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“RISC architecture is gonna change everything,” Angelina Jolie’s character said in the 1995 cult classic film “Hackers.” Incredibly, Jolie was absolutely right—and her prediction might be even truer today than it was then. www.wired.com/story/angeli...

The vast majority of people everywhere, who use tech built on it every single day, still don’t know what in the computer-geek hell a RISC architecture even is. Maybe you, reading this, don’t know either. But you should. www.wired.com/story/angeli...

RISC stands for “Reduced Instruction Set Computer.” When it emerged in the 1980s, it set off a bloodbath as its creator fought to prove it was faster and more useful than other, more complex languages. And it won—twice. www.wired.com/story/angeli...