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It’s amazing that in an era in which tech giants erode privacy in the name of money with little semblance of morals, Apple positioned itself as the champion of privacy and shifted its business model around that. The details on how this feature is implemented in a way that preserves user privacy is amazing.
If the rumors of a Tile-style tag prove true... and you add that they will be implemented securely and privately as described... and you add that over a billion Apple devices around the world will help locating them... you have a pretty compelling thing going on. I will be buying a bunch.
Apps in the Kids Category may not include third-party advertising or analytics. You should also pay particular attention to privacy laws around the world relating to the collection of data from children online.
This is great.
In hindsight, it seems obvious to me that app developers would abuse "Background App Refresh" functionality of iOS to call home and send data.
So I went to Settings on my phone and found a giant list of apps with the Background App Refresh function turned on.
I turned almost all of them off. Especially those from companies whose business model relies on collecting my personal data: anything made by Google, Facebook (WhatsApp, Instagram), Amazon, Uber, Yelp, etc. Obviously, all those crappy adware/games my son downloads.
I only left the setting on for apps made by companies I trust because their business model is not about collecting data (Apple and to a lesser degree Microsoft) and only for apps I use often and I can see the value for the contents to be up to date by the time I open the app (Notes which may change on a separate device, Outlook, etc.).
The best part, this should improve my battery life – to what degree it's unclear and reduce my data usage.
I bet that Apple will, in the near future, default this setting to OFF and make apps ask you if you really want to grant them the ability to perform Background App Refresh.
I heard about the Kickstarter way back then and forgot all about it. This film is epic and the work of a mad genius.
Pretty.
Amazing work, better than the dumb edits of the special edition.
This is unbelievably impressive. It made me browse eBay for a used Commodore 64 and a CRT TV.
As it happens, the solution (at least a big part of it) is right in front of our faces. But the power of FUD is strong.
This movie is a visual treat. This talks about some of the work behind it.
Great article, and WOW.
A comment on related article on ArsTechnical had something interesting to say:
Why government regulations are always talked about as a Bad Thing, without being vocally and vociferously challenged by others amazes me. Many of these regulations are written in blood, or were put in place by deep thoughtful consideration by engineers advising regulators.
Bitcoin is a fascinating concept with lots of problems in practice: it's an environmental disaster, it leaves owners completely unprotected from being ripped off, and it is almost exclusively used for questionable things.
This is an example where Bitcoin is used effectively to survive in the midst of a completely collapsed economy. It is incredibly interesting.
The original HoloLens was flawed. But it was still a glimpse at the future. Version 2 allegedly improves on most of the shortcomings of the original. Hopefully I get a chance to play with it soon.
This is a completely impractical, unaffordable, probably crappy product. But it has a very high cool factor and I'm a sucker for gadgets. So in my book this is one of the coolest gadgets available today.
At that point, the days when American Jews can live comfortably within the Democratic fold will be numbered.
Do not underestimate the capacity of Democrats to self-sabotage ahead of the 2020 elections.
True.
Fingers crossed!
Gotta get my hummus fix.
The parent company of The National Enquirer tried to blackmail Bezos to get The Washington Post to drop an investigation on their newspaper. Bezos calls their bluff (or is it a bluff?) and decides to publish the blackmail letter.
Cute littel short by Pixar.
Pretty neat: the ads about the iPad Pro were made completely using iPad Pro.