Chaim Gartenberg (tweet): The remote that comes bundled with the Apple TV is infamous for its difficult-to-use design and controversial touchpad for navigation. It’s so bad, in fact, that Swiss TV and internet provider Salt — which provides Apple TV…
Lees meerUSB-C is already a popular next-generation port, and its usefulness will increase in the future. One of the reasons that the latest iPad Pro earns the name "Pro" is that it uses a USB-C port instead of Apple's proprietary Lightning...
Lees meerGuess who wants access to your iPhone? Apple? No. Google? Yes, but only to see what you do. Facebook? Same reason. Both want to send advertising to you so they can make money. So, who else wants to know what’s on your iPhone? The Feds. The U.S. gove…
Lees meerWhen it comes to online privacy, who’s your Daddy? Apple, right? Maybe Google, too? Just kidding. Probably not. Both Google and Facebook have embraced online privacy but both make their living by taking information from users and selling or using it…
Lees meerSo now the narrative is not “Away fires woman CEO and co-founder, replaces her with a man”. Instead, the narrative is “Away fires CEO who created ‘toxic culture’, brings in fresh leadership” — a narrative that wouldn’t be possible without The Verge’…
Lees meerIf you’re hunting for something family friendly to do around the holidays, the Apple Store might have you covered. Apple as announced that its Today at Apple sessions will celebrate the holiday season with family-focused sessions. From December 9th …
Lees meerSo now the narrative is not “Away fires woman CEO and co-founder, replaces her with a man”. Instead, the narrative is “Away fires CEO who created ‘toxic culture’, brings in fresh leadership” — a narrative that wouldn’t be possible without The Verge’…
Lees meerJessica Lessin (tweet): The last two weeks have been a crash course in Apple’s gatekeeper status over consumers’ digital lives. Apple rejected our app four times. Some of the pushback we received was so specific—such as not being allowed to underlin…
Lees meerJim Matthews: Fetch 5.8, the 64-bit version of Fetch, is now available for download. The primary feature of this release is compatibility with macOS 10.15 Catalina. Fetch 5.7 users should only upgrade to Fetch 5.8 if they have moved, or will soon mo…
Lees meerGus Mueller (tweet): This sample shows how CGImageSourceCreateThumbnailAtIndex leaks something akin to the memory behind a CGImageRef when asked to create a thumbnail for a 16bpc TIFF image if one isn’t present. I wonder whether ImageIO got rewritte…
Lees meerBrian Krebs (tweet): One of the more curious behaviors of Apple’s new iPhone 11 Pro is that it intermittently seeks the user’s location information even when all applications and system services on the phone are individually set to never request thi…
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