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Note to IT: Google really wants its privacy settings left alone

04-06-2021 20:14

The biggest difference in business models between mobile giants Google and Apple is that Apple sells hardware and software whereas Google sells information. So when Apple makes a big play out of protecting privacy—such as pushing back against encryption backdoors and government subpoenas—it's relatively easy for them. That's not primarily how they make money.Google, though, has a business model that truly hates privacy. To Google, enterprise data privacy, along with consumer data pr

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WWDC 2021: What we think we know about an M1X MacBook Pro

04-06-2021 18:37

Will they, or won’t they? Business-class Apple users are waiting with bated breath in hopes the company will introduce a new breed of Macbook Pros based on M-series processors at Apple’s online WWDC event next week.Why it makes sense
Apple only unveiled its plans to put its own processors inside Macs at WWDC 2020. One year later and you’ll find these chips inside the MacBook Air, Mac mini, the all-new and colorful iMac, and the 13-in. MacBook Pro. This leaves j

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Why inquisitiveness matters as much as IQ

04-06-2021 13:00

Tiger Woods and Roger Federer took very different paths to the pinnacle of success in their sports. Woods was a golf prodigy who was beating adults at the game at age five and who broke 70 on a regulation golf course before he was a teenager.In contrast, Federer experimented with soccer, basketball, and various racquet sports before becoming serious about tennis in his early teens. He was winning national junior tournaments at 15.David Epstein contrasts the two superstars in the introduction to

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Nvidia Omniverse: Could it make today’s videoconferencing apps obsolete?

04-06-2021 12:48

Disclosure: Nvidia is a client of the author.This week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met with a bunch of analysts to talk about his Computex announcements, which weren’t as noteworthy as something he said at the end of his presentation. Jensen positioned Omniverse the same way he’d presented autonomous driving 20 years ago — as a worldwide game-changer. Jensen was right about autonomous technology, which is redefining almost every form of transportation. And I think he is lik

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