Like most pet owners, I’ve always wondered about Vlada’s doubtless rich inner life, and whether she’s actually as scornful of me as her behavior often suggests. So when a friend and fellow cat owner told me about MeowTalk, an app that records your cat’s vocalizations and (after a 30-second video) “translates” them into English, I didn’t delay in giving it a try.
Apple has announced Tap to Pay on iPhone in France, allowing independent sellers, small merchants, and large retailers in the country to use iPhones as a payment terminal.
Gentler Streak's approach is far more sustainable and the funny part is I'm not really doing workouts or exercises that are any different to before. I'm still running, I'm actually doing a Couch to 5K plan again to build my cardio fitness and doing kettlebells just like I have been for years. The only difference this time is that I'm following my gentle path to progress instead of religiously following a preset schedule.
The upgraded app adds several new nodes, including a Super Resolution node that uses machine learning to scale an image up to 4x, a Photos Export node that can download from iCloud as well as export unmodified originals from Photos, a Get Selected Finder Images node (not available in App Store version), and a GPS node.
The stark contrast between what Apple now professes to believe — that repairing devices is good for consumers’ pocketbooks and the planet — and its decision to discourage unsanctioned fixes by pairing specific parts to specific devices, highlights a sobering reality right-to-repair activists are now confronting: despite a recent string of hard-won victories, the fight for affordable, accessible, and universal access to repair is far from over. Following years of pressure from consumers, shareholders, activists, and regulators, tech companies are finally cracking open the door to repair. But unless these corporations are forced to do more, our devices will continue to die early deaths because they are difficult to disassemble, the manufacturer stops offering software support, or the only way to make them work again is to purchase pricey replacement parts from the original device maker.
The updates explain how continuous glucose monitors “can empower people with diabetes to gain insight into how different foods, activities, and life stressors affect glucose.” When this data is supplemented with data from Apple Watch about activity, steps, sleep, and menstrual cycles, it provides an even bigger “treasure-trove of information.”
Google pays Apple Inc. 36% of the revenue it earns from search advertising made through the Safari browser, the main economics expert for the Alphabet Inc. unit said Monday.
Kevin Murphy, a University of Chicago professor, disclosed the number during his testimony in Google’s defense at the Justice Department’s antitrust trial in Washington.
My iPhone contains so many secrets -- from banking apps to photos to messages -- that I do want to know where I can go for repairs if I don't want my secrets to leak during the repair or even after the repair.
Yes, I get that there may be others who don't have much secrets on their phones, and their objective may well be to find the cheapest good-enough repair shop.
That's fine. But I do want to be able to easily tell which is which.
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