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Hiroko Tabuchi writing for The New York Times: “Toyota has gone from a leading position to an industry laggard” in clean-car policy even as other automakers push ahead with ambitious electric vehicle plans, said Danny Magill, an analyst at InfluenceMap, a London-based think tank that tracks corporate climate lobbying. InfluenceMap
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Chris Lee, a former Googler on when Chrome tried something similar to iOS 15's Safari: Chrome Home lives on as a lesson for both myself and the whole Chrome team about the intentionality needed to innovate within a product of massive scale. Some might argue that we never should have
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Japan gov't backs 4-day workweek, but experts split - The Mainichi Japan's government plans to encourage firms to let their employees choose to work four days a week instead of five, aiming to improve the balance between work and life for people who have family care responsibilities or need more
This is one of the oldest screenshots in my photo collection, and I wanted to do a deep dive into what’s there and what it tells The Device and OSThis screenshot was from September 19, 2013, so this would have been an iPhone 5. The iPhone 5S was being
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Bloomberg: Three-Quarters of iOS Users Opt Out of Tracking — Pixel Envy The online advertising industry has been telling us for years that consumers overwhelmingly prefer personalized ads and are only too happy to give up private information. What a crock of lies. The ad tech industry has been relying on
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How Do I Know if the Grass Is Greener? By being fully immersed in the Apple ecosystem, I’m saying to myself that I want every decision regarding my personal computing, whether it be the mobile computer, laptop computer, or the computer on my wrist, to be dependant on the
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After a bit over a month with Spatial Audio in Apple Music, I turned it off on my iPhone and I’m happier for it. Some songs sounded pretty good, while others sounded terrible, but something I noticed whenever doing side-by-side comparisons was that I never, and I mean never,
How about something totally not technical for once!? I think I’d rather use an Android phone than stop drinking coffee, so I thought it might be fun to look at my real addition: coffee. Let’s get deep. The BeansThe most important part of the coffee making process are
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I'm once again posting this week's Birch Bark here since I mixed up the format a bit and couldn't help myself. I won't do this every week, so if you like this post, subscribe to the free newsletter version today! The Big LinksWhy Are Apple Media Apps so Terrible? -
Get them here! Wallpaper Weekend continues with a second set of wallpapers, this time inspired by the awesome grass wallpaper in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Apparently Steve Jobs took that photo, so I'm not going to suggest mine are better, but I will say that mine are higher
