Last month, Apple’s Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak were interviewed by Joanna Stern at the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live event. Stern asked some pretty good questions; Federighi and Joz are too media trained to answer as comprehensively as any of us would like. But there was … | Continue reading
If you think you hate video shot in vertical orientation now, just wait until you see the screenshot in this article. Then imagine that space packed with ads, and you have a pretty good idea of what the future of television looks like. ⌥ Permalink⌥ Permalink | Continue reading
Charles Edge (via Michael Tsai): The net result is that when doing the last few upgrades, they have required 12+GB for the installer itself (which can be run from a USB drive) and up to 44GB for the installer to do the work it needs to do, so a total of up to about 56GB. […]⌥ Per … | Continue reading
Ben Thompson, Stratechery: Meta, née Facebook, is now, incredibly enough, worth 42% less than it was when I wrote Facebook Lenses, hitting levels not seen since January 2016. It seems the company’s many critics are finally right: Facebook is dying, for real this time. The problem … | Continue reading
Safi Bugel, the Guardian: Mimi Parker, drummer, vocalist and songwriter for the Minnesota indie band Low, has died, her husband and bandmate Alan Sparhawk has said. Parker was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December 2020. She was 55 years old, the band’s management confirmed. A … | Continue reading
Mike Isaac and Ryan Mac, New York Times: This week, Mr. Musk moved to make money from Twitter’s “blue check” verification program, a method of making sure users are who they say they are. The billionaire announced that the program, which is currently free, will be rolled into the … | Continue reading
Michael Hobbes, of the excellent “Maintenance Phase”, and Peter Shamshiri, who you might know from the “5–4 Podcast”, have launched a new show called “If Books Could Kill”, where they deconstruct crappy airport non-fiction and reflect on, as Hobbes puts it, the TED Talk-ification … | Continue reading
I have been using MacOS Ventura for a little over a week now and, while I still have not gotten used to phrases like “Preferences” and “Desktop Picture” getting replaced with the dreary words “Settings” and “Wallpaper”, respectively, I do think there are two legitimately great th … | Continue reading
Speaking of ProPublica, it appears the publication is struggling with its own trustworthiness problems after fallout from a scandalous story claiming a “research-related incident” was responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. Max Tani, Semafor: The ProPublica/Vanity Fair article rel … | Continue reading
Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, ProPublica: In early 2022, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, which is part of DHS, was in talks to deploy a federally funded nonprofit to protect election workers from harassment and violence. The effort would have a … | Continue reading
Mike Masnick, Techdirt: Do not believe everything you read. Even if it comes from more “respectable” publications. The Intercept had a big story this week that is making the rounds, suggesting that “leaked” documents prove the DHS has been coordinating with tech companies to supp … | Continue reading
Jake Offenhartz, Gothamist: At least 500 drones will depart the shores of New Jersey on Thursday evening, flickering over the horizon in a choreographed dance meant to evoke the experience of swiping colorful treats on a phone screen. Promising a “surreal takeover of New York Cit … | Continue reading
Rebecca Bellan, TechCrunch: Uber recently launched its new advertising division and in-app ads. Apparently, those ads aren’t staying within the app. Instead, ads from other companies are being sent out as push notifications, much to the chagrin of some Uber users. Over the weeken … | Continue reading
Sebastiaan de With: I shoot a lot of iPhone photos. In the last five years, I’ve taken a bit over 120,000 photos — averaging at least 10,000 RAW shots per iPhone model. I like to take some time — a few weeks, at least — to review a new iPhone camera and go beyond a […]⌥ Permalink | Continue reading
Daniel Holden and Chris Kerr: This website displays a collection of twelve code poems, each written in the source code of a different programming language. Every poem is also a valid program which produces a visual representation of itself when compiled and run. What a beautiful … | Continue reading
Ken Klippenstein and Lee Fang, the Intercept: The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an o … | Continue reading
