Brand: MacNews

TunesKit DRM removal tools get iTunes 12.6 support

TunesKit DRM removal tools get iTunes 12.6 support

Posted by | Apr 7, 2017 | , |

TunesKit Software (www.tuneskit.com) has rolled out updates to three of its DRM removal products for the Mac, including DRM Media Converter ($44.95), DRM Audiobook Converter ($34.95) and Apple Music Converter ($34.95). All three solutions add support for iTunes 12.6.

The apps allow Mac users to remove DRM from iTunes movies, TV shows, Apple Music and audiobooks. You can convert protected M4V files to unprotected videos, including MP4, MOV, M4V, AVI, MKV, FLV and more. Demos are available for all three TunesKit products.

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ABI Research: there’ll be 4.5 billion global smart sensors installations by 2022

Posted by | Apr 7, 2017 | , |

A new generation of smart home sensors, which ABI Research (www.abiresearch.com) predicts to exceed four billion installations globally by 2022, will soon change how homes are built, maintained, and managed.

The sensors, embedded in a wide range of smart home devices and appliances, will deliver near real-time understanding of even slight changes within home environments, according to the research group. The ability to transform this data into valuable systems and services will be at the heart of smart home adoption and the future housing market.

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Recommended reading: Humble Bundle ebook deals

Recommended reading: Humble Bundle ebook deals

Posted by | Apr 7, 2017 | , |

Tech book publisher No Starch Press is no stranger to Humble Bundle ebook deals, where readers pay what they want for collections of best-selling ebooks. No Starch Press fans love these bundles—two previous No Starch Press bundles brought in nearly $1 million each in just two weeks, raising $500,000 for charity.

Now No Starch Press is teaming up with Humble Bundle once again to offer a bundle of Python ebooks, featuring some of the best-selling titles on the market.

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Nvidia announces Titan Xp GPU, beta Pascal drivers for the Mac

Nvidia announces Titan Xp GPU, beta Pascal drivers for the Mac

Posted by | Apr 6, 2017 | , |

Nvidia (www.nvidia.com) has announced its $1,200 Titan Xp GPU [graphics processing unit], as well as news that new beta Pascal drivers are coming next week for the Mac.

The company says it pushes more cores, faster clocks, faster memory and more TFLOPS than its predecessor, the 2016 Pascal-powered Titan X.
Stats for the Titan Xp include: 12GB of GDDR5X memory running at 11.4 Gbp; 3,840 CUDA cores running at 1.6GHz; and 12 TFLOPs of “brute force.” Nvidia says its making the GPU open to the Mac community with new Pascal drivers, coming later this month.

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