A report from Bloomberg says that Apple is now working on setting up a new team that is supposed to design more chip components in-house. That means that components from third-party manufacturers will no longer be necessary. What is more, Apple is hiring engineers for its new office in Irvine, South California. The new members of the team need to be experienced in modem chips and other wireless semiconductors.

According to Bloomberg, Apple’s decision to set up a new office to design wireless chips is “part of a broader strategy of expanding satellite offices, letting the tech giant target engineering hotbeds and attract employees who might not want to work at its home base in Silicon Valley.”

Furthermore, the publication notes at the new Apple’s office, engineers will be able to work on wireless radios, radio-frequency integrated circuits, and a wireless system-on-a-chip (SoC). They will also be given the chance to develop semiconductors for connecting to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. In this way, they will cover all the components that Apple currently sources from third-party manufacturers.

There is no information on when Apple’s in-house chips will show up in its devices’ lineup because at that stage, the company is still searching for experienced individuals.

It feels like yesterday when smartphones have just arrived, ready to change our lives. Since that moment, the development of all these smartphones and gadgets became really fast. Day after day, more and more novelties, upgrades, and innovations are pouring over us.

There is no doubt that Android games are one of the most exciting things, and playing them on Windows has been possible probably for as long as Android has existed, and all of this is thanks to projects such as Android x86 and Bluestacks.

Microsoft has been building an Android application layer into Windows. Its software is downloadable from the Amazon Appstore, and it seems that Google is already determined to create its own mechanism for playing Android games on PCs.

A surprising announcement was made by Google on Thursday night when The Game Awards took place. In 2022 we can expect a new application by Google, which will give its users the opportunity to play Android Games on their PCs, or at least this was revealed by the company.

Greg Hartrell, who is Google’s product director of games on Android and Google Play, told The Verge:

“This Google-built product brings the best of Google Play Games to more laptops and desktops, and we are thrilled to expand our platform for players to enjoy their favorite Android games even more.”

How does it work? Which games will be available? Maybe you are full of questions but at that point, the company isn’t saying much right now. However, Google admitted that the app was built without the use of existing technology from Microsoft, Bluestacks, or others. The only thing that is for sure is that the games will run locally on your PC and they will not be streamed from a cloud server. Also, the app will be compatible with Windows 10 and newer, but Microsoft’s virtualization layer for Android apps is only supported on Windows 11.

However, it seems as though Google is not actually interested in running standard Android apps on Windows, but Microsoft’s implementation supports both apps and games.

But Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is one tech billionaire that’s not following suit. Instead, he unveiled his own futuristic ambitions recently: positioning his company as the center of the so-called metaverse.

The metaverse concept has been somewhat niche, presiding largely in the gaming world, until Zuckerberg pushed it into the limelight this week in an interview with The Verge.

He said Facebook would evolve from a social media company into a “metaverse company“. And Facebook’s Andrew Bosworth said Monday that the company is even building out a designated executive team to oversee progress towards the metaverse vision. It’ll exist within Facebook’s virtual reality branch.

Facebook’s VR and AR technology can currently “teleport you into a room with another person, regardless of physical distance, or to new virtual worlds and experiences,” Bosworth said in the Facebook post:

“But to achieve our full vision of the Metaverse, we also need to build the connective tissue between these spaces — so you can remove the limitations of physics and move between them with the same ease as moving from one room in your home to the next.”

Zuckerberg said he’s banking on the transition to occur over the course of the next five years or so.

Preinstalled services dominate when it comes to basics like weather, photos, and clocks, according to the report, suggesting these categories will be difficult for other apps to compete in. Defaults don’t win out exclusively, though: Apple Maps and Music don’t appear on the iOS list at all, and Gmail makes the iOS list several entries below Apple Mail.

The timing, as Facebook likely intentioned, is apt: Apple and Google are increasingly under scrutiny for how they favor their own services over competitors like Spotify. US lawmakers are currently reviewing a new set of bills designed to curb the power of Big Tech, including legislation that could potentially bar Apple and Google from giving their services the upper hand against rivals.

The pushback stems from how Apple and Google bundle their apps and services with their mobile operating systems in ways that some of their competitors think is unfair. The criticism is harsher against Apple, given that it more tightly controls the apps that come preinstalled on the iPhone and doesn’t allow developers to circumvent its App Store.