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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

How to enable, use and fix Visual Look Up

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Requirements, which apps support it, how to access it in each of those, why some images don’t work, and how to troubleshoot it.

April 8, 2022 Macs, Technology

triald is all about Machine Learning

How Apple and third-party developers can update the apps you use without your being aware, even if you have automatic updates disabled.

April 6, 2022 Macs, Technology

Digging deeper into Trial using Mints

Mints gains a new tool to examine the activities of triald and trial in the Unified log. Here’s a quick survey of what happens in a quiet day.

April 4, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

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

Mints now opens up access to Visual Look Up

Not only does this version of Mints extract information from the log detailing what happens during Visual Look Up, but it includes it own browser window to look up with.

March 22, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Is Look Up destined for CSAM?

Remember Apple’s failed attempt to detect CSAM in images? Would that have been similar to the way that Visual Look Up works? Is this the thin end of the wedge?

March 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

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