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Google reportedly planning a new Silicon Valley campus with a hardware center

The Verge

Google plans another campus in Silicon Valley which will include a new center for some of its hardware products, CNBC reported. Google has been buying up land in northern San Jose, California, spending more than $389 million on what preliminary plans show will include a research and development center, according to CNBC.

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Xbox hardware sales spike 172% as Microsoft reports $3.7B in quarterly gaming revenue

GeekWire

Microsoft’s fiscal fourth quarter earnings report mostly contained good news for the Xbox department. While 2021’s slow release calendar has created a sluggish market for third-party games, Xbox reported continued growth on hardware sales and Xbox Game Pass subscriptions. Thomas Wilde Photo).

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Apple’s former hardware leader reportedly now overseeing AR and VR devices

The Verge

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. Photo: Apple.

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Longtime Microsoft hardware leader Panos Panay is leaving the company after 19 years

GeekWire

” The longtime Microsoft hardware chief and executive vice president led the company’s unified Windows software and hardware teams. He also led development of Windows 11. This team will be led by Pavan Davuluri , who will report directly to me. Our commitment to Surface and MR remains unchanged.

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Microsoft reports a Majorana development in its quest to build quantum computers

GeekWire

Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and other cloud-based services are already using hybrid systems to bring some of the benefits of the quantum approach to applications ranging from drug development to traffic management. Other claims have met with controversy as well, casting doubt on the prospects for topological quantum computing. .

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Apple reportedly working on iPhone hardware subscription

TechSpot

The program is being actively developed though no other specifics were mentioned. Bloomberg described the subscription service as Apple's biggest push to date into automatically recurring sales.

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Facebook names a new CTO with a major focus on hardware

The Verge

Facebook is serious about being a long-term player in hardware. On Wednesday, the company promoted Andrew Bosworth, the current head of its hardware division that makes Oculus and other consumer devices, to the role of chief technology officer, replacing outgoing CTO Mike Schroepfer when he becomes a senior fellow next year.

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