Crews battle 2.5-acre brush fire near Alico and Eagle Village DriveJake’s story: A mother’s mission to share her son’s story and help other young people
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CAPE CORAL New renderings for the Cape Coral Yacht Club promise a bright future The Cape Coral Yacht Club, which has been part of this community since the 1960s, will now have a new look after Hurricane Ian’s devastating effects.
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ESTERO Crews battle 2.5-acre brush fire near Alico and Eagle Village Drive San Carlos Park Fire District is on the scene fighting a 2.5-acre brushfire near Alico and Eagle Village Drive.
FORT MYERS Jake’s story: A mother’s mission to share her son’s story and help other young people One Fort Myers mom is turning her pain into purpose after her son, who she refers to as her “heavenly Angel,” took his own life.
CAPE CORAL New renderings for the Cape Coral Yacht Club promise a bright future The Cape Coral Yacht Club, which has been part of this community since the 1960s, will now have a new look after Hurricane Ian’s devastating effects.
LEHIGH ACRES Owner bars public from Barefoot Lake, LCSO installs Watch Tower Every weekend, roughly 200 people go to Barefoot Lake in Lehigh Acres to relax, fish, swim and have a good time.
CAPE CORAL Concern over water shortage in Cape Coral Concern is flowing through Cape Coral as neighbors are seeing their canal levels low and their wells run dry.
FORT MYERS FSW softball swinging for success in the postseason Now their focus shifts to states which means the newbies are looking to the experienced sophomores for advice.
BONITA SPRINGS Young SWFL tennis player competing with professionals You may not know her name now, but you might want remember it because 16-year-old Cookie Jarvis-Tredgett is already competing with professionals.
NORTH NAPLES ‘It’s all about connection,’ Statement Peace makes jewelry with sustainability in mind The brand Statement Peace, once started inside founder Jessica Lee’s home, is now in 2,700 stores across the country
Pine Manor 2 arrested for firing gun at birthday party in Pine Manor A party ended with two people behind bars.
FORT MYERS Shooting investigation on busy Fort Myers street Police are conducting a shooting investigation that involves a traffic crash near Michigan Avenue and Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard.
FGCU New FGCU athletic director Colin Hargis ready to build on department’s success New FGCU athletic director Colin Hargis talks about the department’s future amid the age of NIL and the transfer portal.
FORT MYERS More middle-aged women being treated for acne You probably thought you broke up with it after high school, but acne is rearing it’s ugly blackheads in adult women.
Lee County student ran up and hit teacher in head, report shows The report says a 13-year-old student ran up and smacked a teacher in the head because multiple classmates offered him money to do so.
NAPLES Collier Planning Commission continues discussion for apartments near Fiddler’s Creek The developer of Fiddler’s Creek wants to build hundreds of luxury apartments on a slice of a 600 acre-plus property known as section 29.
CAPE CORAL Fatigue sets in for third day of FEMA hearings Flying several hours to come to a FEMA code compliance hearing in Cape Coral is the reality for John Gasparini from Maryland.
Introducing iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max, the most advanced iPhones ever. Credit: Apple Inc. To get an idea of how small the electronic elements are on the Apple A12 Bionic chip at the heart of the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR, first squint really hard at a human hair. It’s thin, obviously. But it’s still thick enough that you could fit about 10,000 of an A12’s electronic components across its width. That miniaturization is a “huge breakthrough,” Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller boasted on Wednesday, saying the A12 is the industry’s first chip to be built using a 7-nanometer manufacturing process. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter, so when Apple moved from the A11 chip’s 10nm process to the A12’s 7nm, it meant the company could stuff twice the number of circuit elements called transistors into the same surface area. In the case of the A12, that’s 6.9 billion transistors. You don’t necessarily need to understand the nuances of transistor sizes or just how small a nanometer really is. The bottom line is that the advancement will let the iPhone XS and XS Max run graphics 50 percent faster than 2017’s iPhone X, while artificial intelligence software will work 8 times faster. And perhaps most important, your battery won’t get drained. The A12 “is so far ahead of the industry that it will still be competitive with the best Android smartphones in two years, and massively more powerful than lower-end phones,” said Stratechery analyst Ben Thompson. The race to 7-nanometer chips Apple sees the 7nm process and the features it permits as a major advantage. “The A12 Bionic is the industry’s first 7nm chip. That’s a huge breakthrough,” Schiller said at the iPhone XS launch event. “This A12 Bionic is without question the smartest and most powerful chip ever in a smartphone.” But Apple won the 7nm horse race by a nose. Huawei, which recently overtook Apple to claim the second-place spot in smartphone shipments after top-ranked Samsung, will ship its Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro phones in October, a few weeks after Apple’s iPhone XS and XS Max start arriving. The Mate models use Huawei’s Kirin 980 processor, also built with a 7nm process. Qualcomm, which supplies processors to many high-end Android phones, uses chip foundries’ 10nm processes today. Its next-generation model, likely called the Snapdragon 855, will be built with 7nm manufacturing. You can almost see Apple, which is in the middle of a legal dispute with Qualcomm, thumbing its nose at the mobile chip giant. Such bragging is ordinary in tech circles, but there’s a subtext here. “Apple wants it clear that they have early access to the latest process,” said Tirias Research analyst Kevin Krewell. The years-long shift to 7nm manufacturing has been difficult, but Apple has the money and clout to claim a lot of the first chips rolling out of the fabs. Though Apple designs its own chips, it relies on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC) to build them right now. Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon prototype chips are built by TSMC, too, but it’s Apple’s phones that’ll be shipping by the millions this month. The real advantage of the 7nm process is that Apple can do it all without flattening your battery. “The lower power can extend battery life or allow Apple to push the performance up by 20 percent when the user needs the extra boost,” said Linley Group analyst Linley Gwennap. New AI brains in Apple’s A12 chip The chip industry has been in a pickle for more than a decade as the previously steady progress in ever-faster processor clock speeds sputtered. That’s forced chipmakers to figure out other ways to try to make chips better, because no longer does the same software automatically run faster with each new chip generation. Special-purpose circuitry has been one primary coping mechanism. First came graphics processing units, or GPUs, which accelerate not just gaming effects like hazy air and gleaming chrome, but also physics calculations that make explosions look real. Apple’s A11 chip had three GPU engines called cores, but the A12 has four. More recently, chipmakers have begun adding chip technology to accelerate artificial intelligence chores. AI — also called machine learning and neural networks these days — can let devices understand speech commands, take better photos and recognize unhealthy heartbeat patterns. The A12’s built-in AI circuitry can perform 5 trillion operations per second, an eightfold increase over the A11, Schiller said. Controlling the whole device Apple is in a strong position compared to some phone rivals because it controls not only the processor but the operating system and other software like speech recognition and photo apps. The company can ensure all the parts of the system work well together. Google added its own separate AI chip, the Pixel Visual Core, to its Pixel 2 phones in 2017. One reason: Controlling the AI system gave Google flexibility for all the software that relies on it, its engineers said at the recent Hot Chips conference. But Apple’s AI brains are built straight onto its A12 chip. Technology called the smart compute system is “able to analyze the neural network data and figure out on the fly whether to run it on the CPU, the GPU or the neural engine,” Schiller said. Analysts agree that AI is a key new foundation for computing. It will “touch every bit of modern-day software,” Creative Strategies analyst Ben Bajarin said in a research note Thursday. And Apple has the lead when it comes to AI in mobile devices. “Apple is getting dangerously close to bringing a great deal of science fiction into reality,” Bajarin said, “and the efforts they are doing with machine learning is at the center.” *The story was originally published by CNET, CBS Interactive inc.