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The Essential-Companion Edition Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Pushing The Limit With Apple Watch Ultra And The Speed Project, by Apple

The team’s Speed Project route took the runners out of Los Angeles, up through the Antelope Valley, past the San Gabriel Mountains, through the Mojave Desert, along the edge of Death Valley National Park, and finally across the finish line in Las Vegas.

Through it all — the rugged landscape, the sleep deprivation, the dehydration, the extreme temperatures, and the pouring rain — Apple Watch Ultra 2 was an essential companion, offering the 12-member team the ability to instantly keep tabs on each others’ locations, take hands-free calls, keep an eye on their pace, provide visibility in the darkness, and view their elevation.

Apple Is Restricting The Potential Of Vision Pro Apps, But For A Good Reason, by Alex Blake, TechRadar

Ultimately, there’s a very good reason why Apple prevents apps from using the Vision Pro’s camera feed: privacy. Granting access to the camera might enable the creation of some useful apps, but it could also invade the privacy of everyone in the vicinity if an untrustworthy app developer uses it for nefarious purposes.

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Life360 Launches Flight Landing Notifications To Alert Friends And Family, by Ivan Mehta, TechCrunch

Family location services company Life360 has launched a new notification for its apps to automatically alert friends and family when you reach a destination after taking a flight.

Life360 said that the feature uses phone sensors to measure location, altitude and speed to determine if you are taking a flight. Plus, its algorithms can detect takeoff and landing times, and alert family members when you connect to the network post-landing.

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How Amateur Performers Are Making Porn In The Apple Vision Pro, by Samantha Cole, 404 Media

The Apple Vision Pro is expensive, and for a while after launch, no one could figure out how to get porn to play properly on the $4,000 headset. But it turns out the easiest way to get porn onto the Vision Pro is to record it using the Vision Pro itself. The device records natively from inside the headset, and is a lot cheaper and less cumbersome for performers than wearing multiple DSLRs on your head while trying to stay hard.

The Web Became A Strip Mall, by Ian Bogost, The Atlantic

So I’ve begun letting my domains lapse—the equivalent of finally junking an unfinished project in the closet or letting a yard grow feral. Business.com is just a website now. Viva.com is a European bank. Yahoo.com is a joke. A domain used to mark off the space for a dream online. Now most of those dreams have been realized, or abandoned.

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Now with more top-level domains available to everybody, why hasn't the price of owning a domain name drop to impulse-levels?

(And yes, I do still have a few domain names of which I have no idea how to use them. I don't have that many hobby projects.)

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