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A biography statement? Hmmm...I don't know. What do I say here? When I was born? Where I grew up? My family? My education? My career as a higher education student affairs and IT professional? Nah. I'm good.

The A18 Pro in the MacBook Neo is 19% faster than the M2 Ultra in the Mac Pro in single-core performance (Geekbench 6).

The MacBook Neo starts at $599.

The Mac Pro, which is still for sale, starts at $6,999.

Apple, Rather Quietly and With No Details, Announces Partnership With Google to Use Gemini Technology for Apple Foundation Models, and Presumably, the Year-Overdue More Personalized Siri
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/12/apple-google-foundation-models-cnbc
Apple, Rather Quietly and With No Details, Announces Partnership With Google to Use Gemini Technology for Apple Foundation Models, and Presumably, the Year-Overdue More Personalized Siri

Link to: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple-google-ai-siri-gemini.html

Daring Fireball

Unpopular reality check:

Most people in real life just call it Apple TV. They know what they mean. "The Apple one".

Renaming the service to Apple TV is cleaner, and totally a non-issue. Only nerds obsess about naming these things. Nobody in real life will ever say the sentence "The TV app for Apple TV on Apple TV". Only people here do.

Is there really no black Pro phone?

Somebody check on @gruber

Ha ha ha, I pulled @Moltz into the weird Android e-reader game
https://zeppelin.flights/@sixcolors/112683803118943144
Six Colors (@[email protected])

Review: Moaan InkPalm Plus is weird, cheap, small, and my kind of e-reader https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/06/review-moaan-inkpalm-plus-is-weird-cheap-small-and-my-kind-of-e-reader/

The Incomparable

I’ve been playing around with the iPadOS 18 calculator, and some of the stuff is neat, but I think it’s probably more of a threat to Soulver and the like, than it is to PCalc.

It doesn’t do RPN, custom layouts, user functions / conversions / constants, multiple memories, hex/oct/binary, visual themes, and a lot more that PCalc does. It does have nicer expression based entry, which is something I want to add.

The Math Notes stuff feels like it’s a separate app.

Also, no bananas whatsoever!

ATP Interview: Holly Borla & Ben Cohen
https://atp.fm/atp-interview-holly-borla-ben-cohen

In this special episode from the Apple podcast studio at WWDC 2024, we interview Swift Core Team members @holly and @airspeedswift.

Accidental Tech Podcast: ATP Interview: Holly Borla & Ben Cohen

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Nice review of ALL SOULS LOST over at the British Fantasy Society: “Moren mixes the magical with the everyday to create a unique environment with a detective noir feel." Every day I'm mixing! https://britishfantasysociety.org/all-souls-lost/

@caseyliss

Listening to ATP and your thinking about Callsheet on VisionOS. Are you thinking about a X-ray type capability so that Callsheet is sitting off to the side and senses what is playing in a video window to present the movie or series episode info over in Callsheet? That seems pretty cool. However, that is from a customer who is not buying this device. Good luck!