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Explainer: Machine learning

Are you worried about your Mac learning about you and what you do? Machine learning isn’t well understood, so here’s an introduction.

July 16, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Watch the ANE

Trying macOS betas, support for Catalina, is the M1 dead, and what does the ANE do all day? What should come from WWDC this year.

May 29, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: When Visual Look Up fails

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?

March 27, 2022 Macs, Technology

How good is Monterey’s Visual Look Up?

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A promising start for a new feature which could, with a little improvement, become a uniquely powerful tool.

March 16, 2022 Macs, Painting, Technology

How Apple intends checking images for CSAM

Apple’s controversial proposals to check photos for CSAM content before they’re uploaded to iCloud depend on image matching, as explained here.

August 9, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Making the most of technology

What has technology done for us over the last three months of pandemic? A look back with the wisdom of hindsight, and a pub menu.

July 5, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Biometric security and AI: dangerous partners

We can quantitate the risks of cracking conventional passwords. AI-based systems using biometrics are known to be brittle, and to have exploitable blind spots. Can we trust them in security systems?

February 2, 2018 General, Macs, Technology

Last Week Off My Mac: A1 and AI

Apple keeps its promise with High Sierra and new Macs, but is less helpful in the log, and courts danger in AI.

June 11, 2017 Macs, Technology

AI and robots: a better understanding

We have become confused as to what artificial intelligence might be, and condemned remote-control vehicles as robots. Let’s correct this, and refocus more accurately.

August 27, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Last week on my Mac: hypertext for almost all, and fault-tolerant XML

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Hypertext returns without any hyperbole, and XML could be much more able to cope with the reality of life.

August 14, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

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