Michael Potuck (via Ruffin Bailey): With Apple’s official battery service for worn-out AirPods, you’re looking at $49 for AirPods and AirPods Pro (per headphone), and the same rate goes for any of the AirPods charging cases.[…]PodSwap is a relativel…
Lees meerJason Snell (tweet, 2): First, the arrival of the Movies Anywhere service has allowed most iTunes film (not television) purchases to migrate to other devices. Then in advance of the arrival of Apple’s TV streaming service, Apple made deals with the …
Lees meerTensorFlow (via Francisco Tolmasky, Hacker News): Swift for TensorFlow was an experiment in the next-generation platform for machine learning, incorporating the latest research across machine learning, compilers, differentiable programming, systems …
Lees meerJordan Robertson and Michael Riley (Hacker News, 9to5Mac): Bloomberg Businessweek first reported on China’s meddling with Supermicro products in October 2018, in an article that focused on accounts of added malicious chips found on server motherboar…
Lees meerStefan Reitshamer: Arq 7 is fully backward-compatible with backup data created by older versions of Arq, but it’s packed with new features. It’s been through 4+ months of internal and beta testing, so it’s solid. Many of the features listed on that …
Lees meerDaniel Jalkut: Over the years I’ve had a lot of ideas about how FastScripts might evolve, and have worked on new features intermittently. As part of my recent decision to reinvest in Red Sweater, I decided to focus on finally shipping some of those …
Lees meerJoseph Heck: One of the interesting take-aways is that the terms “safe” and “unsafe”, or at least the specific implications of when they’re used in the swift language, are broadening what they cover with the upcoming changes. You could start to see …
Lees meerJason Snell (tweet): Here was my bad idea: Just because MailChimp’s RSS system didn’t work the way I wanted it to didn’t mean I couldn’t make it work the way I wanted it to. I could set MailChimp to automatically mail out an email on Friday evenings…
Lees meerTom Hallman Jr. (via Hacker News): “He saw there were old World War II teletype machines not being used,” said his daughter. “Another deaf engineer in California had come up with the way to send signals over phone lines. My dad came up with the coup…
Lees meerMacDriver (via Hacker News): MacDriver is a toolkit for working with Apple/Mac APIs and frameworks in Go. It currently has 3 “layers”:[…]The objc package wraps the Objective-C runtime to dynamically interact with Objective-C objects and classes[…][……
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News): The North Dakota Senate this week introduced a new bill that would prevent Apple and Google from requiring developers to use their respective app stores and payment methods, paving the way for alternative app store options…
Lees meerShane O’Sullivan (via Hacker News): Back in 2013 I was working in the Ads Interfaces organisation at Facebook, building mostly front end products (other people did the AI, database etc). We had an application called Power Editor which was the kitche…
Lees meerAllen Pike (tweet, Hacker News): The most popular analytics SDKs are free because they’re owned by companies that sell ads, or share data with those companies: Google Analytics, Flurry, and Google’s Firebase. Paid competitors like Mixpanel and Ampli…
Lees meerAnne Drewa (also: MacRumors, tweet): A free Indigenous language app developed by a first-year UBC student from Prince Rupert, B.C. is up and running again after Apple mistakenly accused the young developer of dishonest and fraudulent acts. […] Eshom…
Lees meerMegha Rajagopalan (Hacker News): Over the last two years, the government of Pakistan has forced Google and Apple to take down apps in the country created by developers based in other nations who are part of a repressed religious minority.The move is…
Lees meerStu Maschwitz (via Hacker News): When I watched the announcement of this display, I was curious how Apple would handle an HDR video monitor that was also tasked with the mundane duty of displaying your email and a web browser. Was Apple planning on …
Lees meerCasey Newton (The Verge, Hacker News): But Signal’s rapid growth has also been a cause for concern. In the months leading up to and following the 2020 US presidential election, Signal employees raised questions about the development and addition of …
Lees meerJuli Clover: According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Big Sur 11.2.1 addresses an issue that could prevent the battery from charging in some 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pro models. Juli Clover: According to an Apple security support document, the bug, CV…
Lees meerAustin Carr and Mark Gurman (tweet, via Josh Centers, MacRumors): Biden’s question put Cook, who’d become Apple’s CEO the previous August, in an awkward position. He was the architect of the strategy to outsource Apple’s production to China, a trend…
Lees meerJay Peters (tweet): But users who have already installed the beta discovered another great feature: you’ll be able to select a third-party default music service when you ask to play a song using Siri — including Spotify (via MacRumors).When you ask …
Lees meerWatchChat Alex (tweet, Dave Mark): I have spent the last four years of my life working on my very successful app only to have it ruined by scam apps with very obvious fake reviews as well as false advertising claims that Apple does not take action a…
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