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The Packed-With-Features Edition Sunday, July 29, 2018

A Runner’s Guide To The Apple Watch, by Vanessa Hand Orellana, CNET

Whether you're a seasoned runner training for your race, or just getting started on your jogging journey, the Apple Watch can help get you there.

Though not a designated running watch, the Apple Watch is packed with features to help you log miles and keep you motivated while you run. You just need to know how to find them.

Here are a few tips to make your Apple Watch a better running buddy.

A Month With iOS 12 Beta: These 2 Features Changed Everything, by Jason Snell, Tom's Guide

iOS devices have been as powerful as traditional PCs for a few years now, but the mobile operating systems have limited the ability for users to maximize their full potential. Tools like Shortcuts begin to allow more dedicated users to truly harness that power. It's exciting, and I think it's going to be a big boost for iOS productivity.

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Apple Shows Off HomePod In New Apple Music Ad With DJ Khaled, by Chance Miller, 9to5Mac

To celebrate and promote the release of his new single “No Brainer,” DJ Khaled is appearing in a new advertisement from Apple. In the ad, Apple shows off Apple Music, while the HomePod also makes a few appearances.

How Indie Audio Companies Are Pulling Out All The Stops To Compete Against Amazon, Apple, by Ariel Shapiro, CNBC

The product landscape — and the dominance of the bigger brands — means that independent audio product makers have their work cut out for them in trying to generate sales and forge loyalty with consumers. Recently, CNBC spoke with a few of these smaller brands, to get an idea of how they persuade buyers to ditch audio products made by big technology competitors.

Autodesk Dropping Support For Alias And VRED In macOS Mojave Over OpenGL Deprecation, by Stephen Silver, AppleInsider

Autodesk has published a support document announcing that it is stopping development of its Alias and VRED vertical market packages, and that older versions will not work on Mojave due to Apple's OpenGL deprecation.

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Is COBOL Holding You Hostage With Math?, by Marianne Bellotti, Medium

So when considering why so much of our society still runs on COBOL, one needs to realize that the task of rebuilding an application is not the same as the task of building it. The original programmers had the luxury of gradual adoption. Applications tend to pushed out towards the limits of what their technologies can support. The dilemma with migrating COBOL is not that you are migrating from one language to another, but that you are migrating from one paradigm to another.

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How Facial Recognition Will Change Your Face, by Colin Horgan, Medium

What does a facial recognition camera “see” when it spots our face amongst all the others? How does it know who’s looking at it — or who it’s looking at? The answer is that it essentially does to each of us what Fabre did to himself. It considers our face, and by extension us, as pure data. Under the gaze of a facial recognition camera, we are not ourselves; we are digital renderings of ourselves.

What does all this mean for our face?

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I hope that all my favorite apps on my iPhone will support Shortcuts quickly.

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The problem with the current Mac lineup from Apple, I feel, is not that there is nothing worth getting. No, in most cases, the computers are quite good. And macOS is still excellent.

The problem is that if you buy a Mac today, you have to understand what you are getting into.

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Thanks for reading.