The lucite-framed PowerPic mod can be positioned vertically or horizontally and is customizable with any 4×6 photo or room-matching graphic.
Make Your iPhone's Music Sound Better With an Audiogram
Dave Wiskus shared an awesome thread on Twitter about using Audiograms to make your music sound better!
Nanoleaf Lines Improve Decor Possibilities in Smart Lighting
Nanoleaf has been offering unique possibilities for blending smart lighting with home decor for years. Its latest product lineup, Nanoleaf Lines, gives you even more ways to light up your space. Each segment is 11 inches long and provides up to 20 lumens of brightness. You can set the lights to more than 16.9 million colors, and each segment has two color zones. This allows you to easily blend your color palette within your design. You can configure your Nanoleaf lines to sync with your music or Mac’s display. Nanoleaf Lines supports Apple HomeKit and also works as a Thread border router, allowing you to extend the reach of your smart home network without additional hubs. The starter kit, retailing for $199.99, comes with 9 light lines, a controller, a power supply, and everything else you need to get started. Expansion packs provide you 3 more light lines for $69.99. The smart lights are available for preorder now, with shipping expected in late November 2021.
North Vancouver Plans to Use Electricity From Bitcoin Mining for Heat
The city of North Vancouver in Canada is planning to use electricity created by Bitcoin mining to heat houses.
The technique will involve using MintGreen’s Digital Boilers, which recover more than 96 per cent of the electricity used for bitcoin mining to heat commercial and residential buildings.
Operating at full capacity 365 days a year, the bitcoin miner will be able to heat 100 residential and commercial buildings in the city, situated in the hills north of Vancouver.
Bitcoin Adoption Takes Flight with Airline
In a move that may increase Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador, a local budget airline will begin taking payment using state-run Chivo wallet.
Snoopy in Space Season Two to Blast Off on Apple TV+ November 12
Season two of Snoopy in Space will lift off on Apple TV+ on November 12, with all 12 new episodes becoming available on that date.
Facebook is Going to Change Its Name Next Week
Facebook is going to change its name next week, The Verge reported. It’s not going to be re-adding a ‘The’ but rebrand in order to reflect Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of a ‘metaverse’.
A rebrand could also serve to further separate the futuristic work Zuckerberg is focused on from the intense scrutiny Facebook is currently under for the way its social platform operates today. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress. Antitrust regulators in the US and elsewhere are trying to break the company up, and public trust in how Facebook does business is falling.
iOS Allows You to Easily See Your Shazam History
If you’ve been trying to remember what songs you recently discovered, you can see your Shazam history right in iOS 15.1’s Control Center.
Future iMacs Unleashed – TMO Daily Observations 2021-10-19
Dave Hamilton and Bryan Chaffin join host Kelly Guimont to discuss the Unleashed event and what new processors mean for iMacs and more.
The MacBook Pro May Not Get a Cellular Model Until 2024
For now, photographers and other people in the field will have to tether their MacBook Pro to their iPhone to actually upload their content.
Apple’s 5G laptop strategy right now is to tell you to buy an iPhone. The math is pretty simple: Qualcomm’s modems, which Apple has a deal to use at least through 2022, are a big cost on Apple’s ledger both financially and politically. Sure, Apple could price Qualcomm-packing laptops so it makes a profit, but the company doesn’t want to be even more dependent on its longtime frenemy as a supplier.