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Weekly Tech Roundup: Remembering Gordon Moore, AI Ethics, Twitter News, Gaming Updates, and More

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This week, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore passed away; Twitter is a disaster, and there’s lots of gaming news. Also, Apple announces the date of WWDC, the Interesting Things of the Week, and more in the other news section. Gordon Moore On Sunday, the world learned that Gordon Moore, one of the founders of intel and the originator of Moore’s law, died. He was a pioneer in the semiconductor industry, and his prediction about the rapid advances in computer chip technology charted a course for the high-tech age. He will be remembered for his contributions to the field of computing and … Continue reading Weekly Tech Roundup: Remembering Gordon Moore, AI Ethics, Twitter News, Gaming Updates, and More

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This Week In Tech – October 24, 2021

Sam Greenwood

This week has been super busy in the tech industry, Apple, Google and, Samsung all held hardware announcement events. Apple Event At their event on Monday, Apple announced details about their new pro-tier Mac chips. They also announced new upgraded Macbook Pros. Some of the highlights are the return of the ports Apple removed from Macbooks in 2016 and MagSafe. Made By Google 2021 During their annual Made by Google event, Google announced the next generation of Pixel phones. The Pixel 6 & 6 Pro will for the first time have Google’s in-house built Tensor SoC. Both devices get a … Continue reading This Week In Tech – October 24, 2021

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October 2021 – Apple Event

Sam Greenwood

1 both 254 ppi calculate the resolution yourself. This week is going to be busy on this site as there was also a Google Pixel event today (Tuesday) and will be a Samsung event tomorrow. I aslo plan to resume This Week In Tech articles this week, I’ve been really busy with school work and I go on break next week so I’ll have some time to focus on the site and redevelop my routine for working on more posts. Continue reading October 2021 – Apple Event

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This Week In Tech – January 17, 2021

Sam Greenwood

Here are some of the biggest tech stories of the week: Flash is Dead Intel hires new CEO Qualcomm acquires Nuvia Samsung Galaxy Unpacked New Pokemin Snap release date announced Apple extends TV+ free trial to July NASA ends InSight’s mole mission SLS fails Green Run I’ve been really tired lately so I didn’t have the energy to write a full article today. I’ll try to start writing a full This Week in Tech article next week. Continue reading This Week In Tech – January 17, 2021

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This Week In Tech – Dec 13th 2020

Sam Greenwood

This week there’s been lots of Uber news, the DOJ sued Facebook for antitrust and, Disney held their investors’ day where they talked a lot about their streaming strategy. Also, The Game Awards took place on Thursday and more in the Other News section. Uber News Over the last week, Uber announced that they sold off their Self-Driving car division and Joby Aviation. Both were very complicated deals that involved Uber acquiring stock in the companies that the divisions were sold to. I highly suggest reading the source articles I used to get a better idea about these deals. Facebook … Continue reading This Week In Tech – Dec 13th 2020

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This Week In Tech – Dec 6th 2020

Sam Greenwood

This week there were a couple of major acquisitions, the Brazilian Government suffered a data breach, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 888 chip and more in the other news section. Acquisitions On Monday, Facebook announced that they are going to be acquiring PRM startup Kustomer. The details of this acquisition haven;t been announced so price and other details are unknown. This one is kind of surprising because of the antitrust investigation into Facebook. But that’s not the biggest acquisition announced this week, Salesforce announced that they are acquiring Slack for $27.7 billion. Slack will become part of Salesforce Customer 360. Brazil … Continue reading This Week In Tech – Dec 6th 2020