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  • Apple testing USB security key support for Safari

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    seanismorris said:
    I’d trust FaceID + hardware enough to use it.  A wireless hardware key isn’t ideal due to the risk of interception of the key, but it’s “good enough” when part of 2FA.
    That's ridiculous. Do you imagine the key is being transmitted to the Mac, whether by NFC or over USB?

    Look up "Diffie Hellman Key Exchange". There is no risk of interception, because the key never gets off the USB (or NFC) device.
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  • 'Tim Cook for President' and other tawdry campaigns from Qualcomm's PR bulldog

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    YvLy said:
    How low can you go? Are there NO values left in this world. Integrity? Pride? Honesty?
    Seriously? Have you not watched the news in, um...

    Well, I was going to say the last three years, but really, your bar is too low.  A quarter of the country still thinks there were WMDs in Iraq. That's just stupid, not a moral failing, but the ones who convinced them of that... that's another story.
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  • Funcl W1 and AI truly wireless earphones are a steal

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    Andrew_OSU said:
    boodle said:
    Looking at the "expensive" model, the AI, there are even more benefits such as support for AptX -- though Apple users don't get to take advantage of the codec

    iOS: aptX not supported
    macOS: aptX supported

    https://9to5mac.com/2018/08/31/mac-how-to-force-aptx-aac-on-your-supported-bluetooth-headphones/
    This is true, I guess I consider these more portable, rather than for the Mac. But they will work there just as good and yes will support AptX.
    Oh really? Do tell. Did you *actually* use them on a Mac? To talk and listen at the same time, like a phone call or FaceTime? I have yet to see a bluetooth device do that on a Mac, and I've been asking for a while. (And for those who've seen my previous comments: The "Audio MIDI Setup" tool did not help.)
    watto_cobra

  • Funcl W1 and AI truly wireless earphones are a steal

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    How is the voice pickup? Can you use either of them for voice calls reasonably?

    Will you guys ever try to get bluetooth headsets working with Macs (in/out, as on a phone call), and report on the results?
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  • Comparing the new 2018 12.9-inch iPad Pro versus the older model

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    "That is roughly a 25-percent single-core gain and almost 50-percent multi-core."

    You guys are usually better at math. It's a more than 90% improvement on multi-core.

    From a hardware standpoint, this is really impressive. It means that the performance scales basically *linearly* going from 2 to 4 cores. (Since there's 4 efficiency cores in both models, contributing approximately the same towards the results, scaling is better than the 90% figure!) This is a pretty big deal as it means that Apple's capable of building an interconnect that not only scales to at least 8 cores, but that power use for the interconnect is scaling well too.

    Until recently I was not convinced that putting an Ax chip in a MacBook was viable, but last year's A11 changed my mind. This puts the nail in the coffin of the idea that Apple can't scale their processors up to compete with the best 4-8 core processors Intel can build. Just using the tech on display in the A12x, replacing efficiency cores with performance cores, they could probably beat intel's best chips now. (There's some question as to how far they can push clocks on the current design without hitting a wall due to pipeline length, but in any case they're certainly close... and they haven't even tried to optimize for a laptop power envelope yet.)
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