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India's government wants answers about iPhone hack alert
"Is the platform secure?"
Ummmm.... that's a loaded question. Any platform is always going to be under attack, thereby requiring ongoing efforts to keep it secure.
A better question is:"What has Apple done, and continues to do, to keep the platform secure?"
BIG difference between those two questions.
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Apple Vision Pro Travel Case review: too-expensive precision cushioning
Travel involves vibrations. Car, bus, plane... they all vibrate. I bet you the plushy exterior is specifically designed to absorb those vibrations so that the precision engineering of the Vision Pro is not affected.
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Apple has built a new generative AI tool for animating images
gatorguy said:
Machine learning is not Generative AI.byronl said:
the ai industry is fairly open about advancements. apple does it to attract ai talent. that's why they also have https://machinelearning.apple.com/gatorguy said:Does Apple normally release several research papers at such an early stage in developing features?
This one hasn't really been tested yet, just 13 people have given it a try, but Apple is already announcing it? I've always seen them as keeping their internal development quiet and under-the-radar and competitors guessing, before announcing to the world what they're up to with a consumer-ready feature all but complete. Rather than these PR pieces intended to "delight the customer" it seems more likely this is meant to delight the market.
Machine learning analyzes existing data to find patterns and make predictions based on it. Generative AI is focused on generating new data.
I like this article that explains it.
https://medium.com/@sandesh.shinde/machine-learning-vs-generative-ai-whats-the-deal-159e690b8acf#:~:text=Data vs.,create stuff without needing them.
That article goes to great lengths to position ML and GenAI as two separate things, but it's wrong.
GenAI is built on top of ML. Think of it as a subset of AI, but a superset of ML.
GenAI draws on its learned corpus of knowledge to generate new data. That knowledge is acquired via ML. Otherwise, how would it know what a "cat" was?
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Apple Vision Pro now has 1,000 native apps on the visionOS App Store
1000 native apps less than 2 weeks after a platform is released to the public. I call that a win.
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$300 Vision Pro developer strap is just an expensive USB2 device
Apple priced this cable at $300? Really? $300?
