The biggest neural nets, as measured by their parameters or “weights,” are clocking in at over half a trillion weights. Models such as Google’s Pathways Language Model, or PaLM, and Nvidia and Microsoft’s Megatron-Turing NLG 530B are among the biggest, with 540 billion and 530 billion parameters, respectively. The more parameters a program has, in general, the greater the amount of computing power it consumes to train, and also to run for making predictions, what’s called inference....

But success can itself become a burden. And for Apple, that burden is to continue to drive growth in a smartphone market that’s both saturated and cut-throat when it comes to pricing. Apple is a company that’s been highly optimized to make and sell millions of iPhones every year, along with launching a fresh iPhone lineup each fall. Sure, the company banks a lot of cash from other products and services, but the iPhone is the biggest cash cow by far....

The CDC, which kicked off in 2016 as a trial, governs how some individuals in receipt of welfare spend their money, with the idea behind the program being to both prevent the sale of alcohol, cigarettes, and some gift cards and block the funds from being used on activities such as gambling. Participants of the CDC trial have 80% of their funds placed on a card, which is managed by payment services company Indue, with the remaining 20% being paid into a bank account....

Whether you’re gearing up for a job interview, or that default webcam on your company laptop just isn’t cutting it, the AnkerWork B600 is now on sale and certainly worth a look. But for $219, it’s one of the most expensive webcams we’ve reviewed, and you’ll want to know exactly what you’re getting before spending the money. I’ve been testing the B600 over the past two weeks, including video calls in various lighting and ambient conditions, and here’s everything you need to know about the video bar....

In fronting the committee, which is currently undertaking a review of the four major banks and other financial institutions, Elliot highlighted that for the first eights months of 2021, ANZ had seen a 73% increase in scams being detected or reported by customers, compared to the same time last year. Over the same period, ANZ retail customers sent AU$77 million to scammers, of which the bank was able to claw back almost AU$19 million, Elliot said....

Stage Manager, the headline feature of iOS 16, overhauls multitasking on the iPad with overlapping and resizable windows. The feature also let users connect an iPad to an external monitor to create a second iPad desktop rather than just mirroring the same one. It is a nice feature but was limited to iPads with Apple’s custom M1 chip, which currently includes the 2021 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models and the 2022 iPad Air....

The company said that Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma and Utah will be bringing their IDs to Apple Wallet for display on the iPhone and Apple Watch. Apple is pushing Apple Wallet to be an ID repository with plans to add student IDs, corporate badges, hotel keys and other items. iPhone 13: Sept. 14 event, release date, features, specs, and rumorsApple’s iOS 15, iPad OS 15, and MacOS Monterey updates aim for businesses...

Wrote Wu, “Apple Inc. is likely to slash its projected iPhone 13 production targets for 2021 by as many as 10 million units […] The company had expected to produce 90 million new iPhone models in the last three months of the year, but it’s now telling manufacturing partners that the total will be lower because Broadcom Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. are struggling to deliver enough components.” Shares of Apple fell as much as 8% in late trading following the report....

According to the consumer rights body, this is an abusive practice, since the item is essential for the functioning of the item. This follows complaints filed by consumers since the company confirmed the new policy to remove the charger from the iPhone’s packaging, in October last year. At the time, the firm justified the move as an attempt to reduce its carbon emissions and rare earth mining. The Brazilian consumer rights foundation also noted that several questions made to the company remain unanswered, including the price of devices with and without the charger, and information on the reduction of the number of chargers manufactured since the policy was introduced....

The fixes address slow incoming call and app notifications, low microphone volume during CarPlay phone calls, Mail crashes and sluggish switching between camera modes. Over the past month, some iPhone 14 users reported experiencing volumes so low they couldn’t hear a caller when connected through CarPlay. The issue didn’t appear to affect older models, according to reports last month on Reddit. iPhone 14 owners reported the same volume CarPlay problems on Apple Communities....

