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Microsoft to upgrade its xCloud servers to Xbox Series X hardware in 2021

The Verge

The service will initially be powered by Xbox One S consoles in server blades in Microsoft’s datacenters, but the software giant is planning to upgrade this hardware next year. It also includes a new built-in video encoder that is up to six times faster than the current encoder that Microsoft uses on existing xCloud servers.

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Apple WWDC 2020: iOS 14, ARM Macs, hardware rumors, and what else to expect

The Verge

The company is still expected to unveil the first look at the future of iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — the various suites of software that power all of Apple’s hardware. The EU has opened antitrust investigations against Apple, even as Apple continues to enforce restrictive policies — most recently against the email startup Hey.

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Video: A Cloud Conversation with Interxion » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

colocation » Data Center Videos. Video: A Cloud Conversation with Interxion. Video: A Cloud Conversation with Interxion. Video runs 4:14. For additional video, check out our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube. Video: SAIC’s Cloud Computing Centers.

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Boeing Black Smartphone: Security, modularity and productivity

CTOvision

Through embedded hardware security features, software policy configurability and physical modularity, Boeing Black gives customers a trusted, more flexible and productive solution. Hardware Root of Trust : Ensures software authenticity. Hardware Root of Trust : Ensures software authenticity.

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Epic to host a #FreeFortnite tournament with anti-Apple prizes

The Verge

Fortnite -maker Epic Games and Apple are currently embroiled in a public battle over Apple’s App Store policies, and in the latest move in the dispute, Epic has announced a Fortnite tournament taking place August 23rd where players can compete to win anti-Apple prizes. All of your friends. Fabulous prizes. And one bad apple.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO Business Intelligence

Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with. But rapid hardware advances may mean CIOs need to budget for much shorter hardware refresh cycles in future to stay up to date.

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Apple Vision Pro buyers in Seattle wrap their heads around ‘the future’ of tech

GeekWire

Other would-be buyers milled about tables with the headsets on display, waiting for scheduled demo times as a huge video screen in the showroom ran a Vision Pro sizzle video on a loop. Zee makes TikTok videos and Instagram reels under the handle @remyzee. He laughed and said there’s a 13-day return policy.

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