Strava is a hugely popular activity monitoring app. Under the leadership of CEO James Quarles, it has grown significantly. He told Wired, he now wants to expand the app’s social network-like functionality. The third, and possibly most important chan…
Lees meerThe idea keeps cropping up. Apple should resurrect the iPhone SE or make a dramatically less expensive version of a current iPhone. Apple has rejected that notion. John explains why.
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Lees meerNextdoor is a social network that lets you see things that are going on in your local neighborhood. Dutch police have issued warnings about the app recently, saying that the company sent letters on users’ behalf. We talked to a woman whom we’ll refe…
Lees meeriOS 13 isn’t available to the public yet, but Apple is wrapping up the release and working on the next version of iOS.
Lees meerIn Google’s Ask a Techspert series, senior software engineer Rosie Buchanan explains machine learning for non-experts. Today, when we hear about “machine learning,” we’re actually talking about how Google teaches computers to use existing informatio…
Lees meerFuture MacBook keyboards might not have mechanical keyboard switches, with a patent suggesting an “optical keyboard.”
Lees meerAndrew Orr and Bryan Chaffin join host Kelly Guimont to talk about Apple Card’s relative privacy and App Store download statistics.
Lees meerSome Apple users are seeing smarter web answers when they use iOS Spotlight Search and Siri. The new web answers appear to be a further expansion of this technology. If the statistics are not readily available from the knowledge database, it seems A…
Lees meerAlmost 50,000 teachers and students in Scotland will be getting free iPads as part of a deal Glasgow City Council and Canadian IT firm CGI.
Lees meerWe have a deal on the Azio MK Mac USB Keyboard, a backlit mechanical keyboard designed exclusively for Mac. It has a bead-blasted aluminum finish and a snap-on palm rest, and you can get this keyboard for $79 through our deal.
Lees meerVirgin Australia has banned all MacBooks from checked-in baggage following Apple’s recent recall of devices due to overheating batteries.
Lees meerNintendo announced that Mario Kart Tour is arriving on iOs (and Android) on September 25 and that pre-registration is now available.
Lees meerInstagram is testing a new messaging app as it looks to challenge Snapchat. The Verge got hold of some screenshots. It reported that the new product from the Facebook-owned picture-sharing service is called Threads. Screenshots reviewed by The Verge…
Lees meerGeoffrey Fowler used a bunch of different credit cards to figure out which one was the most private. The knee jerk response is to say Apple, and it’s true that Apple does have more privacy than others. But when it comes to the Apple Card, that priva…
Lees meerOver on MacWorld, Jason Cross gave his wish-list for a mid-range iPhone. I am not totally convinced Apple is going to give him what he wants, but he makes some interesting arguments. Simply put, the potential value to Apple’s bottom line of bringing…
Lees meerTim Cook is giving nearly $5 million of shares to charity, while Apple is making a seperate donation in response to the Amazon forest fires.
Lees meerDr. Sarah Parcak is an archaeologist, anthropologist, Egyptologist, and remote sensing expert who has used satellite imaging to identify potential archaeological sites in Egypt, Rome, and elsewhere. She’s written the first textbook in the field of s…
Lees meerVideoLAN is looking for iOS beta testers to start testing is VLC app for iOS. The company’s tweet said it will have a new UI. We’ve been working really hard here @videolan the past months to redesign the VLC iOS app and before rolling it out to ever…
Lees meerA Pixar poster that Steve Jobs autographed is going up for auction this week with a starting bid of US$25,000. Extraordinarily scarce Pixar Animation Studios poster signed by its co-founder Steve Jobs, sometime after 1995 when ”Toy Story”, the first…
Lees meerThe Senate is moving a bill forward that could impose fines of up to US$15,000 for people who share memes. The Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved the “Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019,” which “creates a volunt…
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