And it is powerful. Really powerful. So powerful that it’s actually hard to comprehend just how much performance Apple is getting out of its M1 line of chips. The M1 Ultra takes two M1 Max chips and connects them using what Apple calls UltraFusion architecture. OK, let’s begin with the specs: 5-nanometer process20 CPU cores (16 high-performance cores, 4 high-efficiency cores)Up to 64 GPU cores114 billion transistorsUp to 128GB of unified memory800 GB/s memory bandwidth2....

And rather than using the M1 Ultra to upgrade an existing Mac, Apple came up with an entirely new design, called the Mac Studio. Apple also discontinued the Intel-based 27-inch iMac at the same time, making it clear that the Mac Studio, along with the new 27-inch Studio Display, was aimed at the many designers and creative users who have traditionally relied on the iMac as their main desktop system....

Apple also introduced the Fast resource loading API for developers, which provides a more direct pathway between your Mac’s storage drive and the M1/M2’s unified memory and GPU architecture. This reduces loading times in graphically intense games. To build up even more hype for Mac-based gamers, Apple announced several AAA titles that will be supported on MacBooks, iPads, and iMacs later this year. The list includes the award-winning Resident Evil Village, 2018 Golden Joystick nominee No Man’s Sky, and the newly released GRID Legends for racing-sim fans....

Announced last month, the new safety features were intended for inclusion in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Monterey. The first was a feature for monitoring the Messages application, with client-side machine learning implemented to scan and alert when sexually explicit images are sent, requiring input from the user of whether or not they want to view the material. “As an additional precaution, the child can also be told that, to make sure they are safe, their parents will get a message if they do view it,” the company explained....

A new report from Canalys shows that Apple’s phones accounted for 22% of smartphone shipments globally at the end of 2021. Canalys noted that the last time Apple ranked number one in the smartphone market was in Q4 of 2020. “Apple saw unprecedented iPhone performance in Mainland China, with aggressive pricing for its flagship devices keeping the value proposition strong,” Canalys analyst Sanyam Chaurasia said in a statement. “Apple’s supply chain is starting to recover, but it was still forced to cut production in Q4 amid shortages of key components and could not make enough iPhones to meet demand....

If you’re in Google Chrome right now, take a look at the tab bar, and let your eyes slide to the right. Notice something? Yes, that arrow that points downwards. Click on it and see what it does. What you have there is a scrolling tabs list – perfect for the times when you have so many tabs open, you can’t read the titles. Not only do you get an easy-to-read list, but you also get a handy search box....

The advanced persistent threat (APT) group, believed to be located in Gaza – an area of conflict and hotbed of tension between Israel and Palestine – attacks organizations worldwide but now currently appears to be focused on entities related to Palestine’s politics. Arid Viper, also known as Desert Falcon, Two-tailed Scorpion, or APT C-23, has been around since at least 2015. In the past, the group has been responsible for spear phishing attacks against Palestinian law enforcement, the military, educational establishments, and the Israel Security Agency (ISA)....

NASA has as 69-minute launch window from 12:07am EST on November 14 to launch the the 322.4 feet-tall (98.3 metres) Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and propel the un-crewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back to Earth. The US space agency plans to wheel the rocket back to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday November 4. It said inspections over the past week confirmed “minimal work” is needed to prepare the rocket and spacecraft for its return to the launch pad....

1. Agriculture AI has the potential to optimize the agricultural sector by enabling precision agriculture and automating some functions. Precision agriculture refers to the tailoring of crop inputs to the precise needs of the farm. AI and ML make this possible by collecting data and identifying patterns that help farmers best understand what needs to be implemented and how much. “Think about using data to find patterns that enable precision. For example, providing just the right amount of fertilizer to the right place in the field at the right time, which then optimizes both the cost for the farmer, but also the yield on the other side,” Roger Roberts, McKinsey expert partner, tells ZDNet....

According to the ATO, it wants the new platform to be cloud-based, so it can be used for near real-time data storage, processing, consumption, insights, and analytics. “The ATO is striving to become a more data-driven client-centric organisation, using data and analytics to improve the administration of tax and superannuation systems,” it said in tender documents. “The ATO is collecting increasingly greater volumes of data from a wide variety of sources....