For several years now, Chinese supercomputers have been the fastest in the world. The list of the fastest supercomputers, at Top500.org, had been showing the U.S. falling behind. Recently the Oak RIdge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee announced that the new, IBM-built “Summit” supercomputer is capable of 200 petaflops. By comparison, a modern, fast desktop PC is in the teraflop class, making Summit about 200,000 times faster. ORNL’s release noted that uses for the machine include: “machine learning and deep learning to problems in human health, high-energy physics, [and] materials discovery. Summit allows [the Dept. of Energy] DOE and ORNL to respond to the White House Artificial Intelligence for America initiative.”
Scribit on Kickstarter Creates (and Erases) Art on Your Wall
Check out Scribit on Kickstarter. It’s a device that will create art on your wall—from drawings to your recent Twitter messages to crowdsourced designs. Better yet, it will erase that art, too, turning your wall into giant reusable canvas. It can draw using four pens (red, blue, yellow, and black), and it needs two nails and a power outlet to install. The video is cool as can be, and the project has already raised more than US$400,000 with 23 days to go. Pledge levels that will get you a Scribit start at $349.
The Complete Adobe CC Training Bundle: $29
We have a deal today on The Complete Adobe CC Training Bundle, a collection of training courses for Adobe Creative Cloud. It includes courses for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash & Animate, After Effects, and Introduction to Animation. This bundle is $29 through us.
macOS: How to Use Apple Mail Connection Doctor
It gives you a bit more information on issues, and it checks the status of each mail server you’re using.
Apple Teased More Information on Apple Books in iOS 12
Andrew is excited by the new update and hopes that the Apple Book Store can grow to be as big (or bigger) than the Kindle book store.
USB-C iPhones, Carpool Karaoke Season 2 - TMO Daily Observations 2018-06-12
Bryan Chaffin and John Martellaro join Jeff Gamet to look at the possibility of USB-C coming to the iPhone, plus they share their thoughts on Carpool Karaoke season 2.
Apple Replacing 2017 13-inch MacBook Pro Logic Boards and SSD Together
If you have a 2017 13-inch MacBook Pro with function keys and the SSD or logic board fails, Apple has a bigger repair in store for you.
AltConf and WWDC 2018 Interview: Ish
San Jose – Jeff Gamet sits down with iPhone and iPad app developer Ish at AltConf and WWDC 2018 to talk about what he liked from this year’s conferences, plus what he’s working on now.
AltConf and WWDC 2018 Interview: Amanda Southworth
San Jose – Jeff Gamet sits down with Amanda Southworth at AltConf and WWDC 2018 to talk about how her personal experiences led her to create apps to help people suffering from depression, an app to help keep the LGBTQ community safe, and her nonprofit organization Astra Labs.
How to Correct Siri’s Music Choices
OK, so Siri isn’t always great at answering follow-up questions. (And if you talk to Apple’s voice assistant a lot, you’ve probably used colorful language at it because of that very thing.) But fortunately, it does parse follow-up requests well for music, so you can correct it when it chooses the wrong item to play. We’ll tell you how to do that in today’s Quick Tip!
