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I asked Android users what's stopping them from getting an iPhone

I asked Android users in a YouTube poll on October 2 what's stopping them from getting an iPhone, and most of the people who answered just like Android more.

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Infrastructureresearch.meta.aiOct 22

Meta opened up Muse Spark, and it takes two Mac Studios to run it at home

Meta released Muse Spark Open on October 15, a model with 816 billion parameters, 42 billion of them active.

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Tools & Gearmacrumors.comOct 22

Withings wants about $100 a year to sync your scale with Apple Health

Anyone who creates a Withings account on October 13 or later needs a Withings+ subscription for automatic syncing to Apple Health, MacRumors reported, at $99.50 a year in the U.S.

#health 2 min read

Tools & Gearmacrumors.comOct 22

iPhone Duo inner screen repair costs $999, so if you preorder one anyway, buy AppleCare+

iPhone Duo preorders opened October 16, and the number I'd look at before the $1,999 starting price is $999.

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Softwaregithub.comOct 22

Somebody got Android apps running on a Mac with no emulator, and they show up in the Dock

A developer who goes by kksimp put a project on GitHub, Mac dot apk, that runs Android apps on Apple Silicon Macs with no emulator and no virtual machine.

#android 2 min read

Tools & Geargizmodo.comOct 22

iPhone Duo sold out until January? Don't pay a scalper

Apple's first foldable starts at $1,999, and Gizmodo reported that its ship dates slipped from launch day, October 23, to mid-November in under five minutes.

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Tools & Geartheedgemalaysia.comOct 22

Apple Intelligence is coming to China without the new Siri

Tim Cook told The Paper, a state-backed Chinese outlet, that Apple Intelligence has been approved in China and that a test version is due later in October, Reuters reported.

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Tools & Gearpcmag.comOct 21

Apple ran a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to cool it

Apple's first foldable has the heat problem every foldable has: it's thin when it's open, and its thickness doubles when you close it.

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Hacks & Buildspagetable.comOct 21

Super Mario 64 moved onto the dining table

Michael Steil has turned Super Mario 64 into a living diorama for Apple Vision Pro.

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Retromacrumors.comOct 21

Apple's cancelled future now opens in a browser

Apple cancelled Copland in August 1996, and you can now boot it in a browser tab.

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Retro0x3.jawncon.orgOct 20

JawnCon put its conference schedule inside an emulated Macintosh Plus

JawnCon, Philadelphia's hacker conference, built this year's schedule as a HyperCard stack and runs it "in a Macintosh Plus, in a 68k emulator in your browser," according to the event's schedule page, though a plain web version is there too for anyone in a hurry.

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Hacks & Buildsgithub.comOct 14

Someone ran an unmodified Linux graphics driver on an iPad

An iPad is running Linux's own graphics driver, unmodified, to drive an AMD GPU in a Thunderbolt enclosure.

#linux 2 min read

Softwaregithub.comOct 9

A developer got Google's Googlebook OS running on an Apple Silicon Mac

Googlebook OS now runs on a Mac, unofficially, in a virtual machine with GPU acceleration and Chrome working.

#google 2 min read