To celebrate Black History Month, Apple has commissioned over 30 Black photographers to capture and share their hometowns.
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[Updated for iPadOS 14.4] Bug Means Fitness+ on iPad Not Working With Apple Watch
A bug appears to be stopping Fitness+ subscribers using an iPad from using the Apple Watch capabilities available with the service.
iOS 14.4 Introduces ‘Auto Playing Similar Music’ in Apple Music
Over the weekend, Andrew discovered a feature in iOS 14.4 that wasn’t included in the release notes: Autoplaying Similar Music.
Spam, Your Privacy, Cool Stuff Found & More — Mac Geek Gab 855
What’s your spam workflow? How do you know if your favorite podcast is selling your data? Want to hear about some Cool Stuff Found? Good news, your two favorite geeks talk through all this and more! Listen as John and Dave answer your questions and do their level best to ensure everyone learns at least five new things each week. Press play and enjoy!
Apple Shares ‘MySwimPro’ in Developer Spotlight
Apple has highlighted Fares Ksebati and his app MySwimPro in its Developer Spotlight. It provides aquatic workout videos for athletes.
What do you know now that you wish you’d known when you started? That it’s really important to be consistent, that it takes time to develop, and that if you can just be a little bit better every single day, the compounding impact is absolutely insane. We’ve been at this for five years, which is more than 1,800 days, and we’re trying to be at least 1 percent better each day.
Google Play Store to Allow Licensed Gambling Apps Providing Android a Competitive Advantage
Google announced it will allow Android gambling apps on its Google Play store, and Bryan Chaffin says it might be a differentiating factor from Apple’s iOS and iPadOS platforms.
Tim Cook Writes Open Letter to President Biden on DACA
Tim Cook has written a letter on behalf of Business Roundtable to President Biden thanking him for working to preserve DACA.
Endless Runner Game ‘Populus Run’ Debuts on Apple Arcade
A new endless runner game has debuted on Apple Arcade today. It’s called Populus Run and you control an entire crowd of characters.
Asus AC1900 T-Mobile Unlocked Dual Band Gigabit WiFi Router: $79.99
We have a deal on an Asus AC1900 T-Mobile Unlocked Dual Band Gigabit WiFi Router. This is a new, open box model, and it supports dual-band data rates of up to 1900Mbps, 3x faster than standard 802.11n routers. It also has 5 Gigabit Ethernet ports, and please note that this router is not compatible with Aimesh or Mesh WIFI systems. It’s $79.99 through our deal.
iPhone 13 Rumored to Include In-Screen Touch ID Sensor
According to a new rumor on Friday, the iPhone 13 may come with a fingerprint sensor underneath the display.
Jean Schulz Discusses Peanuts Partnership With Apple TV+ For The Snoopy Show
On February 5, The Snoopy Show will arrive on Apple TV+. We’ve already seen a trailer for it. Jean Schulz, the widow of late Peanuts creator Charles M. Schultz, discussed the forthcoming series with Variety.
We are so happy to have this relationship with Apple TV Plus, because they were one of the only places we talked to who wanted to do new material and be under the guidance [of ] Creative Associates, our creative arm here — people who are steeped in the “Peanuts” lore… New material in creative cooperation with us. Yes, Pixar would do it; other people would do it. But it would be their own project, not a collaboration. I think that probably would be what everybody would want. They want to have control and want it to be what they think is salable. Our interest is in keeping it as true to “Peanuts” as we can — to the comic strip, to my husband’s kind of humor and the humanity that comic strip showed.
Apple TV+ Leases 90,000 Square Feet at New York Soundstage and Production Facility
Apple TV+ has leased 90,000 square feet of space at the ONstage soundstage and production facility at Kaufman Astoria Studios, in New York.
New Research Underlines iPhone's Strong Market Position
Research released around Apple’s latest results highlighted just how strong a position the firm holds in the smartphone market.
Security Friday: App Transparency and Dots – TMO Daily Observations 2021-01-29
Andrew Orr and Jeff Butts join host Kelly Guimont to discuss Security Friday news including iOS updates and apps, and that dot on your iPhone.
Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway to Star in 'WeCrashed' WeWork Series on Apple TV+
Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway are set to star in an Apple TV+ series about the rise and fall of WeWork called ‘WeCrashed’.
Apple Releases 'Shot on iPhone 12 Pro Max' Chinese New Year Short
Apple released a new video to celebrate Chinese New Year called ‘Nian’, that was shot on an iPhone 12 Pro Max.
App Tracking Transparency Is Already Here
While developers aren’t yet required to follow the new privacy feature, App Tracking Transparency is already here. As Jeff Butts has found, there are some app developers who are even using it before they have to.
Investigation Shows Some App Store Privacy Labels are Misleading
iOS 14 added App Store privacy labels as a way for developers to disclose the data their apps collect. But some of these labels may be inaccurate.
Hyundai Apple Car Tie Up May be Hampered by Culture Clash
Executives at Hyundai are divided on the subject of working on the Apple Car, reducing the likelihood of a deal.
Pixelmator Pro ML Super Resolution Now Removes WebP Compression Artifacts
Pixelmator Pro has a new update ready, version 2.0.4. It brings an improvement to its ML Super Resolution image upscaler. It can now remove compression artifacts from WebP files. Another improvement adds support for portrait masks in Apple ProRAW images.
Pixelmator Pro already supports the WebP file format and, as it gains more users around the web, it’s becoming clear that the WebP compression algorithm produces unique compression artifacts. ML Super Resolution has already been trained to remove JPEG artifacts when resampling images but, with today’s update, it can now remove WebP artifacts too.
Apple has Released macOS Big Sur 11.2 RC 3 to Testers
Apple has released the third Release Candidate (RC) for macOS Big Sur 11.2 for developers and public beta testers.
Pandora’s Thumbprint Radio Celebrates 5th Anniversary With 50 Million Users
Since its launch five years ago, Pandora Thumbprint Radio has reached 50 million users with over 2 billion hours of music listening.
How Apple Improved iMessage Security in iOS 14
Project Zero, Google’s security team, reverse-engineered iMessage to see how Apple improved it in its latest OS 14 releases. Specially, how it has gained new protections against zero-day attacks using BlastDoor, resliding of the shared cache, and exponential throttling.
One of the major changes in iOS 14 is the introduction of a new, tightly sandboxed “BlastDoor” service which is now responsible for almost all parsing of untrusted data in iMessages (for example, NSKeyedArchiver payloads). Furthermore, this service is written in Swift, a (mostly) memory safe language which makes it significantly harder to introduce classic memory corruption vulnerabilities into the code base.
This Person Hacked His iPod to Stream Spotify Using Raspberry Pi
Guy Dupont recently hacked an old iPod to stream Spotify. He used a Raspberry PI Zero W and a custom UI built using Python. Additionally, he fitted a 1000 mAh batter into it, a motor for haptic feedback, and a 2-inch LCD Adafruit display. “My mother-in-law recently gifted me a bag of the family’s retired iPods. I had forgotten how good it feels to hold and use one of these things. Naturally, I decided to modify one. I wanted to supply some modern features (streaming, search, Bluetooth audio, etc), while paying homage to the amazing UX that Apple originally released almost 20 years ago.”