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Apple Neural Engine

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

The hunt for the M1’s neural engine

How can you tell when software uses the Neural Engine in an M1 series Mac? How much power does it use, and what is Espresso? Mysteries unravelled.

March 30, 2022 Macs, Technology

Live Text, Visual Look Up, Face Recognition, ML and Privacy

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.

March 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 Visual Look Up works in detail 2: Object recognition and Live Text

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.

March 25, 2022 Macs, Technology

How Visual Look Up works in detail 1: paintings on Intel and M1 Macs

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.

March 23, 2022 Macs, Technology
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