mknelson

Quite a few cross platform developers are moving to Vulkan and there are at least two libraries that allow you to easily recompile Vulkan to Metal. Quite a few games have done that with great success. ~30% speed boost vs OpenGL even though they weren't written directly for Metal.

Unity has had Metal support for many years.

cyberzombie said:

What is the power draw of a microLED compared to an OLED of the same dimensions?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroLED
"Unlike OLED, mLED is based on conventional GaN LED technology, which offers far higher total brightness than OLED products, as much as 30 times, as well as higher efficiency in terms of lux/W. It also does not suffer from the shorter lifetimes of OLED, although the multi-year lifespan of modern OLEDs has mitigated this issue in most roles."

Gadgetguy2.0 said:

GrannySmith99 said:

"after the singer make antisemitic remarks on Twitter"

Really?

Yes, AppleInsider articles are frequently full of typos. Also, apparently I’ve been banned for pointing this out so be careful! They can criticize but clearly don’t like receiving any.

They emailed me once - they prefer you to send them (editor or author) a direct email rather than posting it in a public forum.

M68000 said:

mikethemartian said:

Dr. Dre threw a woman down a flight of stairs in public and then joked about it and Tim Cook loves him.

Really?  If that is true than that is a disgrace and not a good look for Cook if he is aware of this.

It's actually not true - he only attempted to throw her down the stairs - the real story (from 1991) is arguably worse: after excessive drinking and the whole of NWA angered by an interview Dee Barnes gave to Ice Cube in which Ice Cube dissed members of NWA: "He picked her up by her hair and "began slamming her head and the right side of her body repeatedly against a brick wall near the stairway" as his bodyguard held off the crowd with a gun. After Dr. Dre tried to throw her down the stairs and failed, he began kicking her in the ribs and hands. She escaped and ran into the women’s rest room. Dr. Dre followed her and "grabbed her from behind by the hair again and proceeded to punch her in the back of the head.""

MisterKit said:

So Apple scans our photo library for a hit on known child porn. Somebody at some point along the chain had to watch it and establish the library.

That's not quite the process. It isn't viewing your library in the way some articles imply.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Technical_Summary.pdf

The hash list is provided by National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). The images or likely just the hashes would have been provided by prosecutors/police agencies/child welfare.

The article above describes the hash algorithm. The algorithm creates a hash value. The hash value computed for the photos in the iCloud library are compared to hash values in the list.

An account is only flagged if there is a certain number of such hash matches.

bob-tahoma said:

Oh my god. No wonder this hack no longer works at the beeb. What a load of horse shit this article is. 

This guy is flipping pathetic. APPLE NEWS please. I hate the current government as much as the next man but keep your sodding political opinions to yourself and just report relevant news. 

Yeah, it's a pretty weak article.

"There are children starving in the UK, school and theater buildings are literally crumbling, and the government has abandoned a high speed rail effort after spending 14 years and $121 billion on it."

3 different ministries, none of which have to do with the subject of the article. HS2 hasn't been abandoned completely, just the northern extension from the Midlands to Manchester. Pretty significant, but the section which is under construction is going to be completed. The problems with Autoclaved Aerated Concrete are well documented, but are largely the responsibility of local governments, not Parliament.

urashid said:

These drawings don't look legit to me.  The key openings around the space bar do not show the inverted-T for the arrow keys:

I highly doubt that Apple will revert back to the two full-size, two half-size arrow keys so soon after reverting back to the inverted-T layout.

You may want to have a look at the new keyboard shipping with the 24" iMac…

jdgaz said:

Now I completely understand why England left the EU. 

The con by Nigel Farage and his buddies? In the UK today Brexit is widely considered to be a failure. Even Nigel has said that.

planetary paul said:

Paying to keep Troll Central afloat? Apple should demand Wikipedia to adhere to its own guidelines and stop the rampant editing by trolls like the "Guerrilla Skeptics" and others like them. JW fully supports these though.

You like your planets flat and full of Nazis, eh?

https://www.wired.com/story/guerrilla-wikipedia-editors-who-combat-conspiracy-theories/

lkrupp said:

WTF is a ‘digital epidemiologist’? Sounds like a bureaucracy on steroids. First we had the French ‘digital technology minister’. Now we have a Swedish ‘digital epidemiologist’. here in the U.S. we call them ‘czars’ I guess. Any differences other than expanding the bureaucracy exponentially?

Instead of asking questions to spread doubt you could actually provide helpful information:

"The term digital epidemiology was defined by Marcel Salathé as epidemiology that uses data that was generated outside the public health system, i.e., with data that was not generated with the primary purpose of doing epidemiology (Salathé 2018; Eckmanns et al. 2019)."

Ok. that particular sentence highlighted by Google isn't particularly helpful, but you can read the whole article:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322254109_Digital_epidemiology_what_is_it_and_where_is_it_going

It's not a bureaucratic term - it's more of a job title in a particular research discipline.