But if single core performance isnt enough, you have not one, but two performance cores, and you have five efficiency cores. Each of them on its own isnâ(TM)t very powerful, but macOS and iOS are very good at distributing work between different cores, and these five cores together have much more performance than another performance core.

Thatâ(TM)s not my experience really.

I think a big change is for their Intel emulator the ability to use either standard ARM memory semantics, or Intel compatible memory semantics.

In my experience, my M1 does many more instructions per cycle than my Intel I5. Sorry, donâ(TM)t have any newer Intel hardware. I wish they had a 128:64 bit division like Intel, but thatâ(TM)s about it.

Has nothing to do with ownership. Apple is just one of five or six companies who have a fully paid license to use all of the ARM IP which includes a license to build their own independent hardware.

I think Qualcomm might be another one, and some companies who didnâ(TM)t manage to turn this license into a success.

"In MANY European countries, you cannot criticize the head of state." Havent been in a European country yet where the citizens cannot criticise the country's head of state. But for example Germany makes it illegal for German citizens to attack the current or former head of state of a foreign country unless that person is legally convicted. Because for example Trump could cause a lot of trouble for lots of German.

Quote: "those who feel they could be targeted for outspoken political beliefs". So people are afraid they could be targeted for using their right of free speech in the USA? Because free speech is only free if it praises the Great Leader of the country?

""Is the user older than 18?" is acceptable "Is the user older than 18 yet? What about now? What about now? What about now?" is not. "What is the user's age?" is not. "What is the user's name?" is not. THAT would be a HUGE improvement on the status quo because the status quo is "Upload your driver's license and let us use a web cam and some AI bullshit" which is inherently anti-privacy." The number "18" shouldn't be used nowhere either. A kid should be able to prove with their iPhone that they are not six yet and get the cheaper children's menu in a restaurant. Or over 65's should get senior prices going to a museum. Or if you need to be 21 to be allowed something else, you should be able to prove that.

And you set up an iPhone by taking some ID to an Apple Store, and they set your date of birth.

With Open Source software you don't have a big company behind it that guarantees it has seen some ID with the right date of birth.

There is this obsession that a technical solution is either perfect or useless with nothing in between.

The problem for open source software is that I am legally allowed by copyright law + GPL license to modify the code implementing this. But there may be other laws. âoeAny software must either make a good effort to verify the age, or reply that the age cannot be verified. âoe.

"I was under the assumption that Apple had long-term contracts for RAM and other components that effectively made them immune to supply chain issues like the current RAM shortage?"

Nobody actually knows. If RAM prices triple for most computer makers, then I bet memory cost for Apple won't stay constant for long. Now Apple selling RAM is quite profitable for them, so they can eat some of the extra cost. But for a machine with 512GB RAM their cost will grow enough to hurt if they eat the cost, and someone will have calculated how much sales they would lose if they continued selling machines with 512GB RAM with the same profit and decided against it.

Read the article carefully. And read what it says, not what you know to be true. The article clearly says "one port with 10 gigabit per second" (a bit over a gigabyte, enough for a slower SSD drive) and "one port with 480 megabit per second" (less than 60 megabytes per second, thats what a relatively old spinning hard drive supplies). In reality that port is 40 gigabit or 5 gigabytes per second, that's very fast for any external SSD.

I cannot see any reason why anyone with the slightest understanding how vaccines work would consider the mRNA part of mRNA vaccines to be dangerous.

An mRNA vaccine is injected in your body, and tells your body to produce something as close as possible to the real virus, but not causing damage. After one day, the mRNA vaccine itself dies. It disappean from your body with no trace at all. Claims that they would cause changes to your DNA are pure nonsense. Claims that they would cause autism are pure nonsense. The mRNA vaccine does nothing but convince your body to produce something similar to the virus for one day.

The advantage of mRNA vaccines is that when a new vaccine is needed, 90% of the work is already done, and has been tested in real life by hundreds of millions of people. All that needs doing is to "program" it to produce a possibly modified virus, which is about six weeks of work. It can also be programmed to produce multiple different viruses, so one mRNA vaccine can protect against multiple flu variants, or multiple flu variants and the latest Covid variant. Six weeks is much faster than what we have now, where we wait for the flu season in Australia and hope we get the same flu six months later in the northern hemisphere.

Youâ(TM)d buy say an 8TB spinning hard drive for backups if it is cheaper than a 2TB SSD. (On Amazon right now they are very close in price). 100 times faster is pointless if you donâ(TM)t need it.

The iPhone _is_ secure by default. If any exploits are found, they are fixed. But the attack surface is reduced. If you support two image formats in lock down mode versus 50 in "normal" mode, that means in lockdown mode you are immune against exploits in 48 image formats. It also means you cannot display any of those 48 image formats.

They can trade between themselves all they like, but the AI companies will have to pay full price for RAM.