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A look at Apple's secretive strategies set to unfold at WWDC 2018
Only 1 week to go!I think we will see a big update on VR for the Mac. Remember last year, they:- started selling eGPU kits with HTC Vive headsets- released beta Steam VR libraries for Mac- had a live demo of a woman using a VR headset to edit a movie scene?Well the eGPU support is part of macOS now, so that part's done. I predict VR versions of Final Cut Pro and Xcode. That is what I think the conference logo (first picture in this article) represents, it represents using Xcode in VR.In terms of Mac hardware, I think we will see the return of the 17" Macbook Pro. Why? Because 17" notebooks have made a comeback in general over the last year, just look around, even Dell has them. Plus, how did they placate the pros who are waiting for the new Mac Pro? By releasing a very high end iMac model. I think they will also release a very high end Macbook Pro model for the same reasons. The extra size will allow a bigger battery which will support DDR4 and therefore allow 32GB RAM.
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Siri used to summon medical assistance after serious motorcycle crash
It says he couldn't move his legs but could still wiggle his toes, sounds like he was lucky to not be paralysed!
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Armed robbery at Boston Apple Store, 69 phones stolen from festival, and more from the App...
AppleInsider said:Pennsylvania woman accused of stealing iPads, gun, dog, parrot
A bunch of iPads, sweeet!A gun, double sweeeeet!*dog with parrot on head gives hopeful stare*Oh, alllll riiiiight, you can come too!
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Rumor: Apple working on new device family under codename 'Star' [u]
mattinoz said:
Could they build core that consume LLVM's IR directly?ascii said:There would probably be no reason to do an ISA from scratch unless there has been some fundamental academic advance in how to make ISAs that is not implemented in ARM. Or maybe all the hardware security flaws lately could be another reason?But more likely, you just get different versions of the ARM ISA (we are up to version 8 already) and through the App Store, Apple can force developers to compile to the newest instruction sets (you often see them setting these App Store developer deadlines for things), and then once the old instructions are no longer being used that part of the silicon can be removed or repurposed. Controlling the App Store giving their hardware team an advantage... there sure are strong arguments for vertical integration aren't there?
Isn't that what they store already as the AppStore Universal Binary?
What instruction set do the GPU cores, image processor and "Bionic" parts of the A11 use?
I'm wondering would it make sense that the complier team would want to build a native processor instead of getting to an ideal state then converting to someone elses processor.Maybe. But I don't really think of LLVM IR as being an idealised form, and compiling to ARM to be a compromise. It's more just transitioning your program from one model to another: from a model designed for portability to one designed for execution. These are different requirements so its not necessarily true that trying to minimise the gap between the two models is optimal.But its the kind of thing where you'd just have to do a lot of experiments and see what happens to know for sure. If you want to design an LLVM-near CPU I'm sure you could do it. All the necessary documentation for such things is on the web these days, you don't have to be a big corporation, you just have to like reading and be persistent.
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Starbucks' nationwide bias training will use iPads
People get their values from a lifetime. Whether that's being raised by caring moral parents, or going to church/temple/mosque, or just finding your own values in life through reading the books of wise people. The idea that you can give people a corporate training course in the form of an app that will change their values, whaaaaaat?
