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  • Bug or conscious change? Apple Pencil for iPad Pro gets gimped by iOS 9.3 betas

    Gilliam_BatesGilliam_Bates
    To me, this is definately not limiting. Actually, I think it will add functionality since it will allow me to easily scroll the paper that I'm drawing on. And yes, I scroll (and zoom) with the same hand that I'm holding the pencil in — quite intuitively with the two available fingers.
    mr o

  • Mac, iOS versions of Safari crashing due to search suggestions feature [u]

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    sog35 said:
    charlesgres said:
    Yeah, as if Cook himself personally is responsible for solving the bug...

    Anyways, you can also just enter your search term in the spotlight(?) screen, when you swipe down or left on the home screen, and then select 'search on web'..
    Yes Cook is responsible ultimately. He is the CEO.
    …
    The farther we get away from Jobs the more confusing, cluttered, and bug infested Apple services is becoming. 
    Unfortunately, I would have to agree with sog35. I seriously wish it wasn't true, but it is.
    asdasd

  • Apple's Tim Cook calls VR 'cool' and not a niche

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    dysamoria said:
    Mostly people just want the fantastical fictional versions of these technologies seen in techno-fantasy tv and film: they want free-standing "holographs" (not physically possible, despite people repeatedly being told they are by fiction) and the ability to "jack in" to "cyberspace" with a direct link between the brain and a computer generated environment (currently also technically impossible but maybe not ultimately physically impossible if people figure out how to send and receive sensory data directly to and from the brain while locking out the actual data coming from the body to the brain- we're talking way more than "20 years away" here, since the best integration between electronics and human nervous system is blunt and stupid reaction to simple nerve impulses to drive very simple actions; NOT "thought control" so much as it's peripheral nerve control over devices connected with electrodes to sense nerve impulses).
    934 characters in one single sentence — not bad.
    nolamacguyfastasleep

  • Apple chip partner TSMC plans to launch 7nm process in 2018, 5nm in 2020

    Gilliam_BatesGilliam_Bates
    This is exactly why there has been a substantial focus on non-solid-state electronics for about two decades now. Some benefits (at least theoretical) of so called "molecular electronics":
    • many of these molecules are in the single nm-range (the entire electronic components, not just the leads!)
    • intrinsic transistor/switch functions
    • large quantum confinement
    • atomic-scale barriers
    • bi-stable electronic states (memory w/o need for power)
    • no need for long-range crystalline perfection (molecules self-assemble in smaller, isolated complexes)
    • self-repairing
    • a whole range of "active" molecules already pre-existing, eg light harvesting, chemo-sensors …
    Single molecular-electronic components have been demonstrated since more than 10 years back. However, there are quite a few hurdles left to overcome, and at least another decade of work before entire circuits can be produced. But it definately has the potential of replacing the Si logics we use today.
    flaneur

  • iOS code shows Apple experimenting with ultra fast, light-based Li-Fi wireless data for future iPho

    Gilliam_BatesGilliam_Bates
    To all you sceptics, you have to consider two essential facts:
    1. In the IoT era most electronic things will be connected (online) anyway
    2. Communication can be assymetrical in the sense that outgoing and incoming signals can use different methods, eg outgoing on WiFi and incoming on LiFi.
    In this way, we could in principle achieve 300 000 times faster downloads, which is quite ok with me …especially since it takes the load off of WiFi at the same time.
    nolamacguy