It never hurts to be on the consortium that’s setting the standard. Apple has joined the Alliance for Open Media, the technology consortium developing AV1 the new industry standard, high-efficiency video code. The group includes Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Hulu, Intel, and many others. Apple was quietly added to the website’s homepage today, and is […]
Month: January 2018
There’s no doubt that streaming works. In this case, Spotify has just hit the 70 million subscriber mark while Apple Music currently has 30 million subscribers. Spotify shared its 70 million subscriber milestone on Twitter saying, “Hello 70 million subscribers.”
Where the Meltdown and Spectre bugs are now affecting billions of processors around the world, Intel has not stated that forthcoming firmware updates and software patches will render Intel-based computer systems “immune” to these issues. The company has stated that updates have been issued for the majority of Intel processor products introduced within the past […]
If you’re an Apple Watch Series 3 owner, you might want to keep it out of certain hospital environments. A number of users have commented that their Apple Watch Series 3 have undergone unexpected reboots in the intensive care units of some hospitals. This suggests there may be specific ICU-related equipment used in hospitals that […]
Following public disclosure of a security flaw with nearly every Intel processor produced for the last 15 years, concern grew that a fix may take up to 30 percent of the processing power away from a system. But Apple appears to have at least partially fixed the problem with December’s macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 with […]