Apple Tower Theatre in Los Angeles, on the corner of Eighth Street and Broadway, will open on Thursday the company has confirmed.
TV Tuesday: Apple TV+ Upcoming and Released – TMO Daily Observations 2021-06-22
Charlotte Henry and Bryan Chaffin join host Kelly Guimont to discuss Ted Lasso’s accolades and next season, as well as the beginning of Physical.
Brave's Privacy Search Engine Launches in Beta Today
Brave Search launched on Tuesday for prospective users as a private alternative to engines like Bing and Google.
WaterField’s Latest Bag is a Packable Duffel
WaterField is out on Tuesday with the latest addition to its collection of bags. It’s called the Packable Duffel and you can buy it for US$129.
WWDC21 Shows How Apple is Building the Metaverse
I’m not sure who the author is behind Codevoid but they nicely pieced together Apple’s continuing work with AR and the metaverse. I had similar thoughts when I watched WWDC21 and I like the way this article connects the dots.
The AR metaverse aren’t about immersive, focused interactions. Ephemerality will underpin the experiences. Those experiences need to provide you with contextual information when & where you need it — either ambiently as you move about the world, or as part of a more intentional ‘tell me more’ interaction.
Users Not Excited by iOS 15, iPadOS 15 Features
Users appear to be somewhat underwhelmed with the iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 features announced at WWDC 2021. The results of a survey by SellCell, reported by MacRumors, revealed that nearly half were not excited.
Over 50 percent of all of the survey’s respondents said that the iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 updates are only “slightly” or “not at all” exciting. 28.1 percent rated the updates “somewhat” exciting, but as few as 19.3 percent are “extremely” or “very” excited about them. Within iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, 23 percent of users said that the most exciting upgrade is ID cards in the Wallet app, 17.3 percent are most excited about enhanced Spotlight search, and 14.2 percent are most excited about new Find My features.
‘Ted Lasso’ Scores Peabody Award
Ted Lasso won a Peabody Award “for offering the perfect counter to the enduring prevalence of toxic masculinity.”
Is Apple Really Going After Substack? — Media+
Journalist and author Chris Stokel-Walker joins host Charlotte Henry to discuss Apple’s forthcoming Mail Privacy Protection and its implications for the e-mail newsletter market. They also discuss the history, and future, of TikTok.
Low GPU Prices in Europe Could Mean US is Next
GPU prices in Europe fallen as much as 50% after China ordered that cryptocurrency miners halt operations.
More budget-oriented cards like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 and AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT are seeing the most positive results, with a near 50% drop in price compared to last month. For flagship cards like the RTX 3080 and RX 6800 XT, however, prices haven’t moved as much.
In the United States, GPU pricing is slowly catching up to Europe, but it’s still going down nonetheless.
‘Meddify’ Pill Reminder Gives You Actionable Notifications
Meddify: Pill Reminder, developed by Oleksandr Bandyliuk is a brand new app to help people remember to take their pills. The developer said that the main feature of the app are Actionable Notifications and talked about privacy: “The key feature of the app is Actionable Notifications. Actionable Notifications allow marking the dose as taken or missed in one tap without launching the app. I care about Privacy. It means you don’t need to create an account to use the app. The app does not use servers to store your data. And I don’t have access to your data. All your data is stored only on your current device.”
