Marit Hinnosaar et al. (PDF): We document a causal impact of online user-generated information on real-world economic outcomes. In particular, we conduct a randomized field experiment to test whether additional content on Wikipedia pages about citie…
Lees meerMario Guzman (tweet): Apple’s own documentation for Apple Help has moved to the documentation archive on their developer site. You’ll find tons of questions on Stack Overflow and other… more questionable sites. Apple did do a minor revision to their…
Lees meerThe Coding Monkeys: If you find yourself frequently in the vicinity of great TV screens with AirPlay support, this app is for you. For us and our famlies it has become second nature to just project our foto library onto them to have a great group ex…
Lees meerAdam Engst: During the setup of the new iMac, I had no issues migrating all my data from the Samsung T5 SSD that I had been using to boot the old iMac, but I was somewhat surprised at how much additional work was necessary afterward. The promise imp…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Individual includes Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and 50GB of iCloud storage for $14.95 per month. Family includes Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and 200GB of iCloud storage for $19.95 per month, and ca…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple today announced that iOS 14, iPadOS 14, watchOS 7, and tvOS 14 will be officially released on Wednesday, September 16. This makes perfect sense considering that the iOS 14 GM and Xcode 12 GM have been available since this aftern…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors): Apple today introduced the eighth-generation iPad, featuring the powerful A12 Bionic chip that brings the Neural Engine to the entry iPad for the first time. Starting at just $329, the upgrade packs even more value into the most p…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today announced Apple Watch Series 6, introducing a revolutionary Blood Oxygen feature that offers users even more insight into their overall wellness. Apple Watch Series 6 delivers many notable hardware improve…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: My biggest question and deepest concern regarding Apple’s leadership, especially now that Ive is gone and Phil Schiller has moved on to a fellowship with only the App Store and events on his plate, is whose taste is driving product deve…
Lees meerNilay Patel: Did you know Pixel camera creator Marc Levoy’s entire Stanford lecture series on digital photography is on YouTube? It’s on YouTube.
Lees meerIan Bogost: Certain photographs and videos of the surreal, orange sky seemed to wash it out, as if to erase the danger. “I didn’t filter these,” tweeted the journalist Sarah Frier, posting photos she took of San Francisco’s haunting morning sky. “In…
Lees meerMike Zornek: I paid Google for 222 clicks but can only reconcile 77 of them. I asked for delivery to United States only and they did not seem to honor that. Turned off the ad campaign for now. I’ve turned off almost all of my Google ads because the …
Lees meerCyrus Farivar (tweet): The app offers a variety of typical casino games to play, including their favorite, called Reel Rivals, a game in which players accrue points by playing a virtual slot machine. As in a real casino, players exchange money for c…
Lees meerMarco Arment (tweet): A summary of today’s changes to 3.1.3 Other Purchase Methods[…] […] How about an alternative that’s clear, fair, reasonable, and consistently enforceable? Apps can offer other payment mechanisms in their app, as long as terms a…
Lees meerTyler Hall: Here, let’s go back to Jobs on stage at WWDC 2007. (I had third row seats that year.)He justifies the translucent menu bar by saying that most users choose their own digital photo instead of the default wallpaper. The updated design adap…
Lees meerApple: 3.1.3(d): Person-to-Person Experiences: If your app enables the purchase of realtime person-to-person experiences between two individuals (for example tutoring students, medical consultations, real estate tours, or fitness training), you may …
Lees meerApple: 3.1.3(a): Reader apps may offer account creation for free tiers, and account management functionality for existing customers. I wonder whether Netflix will start offering a free tier. 3.1.3(f): Free Stand-alone Apps: Free apps acting as a sta…
Lees meerApple (also: Federico Viticci, John Voorhees, Juli Clover): 3.1.2(a): Games offered in a streaming game service subscription must be downloaded directly from the App Store, must be designed to avoid duplicate payment by a subscriber, and should not …
Lees meerKim Lyons: The country’s proposed News Media Bargaining Code law, which is in draft form at present, stemmed from a 2019 inquiry that found tech giants like Facebook and Google take too large a share of online advertising revenue from media organiza…
Lees meerApple: By default, if you don’t specify a document icon for a file type in your app, macOS will automatically create one for you by compositing your app’s icon together with the correct extension name. This is a common pattern for imported document …
Lees meerLinden Tibbets: Out of the gate Pro launches with many of your most requested features: • Multi-step Applets • Queries and conditional logic • Multiple actions • Faster Applet execution […] Another change we’re announcing is that only Pro plan subsc…
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