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The 2020 calendar year will long be remembered as an annus horribilis for most, except for a handful of technology companies who reaped the rewards of a global shift to remote work with  successful initial public offerings (IPOs).

Amid the coronavirus, 2020 was unpredictable in more ways than anyone would have expected. But one thing that stayed fairly constant was the steady flow of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) across the tech sector.

Forget about all those contradictory reports about whether smartphones could give you brain cancer. Apple itself this week issued a warning that the iPhone 12 could attack your heart.

Disclosure: NVIDIA is a client of the author.

I’ve been thinking about an NVIDIA offering called Omniverse. It’s designed to work with the company’s graphics cards and use game elements to create content rapidly, but it can also create visual simulations. 

NVIDIA has been a major simulation advocate for autonomous cars, and its tools could be used to simulate other things. (NVIDIA’s new headquarters existed virtually years before it was built.) I bring this up because, as we see Reddit folks mess with the hedge funds... Читать дальше...

Apple has updated its iCloud for Windows application, hinting the future introduction of support for an extension to enable use of iCloud passwords via the Chrome browser on Windows.

For years, the US government begged Apple executives to create a backdoor for law enforcement. Apple publicly resisted, arguing that any such move for law enforcement would quickly become a backdoor for cyberthieves and cyberterrorists.