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Shells Review – Best Personal Cloud Computer

The Crazy Programmer

Virtual desktops are preinstalled copies of operating systems on the cloud. It helps in isolating the desktop environment from the existing system that is accessible on any device. All of the high-end processing tasks and heavy lifting operating system work is carried out on the cloud and not the existing system.

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

TechCrunch

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. It’s also making forays into non-game scenarios like online education and autonomous driving.

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Why, though? Apple’s too-expensive gaming console

The Hustle

Apple’s great… … at a lot of stuff, but it’s never quite broken into the $214B+ video game industry. Macs weren’t designed for games, so studios didn’t develop for them, leaving little incentive for gaming enthusiasts to choose Apple. As of January 2023, ~96% of Steam players gamed on Windows machines.

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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

TechCrunch

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. But first… what is a game engine, exactly? Godot editor demo.

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Maximise productivity for employees and IT staff in the hybrid work era

CIO

In addition, a study by Harvard Business Review in 2023 found senior executives expect remote and hybrid work to continue to grow over the next five years. HP Adaptive Endpoint Management has really changed the game significantly on the provisioning process,” explained Sharon Bottome, head of Infrastructure Services at HP.

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AARP Innovation Labs takes a holistic approach to age-tech at CES

TechCrunch

It IoT toys for kids that let them play games and do projects with their grandparents and other family members through Kinoo’s app. A tabletop console gaming system, Gameboard , also lets family members enjoy fun time, instead of just chat time, with one another. It hosts hundreds of games, including role-playing games.

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Mainframe modernization holds the key to IBM i success

CIO

Introduced 35 years ago as OS/400, a survey of IBM i users by Forta found that seven out of 10 use IBM i, an operating system developed by IBM for IBM Power Systems, to run more than half of their applications. Without end-to-end visibility across IBM i application workflows, prioritizing work is a guessing game.