Leo’s Twitter Updates for 2007-12-16

Wrapping a present for a white elephant party tonight. This is where a well-stocked gadget warehouse comes in handy. #

Black Friday online shopping comes in $9B, $3.6B on smartphones | TechCrunch 28 November 2020

Adobe, which is following online sales in real-time at 80 of the top 100 retailers in the U.S., covering some 100 million SKUs, said US consumers spent $9 billion online on Black Friday, up 21.6% on a year ago. Adobe had originally forecast sales of between $8.9 billion and $9.6 billion.

(22) Robᵉʳᵗ Graham😷, provocateur on Twitter: "1/ In case you were wondering: Apple's replacement for Intel processors turns out to work really, really well. Some otherwise skeptical techies are calling it "black magic". It runs Intel code extraord 28 November 2020

So Apple simply cheated. They added Intel's memory-ordering to their CPU. When running translated x86 code, they switch the mode of the CPU to conform to Intel's memory ordering.

Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective | steipete's blog 28 November 2020

The new M1 MacBooks are fast, beautiful and silent and the hype is absolutely justified. There’s still a lot to do on the software-front to catch up, and the bugs around older iOS Simulators are especially problematic. All of that can be fixed in software and the whole industry is currently working on making the […]

Most Americans Object to Government Tracking of Their Activities Through Cellphones - WSJ 28 November 2020

A new Harris Poll survey indicated that 55% of American adults are worried that government agencies are tracking them through location data generated from their cellphones and other digital devices. The poll also found that 77% of Americans believe the government should get a warrant to buy the kind of detailed location information that is […]

Pushed by Pandemic, Amazon Goes on a Hiring Spree Without Equal - The New York Times 28 November 2020

Amazon added 427,300 employees between January and October, pushing its work force to more than 1.2 million people globally, up more than 50 percent from a year ago. Its number of workers now approaches the entire population of Dallas.

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