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This is an iPad
Just over 2 months ago I made this video where I proposed something called studioOS that was exclusive to the
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What I’ve Witnessed is Disgusting
Michelle Goldberg: The Amber Heard Verdict Was a Travesty. Others Will Follow.
During the trial, the jurors heard a recording in which Depp sneered at Heard, using an obscenity, “I head butted you in the forehead. That doesn’t break a nose.” (He claimed it was an accident.) They heard from a makeup artist who
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Who Broke Gas Prices? (Newsletter #113)
I know a lot of people are feeling exhausted right now, and I hope that this newsletter can keep delivering good vibes if you're feeling that way today.
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* TweetPics is a cool little utility from the markers of Typefully.
* same.energy is a really interesting site that lets you find photos
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Just Buy a Mac
Mark Gurman has a new report out about advanced multitasking features coming in iPadOS 16, and while many in my feeds are happy about this, there is also some trepidation. Rene Ritchie, for example, expressed nervousness about this report, saying:
We go over this same thing every year:
1. Rumors of iPads getting feature X
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Ads in Apple Music?
Jason Snell: Apple Music has betrayed its most loyal listeners
The fact remains that if you listen to an Apple Music streaming radio station like Classic Rock or Alternative, you will eventually hear a 40-second ad for Zane Lowe or Strombo or other pre-recorded Apple Music radio episodes. What was once an ad-
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Everyone Thinks They’re Okay, but Everyone Else is Messed Up
Derek Thompson: ‘Everything Is Terrible, but I’m Fine’
And though the number of Americans who said that they personally were “doing at least okay” actually rose slightly from 2019 to 2021, their evaluation of the national economy plummeted in that time frame. If this graph were a bumper sticker, it would read: Everything is
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Money + Opportunity
Erin Berger: Yes, Women Really Are Better Endurance Athletes Than Men
Paula Radcliffe’s world-record marathon time of 2:15:25, set at the 2003 London Marathon, is 30 minutes faster than the women’s record from the mid-1970s. (The men’s time dropped by only five minutes over the same period.) Women
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A Passwordless Future Needs Portability
Jared Newman: There’s a big problem with Apple and Google’s plans to nix passwords
As anyone who uses a password manager will tell you, not having to think about passwords can feel liberating. But by eliminating them outright, FIDO’s proposal risks putting even more control over users’ digital lives in the hands
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The iPad’s Biggest Limitation
Federico Viticci: An iPad User's Journey into macOS with the M1 Max MacBook Pro
I don’t expect Apple to ever support all these advanced options for power users in their native Screenshot tool, but that’s the thing: macOS lets developers build these kinds of apps for users who want them. And
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Everything’s More Ironic in Texas
Adi Robertson: Supreme Court blocks Texas social media moderation ban
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defended the law in a filing with the Supreme Court. Paxton argued that large social media platforms (defined as having more than 50 million monthly active users) are “common carriers” that should be required to treat all content neutrally,
Presumably
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We're All Walking Live Chats
Arielle Pardes: It's Time to Bring Back the AIM Away Message
Which is that asynchronous messaging is real-time chat now. We are always on. That clear plastic corded phone that dialed-up and signed me on has morphed into the world’s most powerful pocket computer that also happens to make phone
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We've Tried Doing Nothing, and That Hasn't Seemed to Work
The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives, by the editorial staff at Scientific American:
The science is abundantly clear: More guns do not stop crime. Guns kill more children each year than auto accidents. More children die by gunfire in a year than on-duty police officers and active military members. Guns are a
Ranking Every Default iOS Wallpaper
iOS 16 is just around the corner (in beta form, at least) and that means I'll be using its new wallpaper on my phone for at least a few weeks. I thought it would be fun to rank the previous default iOS wallpapers from best to worst. All of these are pretty solid,
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Birchler’s Hierarchy of Apps
The world is tough if you are someone who is prone to switch apps. It seems like there's
Podcasts I've Never Missed
I listen to a good number of podcasts, but shows end and others lose my interest over time. But some shows I was there from day one and have never missed an episode. My criteria for this list are:
1. I listened to episode 1 when it was released (or at least within a few
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How Web3 Folks See Video Games (it’s not what you expect)
Luke Winkie: Play-to-earn gaming sounds too good to be true. It probably is.
“We started with a very simple thesis, which was to bring property rights to gamers. The idea behind that was that gamers are a little bit like slave labor. You play a game, you spend money in a game, you
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Nobody Wants to Go There
Casey Newton:
All of this sets aside the fact that there is a strong market demand for content moderation. Platforms that allow extremism to proliferate quickly become ghost towns; most people don’t want to see racist idiocy every time they log on. Platforms remove hate speech and various other forms of harm primarily because
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Round and Around We Go
2019: Apple poaches top Google machine learning expert as it continues to expand AI team
Apple has poached one of Google’s top artificial intelligence engineers as it continues to build up its AI team. Apple recently hired Google’s Ian Goodfellow to join its “Special Projects Group” as a director of machine learning.
Today: