Ecobee, maker of products for the smart home, announced on Wednesday that its SmartCamera now supports HomeKit.
Apple and TMO Picks of 2020 – TMO Daily Observations 2020-12-02
Charlotte Henry and Andrew Orr join host Kelly Guimont to discuss Apple’s awards for Apps and Games of 2020 and offer some picks of their own.
Parking Service SpotHero Gets CarPlay Integration
Parking service SpotHero now has CarPlay integration, meaning that users can book and pay for parking while en route.
New Apple MagSafe Duo Charger Now Available
Apple’s MagSafe Duo charger is now available and a cost of $129, and there is also a monthly payment option.
Inside the iPhone Wi-Fi Exploit Apple Patched This Year
Google’s security firm Project Zero published a report on Tuesday detailing an iPhone Wi-Fi exploit that Apple patched earlier this year in iOS 13.5. It’s a long, 30,000 word blog post, but ArsTechnica has a good breakdown.
Beer developed several different exploits. The most advanced one installs an implant that has full access to the user’s personal data, including emails, photos, messages, and passwords and crypto keys stored in the keychain. The attack uses a laptop, a Raspberry Pi, and some off-the-shelf Wi-Fi adapters.
Scorecard Grade YouTube Advertisers That Target Kids
Fight for the Future launched a scorecard on Wednesday to examine brands that typically advertise to kids and if they advertise on YouTube.
Zoom... Disney+... Apple Reveals its Apps of The Year For 2020
Not surprisingly, Apple’s apps of the year list for 2020 heavily focuses on wellbeing, streaming…. and Zoom.
Salesforce Buying Slack for $27.7 Billion
Slack has become a major part of our work lives for many of us in 2020. Now cloud computing giant Salesforce is set to buy a workplace chat app for $27.7 billion, The Verge reported.
Slack has transformed from a fast-rising startup formed as a gaming company in 2009 into a major competitor of Microsoft with more than 12 million daily active users as of October of last year (and likely many more now, though the company has not disclosed concrete numbers) and a market value of close to $25 billion. The company, led by Flickr co-creator Butterfield, started primarily as an email alternative that pitched itself to startups, media companies, and other tech-savvy businesses to better manage interoffice communication. But Butterfield and his team grew Slack into a full productivity suite with video meeting features, file hosting, IT administration, and all manner of other features typically offered by large enterprise corporations.
The iPhone 12 Gets Sent to The Bottom of a Lake. Is it Water Resistant Enough Survive?
The iPhone 12 is meant to handle most spills and drips. However, CNet wanted to know how water resistant the device really is. So it sent one to the bottom of Lake Tahoe.
The iPhone 12’s IP68 rating means it can survive up to 19.6 feet (6 meters) of water for 30 minutes. This applies to all four iPhone 12 models: the iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max. But we discovered that like its predecessor, Apple’s newest iPhone can handle a great deal more than that. Both of the iPhone 11 models far exceeded the official rating, surviving a 39-foot dive in salt water in Monterey Bay, California. This year we took a brand-new iPhone 12 for a swim in the frigid fresh water of Lake Tahoe, on the other side of the Golden State, to test it out. Teaming up with Mission Robotics, we mounted our iPhone 12 to the company’s underwater drone, Theseus. The drone can go as deep as 984 feet (300 meters) underwater, with the pilot able to see the view from Theseus’ camera, as well as depth and water temperature metrics from a computer on shore.
FITT360 Hands-Free Neckband Camera: $469.99
We have a deal today on FITT360, a wearable 360 degree camera you wear around your neck and operate hands-free. It uses 3 FHD cameras to capture everything around you, then connects directly to the free FITT360 companion app to automatically stitch the footage together into a 360 degree format. FITT360 comes with 64GB of built-in internal memory, along with an external memory card slot to add up to 128GB of external storage. The battery provides up to 70 minutes of continuous recording per charge.
