★ The Information Suggests, in an Aside, That Apple Scrapped Work on a Quad-Max/Double-Ultra M-Series Chip

There are metaphors, and then there are metaphors. Happy New Year.  ★

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Hartley Charlton, MacRumors: Apple TV+ is set to be available to stream for free from Saturday, January 4 to Sunday, January 5, providing its full catalog with no subscription fee. Following a series of teasers, Apple today confirmed the free weekend on social media, building anticipation for new releases early in 2025 such as the second season...

James Fallows, in a 2023 piece for The Atlantic, written when Carter entered hospice care: Jimmy Carter survived to see many of his ambitions realized, including near eradication of the dreaded Guinea worm, which, unglamorous as it sounds, represents an increase in human well-being greater than most leaders have achieved. He survived to see his...

Juli Clover, MacRumors: An upcoming version of the Magic Mouse with voice control for AI would “make sense,” Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said today, though he claimed that he has heard no rumors about the feature so far. Alongside the voice-input mouse, it’d make just as much sense to bring back some of that 1998 iMac aesthetic by switching...