Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, December 1st, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough. Today, Amazon launches EC2 Mac instances.

Don't call it Libra anymore, at least not the Libra association.

Is Samsung thinking about discontinuing the Galaxy Note line?

Why Deep Mind solving the protein folding problem is such a big deal, are AR and

V. are about to blend, and the interesting case surrounding our main computer hacking law

that was argued before the US Supreme Court yesterday. Here's what you missed today in the world of

tech.

AWS's annual reinvent conference is going on right now, virtually of course, and they opened up with quite a surprise for a lot of people.

AWS is launching EC2 MAC instances bringing the Intel-based MAC mini to its cloud for a dollar and eight cents per hour billed by

the second which is pretty expensive. Still now you can use EC-2 Mac instances to build and test Mac OS, I. I. coding Tech Crunch. The target audience here, and the only one AWS is targeting for now,

is developers who want cloud-based build and testing environments for their Mac and iOS apps.

But it's worth noting that with remote access, you get a fully featured Mac mini in the cloud and I'm sure developers will find all kinds of other use cases for this as well.

Given the recent launch of the M1 Mac minis, it's worth pointing out that the hardware AWS is using, at least

for the time being, are I-7 machines with six physical and 12 logical cores and 32 gigabytes of

memory.

Using the max built-in networking options

AWS connects them to its nitro system for fast network and storage access. This

means you'll be able to attach AWS block storage to these instances for

example.

Unsurprisingly, the AWS team is also working on bringing Apple's new

M1 Mac minis into its data centers.

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