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  • US police can’t force you to unlock your phone with fingerprints or face recognition

    Abhimanyu Ghoshal: The ruling is significant because it runs counter to previous interpretations of the law in cases requiring access to data locked on personal devices. With that, biometric methods for unlocking phones are now being viewed similar to alphanumeric passcodes in the eyes of the law in the US.

    Published January 15, 2019
  • Web Development on an iPad from Laravel News

    Interesting, as it’s not the toolkit or setup I would have expected.

    Published January 14, 2019
  • T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Are Selling Customers’ Real-Time Location Data, And It’s Falling Into the Wrong Hands

    This should surprise no one, and yet I am guessing this will surprise most.

    Published January 9, 2019
  • Apple is putting iTunes on Samsung TVs

    John Porter: Apple tells The Verge that Samsung’s smart TV ad-tracking features cannot track viewing usage within the iTunes Movies and TV Shows app, in another example of Apple’s focus on privacy. Here’s the thing: this means you’ll need to connect your Samsung TV to WiFi in order for this to work. And there’s long […]

    Published January 7, 2019
  • Should I Use My Personal Laptop for Work?

    No. Just no. I’d also extend this to mobile devices too.

    Published January 4, 2019
  • Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data

    Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Natasha Singer: In the complaint, the city attorney excoriated the Weather Company, saying it unfairly took advantage of its app’s popularity and the fact that consumers were likely to give their location data to get local weather alerts. The city said that the company failed to sufficiently disclose its data practices when […]

    Published January 4, 2019
  • The 12” PowerBook

    Easily the greatest laptop ever made.

    Published January 3, 2019
  • Happy New Year! May Your City Never Become San Francisco, New York or Seattle

    Emily Badger: Surely there is nothing left to fear in New York, a place that already has tall buildings and high rents. But the pending arrival of Amazon in Long Island City, as Vice recently put it, has some residents on edge about “becoming Seattle on steroids.” The specter captures the particular mix of high […]

    Published January 1, 2019
  • Must Have Apps of 2018 from The Nerdy Student

    Good list.

    Published January 1, 2019
  • Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World

    Dr. Nathalie Maréchal in a very damning essay on targeted advertising has this brutal quote: “That’s all ‘AI’ and ‘machine learning’ is for these companies: getting better at guessing what ads to show you,” (Tim) Libert said. “Every tiny bit of data increases the chances they show the ‘right’ ad so they never stop, they […]

    Published December 30, 2018
  • Why a passcode is better than biometric access

    This article actually prompted me to change to passwords in many places where I used biometric access before.

    Published December 21, 2018
  • Leadership is about coaching

    Michael Bungay Stanier: Coaching is an essential leadership behavior. Curiosity is the driving force in being more coach-like. Questions fuel curiosity. Be sure not to read ‘leadership’ as ‘management’. They are not the same. Most managers aren’t leaders. This lack of curiosity Stanier talks about is a dead giveaway as to which type of manager, […]

    Published December 21, 2018
  • Burnout and Shorter Work Weeks

    Emma Thomason: A recent survey of 3,000 employees in eight countries including the United States, Britain and Germany found that nearly half thought they could easily finish their tasks in five hours a day if they did not have interruptions, but many are exceeding 40 hours a week anyway – with the United States leading […]

    Published December 21, 2018
  • Zuckerberg Lie Files

    Kieren McCarthy: By any measure, Facebook as an organization has knowingly, willingly, purposefully, and repeatedly lied. And two reports this week demonstrate that the depth of its lying was even worse than we previously imagined.

    Published December 21, 2018
  • Microsoft was the real MVP

    It’s hard to argue with Raymond Wong, about how Microsoft really crushed it this year. They quietly ,add great stuff, reminded me a bit of Apple ten years ago. I had to chuckle at this line too: The Windows company started by Bill Gates and mismanaged by Steve Ballmer, has flourished under CEO Satya Nadella […]

    Published December 21, 2018
  • We’ve Got the Screen Time Debate All Wrong. Let’s Fix It

    Great read, and really shows how little we know about this.

    Published December 20, 2018
  • Amazon error allowed Alexa user to eavesdrop on another home

    Arno Schuetze: On the recordings, a man and a female companion could be overheard in his home and the magazine was able to identify and contact him through the recorded information, according to the report. That’s a pretty big “human error”. I’m so glad I don’t have one of these eavesdropping devices in my home.

    Published December 20, 2018
  • Here’s How Your Apps Reveal Personal Information To Facebook

    My personal favorite part, is the part where this still surprises anyone. Second only to the part that people still use this shit.

    Published December 20, 2018
  • The Unwearable Lightness of Being: My Week Without a Smartwatch

    Lauren Goode: At the same time, the value of an activity tracker isn’t always proportionate to the burden of one. They all have these damn proprietary chargers, and you have to charge them all the time, and for what? So they can count steps? The more I thought about it, the more I needed a […]

    Published December 16, 2018
  • Every moment of every day, mobile phone apps collect detailed location data.

    That’s a way higher price than any monetary expense of paying for the app.

    Published December 15, 2018
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