Month: December 2021
Luna Display’s latest update lets you use a Mac as a second PC display
Luna Display’s latest update adds a helpful new feature: allowing you to hook up a Windows PC to a Mac laptop or desktop (including Apple’s flash M1 iMacs) to use as a secondary display. The new update also enables 4K and 5K resolution options (assuming you’ve got a screen that…
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Apple’s frontline employees are struggling to survive
Nearly every shift at an Apple Store starts the same way: an employee picks a line from the Apple credo and talks about how it applies to that day’s work: “We are here to enrich lives. To help dreamers become doers, to help passion expand human potential, to do the…
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Amazon has new EC2 M1 Mac instances so that you can build your own Mac supercomputer
AWS has new EC2 M1 Mac Instances which will allow you to develop build test and sign Apple apps on Amazon EC2. That news has just been announced at AWS Re:Invent where Mike Moore is reporting for us. These are based on the new Apple M1 Mac Mini unveiled earlier…
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New Google search features make it easier to find the right doctor
As part of efforts to expand the health information it provides, today Google announced a new feature in search that will allow doctors to list which languages they can speak at their offices. People who speak languages other than English often struggle to navigate the healthcare system in the United…
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China set to embrace open source in new software push
Hailing software as the “foundation of digital economic development,” China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has reportedly called for pushing the growth of homegrown open source software. The Register gleaned these details from a machine-translated version of MIIT’s 14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Software and Information…
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The quest to make an AI that can play competitive Pokémon
An AI can beat a chess grandmaster. An AI can become the StarCraft esports champion. But creating an AI that could play Pokémon at the competitive level has been a more elusive problem. Thanks to the variety of monsters, stats, moves, and items, a Pokémon battle has hundreds of thousands…
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