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• Apple gets the supply-chain sniffles, still manages an $83.4B quarter

  29-10-2021 18:08
  
  The supply chain crisis has officially come to Apple, trimming an estimated $6 billion off the company's record Q4 sales. Analysts had anticipated quarterly revenue of $84.8 billion, but Apple returned $83.4 billion. It is worth noting, however, that this was still a new Q4 record.What's going on with the supply chain?
  The company acknowledged the headwinds during its Q4 financial analyst call on Thursday. Apple CEO Tim Cook described three prongs to the problem: COVID-related disruption to the
  
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• 'Just Say It Was A Mistake': Khanna Grills Big Oil Executive On Climate Change Disinformation - Oakland News Now

  29-10-2021 16:09
  
  'Just Say It Was A Mistake': Khanna Grills Big Oil Executive On Climate Change Disinformation  Oakland News Now
  
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• 5G is coming, just not that fast

  29-10-2021 13:00
  
  A few weeks ago, I noticed that the signal strength indicator on my smartphone had switched from 4G to 5G networking. Judging by the narrative I’ve seen from telecom carriers for the last couple of years, this should have presaged a prodigious leap in performance.In fact, nothing much has changed.Search “why is 5G so slow?” on Google, and you’ll find that plenty of other people have had the same experience. The halting, uninspiring transition to 5G service that’s g
  
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• 7 new hidden Pixel treasures to find in Android 12

  29-10-2021 12:00
  
  Android 12 may seem like old news to those of us in the land o' Pixels at this point, but hold the phone: Google's latest software has some pretty phenomenal features that are lurking beneath the surface and all too easy to overlook.We explored a dozen such treasures the other day, but there's even more juicy goodness where that came from. So here now are seven more spectacular hidden gems you'll absolutely want to dig up in Android 12 on your Pixel phone — regardless of whether you're pa
  
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• Cisco moves Webex toward a collaboration lead

  29-10-2021 11:12
  
  Disclosure: most vendors mentioned are clients of the author.I’ve consistently said that videoconferencing firms who position their software as collaboration products aren’t really collaborative.  They don’t allow you to easily loop in what workers are collaborating on and seem more focused on virtualizing meetings than anything else.  In addition, the hardware won’t work seamlessly with the three major videoconferencing services. (You generally have to reboot
  
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• Companies Amendment Bill could backfire with executive pay disclosure - IT-Online

  29-10-2021 10:27
  Companies Amendment Bill could backfire with executive pay disclosure  IT-Online
  
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• Podcast: How Intel and Google's new chips compare to Apple's, plus the latest on the chip shortage

  29-10-2021 01:03
  
  Intel formally introduced its 12th-generation Alder Lake CPUs yesterday, and leaked benchmarks about the Core i9-12900HK processor suggest it outperforms Apple's new M1 Max chip. And Google's newly released Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro phones are powered by its own custom Tensor chip, similar to Apple's new A15 Bionic-powered iPhones. Macworld executive editor Michael Simon and Computerworld executive editor Ken Mingis join Juliet to discuss how these newly released chips--and the devices they power
  
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