av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 4, 2017 | Lästips
Apple confirms $1 billion investment in SoftBank tech fund | Reuters
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) confirmed on Wednesday its plans to invest $1 billion in a tech fund being set up by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T).SoftBank has said it is investing at least $25 billion in the fund and has been in talks with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund for an investment that could be as much as $45 billion.”We believe their new fund will speed the development of technologies whoch may be strategically important to Apple,” company spokesman Josh Rosenstock told Reuters.SoftBank has also said that it plans to make future large-scale investments via the tech fund, rather than on its own.Reuters reported in December, citing sources familiar with the matter, that Apple had held talks with SoftBank about the investment.
Källa: Apple confirms $1 billion investment in SoftBank tech fund | Reuters
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 4, 2017 | Lästips
Thanks to Neonode’s AirBar, the MacBook Air has a touchscreenkind of | PCWorld
For years Apples late chief executive Steve Jobs warned that users would develop gorilla armshis argument for why he would never build a touchscreen into the Mac. Unfortunately, Neonode and its AirBar didnt listen.On Tuesday, Neonode debuted a 13.3-inch version of its surprisingly good touch peripheral, specifically to bring touchscreen capabilities to the 13-inch MacBook Air through a peripheral that plugs into the laptops USB port. The AirBar is available for preorder on AirBars website, and will eventually be sold on Amazon for $99, the company said.Though Neonode officially announced the AirBar at the end of 2015, it really never took shape until recently. Its officially debuting at CES 2017. PCWorld found that the slim USB peripheral was pretty darn good at adding touch capabilities to those devices that lacked them, shining infrared light upward onto the display as a screen for your fingers to interact with.
Källa: Thanks to Neonode’s AirBar, the MacBook Air has a touchscreenkind of | PCWorld
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 4, 2017 | Lästips
Anti-surveillance clothing aims to hide wearers from facial recognition | Technology | The Guardian
The use of facial recognition software for commercial purposes is becoming more common, but, as Amazon scans faces in its physical shop and Facebook searches photos of users to add tags to, those concerned about their privacy are fighting back.
Berlin-based artist and technologist Adam Harvey aims to overwhelm and confuse these systems by presenting them with thousands of false hits so they cant tell whoch faces are real.
The Hyperface project involves printing patterns on to clothing or textiles, whoch then appear to have eyes, mouths and other features that a computer can interpret as a face.
Källa: Anti-surveillance clothing aims to hide wearers from facial recognition | Technology | The Guardian
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 4, 2017 | Nöje
How Do I Explain America to My Black Son?
Atlantic writer Vann R. Newkirk is about to be a father, and hes nervous. Americas history of racial violence is something that every citizen inherits, but the consequences for black Americans remain acute. One day Im gonna look that boy in the eye and have to explain the same thing my father did to me, and his grandfather to him: This is who we are, he says in this film. This is the same America that killed Emmett Till, and the same place that gave us Jim Crow. Now, its the country that elected Donald Trump to the presidency. In this animation, Newkirk reflects on his own childhood in the South and the lessons hell try to impart to his son. This has been adapted from Newkirks Atlantic essay, This Is Who We Are.
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 4, 2017 | Nyheter
Intel lanserar nya processorer
I samband med den stora datormässan CES så har Intel lanserat och visat upp hela sina nya serie med kretsar och processorer, Kaby Lake.
Det innebär att det nu finns en komplett processor-serie även för Apples Mac-datorer.
With over 40 new performance-class processors, these 7th Gen Intel Core processors and Intel® Xeon® processors based on Intels 14nm+ process technology power some of the best new laptops and desktops. This introduction on the eve of CES 2017 paves the way for an exciting year ahead. Keep an eye on many of our OEM partners. They will be introducing stunning and powerful new PCs for businesses and consumers.
Apple brukar som bekant inte vara snabba på att uppdatera sina datorer och det finns som vanligt inga kommentarer eller uttalanden från Apple om vilka datorer som kan komma att uppdateras eller när.
Intel