Signal blog: We created a multi-variant targeted ad designed to show you the personal data that Facebook collects about you and sells access to. The ad would simply display some of the information collected about the viewer which the advertising…
Lees meerWilliam Hughes, AV Club: As one of the most consistently thoughtful shows currently being made about the creative process that also happens to feature awful people doing fairly awful things to each other on a semi-regular basis, for fun, Mythic …
Lees meerJennifer Daniel: “WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH THE HANDSHAKE EMOJI?” It’s a good question and worth asking in all caps. Of our many body part emoji that have skintone, Handshake (🤝) appears to be left by the wayside. After inquiring with the Unicode Te…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy, 9to5Mac: Yesterday saw Apple’s AirTags withdrawn from sale by Australian retail chain Officeworks, apparently over child safety concerns. Officeworks has more than 160 stores across the country. While the issue is currently lim…
Lees meerTim Hardwick, MacRumors: On the face of it, sharing the location of an AirTag via Apple's Family Sharing feature should be a no-brainer, since individual members in a Family Sharing group can use the Find My app to see the location of other fami…
Lees meerThere's an absolute torrent of things to read about Apple vs Epic Games, or Epic Games vs Apple (which is more proper, IMO, since Epic Games is the plaintiff here). Here are three relatively short reads that bring up the major points at the heart o…
Lees meerBefore you dig into the article, note there are spoilers. Also, the reviewer did not see the original Harrison Ford movie, which I see as a good thing, since this show is such a different take on the original source material. That said, this bit st…
Lees meerDeadline: Apple Original Films won a very competitive weekend auction among streamers to land the Tom Hanks-starrer Finch, an Amblin Entertainment sci-fi film that previously carried the title Bios and was originally intended to be released by U…
Lees meerMKBHD offers his take on Apple and the companies that swim in Apple's wake, making money building products that work within the Apple ecosystem. A fascinating, if cynical, look at the choice Apple offers: Use Apple designed product, with an insider'…
Lees meerDavid Flyn, Executive Traveller: While airlines have banned rechargeable lithium-ion battery packs from checked luggage (including so-called ‘smart luggage’), this doesn’t apply to the tiny single-use lithium CR2023 cells. Besides which, they’re…
Lees meerYouTuber AirTagAlex lives in The Netherlands, wrote an Automator action to grab screenshots from Find My as it tracked his AirTag through the mail. This was an interesting experiment. Looking forward to the follow-on video when Alex does the same t…
Lees meerIf you plan on ordering an AirTag, definitely read and bookmark this Apple support post. It talks through opening your AirTag to get at the battery (super useful) and how to reset it. The way I read it, to reset the AirTag, you need to remove, repl…
Lees meerFrom Apple Support, the first video walks through the initial setup of the AirTag. It then walks through the process of using Find My to track the AirTag, calling out the need for Ultra Wideband in any iPhone 11 or 12 model for detailed tracking. T…
Lees meerI recognize that the second half of the headline might make this seem like a golf tip, but no. The last bit of the iFixit teardown shows you where you can "safely" drill a hole to attach a lanyard or keyring to your AirTag without buying some sort o…
Lees meerApple reported record second quarter earnings this week, including increases in all product categories. Dave and I talk more about AirTags and all the things that you may want to track with them, and we look at iOS 14.5 and a couple of the new featu…
Lees meerScott Simmie, DroneDJ [H/T John Kordyback]: Odds are, you’ve seen that amazing bowling alley FPV video that was released in early March. It was a phenomenal piece of piloting and timing, showing off various attributes in the life of a bowling al…
Lees meerJuli Clover, MacRumors: Apple today released a new 3E751 firmware update for the second-generation AirPods and the AirPods Pro, updating them from the prior 3A283 firmware that was released back in September. I've long believed that there was …
Lees meerFrom the video description, filtered through Google Translate: Find new and hot topics in Manga on the Manga tab in Apple Books. You can enjoy the work you want to read anytime, anywhere.
Lees meerDavid Nield, Gizmodo: One of the marquee features of Apple’s 12.9-inch Pad Pro for 2021 is its Liquid Retina XDR display, a screen tech that you might have previously seen mentioned in relation to the super-expensive Pro Display XDR monitor that…
Lees meerJosh Centers, TidBITS: tvOS 14.5 has introduced a new feature, called Color Balance, that can automate the process of correcting the colors on your Apple TV. Note that this changes the video that your Apple TV generates, does not change your T…
Lees meerApple on Wednesday reported record second quarter revenue of $89.6 billion, which is up 54 percent year over year. [...]
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