Urban technology projects have long sought to manage the city—to organize its ambiguities, mitigate its uncertainties, and predict or direct its growth and decline. The latest, “smart city” projects, have much in common with previous iterations. Again and again, these initiatives promise novel “solutions” to urban “problems.” The hype is based partly on a belief […]
Month: April 2021
Fiction: Unpaired
They drilled a hole in my skull on the 43rd floor of an empty skyscraper in Lower Manhattan. One of those towers where they told people to go and work from home and they never came back. Floor-to-ceiling windows, beige and white walls, spaces that felt impossibly big now that the cubicle dividers have vanished. […]
Feds Arrest an Alleged $336M Bitcoin-Laundering Kingpin
The alleged administrator of Bitcoin Fog kept the dark web service running for 10 years before the IRS caught up with him. Powered by WPeMatico
Feds Arrest an Alleged $336M Bitcoin-Laundering Kingpin
The alleged administrator of Bitcoin Fog kept the dark web service running for 10 years before the IRS caught up with him. Powered by WPeMatico
Spotify Announces Paid Podcasts to Take on Apple Podcast Subscription Service
Just a day after Spotify announced a price hike in Europe and the UK, the company has introduced its own podcast subscription. Spotify aims to go head to head with Apple with the launch of the new podcast subscription service. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
Remember When You Could See Inside a Gaming Console?
Translucent devices like the Game Boy Color made a tacit promise to players: Everything the light touches is yours. But the future seems to be a black box. Powered by WPeMatico
iOS 14.5’s App Tracking Transparency Toggle Grayed Out For Some Users
Apple released App Tracking Transparency with iOS 14.5 update yesterday. The feature prevents advertisers and developers from showing targeted ads by blocking them from tracking user’s app usage. Although the feature went live yesterday, many users have reported that the app tracking toggle in iOS 14.5 settings is grayed out for them. Continue reading → […]
Apple Could Create Monopoly Over ‘Ad Space’ With iOS 14.5 App Tracking Transparency
Apple released iOS 14.5 to the general public yesterday. The update brings a new feature called App Tracking Transparency, making it difficult for advertisers to track a user’s app usage. A new report from the Wall Street Journal now claims that Apple could take unfair advantage of this situation and create a monopoly over ‘Ad […]
In a cookieless future, half-baked marketing won’t do
Third-party cookies are like Cretaceous dinosaurs. They’re munching away on consumers’ data while asteroids lobbed by Google, Mozilla, Apple, and others are on the brink of obliterating the current marketing ecosystem. Google is planning to phase out these online tracking tools by 2022. For its part, Apple plans to make its mobile device ID—known as […]
The Best High-Tech Socks to Tackle Your Next Run
Leave the cotton behind in favor of technical fabrics and constructions that help you pile on the miles. Powered by WPeMatico