How Much Power Does Visual Look Up Use?
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The article investigates the power consumption of Visual Look Up, a feature that identifies objects in photos, and the discussion revolves around understanding the feature and measuring its power usage.
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It identifies objects in photos, if I'm understanding it correctly. Oddly their website says it's an iOS feature but this blog post is about using it on Mac, presumably you can run it on your photo library?