I have been using a 8" (16:10) Windows tablet daily since 2015. While MS Windows leaves a lot to be desired, this tablet has a headphone jack, stereo speakers and a SD card slot. It has a battery bump that is really comfortable to hold, and a built-in kick-stand.
It has a high-resolution "retina"-class screen, and I don't need a $100+ "Apple Pencil" to point at it: I can use a friggin' REAL ACTUAL PENCIL as a pointing device, because the capacitive touch screen senses it.

What I want is a worthy successor to this, with modern specs for CPU, GPU, RAM and storage.
I'm sorry but the iPad Mini does not even come close in the user experience department, even though it runs an OS that was actually designed for touch. And it costs three times as much as my old tablet, adjusted for inflation.
I'm considering getting one of those newfangled RISC-V tablets from China, that are twice as thick as either, and then run an unofficial version of Android on it. The processing power is as little as in my old tablet, but they have one killer feature that no iPad has ever had: more than one USB port, so I could use a proper keyboard and charge it at the same time.

My guess is that these jobs will be mainly for tagging and labelling photos and other things that will be fed into the neural networks.

I'm also guessing that they will completely ignore copyright yet again.

Yes, I was the same kid that liked to wind up all the mechanical alarm clocks at the department store and set them all to ring at the same time 10 minutes later.

That reminds me, here's a playlist I've prepared earlier for visits to Apple stores.

The pop-sci article does not mention: is this "life form" able to reproduce?

Or is it "just" another case of symbiosis, like lichen: which is a symbiosis of algae, bacteria and fungi.

Moore's law is over because we have reached the physical limits of silicon. A gate is only so many number of atoms across now, and leakage currents are becoming an issue.

Instead of fitting smaller transistors next to each other, transistors are now more vertical.
The "nm" and "Ångström" figures used now do not depict the real density of the process. It is an equivalent to what the density would have been if they had been able to shrink the conventional process even further.

Backside power delivery and stacked chiplets are also ways to grow vertically instead of horizontally.

I would have moderated you FUNNY, if it had not actually been sad and dystopian.

I'd think these are intended not for server Macs for sale but for Apple's own server farms. Probably for services available to Apple device users only.

Apple will say that 8 GB is enough, until they up the minimum to 12 or 16 GB. Then they will lambaste any competitor that still makes computers with 8.

This government consists of the most pompous, luxury-seeking, arrogant gits yet, so I doubt they would consider themselves stooping so slow as to use anything from a shop so pedestrian as IKEA.

Apple is not "playing catch-up to AI". They were among the first to put NPUs into their SoCs, to use it for actual AI-driven features.
The current AI craze is playing catch-up to Apple.
Only that they weren't as heavily marketed particularly as being "AI" features.

That's still the thing. You can't sell new laptop computers just with the word "AI". You'll have to show actual features that matter, that are predicated on having that larger NPU that the previous generation lacked.

MrMobile shows how easy in his review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I know former college students who were subjected to previous attempts at automated grading of assignments.
They learned to game the system, to produce the absolute minimum required to get a good grade from the program.
I can't believe that it would be different here.

I think in general, it should not be an issue that someone uses modern technology to make their job easier: whether it is a student or a teacher.
But the user has to understand the limits of the tool, and not rely on it functioning outside those limits.
It should also always be possible for a student to appeal a grade, and apply for their work to be graded manually.

> it was only 3 years of his life.

Not including the seven movies, spanning 1979 .. 1994.
Wrath of Khan is what introduced my generation to Star Trek.

The film is "Dune: Part 2", as it is part 2 of an adaptation of the novel Dune by Frank Herbert.

Dune II is a computer game, often being called the first modern Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game). It was also based on the novel, with a little inspiration from the flm-adaptation that Lynch directed. It is a sequel to a game that more closely followed the book in a more linear fashion, having only some real-time strategy elements

Before WASD became the norm, it used to be common to use right Control as fire/action button in games together with the arrow keys.