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  • Microsoft in talks to acquire Siri speech recognition partner Nuance for $16B

    mr lizardmr lizard
    I had no idea Nuance was part of the original foundation for Siri. That might explain some of the problems. My organisation uses Nuance products to automate customer telephone enquiries and it’s terrible. It doesn’t understand regional accents and is one of the leading causes of customer complaints. 
    jony0

  • NFT -- Everything you need to know about non-fungible tokens

    mr lizardmr lizard
    “Owning that token can infer ownership of something, be it one unit of a bitcoin or some other currency”

    You mean confer 

    “    While the NFT infers the holder "owns" the artwork as presented, there's more to it than just that.”

    You mean either confirms or implies, depending on what you’re trying to say. 

    Infer is passive; I can infer meaning from something you imply. You cannot infer something to someone else. 

    Really enjoyed this article though :) 
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  • Intel 'Alder Lake' chips take same approach as Apple's ARM designs

    mr lizardmr lizard
    “Apple did mention that it has ‘some new Intel based Macs in the pipeline’ that have yet to see a release.”

    These were probably the Intel-based iMac Pros which were released after the Apple silicon announcement.     They received a minor processor bump, so nothing groundbreaking. 
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  • How Apple Silicon on a M1 Mac changes monitor support and what you can connect

    mr lizardmr lizard
    I can’t work out what planet Apple are on with that photo of the six thousand dollar display connected to a $700 machine. 

    The stand for that display costs more than the computer in the same photograph. 

    Is this seriously a combination Apple expects people to buy? Do they really think that customers in the market for a $6000 display are going to buy a $700 computer to go with it?
    williamlondonsvanstromwatto_cobra

  • Microsoft beta build of Apple Silicon-compatible Office for Mac imminent

    mr lizardmr lizard
    melgross said:
    In June, during the presentation for the DC, Apple clearly stated that Office would be available when the first new Macs came out, so this is a disappointment.
    They “clearly stated” no such thing. During the keynote presentation, 1 hour and 31 minutes in, Craig Federighi states:

    “I’m happy to say that we have all our own Apple apps including our most demanding pro apps up and running as native now, and they’ll be ready for customers on day one. 

    Some of the biggest Mac developers have already gotten started. Microsoft is hard at work on Office for Mac, and we’ve been working with Adobe on Creative Cloud and many of their apps are already up and running great.”

    So Apple only claimed that their own apps will be ready for when the new Macs came out. They made no such commitment on behalf of any third party developers, Microsoft included, other than to say that they have been working with them and that they have universal binaries in the works. 

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