CultCast #279 - Undercover in an iPhone production factory! 

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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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• 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

  Report: Apple has secret team working on ‘breakthrough’ diabetes treatment w/ Apple Watch   UNDERCOVER IN AN IPHONE FACTORY: What it's really like to work in a Chinese mega-factory, according to a student who spent 6 weeks there     Pegatron mole describes ‘torture’ of working at iPhone factory     Today in Apple history: Apple co-founder quits and cashes in his stake for $800

• 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