Even though NameDrop is auto-enabled when you update to iOS 17, it’s crucial to note that consent is required throughout the process. Some random person on the street can’t just bump into you for a few seconds, and then walk away with your phone number.
The truth: NameDrop is quite safe. The warnings about this technology are wildly exaggerated.
Chester Wisniewski, a digital security specialist at Sophos, called the warnings about NameDrop “hysteria” and “nonsense.”
So you shouldn't worry about NameDrop. But you should worry that police and news organizations are failing you by sounding false alarms about technology.
Final Cut Pro 10.7 is shaping up to be a solid update and includes long-awaited features like automatic timeline scrolling. Having the ability to tap into multiple media engines on export is also a noteworthy enhancement, as is the ability to create instantly expandable and collapsible connected storylines.
Yet, there are still quite a few glaring omissions that Final Cut Pro users have been pining for, and those thinking we might get them with this update may come away a bit disappointed. For example, text-based editing, a feature on competing NLEs from Blackmagic Design and Adobe, would allow users to edit their footage based solely on rearranging speech-to-text dialogue. This, along with integrated audio transcription, seems like an obvious feature given the power of the Neural Engine in Apple’s M-series chips.
Momenta has issued version 18.3 of Agenda, adding support for grouping notes in projects and overviews by their Done status.
In late August, Rest of World visited Sunguvarchatram, where Foxconn and other Apple suppliers were working at full throttle ahead of the iPhone 15 launch. We spoke with more than two dozen assembly line workers, technicians, engineers, and managers, all of whom requested anonymity or pseudonyms to avoid being identified by their employers.
They detailed the successes, struggles, and cultural clashes that, over the past year or so, have played out on one of the world’s most consequential factory floors. In China, Foxconn demands long days, high targets, and minimal delays and mistakes — all of which proved difficult, if not impossible, to replicate in India.
Today, it is increasingly difficult to find phones in the North American market that still have a headphone jack. It’s of course possible this is a massive market failure, but we suspect the revealed preference of consumers is that Apple was right. Most people don’t care about having a physical headphone jack or would happily trade it for a few more minutes of battery.
I sure hope software developers are not paying attention from what's happening with streaming television, and start adding new subscription tiers that comes with ads and jacking up prices of existing non-advertisement tiers.
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