Google's Pichai to staff: 'time to sprint'; Linus Torvalds shows latest Linux on Apple silicon

Google is launching a new initiative called "Simplicity Sprint" to improve efficiency and focus as the global economic slowdown grinds on, after reporting back-to-back quarters of weaker-than-expected earnings. Linus Torvalds, the Finnish software developer who created Linux, yesterday, used an Apple MacBook running on an M1 chip to release the latest version of the open-source software