House Robots are Apple’s NEXT big thing! (CultCast #641)
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🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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This week: Forget a car — Apple thinks personal home robots are their next big thing. Plus: iPhone 16 leaks, what comes next for the M3, a big new feature lands on Vision Pro, and our solar eclipse stories and photo tips!
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This week’s stories:
With car junked, Apple robots could be Cupertino’s next moonshot
- Teams in Cupertino are working on Apple personal home robotic devices, including a mobile robot and a table-top device with a moving display, according to a new report.
iPhone 16 ‘dummy’ units give us glimpse of upcoming changes
- Images of iPhone 16 “dummy” units have been published by a tipster with an established record. They show the redesigned camera hump reportedly coming to the two non-Pro models and other changes.
New iPads won’t arrive until May and we can’t stop crying
- No new iPad models came out in 2023 at all, and the tablet drought continues. That’s why there’s so much excitement about the upcoming Pro and Air models.
Redesign could give Apple M3 Ultra processor wicked performance boost
- Apple's in the process of restructuring their Apple Silicon lineup. M3 Max no longer comes with the UltraFusion interconnect. This means that the M3 Ultra chip will be redesigned as its own standalone chip, no longer being made up of 2x Max dies.
Free-floating Spatial Personas arrive in visionOS 1.1 for Vision Pro
- Apple has made Spatial Personas, a more lifelike enhancement of the Persona feature for the Vision Pro mixed-reality headset, available in the visionOS 1.1 update which came Tuesday.
How to take solar eclipse photos with iPhone
- Photographing the solar eclipse is hard without the right tools. Here’s how you can get prepared.
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| 0:00.0 | The honor of your presence is requested at the marriage of power and elegance. |
| 0:17.0 | I didn't even know they were dating. |
| 0:26.0 | Presenting the new Ibook Special Edition. |
| 0:29.0 | Black tie optional. |
| 0:36.6 | Hello! And welcome to the whole cast the best 30 plus meant apple conversation you're gonna hear all week long I'm your host Air |
| 0:40.8 | and Eliza joining me today. |
| 0:42.6 | Colta Mac riders have told me, you know it's time to hide when they see his face turning all |
| 0:47.5 | purple and veiny. |
| 0:49.1 | And his eyes get bulgy like that last scene in total recall. |
| 0:53.0 | Some say he's the toughest editor in Tech. |
| 0:55.0 | Man, the editor of called the back, |
| 0:57.0 | O, as well as is here. |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, I guess they all say that behind me back. |
| 1:02.0 | It's all smiles here in the office. |
| 1:03.3 | Your eyes are kind of always in a state of somewhat bulgyness, |
| 1:07.5 | but I guess to get extra bulgy. |
| 1:09.8 | Also with this, his blow dryer is a commercial grade unit and consumes almost 4,000 watts of power. |
| 1:17.0 | He required a special electrician just to install. |
| 1:21.0 | He's a writer at Kultimac. |
| 1:22.4 | Griffin Jones is here. |
| 1:25.0 | Good evening. |
| 1:26.0 | Aravant, I know you didn't buy an iPad, |
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