Joe Rossignol: Apple today published a lengthy whitepaper that highlights the company’s approach to device repairability and longevity. In the document, Apple revealed that iPhones will better support third-party displays and batteries later in 2024…
Lees meerMichael Thomas and Thomas Steiner Thomas Steiner (via Hacker News): The Google Sheets calculation engine was originally written in Java and launched in 2006. In the early days of the product, all calculation happened on the server. However, from 201…
Lees meerJoe Brockmeier (via Hacker News): The problem at hand is that Apple’s macOS App Store is automatically rejecting apps that contain the string “itms-services”. That is the URL scheme for apps that want to ask Apple’s iTunes Store to install another a…
Lees meerRobin Allen (via Hacker News): For whatever reason, QuickLook will now remove the corners of your images before showing them to you.It doesn’t matter if they’re photos, game assets, or UI elements you’re designing. Everything will be rounded off bef…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy (via Hacker News): Mac shipments are estimated to have grown from 1.7M in the first quarter of 2023 to 2.1M in the same quarter this year. That represents year-on-year growth of 22%, giving Apple a 14.2% share of the US PC market.The lau…
Lees meerJohn Moltz (Hacker News): A post on Mastodon got boosted into my feed that touted the Xiaomi Moaan InkPalm 5 which sells for about $95. Now you’re talking my kind of cheap. Looking into the Moaan lineup, I then found the InkPalm Plus which features …
Lees meerChris Wedel (via Hacker News): However, since I first began using these low-orbit satellites to power my internet, not only has the price gone up $30 per month, but the speeds and reliability have degraded significantly. I’ve talked to others in my …
Lees meerKelvin Chan (via Hacker News): The European Commission said Monday it informed Microsoft of its preliminary view that the U.S. tech giant has been “restricting competition” by bundling Teams with core office productivity applications such as Office …
Lees meerSlack (Hacker News, Slashdot): Slack will no longer keep messages and files for the lifetime of your free workspace. Starting 26th August 2024, Customer Data – such as messages and file history – older than one year may be deleted on a rolling basis…
Lees meerApple sent me an e-mail this morning: It has been several months since you signed in to News Publisher. If you do not sign in within the next 30 days, your role will be changed. Your role will change from Administrator to Editor for the following Ap…
Lees meerGreg Gant: It was natural for the game to be ported to Mac OS and OS X, as other high-profile first-person shooters from the era, like the Doom series, Hexen series, Quake series, Dark Forces, Deus Ex, Duke Nukem, and Unreal series, were all ported …
Lees meerSøren Fuglede Jørgensen (via Hacker News): llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.[…]The font shaping engine HarfBuzz, used in applications such as Firefox and Chrome, comes with a Wasm s…
Lees meerShiny Quagsire (via Hacker News): visionOS 2 (or RealityKit) seems to have gotten way more aggressive about power throttling (or my battery/cable are having issues idk), so ALVR seems to throttle to 45Hz at much lower PPDs despite being totally fine…
Lees meerAgen Schmitz: Adobe has released Lightroom Classic 13.3, enabling you to erase unwanted objects and imperfections in your photos using the Generative Remove tool (powered by Adobe Firefly generative AI). This requires a new catalog database format. …
Lees meerMarsEdit 5.2: The “Search” field in the main window now features a filter selection to toggle between searching everything or searching just the current selection. Inline “Find” support is now available in the rendered versions of posts in the Previ…
Lees meerLisa O’Carroll (via Hacker News, New York Times, Slashdot): Apple has been found to be in breach of sweeping new EU laws designed to allow smaller companies to compete and allow consumers to find cheaper and alternative apps in the tech business’s a…
Lees meerJacob Bartlett: The Realm DB engine was written from the ground-up in C++ to minimise this overhead. […] Therefore, it’s not unreasonable to describe SwiftData as a wrapper over a wrapper over a wrapper.[…]These show that the SwiftData objects took …
Lees meerJeff Johnson: You may already be aware that for a number of years, Safari has asked your permission every time you click on a link, such as an RSS feed, that opens in an app other than Safari[…][…]The permission prompt now has an option to “Always A…
Lees meerRyan Christoffel (AppleInsider): The problem is, Apple “intelligently” decides which files can remain stored in local cache, and will make decisions to remove certain downloads without telling you. So when you need to access a given file—say, on an …
Lees meerMark Sullivan: The AI search startup Perplexity is in hot water in the wake of a Wiredinvestigation revealing that the startup has been crawling content from websites that don’t want to be crawled.[…]“Perplexity is not ignoring the Robot Exclusions …
Lees meerAdam Engst: Pirate Ship is a shipping platform with an elegant interface that allows users to access discounted shipping rates from USPS and UPS with no subscription fee. I’ve used it a handful of times for mailing packages, and it has been brillian…
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