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Dare I To Dream?
Luke Miani has some potentially big leaks, and if they're true, they're pretty exciting.
The Mac
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I Don’t Understand These Rumors
Filipe Espósito: Exclusive: ‘Mac Studio’ is coming - is it the pro Mac mini or mini Mac Pro?
Although the name “Mac Studio” may change, it represents a new category between Mac mini and Mac Pro aimed at professional users. The brand also matches the “Apple Studio Display” that the company has been working on, which
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Things Change
Katelyn Jetelina writing for Your Local Epidemiologist:
But lack of risk communication isn’t because of bureaucratic timidity. It’s because risk is multidimensional, complicated to quantify, and even more difficult to communicate. This is especially true with infectious diseases, as risk changes with time and varies across different people, and individual-level risk needs
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Browser-Makers Working Together? It's a Beautiful Thing.
From the Web.dev blog:
For the first time ever, all major browser vendors, and other stakeholders, have come together to solve the top browsers compatibility issues identified by web developers. Interop 2022 will improve the experience of developing for the web in 15 key areas. In this article, find out how we got here,
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I’m Not Even a Fan, but This Ain’t It, Chief
Molly White: Far-right social network Parler launches an NFT platform where you have to pay with credit cards
On March 1, the far-right social network Parler announced their "CryptoTrump" NFTs.
Well that’s obnoxious, but what warrants the link?
Although Parler's press release contains a lot of their usual
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Hopefully my Last Post About Truth Social
As expected, Truth Social has dropped significantly in App Store rank and media buzz since its launch, but what I did not expect was a pretty fundamental problem reported by Axios (emphasis mine):
The former president is Truth Social's founder and chairman, so he obviously bears some responsibility for putting together the team
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Nobody Cares Until Apple Does It
Monica Chin: AirTags are dangerous - here’s how Apple could fix them
But it’s also true that AirTags don’t exist in a vacuum. The item tracker market is filled with competitors — many of which lack the anti-abuse safeguards that AirTags have. In this investigation, we set out to identify two things: the
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An Unusually Unified Front
Casey Newton in today’s Platformer issue:
The United States played a critical role in damaging Putin’s credibility before the war even began. US intelligence agencies understood that an invasion was coming, the Biden administration shared that information publicly, and in doing so removed both Putin’s ability to launch a surprise attack and
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Jim Dalrymple is Retiring
Jim Dalrymple: I am retiring
This is the most difficult, but at the same time, the most exciting story I have ever written. After almost 30 years of reporting on Apple, I am retiring. I guess the biggest question is what happens to The Loop. Daily posts will stop, but the site will remain online,
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I’ve Done a Full 180 on Hole-Punch Displays
Chance Miller: Leaked schematic image claims to show true size of iPhone 14 'notch + pill' cutout design
A newly leaked schematic posted to Weibo claims to offer a more precise look at this design change, showing the true size of that hole + pill design.
I can’t find the first time I said
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People Keep Asking for This, but That Doesn’t Mean we Should do It
Chance Miller: Instagram exec says there aren't enough iPad users to justify making a dedicated app
Mosseri’s answer pretty much contradicts itself. He tries to claim that there aren’t enough iPad users to warrant making a dedicated Instagram app, while simultaneously saying that Instagram gets this request a lot. Mosseri seemingly
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Smudging My XDR Display
Mark Gurman: Imagine a $199 iPhone
The company could go with a foldable 20-inch screen attached to a physical keyboard or just have one side of the display serving as a virtual keyboard. I’m told Apple has indeed been exploring a dual-screen, foldable MacBook/iPad hybrid that would take the second approach.
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The New Normal
New Harris polling shows some pretty striking numbers:
* 55% of Americans think it's time to start lifting indoor mask mandates
* 70% of Americans will continue to mask up if they think people around them are unvaccinated
* 71% of Americans think Covid-19 is a part of life now
Add to this some good
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Focus, but in Reverse
Rani Molla writing for Recode:
Even people who work on this sort of stuff for a living had trouble with Focus. Vanessa Bowen, a user experience designer who specializes in design systems, says she appreciates Apple’s minimal design but missed a psychiatric appointment when she turned on the personal version of Focus, which lets
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The Cringe
I touched on it yesterday, but Casey Newton wrote a lengthy piece, The hard truth about Truth Social, and I had too many highlights not to share.
What else is there to say about Truth Social? It’s based on technology from Mastodon, the open-source social network. Its parent company, Trump Technology & Media
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What Was Hard is Now Totally Simple
Julia Evans: Things that used to be hard and are now easy
I was talking to some friends the other day about the types of conference talks we enjoyed. One category we came up with was “you know this thing that used to be super hard? Turns out now it’s easy and anyone can
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This is the Truth
The Verge reporting on Trump's social network launching today:
As of this writing, Truth Social’s website is loading intermittently, but collecting names and email addresses for users who wish to sign up. Notably, the site is not secured through HTTPS, which means any information submitted will be visible to intermediaries on the
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Come on, Kanye
Kanye West on Instagram:
Donda 2 will only be available on my own platform, the Stem Player. Not on Apple Amazon Spotify or YouTube. Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes. It’s time to free music from this oppressive system. It’s time to take control and build our own.