Month: May 2021
You can now run macOS for M1 on Intel – if you want Apple M1
BlackBerry Cylance has managed to successfully emulate the Apple M1 silicon using the open source QEMU hardware virtualizer. The Apple M1 is the company’s first indigenously-designed Arm-based systems-on-a-chip (SoC), which includes both a CPU and the GPU. And while QEMU could already simulate both the 32-bit and 64-bit Arm processors,…
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Microsoft Edge finally fixes its YouTube problem Burn baby burn
Microsoft has finally fixed a long-standing issue in its Edge browser, where it would freeze at random moments when a video was playing in YouTube. Even though the browser runs through Google’s Chromium engine, Microsoft has developed its own version for Edge, which is why some bugs, such as this…
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Google rediscovers RSS: tests new feature to ‘follow’ sites in Chrome on Android
Google is testing a new feature for its Chrome browser on Android that lets users “follow” sites to create an updating list of new content they publish. The feature is based on RSS, an open web standard that’s been the backbone of many popular web aggregation tools in the past.…
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Ford CEO Jim Farley on building the electric F-150 — and reinventing Ford
Ford just announced the new F-150 Lightning, the company’s first all-electric pickup truck, and the second vehicle in its major push into EVs — the first, of course, was the Mustang Mach-E. That’s two of Ford’s most iconic brands now electrified, and CEO Jim Farley joined Decoder to talk about…
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Android ad spend surges following Apple’s IDFA changes Android or iOS
Spending on Android advertising has increased up to 21% following the release of iOS 14.5’s new privacy feature, according to new data. Known as App Tracking Transparency (ATT), Apple’s new feature prompts users to explicitly allow apps to access a device ID called the Identifier for Advertisers, or IDFA. iOS…
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Berlin’s Trade Republic nabs $900M led by Sequoia at a $5B valuation to take its neo-broker app across Europe
Consumers are moving into investing to complement — or in some cases, offset — less good returns from things like traditional savings accounts with low interest rates or pensions, and today one of the bigger “neo-brokers” in Europe helping to open up that opportunity is announcing a monster round of…
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