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• Swiss cities top ranking of best places to build tech careers

  29-07-2022 22:13
  
  Bern and Zürich are the best cities in the world in which to pursue a tech career, based on data released this week by Scotland-based digital skills development organization CodeClan.CodeClan’s study begins with the top 100 cities in the world based on Mercer’s Quality of Living rankings, and uses a combination of several weighted indices to determine their suitability for technology workers, including average salary, rent and broadband connection speed, as well as tech compani
  
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• Apple, the move to renewable energy, and why it matters

  29-07-2022 19:59
  
  Apple generally makes good decisions. Its decision to pivot to services and subscriptions means that around 40% of its gross revenues after costs in the last quarter were generated by those two buckets of revenue. But that’s not the only smart decision the company has made of late; the decision to migrate its entire business to renewable energy is equally far sighted.Here's why that matters.Services = Servers + electricity
  Apple’s services live in the cloud. And because they're clou
  
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• 'We got it wrong,' says AIB chief executive on bank's cashless move - The Irish Times

  29-07-2022 17:56 via irishtimes.com
  
  'We got it wrong,' says AIB chief executive on bank's cashless move  The Irish Times
  
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• Overdependence on PCs and servers drag Intel down

  29-07-2022 15:58
  
  A combination of macroeconomic headwinds and internal problems led to Intel's revenue dropping 22% to $15.3 billion in the second quarter of 2022, marking the seventh straight quarter of decline for the chipmaker.Revenue was also 15% below the company’s original guidance for the quarter. “Due to the difficult macroeconomic environment together with our own execution challenges, our results for the quarter were well below expectations and necessitate a significant revision to our ful
  
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• How remote work disrupted global supply chains

  29-07-2022 13:30
  
  More than two years after COVID-19 triggered a worldwide supply chain crisis, disruptions continue to make every trip to the supermarket or hardware store an adventure.The problem contributes to inflation, and even shortages of products made close to home. Shippers and truckers have received much blame, but the root of the crisis can be traced directly to the business desktop.Remote work, or the chain of unlikely events it kicked off more than two years ago, altered manufacturers’ expecta
  
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• Q&A: Chase CIO details what entry-level job-seekers need to succeed in Fintech

  29-07-2022 13:05
  
  With more than a quarter of a million employees, JPMorgan Chase Bank has its job cut out attempting to meet open job quotas. Over the last decade, the US's largest bank has shifted its IT strategy. Just as with the rest of the financial services industry, its focus has been on supporting its growing digital banking business through the lastest technologies, such as cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML).When it comes to AI/ML knowledge, recent college graducates don't ne
  
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• 7 Pixel settings you should change this second

  29-07-2022 11:45
  
  Part of the Pixel's primary appeal is the phone's phenomenal software. All Android experiences are not created equal, as anyone who's spent seven seconds with an out-of-the-box Samsung setup can tell you, and Google's clean and simple approach to Android is a huge piece of what makes a Pixel so pleasant to use.Still, while a Pixel may be perfectly peachy from the moment you power it on, Google's smartphone software is full of hidden features and advanced options that can make your experience ev
  
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• Apple’s Q3: Services, iPhone, loyalty help company (narrowly) beat estimates

  29-07-2022 11:03
  
  Apple late Thursday announced yet another new June quarter record, confirming strong demand for iPhones, pointing to record services revenue while admitting it couldn’t make enough Macs or iPads to meet demand.The company announced record revenue of $83 billion for the period, up 2% year over year. Quarterly earnings per diluted share hit $1.20, at the high end of analysts' consensus of $82.81 billion.Moving forward, Apple remains on track to keep spending money, even as the glo
  
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