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iOS 14: How to Use Picture in Picture Mode

With iOS 14 Picture-in-Picture mode has come to the iPhone.

iOS 14: Picture in Picture with Youtube

While Picture in Picture is supported in iOS 14, Youtube is a special case.

iOS 14: How to Use Widgets

Widgets on the home screen are new in iOS 14. Check out our guide on how to use them.

iOS 14 Home Screen Setup

iOS 14 Home Screen allows you to customize it more than ever.

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• iOS 14: How to Hide Home Screen App Pages

• iOS 14: How to Use the App Library

• iOS 14: How to Download New Apps to the App Library

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Virginia Tech Supercompuer - Now at #3?

Tuesday October 28, 2003 12:24 pm PST by Arnold Kim

MacBidouille links to an interim update on Supercomputer rankings (pdf - Page 53).

The latest results give the Virginia Tech G5 Cluster (2,112 Processors) a score of 9.5 TFlops. Previous preliminary results placed the G5 Cluster at 7.41 TFlops which placed it at 4th place.

The new score of 9.5 TFlops overtakes a Linux 2,304 Processor Intel Xeon cluster from last year's list along with what appears to be some new entries this year (see PDF list).

Again, these are still preliminary numbers. Official numbers to be released in November.

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Tuesday September 15, 2020 11:06 am PDT by Joe Rossignol

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