“A lot of people don’t understand how they map and measure race courses. They assume they’re going to cross the finish line at exactly 13.1 [miles] or 26.2 [miles],” Eric Jue, director of Apple Watch product marketing, told me after I relayed my NYC Half tale. “And they’re a little bit discombobulated when they see something different.”
As it turns out, you’ll run at least 13.1 miles in a half-marathon. The official distance is based on the most optimal route and doesn’t account for zigzagging through other runners, running toward the sides of the road, or stopping at water stations. Most people don’t run the most optimal route and end up running a bit more. By that reasoning, you could argue that the Ultra’s 13.42 miles is closer to what I actually ran than is the Forerunner 265S.
A team of security researchers funded in part by DARPA and the US Air Force has demonstrated tactics that allowed them to steal data from Arm CPUs from Apple and Qualcomm, and also from discrete GPUs from Nvidia and AMD and integrated graphics in Intel and Apple chips, by monitoring chip temperature, power, and frequency during normal operation. The attack requires data from the PC's internal power, temp, and frequency sensors, but this information can be accessed from local user accounts that don't have administrator access. In this manner, an unprivileged user could gain access to privileged data.
“The vitality of the region in general and everything going on [within the developer community] is impressive,” Ms Jackson told The National on the sidelines of the roundtable held ahead of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference.
“We try to aim to give them opportunities to interact with us, and build their own business or opportunity … and make sure they have the same access to the App Store as these big companies do.”
One more week before reality sets in.
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