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Stainless Steel Battery Case in iPhone 16

maandag 1 juli 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ming-Chi Kuo (tweet, via Hacker News): Increasing the energy density of the battery cells will increase the battery temperature when running. To avoid overheating the battery, Apple uses the stainless steel battery case for the first time as a therm…

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Microsoft’s Suleyman on AI Scraping

maandag 1 juli 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Thomas Claburn: Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, said this week that machine-learning companies can scrape most content published online and use it to train neural networks because it’s essentially “freeware.”Shortly afterwards the Center …

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RCS in iOS 18 Beta

vrijdag 28 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ryan Haines: Then, it was time to jump into an RCS-powered future, and by that, I mean flipping a toggle in the Settings app. Seriously, that’s all there is to it right now for beta testers on the most recent build.From there, it was time to send my…

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Removing Archives of Comedy Central and MTV News

vrijdag 28 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Rick Porter: A pop-up window on the Comedy Central site reads, “While episodes of most Comedy Central series are no longer available on this website, you can watch Comedy Central through your TV provider. You can also sign up for Paramount+ to watch…

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Longevity, by Design

vrijdag 28 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol: Apple today published a lengthy whitepaper that highlights the company’s approach to device repairability and longevity. In the document, Apple revealed that iPhones will better support third-party displays and batteries later in 2024…

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Porting Google Sheets Calculations to WasmGC

vrijdag 28 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Michael Thomas and Thomas Steiner Thomas Steiner (via Hacker News): The Google Sheets calculation engine was originally written in Java and launched in 2006. In the early days of the product, all calculation happened on the server. However, from 201…

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Python Apps Rejected From App Store

vrijdag 28 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Brockmeier (via Hacker News): The problem at hand is that Apple’s macOS App Store is automatically rejecting apps that contain the string “itms-services”. That is the URL scheme for apps that want to ask Apple’s iTunes Store to install another a…

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Rounded Quick Look Corners

vrijdag 28 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Robin Allen (via Hacker News): For whatever reason, QuickLook will now remove the corners of your images before showing them to you.It doesn’t matter if they’re photos, game assets, or UI elements you’re designing. Everything will be rounded off bef…

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Mac Marketshare in Q1 2024

vrijdag 28 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ben Lovejoy (via Hacker News): Mac shipments are estimated to have grown from 1.7M in the first quarter of 2023 to 2.1M in the same quarter this year. That represents year-on-year growth of 22%, giving Apple a 14.2% share of the US PC market.The lau…

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Moaan InkPalm Plus

vrijdag 28 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Moltz (Hacker News): A post on Mastodon got boosted into my feed that touted the Xiaomi Moaan InkPalm 5 which sells for about $95. Now you’re talking my kind of cheap. Looking into the Moaan lineup, I then found the InkPalm Plus which features …

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Starlink Mini

vrijdag 28 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Chris Wedel (via Hacker News): However, since I first began using these low-orbit satellites to power my internet, not only has the price gone up $30 per month, but the speeds and reliability have degraded significantly. I’ve talked to others in my …

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EU Charges Microsoft for Bundling Teams and Office

woensdag 26 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kelvin Chan (via Hacker News): The European Commission said Monday it informed Microsoft of its preliminary view that the U.S. tech giant has been “restricting competition” by bundling Teams with core office productivity applications such as Office …

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Slack to Delete Old Messages in Free Accounts

woensdag 26 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Slack (Hacker News, Slashdot): Slack will no longer keep messages and files for the lifetime of your free workspace. Starting 26th August 2024, Customer Data – such as messages and file history – older than one year may be deleted on a rolling basis…

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Apple News Publisher Sign-in Required

woensdag 26 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple sent me an e-mail this morning: It has been several months since you signed in to News Publisher. If you do not sign in within the next 30 days, your role will be changed. Your role will change from Administrator to Editor for the following Ap…

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Half-Life’s Canceled Mac Port

woensdag 26 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Greg Gant: It was natural for the game to be ported to Mac OS and OS X, as other high-profile first-person shooters from the era, like the Doom series, Hexen series, Quake series, Dark Forces, Deus Ex, Duke Nukem, and Unreal series, were all ported …

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llama.ttf

dinsdag 25 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Søren Fuglede Jørgensen (via Hacker News): llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.[…]The font shaping engine HarfBuzz, used in applications such as Firefox and Chrome, comes with a Wasm s…

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visionOS Throttles CPU Based on Microphones

dinsdag 25 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Shiny Quagsire (via Hacker News): visionOS 2 (or RealityKit) seems to have gotten way more aggressive about power throttling (or my battery/cable are having issues idk), so ALVR seems to throttle to 45Hz at much lower PPDs despite being totally fine…

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Lightroom Classic 13.3 and 13.4

dinsdag 25 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Agen Schmitz: Adobe has released Lightroom Classic 13.3, enabling you to erase unwanted objects and imperfections in your photos using the Generative Remove tool (powered by Adobe Firefly generative AI). This requires a new catalog database format. …

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MarsEdit 5.2.1

dinsdag 25 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

MarsEdit 5.2: The “Search” field in the main window now features a filter selection to toggle between searching everything or searching just the current selection. Inline “Find” support is now available in the rendered versions of posts in the Previ…

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Apple Found in Breach of DMA

maandag 24 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Lisa O’Carroll (via Hacker News, New York Times, Slashdot): Apple has been found to be in breach of sweeping new EU laws designed to allow smaller companies to compete and allow consumers to find cheaper and alternative apps in the tech business’s a…

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SwiftData vs. Realm Performance Comparison

maandag 24 juni 2024 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jacob Bartlett: The Realm DB engine was written from the ground-up in C++ to minimise this overhead. […] Therefore, it’s not unreasonable to describe SwiftData as a wrapper over a wrapper over a wrapper.[…]These show that the SwiftData objects took …

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