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Mastering Hardware: My Nand2Tetris Journey Begins

Xebia

In 2010 a man named Maurice Wilkes died. His death was a loss to the computer industry as he was considered one of the last people who truly understood hardware and software at a fundamental level. If you have ever wanted to know what your computer is doing at the hardware level, I highly recommend this course.

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Nomod raises $3.4M seed to allow merchants accept payments without hardware

TechCrunch

One, most of them are excluded from various payment ecosystems globally due to their size, and two, getting hardware from providers can be expensive. . based fintech Nomod allows these businesses to bypass the card terminal by providing a platform to accept card payments on their phone with no extra hardware. The company has raised $3.4

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. June 2010: Autonomy acquires CA Technologies’ information governance business. The 2010s: Autonomy’s unravelling September 2010: Ex-SAP CEO Léo Apotheker is named CEO of HP.

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And just like that, Peloton is experiencing a correction

TechCrunch

It’s been a hot minute since a publicly traded hardware company experienced a valuation correction as dramatic as Peloton’s. As a former hardware founder and investor, I can’t help but feel sorry for the no-mercy hill climb the company finds itself in. Former Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy will take the helm.

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Device42 tunes IT infrastracture tooling to measure carbon emissions

TechCrunch

Device42 , a startup that helps companies understand and manage their hybrid infrastructure, can see a lot of information about each customer’s hardware and software usage. The company launched in 2010 and has raised more than $38 million, per Crunchbase. The new tool is available for customers at no additional cost, says Jalan.

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iRobot launches a $1,399 premium Roomba combo vacuum/mop and dock

TechCrunch

The first Scooba system became widely available in 2010. Like many of us, iRobot has a long-standing love-hate relationship with the mop. Ultimately, however, mopping up and filling a tank with dirty water proved inefficient, and the line was eventually phased out.

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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. The boom caught the eye of hardware makers like Vivo, which partnered up with Cocos to make its equivalent of mini games.

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