If you work in print design, you may have noticed a bunch of colours you paid for have begun to disappear from the software you rely upon to get your work done. One minute, you are happily doing your job; the next, your software has become less capable and your expenses have rise … | Continue reading
James Vincent, London Review of Books: The ascendancy of Lena in image processing is, then, the result of the usual mix of impromptu decision-making and post-hoc justification that underlies a surprising amount of scientific work. But it is also an example of the way that specifi … | Continue reading
Tim Cook, via Jason Snell’s transcript of comments made during today’s quarterly earnings call: […] Importantly, our investment in the category has attracted both upgraders and customers new to Mac, and helped our install base reach an all time high. In fact, we set a quarterly r … | Continue reading
Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, in a tweeted letter addressed to advertisers, embedded as a series of screenshots without descriptive text: That said, Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences! In addition to adherin … | Continue reading
Garth Graham, head of YouTube Health: Today, we’re announcing that for the first time, certain categories of healthcare professionals and health information providers can apply to make their channels eligible for our health product features that were launched in the US last year. … | Continue reading
Nur Dayana Mustak, Bloomberg: Zuckerberg, 38, now has a net worth of $38.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a stunning fall from a peak of $142 billion in September 2021. While many of the world’s richest people have seen their fortunes tumble this year, Me … | Continue reading
Apple: Updates are more frequently released software patches that help secure or enhance the current operating system and are designed to protect your device against security or privacy vulnerabilities. Updates use a second and sometimes a third number to denote increments. For e … | Continue reading
The Economist: The mushrooming of factories in southern India marks a new chapter for the world’s biggest technology company. Apple’s extraordinarily successful past two decades — revenue up 70-fold, share price up 600-fold, a market value of $2.4trn — is partly the result of a b … | Continue reading
One more from Reuters today, this time by Mike Spector and Dan Levine: Tesla Inc is under criminal investigation in the United States over claims that the company’s electric vehicles can drive themselves, three people familiar with the matter said. […] As part of the latest probe … | Continue reading
Sheila Dang, Reuters: The reality, according to internal Twitter research seen by Reuters, goes far beyond the handful of examples of celebrities ghosting their own accounts. Twitter is struggling to keep its most active users – who are vital to the business – engaged, underscori … | Continue reading
Apple has a uniquely loyal customer base, cultivated by spending the past twenty-odd years, in particular, carefully balancing its corporate priorities and users’ satisfaction. It has long prided itself on being an accessibly premium brand: not necessarily expensive, but definite … | Continue reading
Perhaps you, like I, have previously attempted to untangle the dense vocabulary inherent to the “crypto” or cryptocurrency or “Web3” space. Maybe you have read Kevin Roose’s guide in the New York Times, or a version of Roose’s essay edited to add context and remove puffery on Mol … | Continue reading
Ben Brody, Protocol: Here’s the thing though: I can’t remember ever having checked out at any of these merchants using my work email address, much less using it to sign up for marketing. A search of my account didn’t turn up any records. Annoyed with the most insistent emailers, … | Continue reading
An un-bylined statement from the Wire: Our investigation, which is ongoing, does not as yet allow us to take a conclusive view about the authenticity and bona fides of the sources with whom a member of our reporting team says he has been in touch over an extended period of time. … | Continue reading
Hey, remember when an academic study found emails from U.S. Republican candidates and officials were slightly more likely to be sent to Gmail’s spam folder than emails from Democrats? In response, Google made up a whole exemption program specifically for political emails. Makena … | Continue reading
When I said I read Federico Viticci’s iPadOS review every year, I meant it — except this year, because there is no iPadOS review, because Stage Manager deserves a big long post all for itself, apparently: At the end of all this, here’s how I feel about Stage Manager: Apple starte … | Continue reading
