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DTWS: Rakuten Group's CTO gives details of Symphony

TM Forum

Tareq Amin, Rakuten Group’s Group Chief Technology Officer, Rakuten Group fleshed out some of the details around the new service at TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World Series. ” The other units within Symphony are “intelligent operation, billing stack, [and the] Internet and ecosystem services group.”

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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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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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Facebook’s new virtual meeting app is ‘great news’ and ‘validating’ for these Seattle entrepreneurs

GeekWire

Facebook today unveiled its vision for the future of work: a virtual reality experience called Horizon Workrooms that uses avatars and VR headsets to replicate in-person collaboration. “It will cause more people to experiment with virtual workspaces and consider using them as a key part of their remote or hybrid teams.”

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Digital Twin Use Races Ahead at McLaren Group

CIO Business Intelligence

Driving 200+ miles an hour, Formula 1 racing cars built by the UK’s McLaren Group have a lot more in common today with fruit flies (a favorite among researchers with an accelerated lifespan of one to two weeks) than cheetahs (the fastest land animal). which are virtual models of objects, systems, or processes ? billion by 2030.

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VMworld 2021: VMware to pack more security into NSX

Network World

When it comes to protecting data-center-based resources in the highly distributed world, traditional security hardware and software components just aren’t going to cut it. To read this article in full, please click here

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Drones, radars, pizza makers among finalists for Hardware of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

The finalists for this year’s hardware and gadget category at the GeekWire Awards run the span of aviation to anchovies. On May 20 we will announce the winners live at the virtual GeekWire Awards , presented by Wave Business. And to our silver sponsors BCRA and Kingston Marketing Group.

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