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China claims to have cracked AirDrop security to find senders' details
Well, Apple will fix it in the next update, so they found a temporary solution…
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macOS Sonoma can be installed on 83 unsupported Macs with this tool
I can attest to it's stability! I have a 2014 Macbook Pro and use it daily without any issues or concerns. I would be stuck to an OLD OS if it wasn't for OpenCore and thus I have better security, more features, etc. because of this program.
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Apple Vision Pro $3,499 mixed-reality headset launches at WWDC after years of rumors
rob53 said:Could be a great replacement for a large screen TV. No glare. Great for small apartments.Seeing the 3D scanning of your face makes me wonder when 3D scanning apps using the front cameras/LiDAR will come out allowing scanning of “things” imported into 3D CAD systems. High quality handheld scanners are expensive.
I agree, and you're right on the 3D scamming, but as for the small apartments, most though not all, small apartment people outside of big cities can't afford a big apartment, let alone a $3,500 headset. Now, I guess if that someone was replacing their Macbook Pro and a quality display with this, it could be financed, but just as a way of watching TV... that's going to be a hard sell, especially when $3,500 would buy you a high-end 85" TV with a sound bar that the entire family can enjoy. My wife and I and in a small two-bedroom, and I could justify two Quest 2, bought via ebay so we could use it to workout and play games together, but now we would be talking about $7,000, which is a HUGE when considering saving for a house, car, education, etc.
It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out because, at this point, I am honestly thinking that Apple has lost touch with reality and Tim and Company are hanging out with too many "middle-class millionaires." to understand that $3,500 isn't just a lot for a headset it's a ton when compared to Meta Quest, who is going to see a HUGE boost from the masses from this. Yes, Vision Pro is on a whole other level, but the masses will use this for gaming, tv, and live chat... non of which Vision Pro is focused on.
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After 5 years of nothing, Humane 'startup' is now shifting to AI
jimh2 said:More grift. Ran through $130 million of someone else's money with nothing to show for it. Now they regroup to jump on the latest buzzword train. There is not a chance I'd hand these grifters a penny yet someone ponied up another $100 million. It pays to have friends in high places, but I assume they would want a product.
I find it incredibly impressive that there are numerous small companies out there that could benefit from a $100,000-$1MM investment to kickstart their growth and contribute meaningfully to the economy. While it's true that many of these startups will probably fail, a select few will thrive and even fewer will expand into major players. It sickens me, however, to see $100MM invested in a company during its C-round, especially when it hasn't actually produced any products. This issue stems from the prevalence of networking and good-ol boy networks in the industry.
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AMD proved that Apple skipping 4nm chips isn't a big deal
@tenthousandthings ;
great reply, assuming your right and I have referenced your sources, have you considered writing for AI, as they are hiring for writers.tenthousandthings said:I realize the forums are a tiny aspect of Apple Insider, and it's a giant pain in the ass to moderate them, but this article/editorial contains two factual errors that have already been addressed repeatedly in the comments on earlier articles that made the same mistake—if the author had read those comments, he could have made a stronger argument here.
First and foremost, the A16 is 4nm. Apple stated that outright. It is the N4 process. The linked The Information article AI covered on December 23 may have some elements of truth in it. After all, chipmaking is hard, or everyone would be doing it. Especially high-end graphics. The quote from Ian Cutress therein says all that needs to be said. But it's Apple Insider who makes the leap there to say that the A16 stayed on 5nm and didn't go to 4nm because of these challenges. That is just wrong, wrong, wrong. The A16 did go to 4nm (N4). Apple touted this in its presentation. I find this insistence otherwise, in multiple articles by two different members of the AI staff (Wesley twice and now Malcolm), to be just inexplicable.
The second error is more of a detail, but it's an important one if you're going to be editorializing about Apple and chipmaking. TSMC's so-called "4nm" is the third generation of its 5nm (N5) FinFET platform. It's not a "die shrink," to reference Malcolm's 2019 article where he laid out some of the factors driving Apple's A-series chip production. It uses the same design library. N4 is a second "Tock" not a "Tick," to use the same terms Malcolm used in 2019. That's why Apple could easily revert to the A15 graphics designs for A16 (while staying with N4 for A16, instead of N5P used for the A15), as rumored/leaked in the aforementioned The Information article.
TSMC provides a definitive English-language source of information about how these “process technologies” relate to one another: https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/logicThe N5 FinFET platform is comprised of N5, N5P, N4, N4P, and N4X processes. The next platform is N3, and it is more "flexible." The first two generations of it are N3 and N3E. See: https://n3.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/N3.htm
N2 (due in 2025) was recently announced, but it's not clear how it is related to N3—I'll guess that means the relationship between N3 and N2 is similar to the relationship between N5 and N4, that is, N2 will use the N3 FinFlex design library.
