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CultCast #279 - Undercover in an iPhone production factory!
About this episode
This week:
- Official new Nvidia drivers make your Mac compatible with the best GPUs on the market!
- A mole gives us our best look yet at what it’s really like to work in an iPhone factory
- Apple has a secret team working on ‘breakthrough’ diabetes treatment with the Apple Watch
- The saga of Ron Wayne, the forgotten Apple co-founder who traded his 22 billion dollars of Apple stock for just $800.
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On the show this week
- NVIDIA today released new drivers that make its Pascal graphics cards compatible with a Mac.
- The drivers support all 10 Series GPUs, including the GTX 1050 through GTX 1080 Ti, and the newly-announced GTX Titan Xp.
- Until now, however, you had to settle for older 9 Series cards.
- Now the newest cards, from the GTX 950 to the GTX Titan Xp, are supported
- In Apple lore, Ron Wayne is the man who threw away winning lottery ticket.
- It’s April 12, 1976: Apple’s third co-founder, a former Atari colleague of Steve Wozniak’s named Ron Wayne, is cashing in his 10% of Apple shares for $800.
- Hell of a nice guy.
- Drew Apple’s original logo.
- Wayne also wrote up the first contract in Apple’s history, solidifying what all three co-founders would do. Wozniak was to be in charge of electrical engineering, Jobs was responsible for marketing, and Wayne would oversee mechanical engineering and documentation.
- “I was
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