virtual classes to compete with services from Peloton and Nike. Image: Apple. Access to the service will cost $9.99 a month or $79.99

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

Facebook has long believed in the promise of virtual and augmented reality extending well beyond entertainment, and we’re now getting a clearer glimpse at what that future might look like now that the current pandemic is reshaping how companies everywhere think about remote work. This is real footage using prototype headsets.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 5, 2024

of Commerce will lead a delegation of companies to the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), taking place in Las Vegas next Tuesday through Thursday. The delegation of six companies includes robotic barista maker Artly — a Seattle-based startup founded in 2020 in a bid to use tech to make the perfect cup of coffee — and others.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Apple has confirmed it did indeed purchase virtual reality company NextVR, which specializes in recording live events like concerts and sports matches to be experienced in VR, according to Bloomberg. The company’s confirmation arrives after 9to5Mac first reported the acquisition in early April. Photo: NextVR.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 10, 2024

What is a VA (virtual assistant): This question opens the door to a modern profession that encapsulates the fusion of technology, administrative skills, and the evolving nature of the workforce. VAs have the capability to remotely access essential documents How does a virtual assistant work? What exactly does a virtual assistant do?

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is working on futurist virtual reality and augmented reality projects. Read More.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook virtual reality lead and soon-to-be CTO Andrew Bosworth (or “Boz”) are playing around with prototype VR (or AR) tech and want to show it off. The headset Zuckerberg is wearing looks similar to the company’s Oculus headsets. Image: Facebook.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

But the pandemic is pushing many companies to try new things, and the software mainstay is getting into hardware for the first time. “We’re not trying to make any kind of political statement here,” said RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser in a virtual demonstration of the kiosk this week. and Canada.

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Network World

APRIL 4, 2023

Tighter integration between Fortinet's SASE and SD-WAN offerings is among the new features enabled by the latest version of the company's core operating system. FortiOS version 7.4 also includes better automation across its Security Fabric environment, and improved management features.

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GeekWire

APRIL 21, 2021

The finalists for this year’s hardware and gadget category at the GeekWire Awards run the span of aviation to anchovies. based company’s portable ventilator was top-of-the-list for hospitals enduring a surge of COVID-19 cases across the country last spring. The company, based in Redmond, Wash., The Bothell, Wash.-based

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It uses two 1920 x 1080 OLED displays with a 90Hz refresh rate, plus an array of cameras, to add a virtual overlay to the real world. The XR1 Smart Viewer is distinct from the Snapdragon XR1 or XR2 platforms — a pair of chipsets that are optimized for virtual and augmented reality glasses, including last year’s XR2-based Oculus Quest 2.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Instead, Nreal seems more interested in giving buyers a private virtual screen — and the results are tantalizingly close to great. Lots of companies, including Meta (formerly Facebook) with its Quest 2, offer to replace your monitor or TV with glasses. Bad software can be fixed after release, unlike bad hardware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2024

When tech giant Broadcom acquired virtualization market leader VMware last October, it restructured licensing terms, laid off thousands of employees, and terminated partner agreements with resellers and service providers. SoftIron introduced VM Squared , a virtualization platform focused on ease of deployment, in March.

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The Verge

MAY 17, 2021

Epic, which filed the case late last week , claims it’s “no coincidence” that Nreal’s name “looks and sounds virtually identical” to Unreal’s branding. Epic argues that on top of “Nreal” sounding a lot like “Unreal,” both companies are competing in the same space. Epic claims that all this potential crossover could confuse customers.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Amazon Photo) At a company famous for turning doors into desks, it only made sense for Amazon’s cloud division to find its first desktop productivity device in one of its consumer division’s existing streaming media products. Muneer Mirza, AWS general manager of End User Computing.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Virtually every major tech company out there, it seems, has talked about some way they can help enable private 5G, either via chips, hardware, or some element of the many types of software necessary to enable such a solution. At last week’s re:Invent, however, Amazon’s AWS cloud business managed to.

