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  • Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak enters hospital for unspecified reason

    Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak enters hospital for unspecified reason

    The mighty Woz has been admitted to a hospital, although it’s unknown as to exactly why.

    According to Reuters, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been admitted to a hospital in Mexico City, although conflicting sources have been unable to discern as to why.

    Woz was scheduled to participate in a World Business Forum in Mexico City’s Santa Fe neighborhood on Wednesday, November 8, 2023. A claim says that Woz delivered a speech, but then reported “feeling strange.”

    Per his wife’s insistence, Woz checked himself into a hospital. A recent report has stated that Wozniak may have been suffering from vertigo, while other media sources in Mexico have stated that Wozniak may have experienced a stroke.

    Per CNN, Wozniak is said to have fainted some minutes before he was due to give his speech.

    Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.

    Via AppleInsider, Reuters, and CNN

  • Oculus founder tweets effusive-but-cryptic praise regarding Apple’s mixed reality headset

    Oculus founder tweets effusive-but-cryptic praise regarding Apple’s mixed reality headset

    Apple’s forthcoming mixed reality headset just earned copious-if-vague praise from the founder of Oculus.

    In a cryptic post on Twitter on Sunday night, Palmer Luckey simply tweeted: “The Apple headset is so good.”

    Luckey’s comments come after testers have reportedly been left “blown away” by the product in early demos.

    Luckey founder Oculus, one of the earliest startups to gain mainstream success in the AR/VR headset space. Oculus was later acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion. Operating as a division of Facebook at that point, he launched the Oculus Rift in 2016. Luckey helped engineer and design Oculus Rift, with the work dating back as far as 2011.

    Following Luckey’s departure from Facebook in March 2017, Luckey founded Anduril Industries in partnership with a number of former Oculus executives. Anduril Industries focuses on developing autonomous system technology for defense purposes and has secured billions in funding from investors and billions in defense contracts.

    In a follow-up comment to his noted tweet, he said there’s high confidence inside Apple for the headset’s launch. Luckey has not responded to any other questioning on what exactly he’s basing his comments.

    It’s unknown whether Luckey has actually seen of used the Apple headset, and he may have received a private demo of the unit. It’s also likely that he communicated with someone inside Apple regarding the headset. It’s also possible that he’s spoken to developers that are working with Apple. The company has been privately working with third-party developers on software for the headset for at least several months.

    Apple is rumored to officially announce the headset at WWDC on June 5. The product is thought to feature bleeding-edge specifications, such as advanced hand and eye tracking, ultra-high-resolution displays, and Apple’s M2 chip, as well as house over a dozen cameras and sensors in the headset chassis. The product is expected to be expensive, priced at around $3,000.

    Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.

    Via 9to5Mac and @PalmerLuckey

  • Tech media godfather David Bunnell remembered

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    On Tuesday, October 18th, technology journalist David Bunnell, who also founded PC Magazine, PC World and Macworld, passed away in his home in Berkeley, California. He was 69 years old.

    Bunnell, whose career included working at MITS in Albuquerque, New Mexico, worked alongside Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

    Bunnell attended the University of Nebraska from 1965 to 1969, graduating with a B.A. in history, was active in the anti-Vietnam war movement and was elected president of the Students for a Democratic Society.

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  • Satya Nadella named as new Microsoft CEO

    Satya-NadellaAfter a long guessing game about who would be the next CEO, Microsoft finally announced Tuesday that it was appointing Satya Nadella to the post and adding him as a member of the Board of Directors. Nadella, who has been at Microsoft for 22 years, previously held the position of Executive Vice President of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group. He is replacing Steve Ballmer, who has held the position of CEO for 13 years following Bill Gates’ transition from CEO to Chairman of Microsoft’s Board of Directors in 2000. Ballmer will now take a position on the Board of Directors. Gates, meanwhile, makes another title change as he relinquishes his Chairman position to John Thompson and goes on to assume the role on the Board as Founder and Technology Advisor. There is still plenty of guessing and speculation to go around as everyone waits to see what possible fallout results from the announcement. Many speculate that some of Microsoft’s executives, who were in the running to take a seat in the CEO chair, may move on to jobs outside of Microsoft now that the decision is made. Also of interest will be Nadella’s vision for Microsoft now that he is in the driver’s seat.