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iPod is rightly credited with disrupting digital music industry. The iPod Classic was a runaway success and paved way for Apple’s success. Guy Dupoint has hacked a 17-year old iPod classic and upgraded it with an ability to wirelessly stream Spotify. Yes! We are talking about a 17-year old iPod playing Spotify. Continue reading → […]
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The news: Two new sets of vaccine results announced today suggest the South African variant of the virus is proving harder to vaccinate against. Novavax and Johnson & Johnson both announced that final-stage clinical trials showed their vaccines are effective at preventing illness—but that this efficacy dropped when dealing with the variant sequenced in South […]
The online broker blocked users from trading several “meme stocks” on Thursday, as regulators take a close look at the WallStreetBets phenomenon. Powered by WPeMatico
The board’s first content moderation decisions show how impossible its task—and Facebook’s—really is. Powered by WPeMatico
As the Biden administration ramps up, it inherits soaring cases and a muddled vaccine rollout— so it’s reasonable to wonder what else can possibly slow the spread of covid-19. Some strategies in the administration’s covid plan are basics, like calling on people to wear masks, doing more testing, and communicating more clearly. But digital technology […]
If anywhere could use innovation, it’s Miami—one of the country’s most unequal, environmentally vulnerable cities. Powered by WPeMatico
European Union data protection conference, CPDP, is finally underway, and following Tim Cook’s speech, Apple’s senior director of global privacy Jane Horvath took part in a discussion focused on data privacy. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
Facebook has locked horns with Apple over the recent iOS 14 privacy changes. The advertising industry lead by Facebook is against the new iOS anti-tracking feature that will come to force shortly. After facing lash back from Facebook, Apple postponed the new feature. However, it is soon set to come into force much to the […]
Apple’s M1 Macs have shown just how power-hungry Intel CPUs had become over the last few years while delivering very little performance improvements. John Gruber of Daring Fireball has now taken the official power consumption figures of all Mac Minis starting from the 2005 PowerPC G4 variant and compared it to the M1 Mac mini. […]