When iPadOS gets released, I read Federico Viticci’s review. When a new version of MacOS is shipped, I rely on Andrew Cunningham of Ars Technica and Jason Snell of Six Colors to tell me the good, the bad, and the buggy. Choice excerpts from Cunningham’s review: Suffice it to say … | Continue reading
Chris Stokel-Walker, Wired, in an article headlined “Apple Is an Ad Company Now”: Apple has sold ads inside Apple News and the App Store since 2016 but in recent months has shown a new determination to muscle into an industry dominated by Google, Meta, and Amazon. In June, Apple … | Continue reading
Mark Gurman, Bloomberg: Apple Inc.’s head of hardware design, Evans Hankey, is leaving the iPhone maker three years after taking the job, creating a significant hole at the top of a company famous for its slick-looking products, according to people with knowledge of the matter. H … | Continue reading
Thank you to Golden Hill Software and Unread for this week’s sponsorship. Unread is an RSS reader for iPhone and iPad with beautiful typography, comfortable gesture-based navigation, and a variety of color themes. While great websites like Pixel Envy provide RSS feeds with full a … | Continue reading
Elizabeth Dwoskin, Faiz Siddiqui, Gerrit De Vynck, and Jeremy B. Merrill, Washington Post: Elon Musk told prospective investors in his deal to buy the company that he planned to get rid of nearly 75 percent of Twitter’s 7,500 workers, whittling the company down to a skeleton staf … | Continue reading
Nandini Jammi and Claire Atkin, in the Check My Ads Branded newsletter: Without seller crucial information, advertisers can’t meet the standards they’ve set for themselves, putting them at near constant business and legal risk. […] The only tool Google gives advertisers today to … | Continue reading
Speaking of costly film photography, Leica is once again making the M6 — and not as a limited edition. That should give you plenty of time to save up. ⌥ Permalink⌥ Permalink | Continue reading
In addition to the aforementioned Apple TV, Apple today announced new versions of the iPad and iPad Pro. Alex Guyot of MacStories rightly describes the resulting product selection as “strange”: As you’ve probably noticed from the many caveats throughout this article, this iPad li … | Continue reading
It seems too poetic for a major journalism scandal to unfold in one corner while a high-profile effort to save the future of media — and, if you believe its marketing, the democratic world itself — is launching in another. This new effort is called Semafor, and its co-founder Ben … | Continue reading
Randy Gorbman, WXXI News of Rochester, New York: Film is obviously a legacy product in a digital world, but Nagraj Bokinkere, Vice President of Industrial Films and Chemicals at Kodak, said it has seen a resurgence in the last few years. […] “A few short years ago in the film fin … | Continue reading
I am tempted to pick one of these up to replace my 2015 HD model which — you will be surprised to learn, reader — is feeling a little old. Apple dropped the price by about $50, too, while doubling the storage in the base model. Sounds pretty good, right? Alas, it is a little […]⌥ … | Continue reading
L’affaire the Wire sure has taken a turn since yesterday. First, Kanishk Karan, one of the security researchers ostensibly contacted by reporters, has denied ever doing so: It has come to my attention that I’ve been listed as one of the “independent security researchers” who supp … | Continue reading
Simon Owens: The rise of the podcast streaming wars threatened to upend all that. As large tech and media conglomerates — companies like Spotify, SiriusXM, iHeart, and Amazon — invested in podcasting, many assumed they’d take a page out of Netflix’s playbook and pull all their sh … | Continue reading
Unread is an RSS reader for iPhone and iPad with beautiful typography, comfortable gesture-based navigation, and a variety of color themes. While great websites like Pixel Envy provide RSS feeds with full article content, some websites have feeds that contain only article summari … | Continue reading
Sara Fischer, of Axios, is reporting today that Meta’s proprietary Instant Articles format will go away in April. This should not be a surprise — Instant Articles does nothing for Meta’s virtual reality efforts, Meta is cutting costs, and Google has been phasing out its commitmen … | Continue reading
Parmy Olson of Bloomberg was not impressed with Meta’s announcements at Connect 2022: While Zuckerberg spent most of the hour-and-a-half long presentation as his regular self on camera, the Facebook co-founder had one brief moment walking around a virtual stage as an avatar that … | Continue reading