Adafruit: Andy Hertzfeld has a YouTube channel and it’s great. There’s a bunch of Mac and Magic Cap history stuff that I hadn’t seen before. Previously: Revolution in the Valley Macintosh Folklore
Lees meerThe macOS 10.14.6 Combo update is now available. Xcode 10.3 is in the Mac App Store, but it’s not yet available for direct download. In fact, the download page is currently directing me to check the system status, which of course shows all green. Up…
Lees meerThe rumor mill currently has it that Apple supplier TSMC could switch to a 5-nanometer process for its chip manufacturing on the 2020 model iPhones. The change is thought to be influenced by demands for 5G smartphones. TSMC CEO C.C. Wei told investo…
Lees meerElephant-ish extinct things in a twitter-like environment. Is it that the GMen projecting? Whatever the case may be, this week’s show is kinda long, The post MyMac Podcast 762: Mastodon is too Gabby appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerDavid finally watched Spider-Man Far From Home, so he and Tim discuss the movie, as well as Shazam, the Top Gun trailer, CGI, Cats, The post TechFan Episode 405 – Purring Along appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerFifty year ago tomorrow — July 20, 1969 — Neil Armstrong announced "The Eagle has landed" and then took one small step as mankind took its first step on the Moon. David Perini of Cult of Mac explains that the...
Lees meerJames Thomson: The video of my talk “An Illustrated History of Easter Eggs” is up. This was a lot of fun to put together! Lots of fun stuff here, from Atari, to the Finder, and later PCalc.
Lees meerMargaret Hamilton (via Hacker News): There were two onboard computers – one on the command module, Columbia, and one on the lunar module, Eagle. Our task included developing the software to run on each and the systems software they shared. At the be…
Lees meerJake Edge (via Hacker News): Out of that came a new operator, however, that is often called the “walrus operator” due to its visual appearance. Using “:=“ in an if or while statement allows assigning a value to a variable while testing it.[…]The f-s…
Lees meerBrian X. Chen: Ultimately, the technology did not help me sleep more. It didn’t reveal anything that I didn’t already know, which is that I average about five and a half hours of slumber a night. And the data did not help me answer what I should do …
Lees meerWorld Emoji Day took place on Wednesday, complete with Apple and Google unveiling a slew of new emoji based on the approved characters in Unicode 12 that will be arriving in iOS 13 and Android Q later this year. The theme for this year seems to be i…
Lees meerIt’s theoretical, but it’s interesting. A pair of researchers have discovered a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) vulnerability that can affect Apple devices and allow for tracking and data leakage. Researchers Johannes K. Becker and David Starobinski wrot…
Lees meerNick Heer: Jennifer Miller of the New York Times wrote about the eruption of podcasting popularity — a seemingly evergreen topic. Nieman Lab wondered in 2017 if we had hit “peak podcast”, while Wired thought the same in 2015. Podcasts were “back” in…
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