At FMS 2024, the technological requirements from the storage and memory subsystem took center stage. Both SSD and controller vendors had various demonstrations touting their suitability for different stages of the AI data pipeline - ingestion, preparation, training, checkpointing, and inference. Vendors like Solidigm have different types of SSDs optimized for different stages of the…
In this article, we answer all of your questions about when you should and shouldn’t buy a new iPhone – including advice on when Apple is likely to discount the price of older iPhone handsets. There are certain times of the year when buying a new iPhone is a bad idea, and there are certain…
Beta testers have been exploring the features in iOS 18 for some time now, having raced to install the beta on their iPhones as soon as it became available. Testing the beta of iOS 18 gave testers a glimpse of what was to come in iOS 18 and bragging rights when it came to exploring…
How to add reminders to the iOS 18 Calendar app A significant enhancement in the iOS 18 Calendar app is its integration with Reminders, allowing you to manage everything in one app. Here's how to get started. Managing schedules and tasks can quickly become overwhelming when juggling apps. Apple's latest iOS 18 update addresses this…
In the interest of an abundance of safety, the Macalope believes it’s time to shut down the App Store until we can figure out what’s going on. It is the year 2024. The Bell Riots are almost upon us, everyone is wearing double ties, the App Store is 15 years old and Apple is still…
A few years back, the Japanese government's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO ) allocated funding for the development of green datacenter technologies. With the aim to obtain up to 40% savings in overall power consumption, several Japanese companies have been developing an optical interface for their enterprise SSDs. And at this year's…
Beta 2 of iOS 18.1 is out now for developers With the latest round of betas, Apple has introduced more tweaks and improves as we hit the home stretch ahead of the September release of iOS 18. Here's what's new. We've been testing both iOS 18 and iOS 18.1 simultaneously. The second beta of iOS…
iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max [left], Google Pixel 9 Pro and XL [right] Google's latest smartphone, announced on August 13, was a pre-emptive strike on the iPhone 16 Pro. Here's how the Pixel 9 Pro and Pro XL fare against Apple's existing iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max. On August 13, Google held its…
Samsung had quietly launched its BM1743 enterprise QLC SSD last month with a hefty 61.44 TB SKU. At FMS 2024, the company had the even larger 122.88 TB version of that SSD on display, alongside a few recorded benchmarking sessions. Compared to the previous generation, the BM1743 comes with a 4.1x improvement in I/O performance,…