Some smartphone apps track your location using GPS, although iOS does a pretty good job of alerting you when that happens and asking for your permission from time to time. Some of the companies behind those apps share that data...
Lees meerJohn Wilander (tweet): Cookies for cross-site resources are now blocked by default across the board. This is a significant improvement for privacy since it removes any sense of exceptions or “a little bit of cross-site tracking is allowed.” […] Safa…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol (tweet): Apple this week acknowledged that MacBook Air models with Retina displays can exhibit anti-reflective coating issues, as indicated in a memo shared with Apple Authorized Service Providers and obtained by MacRumors.[…]Apple’s i…
Lees meerWolfgang (Hacker News): ZOOM monitors the activity on your computer and collects data on the programs running and captures which window you have focus on. If you manage the calls, you can monitor what programs users on the call are running as well. …
Lees meerThe cool cats at iFixit have published a teardown of the 2020 MacBook Air and noted that it’s definitely more repairable than its predecessor. The MacBook Air was last redesigned in 2018, which included changes such as the problematic butterfly keyb…
Lees meerThere are lots of interesting updates in iOS 13.4, which came out this week, but there is one of them that I'm especially happy to see. Before the update, when you were looking at an email message, the trash can...
Lees meerRich Trouton: As part of macOS Catalina 10.15.4, Apple has begun displaying a new dialog window message concerning third-party kernel extensions. […] To further reinforce the message that kernel extensions are going away, Apple refers to them in the…
Lees meerXcode 11.4 is now available for download (release notes). Alas, it requires Catalina. Ted Kremenek: Swift 5.2 is now officially released! 🎉 […] We have drastically improved the quality and precision of error messages in the Swift compiler. […] The c…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Remember when people bought the wrong Zoom stock because ZOOM is Zoom Technologies, whereas ZM is Zoom Video Communications? Well they’re at it again, this time on the Mac App Store instead of the stock market. “Zoom is an [sic] screen…
Lees meerTimes of Israel: Israel could delay switching to daylight saving time to discourage public traffic in the streets in the evening hours and promote social distancing, as part of the fight against the coronavirus, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said Sun…
Lees meerThe new 2020 iPad Pros are, in most ways, minor spec bump updates to the 2018 iPad Pros. The camera system is better, there’s a new LIDAR sensor that greatly improves AR, and the built-in microphone system is noticeably improved. That’s about it.
Lees meerYesterday, Apple released iPadOS 13.4. There are lots of improvements and bug fixes in there, but for an attorney or anyone else using an iPad to get work done, the best new addition is the vastly improved support for a...
Lees meerRecorded 22nd March 2020 Apple launch and all new MacBook Air, iPad Pros with LiDAR, a keyboard with backlighting and trackpad for the new The post Essential Apple Podcast 168: Working from home special appeared first on MyMac.com.
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