October 28, 2021

S1E241 - Essential Apple Podcast 241: Monterey Day

1 hour 4 minutes

Monterey is out today (but an hour out as we recorded), Steve (from Geeks Corner and Nick join Simon to mull over a grab bag of stories including obviously Monterey, M1 chips, the Google Tensor and a couple of medical breakthrough stories.

GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS

Glenn Fleishman’s book Take Control of Securing Your Mac can be found at takecontrolbooks.com along with many other titles by him, Joe Kissell, Jeff Carlson and others.

Steve at Geeks Corner has a podcast which is usually a 5-15 min show of his thoughts on tech. Also keep an eye on his site or follow him on Twitter @GeekCorner_uk to watch for regular giveaways.

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Recorded 25th October 2021

NICK RILEY

@spligosh on Twitter very occasionally.

Sometimes appears on Bart Busschots' Let's Talk Apple

Sutton Park Circuit church worship on YouTube

Nick’s church stream videos – You Tube

STEVE DURBIN

Runs the Geeks Corner website

Produces the Geeks Corner podcast

@GeekCorner_uk on Twitter

APPLE

macOS Monterey review: The calm after Big Sur – XDA Developers

macOS 12 Monterey Release Candidate 2 Available – The Mac Observer

macOS Monterey: Here Are All the Features Your Intel Mac Won't Support – MacRumors

Apples latest MacBooks Pro will be backordered until at least December – Mashable

8-Core 14-Inch MacBook Pro Around 20% Slower Than 10-Core Models – MacRumors

Pivot Tables – NosillaCast 857

TECHNOLOGY

Pig kidney transplant in human patient successfully tested by US surgeon – CNN

Breakthrough brain implant lets blind woman see shapes – BGR

Google’s Tensor Chip Is Slower Than Apple’s A12 Bionic – wccftech

SECURITY & PRIVACY

Feds reportedly take down top ransomware hacker group REvil with a hack of their own – The Verge

Securing your digital life, part one: The basics – Ars Technica

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