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While I'm a ride-or-die fan of Windows on my PCs and Android on my phones, I have to begrudgingly admit that Apple rules the roost when it comes to tablets. That's why there's a 4th-gen iPad Air on my desk right now. Don't tell any of my colleagues over at Macworld, they'll never let me hear the end of it.
The one Amazon has on sale gets a much speedier M1 processor, the same one that went into its first-gen Arm Macbooks, though to be honest you won't even need that power unless you're running the tablet version of Photoshop (which is an option). The fingerprint reader for login is a nice touch, but personally I'm just glad it uses a USB-C cable so I don't have to buy new Lightning chargers.
Amazon is selling the 64GB blue and purple models for $399, an impressive 33 percent off the $600 retail price. Other versions are also discounted: you can get pink, grey, or "starlight" (read: kinda gold-ish) for $449, or take smaller discounts on upgraded models with 256GB of storage and/or a 5G cellular connection.
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Apple recently released iOS 17.5, the newest version of iOS. It brings some major changes to the iPhone if you're in the European Union, and some smaller updates if you're not.
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Much of the recent AI hype train has centered around mesmerizing digital content generated from simple prompts, alongside concerns about its ability to decimate the workforce and make malicious propaganda much more convincing. (Fun!) However, some of AI's most promising — and potentially much less ominous — work lies in medicine. A new update to Google's AlphaFold software could lead to new disease research and treatment breakthroughs.
AlphaFold software, from Google DeepMind and (the also Alphabet-owned) Isomorphic Labs, has already demonstrated that it can predict how proteins fold with shocking accuracy. It's cataloged a staggering 200 million known proteins, and Google says millions of researchers have used previous versions to make discoveries in areas like malaria vaccines, cancer treatment and enzyme designs.
Knowing a protein's shape and structure determines how it interacts with the human body, allowing
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