M2 MacBook Pros INCOMING, iOS 16 hidden feature, & the DeLorean is REBORN! (#CultCast 554)
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🗓️ 22 July 2022
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Summary
This week: the new M2 MacBook Pros are INCOMING!
PLUS
- iOS 16 Introduces New Capabilities for Accessories With U1 Chip Integration
- Amazon's Prime Air drones will soon be making deliveries
- The legendary DeLorean is about to be REBORN!
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This week's stories
MacBook Pros with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips could launch this fall
- Apple reportedly has a very aggressive timeline for adding to its M2 chip lineup.
iOS 16 Introduces New Capabilities for Accessories With U1 Chip Integration
- As part of WWDC last month, Apple announced that iOS 16 will allow third-party accessories with U1 chip integration to interact with iPhone apps even when the app is running in the background, enabling new "hands-free user experiences."
Amazon's Prime Air drones will soon make deliveries in Texas
- Amazon, after 9 years of development and research, and more than two done prototypes, will start offering Prime Air service deliveries with drones.
- AMAZON’s robotaxi startup, Zoox, is the first self-driving tech company to achieve a five-star federal crash rating from the NHTSA [National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.]
- Alpha 5 - all electric 4 seat sports coupe with limited production
- Should debut in August at Pebble Beach
- Production slated for 2024.
- Only 88 initial units are planned.
- Designed by the original designer of the original DeLorean
- Cars will be built in Italy.
- Several other models are also planned, including an 8-cylinder sports car.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm a Mac and I'm a PC. We have a lot in common these days. We both run Microsoft office. We share files. It's great. We just get a lot |
| 0:09.6 | PC |
| 0:11.8 | And I'm a PC. Yeah, we've done that we've moved on. Yes, I had to restart you know, how it is not really what max don't have to |
| 0:22.5 | Yep, we had him we lost him. I'm just gonna get it keep an eye on him |
| 0:30.0 | And I'm a PC |
| 0:32.4 | There's everyone |
| 0:37.6 | Hello, and welcome to the Cassie best 30 plus men up a conversation you're gonna hear all week long |
| 0:44.1 | I'm your host you have a last to join me today when he's not using his hands to throw darts or discipline |
| 0:49.7 | Coltamack writers. You'll find them in his keyboard typing at a crisp |
| 0:55.1 | 530 words permit that even though it could be done |
| 0:58.2 | Managing at her felt the mag. Oh, it's walls is here. Yeah, they're short words though. Hey, I |
| 1:08.1 | You try to only type in vowels, right? And he's just single letters. Yeah, yeah, that's all you need |
| 1:16.0 | Occasionally we use with |
| 1:18.7 | He don't want to use words longer than three or four letters, you know |
| 1:23.4 | This isn't a daring fireball over here Lewis, you know |
| 1:28.4 | All right, I'll we got a great show for you guys today |
| 1:31.4 | I know it seems hard to believe because there's not very much Apple news to talk about but you know when there's not much Apple news |
| 1:36.6 | We can we can explore other topics of |
| 1:40.2 | Interest so we have M2 MacBook Pros. They're incoming. They might actually be here before you know it |
| 1:46.2 | So we'll talk about that and if you're making a buying decision like I have been recently |
| 1:50.2 | It's it's kind of a tough time to to be buying a MacBook Pro because you know the new ones come out and the old ones drop in price |
| 1:56.6 | Well, that's not guaranteed anymore |
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