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  • Microsoft blew $8.5 billion on Skype only to spend 14 years killing it

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    Yet another way I know I’m a geezer: CU-SeeMe “pioneered audio and video calling on the web” for me. Well, over the Internet, but ten years before Skype. Skype’s big improvement was that … (more)
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  • Tim Cook's tweet hints at new name for iPhone SE 4

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    22july2013 said:
    *snip*

    Elon's four car models are S,3,X,Y.

    ——

    And one of his nine, or is it eleven, rugrats is named “X” <something unpronounceable> <
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  • Calls for Tim Cook's resignation over Apple Intelligence miss that he has made Apple what ...

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    "Apple's ad was the first one where you thought yes. I would do that. I would use that feature."

    Could you please tell us which feature or features you felt that way about?

    Aside from     … (more)
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  • Apple faces billions in liability from Trump's TikTok ban delay

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    forgot username said:
    Before this administration, I would never have seriously suggested the following, but there are no good government rules anymore, or anyone to enforce
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  • Apple's $500 billion US investment announcement is business as usual

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    sdw2001 said:
    baconstang said:
    Shhhh.... Don't tell the
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  • Heavily upgraded M3 Ultra Mac Studio is great for AI projects

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    blastdoor said:
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    There are many versions and the 671 billion parameter version is not going to run on anything resembling a standard PC. So I think you just don't know. 


    Well, one not too shabby version ran on my *cough* poor, old (yeah, 18 month old) M2 Ultra Studio with a mere 128 Gbyte of memory. And yet, it was still able to give reasonable answers to two of the burning questions of the last ~ 50 years: (1) What is the air speed of an unencumbered swallow? and (2) Lakes or hamantashen? It appeared to be familiar with both source texts and more recent work online. Curiosity satisfied, and not quite certain what, if anything, it might have been communicating to a mother ship somewhere, I deleted DeepSeek-r1:<whatever>. Who knows, might be the last time I ever mean to ask an AI anything.
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  • Trump's chip tariff threat takes aim at Apple's TSMC partnership

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    hmlongco said:
    "They needed an incentive and it will be they will not want to pay a tax"

    They (TSMC) do not pay the tax. The American company that imports the product
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