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The Intermittent-Disconnection Edition Monday, January 11, 2021

Software Fix For M1 Mac Bluetooth Connectivity Issues Reportedly On The Way, by Tim Hardwick, MacRumors

When the ‌M1‌‌ MacBook Air, ‌‌M1‌‌ MacBook Pro 13-inch, and ‌‌M1‌‌ Mac mini models arrived in customers’ hands, a number of owners almost immediately began reporting various Bluetooth problems ranging from intermittent disconnects of wireless peripherals to completely non-functional Bluetooth connections.

6 Apps To Help You Trim Down Subscriptions—and Save Money, by David Nield, Wired

They help you identify the recurring payments leaving your bank account, so you can make sure you actually want to keep subscribing to all of them.

There's more to these apps than canceling subscriptions, though. They can help you renegotiate better deals on your smartphone contract, set up savings accounts for you, manage a more effective way of paying off debt, reduce the amount you need to pay on a parking ticket, and lots more—usually with minimal effort from you.

UK Leading The Way In Use Of Language-learning Apps, by Kitti Palmai and Will Smale, BBC

For a country not renowned for its population's skill or enthusiasm at learning a foreign language, the Covid-19 pandemic appears to have seen many more Britons try their hand at becoming at least a bit bilingual.

With lockdowns limiting what we can otherwise do with our leisure time, people have been downloading apps to swap their "hellos" for a "buenos días", "bonjour" or "guten tag".

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