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Google will spend 2022 trying to match Apple’s ecosystem integrations Google is announcing no fewer than 13 different new software features at CES 2022, ranging from AirPods-like fast switching to promised software that will mirror your Android text apps on a Chromebook. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/5/22864892/google-2022-ecosystem-android-chromebook-ces-features

Apple becomes world's first $3 trillion company as tech becomes central to post-COVID life A little over three years ago, Apple investors pushed the value of its shares above $1 trillion, making it the world's most highly valued tech company. Then, two years later, Apple stock rose so high that the company's value passed $2 trillion. Now, it's risen yet again, topping $3 trillion. Continue Reading . . . https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-becomes-worlds-first-3-trillion-company-as-tech-becomes-central-to-post-covid-life/

Apple gets closer to $3 trillion market value Jan 3 (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday inched closer to $3 trillion in market value with the iPhone maker's shares gaining on the first day of trading this year. Continue Reading . . . https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/apple-gets-closer-3-trillion-market-value-2022-01-03/

Intel and Samsung’s new demo shows how blisteringly fast a PCIe 5.0 SSD setup will be PCIe 5.0 SSDs have already started to get announced ahead of CES 2022, with Samsung and Adata teasing early hardware that supports the new standard. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/30/22860374/intel-samsung-ces-2022-demo-pcie-5-0-ssd-setup-speed-test

Solar recycling is broken, but there’s a plan to fix it Solar energy is key to solving climate change, but for the technology itself to be sustainable it needs to be recyclable. Unfortunately, when a solar panel dies today, it’s likely to meet one of two fates: a shredder or a landfill. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/29/22857157/solar-recycling-new-better-method

CES 2022 will introduce HDMI 2.1a, another confusing new spec The HDMI standards are a mess. HDMI 2.1, in particular, is a uniquely frustrating mess, with haphazard support among TV manufacturers, cable makers, and devices that make setting up, say 120Hz gaming on a PS5 or Xbox Series X a uniquely harrowing experience. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/29/22856103/hdmi-2-1a-spec-standard-mess-cables-source-based-tone-mapping-ces-2022

FCC win clears the way for a massive Wi-Fi 6E upgrade A ruling (pdf) on Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has backed up an April 2020 decision by the FCC to open up 1,200MHz of spectrum in the 6GHz band for unlicensed use. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/28/22857852/6ghz-wifi-win-fcc-wi-fi-6e-7-att-spectrum