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MacworldSearching for an iPhone case can be a difficult task with so many options at such a wide array of prices. But this sale makes it easy: Casely is slashing 50 percent off its entire lineup of iPhone cases in a massive sale that ends Friday.In our roundup of the best iPhone cases, we named Casely as our favorite case for colorful protection due to its incredible library of designs. The are hundreds of options, from graphic illustrations to solid colors, patterns, logos, and artist collaborations. We cant begin to list all the models available, but many are available for less than $10, dropping prices below even the 50 percent off sale.This sale is scheduled to end at midnight on Saturday, so act fast if you want to save big on a new iPhone case. The sale also includes AirPods cases, bags, cables, and screen protectors, so even if youre happy with your current iPhone case, head over to take advantage of some huge savings.Browse Casely's massive 50% off sale

MacworldWhen the very first Mac Studio was unveiled in 2022, a teardown found a surprisingly removable SSD module. However, theres no way to officially upgrade the drive, since Apple doesnt offer any type of service or do-it-yourself option to swap it out. Neither has any third-party company, until now.Polysoft launched a Kickstarter campaign for its Studio Drive, an SSD upgrade that enthusiasts and repair professionals can use to upgrade the Mac Studio SSD. The campaign was successful and according to the Studio Drive website, the company is very busy producing the boards sold on Kickstarter and theyre going to be taking new orders for bare PCB board to 8TB models soon. If youre interested, Polysoft has an online form to request more information.In case youre wondering if this is a legitimate product, the company reached out to YouTube PC enthusiast Luke Miani, who posted a hands-on with the Studio Drive. Miani shows how the Studio Drive is installed, points out how Apples SSD implementation is different from typical PCs, and how you need another Mac to connect to, run the Apple Configurator app, and reformat the Mac Studio. The installation may sound a little dauntingits not as simple as swapping out the SSDs and rebooting, but its not terribly complicated for the type of user who would buy the Mac Studio in the first place. You can see Mianis demo below.The Studio Drive is guaranteed for 140,00TB written and includes something Apples SSDs dont have: overvoltage protection to prevent the SSD modules from being zapped dead.According to Miani, Polysoft plans to offer an 8TB Studio Drive for 799 (about $845/660), though the official prices are not posted on the Studio Drive website. While Apple doesnt sell Mac Studio SSD upgrades, an 8TB Mac Pro SSD upgrade for the Mac Pro is $2,800/2,800. So, thats a big price difference.Polysoft also has M4 Mac mini SSD upgrades in the works. For more information as its available, check out the Studio Drive website.

AI-generated content accounted for less than 1% of the disinformation fact-checkers linked to political elections that took place worldwide in 2024, according to social media giant Meta. The company cited political elections in the United States, Great Britain, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, France, South Africa, Mexico and Brazil, as well as the EU elections.At the beginning of the year, many warned about the potential impact that generative AI could have on the upcoming elections, including the risk of widespread deepfakes and AI-powered disinformation campaigns, Meta President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg wrote. Based on what we have monitored through our services, it appears that these risks did not materialize in a significant way and that any impact was modest and limited in scope.Meta did not provide detailed information on how much AI-generated disinformation its fact-checking uncovered related to major elections.

Apple shops at Amazon. In this case, it is using artificial intelligence (AI) processors from Amazon Web Services (AWS) for some of itsApple Intelligenceand other services, including Maps, Apps, and search. Apple is also testing advanced AWS chips to pretrain some of its AI models as it continues itsrapid pivot toward becomingthe worlds mostwidely deployed AI platform.Thats the big and somewhat unexpected news to emerge from this weeks AWS:Reinvent conference.Apple watchers will know that the company seldom, if ever, sends speakers to other peoples trade shows. So, it matters that Apples Senior Director of Machine Learning and AI, Benoit Dupin, took to the stage at the Amazon event.That appearance can be seen as a big endorsement both of AWS and its AI services, and the mutually beneficial relationship between Apple and AWS.Not a new relationship.Apple has used AWS servers for years, in part to drive its iCloud and Apple One services and to scale additional capacity at times of peak demand. One of the unique elements of Apples business is the scale at which we operate, and the speed with which we innovate. AWS has been able to keep the pace, Dupin said.Some might note that Dupin (who once worked at AWS) threw a small curveball when he revealed that Apple has begun to deploy Amazons Graviton and Inferentia for machine learning services such as streaming and search. He explained that moving to these chips has generated an impressive 40% efficiency increase in Apples machine learning inference workloads when compared to x86 instances.Dupin also confirmed Apple is in the early stages of evaluating the newly-introduced AWS Trainium 2 AI training chip, which he expects will bring in 50% improvement in efficiency when pre-training AI.Scale, speed, and Apple IntelligenceOn the AWS connection to Apple Intelligence, he explained: To develop Apple Intelligence, we needed to further scale our infrastructure for training. As a result, Apple turned to AWS because the service could provide access to the most performant accelerators in quantity.Dupin revealed that key areas where Apple uses Amazons services include fine-tuning AI models, optimizing trained models to fit on small devices, and building and finalizing our Apple Intelligence adapters, ready to deploy on Apple devices and servers.. We work with AWS Services across virtually all phase of our AI and ML lifecycle, he said.Apple Intelligence is a work in progress and the company isalready developing additional services and feature improvements, As we expand the capabilities and feature of Apple Intelligence, we will continue to depend on the scalable, efficient, high-performance accelerator technologies AWS delivers, he said.Apple CEO Tim Cook recently confirmed more services will appear in the future. Im not going to announce anything today. But we have research going on. Were pouring all of ourselves in here, and we work on things that are years in the making,Cook said.TSMC, Apple, AWS, AI, oh my!Theres another interesting connection between Apple and AWS. Apples M- and A- series processors are manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC), withdevices made by Foxconnand others. TSMC also makes the processors used by AWS. And it manufactures the AI processors Nvidia provides; we think it will be tasked with churning outApple Silicon server processorsto support Private Cloud Compute services and Apple Intelligence.It is also noteworthy that AWS believes it will be able to link more of its processors together for huge cloud intelligence servers beyond what Nvidia can manage. Speaking on the fringes of AWS Reinvent, AWS AI chip business development manager Gadi Hutt claimed his companys processors will be able to train some AI models at 40% lower cost than on Nvidia chips.Up next?While the appearance of an Apple exec at the AWS event suggests a good partnership, I cant help but be curious about whether Apple has its own ambitions to deliver server processors, and the extent to which these might deliver significant performance/energy efficiency gains, given the performance efficiency of Apple silicon.Speculation aside, as AI injects itself into everything, the gold rush for developers capable of building and maintaining these services and the infrastructure (including energy infrastructure) required for the tech continues to intensify; these kinds of fast-growing industry-wide deployments will surely be where opportunity shines. You canwatch Dupins speech here.You can follow me on social media! Join me onBlueSky, LinkedIn,Mastodon, andMeWe.