Новости за 25.02.2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine this week will likely mean an increasing list of economic sanctions that affect everyone, including the technology supply chain that depends on Ukraine for some critical raw materials used in chip manufacturing.

If this wasn’t an email, I might send you a video instead.

We’ve all gotten used to video meetings over the past two years. But when it comes to asynchronous—or non-simultaneous—communication, we mostly fall back to the tried-and-true medium of email.

Email is good for a lot of things, but it’s lousy at communicating emotion or personality, delivering a demo, or displaying a scene. Video is better for that.

“Video messages carry the personality of the messenger in a way that... Читать дальше...

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Russia telegraphed its intentions to invade Ukraine well ahead of this week’s attack by massing nearly 200,000 soldiers along Ukraine’s borders, and by Vladimir Putin’s increasingly belligerent threats.

In the 1950s, ׳60s, and for part of the ׳70s, a great deal of work was done to understand the impact of compensation and productivity on the workplace. (Given the unionization and labor problems Apple, Google, and Amazon now face, it seems clear that those lessons might not have been part of executive training.) I spent a great deal of time on this subject in undergraduate and graduate school, and when running a compensation program at IBM. I also learned it is inadvisable to call the head of your division an idiot ... Читать дальше...

Apple is getting closer to ditching Qualcomm as its 5G modem supplier, according to a new Digitimes report. The company has reportedly begun coordinating with other chip companies to develop custom-made 5G modems for future iPhones. These chips could appear in iPhones in 2023. Plus, Google will roll out increased user privacy tools in future versions of Android by implementing measures to limit ad tracking across websites and apps. Computerworld executive editor Ken Mingis and Macworld executive... Читать дальше...