Safari is behind other web browsers in a few key ways, but that doesn’t mean that it’s the new IE, nor does it mean that all of those things are due to security.
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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
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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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Comment: After nearly a year of use, MagSafe is the defining feature of the iPhone 12 - 9to5Mac In recent years, there have been two “takes” I’ve made on a quick judgment. They were that the AirPods wouldn’t be a product hit and that MagSafe was a solution
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An Apt Analogy – nahumck.me When people start to complain about computing devices, they often turn to their favorite car analogy. But most of them get the wrong vehicle type when it comes to the iPad Pro. It’s not a V8 sports car. It’s not a motorcycle. It’
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Apple's App Store policies are a big mistake - Slow Boring Apple executives aren’t idiots, but then again, neither was Napoleon. And my considered view on this is that they are making a mistake — they stumbled onto a revenue stream that they don’t want to give up, but
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Final Fantasy VII Remake is the Template for “Grown-Up” JRPGs In the face of the practical hurdles to regularly playing JRPGs, Final Fantasy VII Remake has proposed an alternative model for equally robust storytelling more easily accessible for adult gamers: a more succinct mode of storytelling that uses replay mechanics
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Opinion | Magneto: These new ‘magnetic’ vaccine mutants are extremely disappointing - The Washington Post I put on my newest, most purple helmet and my best cape, and I manipulated the Earth’s magnetic field to fly myself to Ohio as fast as I could. I was so excited to recruit
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I miss the old internet | Science Fiction and Fantasy World Is it just me or is today's internet boring and overly commercialized? I feel like today's internet is like a modern mall, sterile and boring with just main-brand clothing stores, a food court, and not a lot else. Whereas I
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