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Category Archive: Macs
How Apple’s Neural Engine ensures that your data remains private, rather than uploading it for processing on servers. And it spares your CPU cores from running neural computation.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 144. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A […]
If you don’t want to leave Software Update to install updates automatically, here are the options for using softwareupdate, SilentKnight and silnite instead.
For some images, Visual Look Up fails so completely that it’s not even offered. Could this be exploited as a way of blocking image recognition?
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: A brisk march […]
QuickTime ruled from 1991-2019, and was bigger than Apple itself. But can you name what replaced it, and whether it works as well?
Visual Look Up also recognises flowers, landmarks and pets, as well as well-known paintings. Here’s how it does those, and how Live Text is different.
How analogue sound is turned into digital audio, how the limits of human hearing determine how that conversion should be performed, and how you should set your Mac’s audio up.
The first phase analyses, classifies and detects any objects within the image. When the user clicks on the white dot, this completes with a search for the best match.
The Eclectic Light Company 