It’s called organoid intelligence, or OI, and it uses actual human brain cells to make computing “more brain-like.” OI revolves around using organoids, or clusters of living tissue grown from stem cells that behave similarly to organs, as biological hardware that powers algorithmic systems. The hope—over at Johns Hopkins, at …
Read More »The New MatePad Pro Is Huawei’s iPad Competitor for China
Huawei is still struggling to get out from under a crushing US trade ban, but it’s still releasing products like nothing is wrong. After finally launching the long-delayed Mate X foldable phone earlier this month, Huawei has rolled out a new tablet to rival the iPad Pro. Like the …
Read More »Apple’s iPad Pro A12X Nearly Matches Top-End x86 CPUs in GeekBench
After years of slowly closing the gap between itself and Intel, Apple can fairly claim to have slashed the difference between its ARM CPUs and Intel’s x86 chips to ribbons — at least in one test. Geekbench 4 reports an iPad Pro with a single-core score of 5030 and a …
Read More »Small is big again: Apple announces 4-inch iPhone SE
One of the major trends in phone design across both Android and iOS has been the concerted push towards larger devices. Apple has actually moved less aggressively towards phablets than much of the Android market, but the iPhone 6 moved to a 4.7-inch display, while the iPhone 6 Plus has …
Read More »Apple’s iOS 9.3 update tackles screen-related insomnia with ‘Night Shift’
After a few months of testing, Apple has finally released iOS 9.3 to the public. Historically, the company has been slow to roll out user-facing features, but it seems that the folks at Cupertino are moving a bit faster these days. And not only does this point-release deliver a handful of meaningful …
Read More »Could the 9.7-inch iPad Pro kickstart a tablet upgrade cycle?
Apple’s new 9.7-inch iPad Pro, introduced yesterday, is in some respects a smaller version of the 12.9-inch iPad Pro introduced last year. While it might lack the one-more-thing wow factor Steve Jobs kept hidden until the end of a product announcement, it may have enough mini-wows to entice customers. The big question …
Read More »Apple just posted its first quarterly sales decline in 13 years
Apple’s results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2016 are just in, and the company’s reign as a near-invincible titan of Wall Street is, in the words of Nathan Fillion, “certainly coming to a middle.” On the one hand, the company just posted its first year-on-year quarterly decline in …
Read More »Microsoft may target the iMac with new all-in-one Surface PC
When Microsoft announced its original Surface and Surface Pro four years ago, the company was diving into uncharted waters with a new, ARM-based iteration of its operating system and a higher-end x86 PC hardware packed into a tablet form factor. Surface may have gotten off to a rocky start, but …
Read More »Pokémon Go’s iOS privacy settings give its developer total access to your Google account [Updated]
Update: Niantic stated the following to Ars Technica in addressing this topic: “We recently discovered that the Pokémon Go account creation process on iOS erroneously requests full access permission for the user’s Google account. However, Pokémon Go only accesses basic Google profile information (specifically, your user ID and e-mail address) and …
Read More »Apple’s stagnant product lines mostly reflect the state of the computer industry
Most of Apple’s product lines are severely overdue for a refresh. Apart from the recently refreshed MacBook, many of the company’s Mac products are well over a year old. The Mac Mini is nearly two, the high-end workstation Mac Pro is almost three, and the sole remaining non-Retina MacBook Pro …
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