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Nvidia unveiled its full-stack vision of innovative tech for enterprises including AI, virtual worlds, health care, and pizza. Read More.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2022

Magic Leap announced Tuesday that it was giving four healthcare partners early access to its next-gen augmented reality headset, including neurotechnology company SyncThink. More and more virtual and augmented reality companies like Magic Leap are moving toward healthcare as part of that digital health trend, Anderson says.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 4, 2022

Nvidia’s section on desktop GPUs in its CES virtual event mentioned the latest Steam hardware survey in which three of the top five cards are Nvidia 50-class cards (the GTX 1650, 1050Ti, and 1050). The company claims 75 percent of gamers still use GTX GPUs. It’s promising the entry-level successor—the.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

AUGUST 19, 2021

Facebook on Thursday unveiled its vision to make remote meetings more immersive with the introduction of Horizon Workrooms, a virtual reality app for team collaboration. But convincing employees to put on VR headsets for conference meetings — or companies to buy the hardware in the first place — could be a tough sell, say analysts.

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Network World

APRIL 5, 2017

A critical vulnerability in the widely used Xen hypervisor allows attackers to break out of a guest operating system running inside a virtual machine and access the host system's entire memory. The new vulnerability affects Xen 4.8.x, x, and 4.4.x x and has existed in the Xen code base for over four years.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Facebook is building a smartwatch as part of its ongoing hardware efforts, according to a new report from The Information. It also says Facebook is working on building its own operating system for hardware devices and that future iterations of the wearable may run that software instead.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The Xen Project has fixed four vulnerabilities in its widely used virtualization software, two of which could allow malicious virtual machine administrators to take over host servers. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Solarflare is a leading provider of application-intelligent networking I/O software and hardware that facilitate the acceleration, monitoring and security of network data. They are a top player in infrastructure including the critically important Data Center so we track them in our Leading Infrastructure Companies category.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 21, 2021

The last 18 months have been an audio-visual adventure, requiring many of us to improve and refine our at-home tech setups for virtual meetings and remote work. We’re sharing some of our hard-earned lessons on this behind-the-scenes episode of the GeekWire Podcast, including details on hardware and software.

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Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Cher Wang, chairwoman of virtual reality hardware maker HTC, unveiled her company's vision of the metaverse, known as Viverse. Read More.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. With this definition in hand, let’s compare network virtualization to SDN.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 6, 2017

At the International CES mega show in Las Vegas, virtual reality hardware makers moved the needle on both consumption and creation devices for formats like VR and 360-degree video. VR and 360 content can be a powerful tool for companies. For example, Delta used a 360 image to show off its new Delta Premium offering.

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CTOvision

JULY 25, 2015

Bracket Computing has developed the industry’s first Cloud Virtualization System, the Bracket Computing Cell. Today Computing Cells harness the public cloud for the enterprise, combining their scale, elasticity and efficiency with the security, performance and control of a dedicated hardware data center.

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GeekWire

MARCH 21, 2024

(Microsoft Photos) Microsoft unveiled what it described as its first AI-powered Surface PCs for businesses, the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6, with Intel Core Ultra processors and Neural Processing Units that the company says will power advanced artificial intelligence applications and experiences. billion in the six months ended Dec.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to PC makers to preinstall on new hardware, and the company hasn’t made copies of the operating system available for anyone to license or freely install. Apple did demonstrate Parallels Desktop running Linux in a virtual machine, but there was no mention of Windows support.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Conduit Venture Labs Photo) — Seattle tech leader Lauren Sato joined Seattle hardware startup studio Conduit Venture Labs as an entrepreneur-in-residence. “Conduit is unique in that hardware is an incredibly difficult space to get into as a standalone founder,” Sato said. Lauren Sato. Kirkland, Wash.-based

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Computerworld Vertical IT

JULY 19, 2021

Microsoft last week introduced Windows 365 , a new service that lets the company cut partners out of the money-making loop by providing virtual PCs to customers.

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