Apple macOS Catalina hates DJs (and artists) According to Apple, along with Catalina’s removal of iTunes, users are also losing XML file support as all native music playback on Macs moves over to the official Music app, which has
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Apple HomePod will expand in markets Amazon and Google can't Apple is competing for the home audio experience, not ad surveillanceThe next year, Apple expanded its "Pods" branding to the home. The HomePod wasn't designed to outsell $30 loss leader microphones from Amazon
Security Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection let’s be clear: cookies were not supposed to enable third-party tracking, and browsers were supposed to block third-party cookies. We know this because the authors of the original cookie technical specification said
Security Things get weird when they are cheap and mobile. Using less than $100 worth of gear—including a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a small battery, and a cellular modem—the X-Force Red team assembled a mobile attack platform that fit neatly within
Technology Our Lives Are Becoming Comfortable Illusions Once you start to see this, you’ll see why it wreaks havoc on people’s minds: Reality isn’t simple. It’s complex and messy. Life is full of uncertainty so naturally
Google Google, Facebook, and The Creepy Line Google also makes most of their money via this same type of keyword-based advertising that doesn’t require any search-history tracking.So why do they track it all then? Because Google is not
Technology Media’s Blame Game When you have sales guys (they are mostly guys) in charge, decisions will reflect their usual approach, which is to maximize their personal gains as quickly as possible, cash in their bonus checks,
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Media Tracking-based ads, generally called adtech, do not sponsor publications Getting the world to mistake direct marketing for real advertising is one of the great magic tricks of all time: a world record for misdirection in business.Tracking-based ads, generally called adtech, do
Security A Plan to Stop Breaches With Dead Simple Database Encryption In such a “client-side” encryption scheme, databases utilizing Field Level Encryption will not only require a system login, but will additionally require specific keys to process and decrypt specific chunks of data locally
Media TikTok Times a Billion In a major milestone for a Chinese technology company, the short-video app TikTok, known as Douyin (?? d?uy?n) in its home country, was downloaded over 1 billion times as of earlier this
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Software Development We Don’t Sell Saddles Here We get 0 points for just getting a feature out the door if it is not actually contributing to making the experience better for users, or helping them to understand Slack, or helping
Technology Virality Is History We all watch different TV shows and read different books and listen to different music. So nothing catches fire and blows up, because no one’s got the time for what they’re
Technology Computers and Video Surveillance It used to be that surveillance cameras were passive. Maybe they just recorded, and no one looked at the video unless they needed to. Maybe a bored guard watched a dozen different screens,
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