New M4 Macs are already incoming! (CultCast #642)
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🗓️ 12 April 2024
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Summary
This week, M4 Macs are already incoming! Also: Apple’s next big thing, the AI tools that could turbocharge iOS 18, the disastrous Humane AI Pin, and an all-new What We’re Into!
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This week’s stories:
Macs with AI-focused M4 chip launching this year
- Mac users won’t have to wait until 2025 for the Apple M4 processor, according to a reputable Apple tipster. The replacement for the current M3 will put an emphasis on AI, and will start appearing in Macs this autumn.
Apple Is Rebooting Its Search for a New Next Big Thing
- Apple’s business remains heavily reliant on the iPhone, which accounts for more than half its revenue. And sales in that market have stagnated. That’s made it all the more important for the company to find a major new product category.
Apple’s Ferret-UI helps AI use your iPhone
- Apple’s new Ferret-UI multimodal large language model could help artificial intelligence systems understand your iPhone’s screen, according to a research paper released Tuesday.
Humane AI Pin
- The Verge: Humane AI Pin Review: Not even close
- Inverse: Humane’s Ai Pin Isn't Ready to Replace Your Phone, But One Day It Might
What We’re Into:
- Doctor Who (1963 – 1989) on archive.org
- Constellation on Apple TV+
- Fallout on Amazon Prime Video
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| 0:00.0 | Dad just a second Martin |
| 0:02.8 | a second Martin |
| 0:05.8 | A! |
| 0:07.0 | Mom come on |
| 0:11.0 | be out in a minute. Hey! |
| 0:15.0 | And you're not fair. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm busy Martin. |
| 0:20.0 | I don't care. I'm coming in. |
| 0:22.0 | Don't you dare. An Apple 2GS can do over 10,000 things for your family, |
| 0:27.0 | maybe even teach him to share. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome |
| 0:33.8 | Wilkass the best 30 plus minute up conversation you're going to hear all week long I'm |
| 0:38.6 | your host Air from Elijah join me today authorities suspect several missing cultimac writers are stashed in the grounds, the walls, |
| 0:46.8 | the concrete structures of his San Francisco residents, but so far no evidence has been found. He's the magic and ever Peltimac. |
| 0:56.0 | Louis Wallace is here. |
| 0:58.0 | Cannot comment on the ongoing investigation? |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, I know. |
| 1:03.0 | Also with us, I hear he went full primal during Monday's solar eclipse, |
| 1:09.0 | dancing, playing the bongos and nothing but a self-made loin cloth. |
| 1:14.0 | We're preperately chanting, All Right, All Right, All Right, |
| 1:17.0 | For eight straight minutes of the totality. |
| 1:20.0 | He's a writer called to Mac Griffin Jones is here. |
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