The very name, Universal Serial Bus (or USB) is an ambitious promise: One port to rule them all. The reality is unfortunately messier than that. While your phone, tablet, and laptop might all use the same USB-C port for charging and transferring data these days, they can all work differently.
What's USB4? What's Thunderbolt? Is it the same as USB-C? I'm here to help answer all of those questions, so you can get the best performance out of your devices.
Getting into this headspace may be difficult for product designers who want to stay focused on new exciting ways to use products, who may not yet have had someone close to them pass away. It’s a difficult thing to do, but unlike many flashy features built for a subset of users, this pertains to everyone. Death comes for us all, and I’d like better digital tools in place for us to deal with it.
Although Apple isn’t perfect by any means, this white paper makes it clear that Apple does care about the longevity of its products, more so than its competitors. It also ends with an explicit and emphatic denial of the idea of built-in obsolescence.
Later this year, millions of Apple devices will begin running Apple Intelligence, Cupertino's take on generative AI that, among other things, lets people create images from text prompts. But some members of the creative community are unhappy about what they say is the company’s lack of transparency around the raw information powering the AI model that makes this possible.
The Cyberduck team has issued version 9.0 of its open-source file transfer app, adding support for versioning of files edited in external apps.
Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices, with more than 1,000 regulations requiring its use.
But these rules have now finally been scrapped, said Digital Minister Taro Kono.
These are the portable storage media that I have used in my entire life so far: floppies, writable CDs, Zips, thumb drives, and flash cards. I do not miss a single one of them.
On the other hand, I do miss the anticipations and novelty of browsing through CDs that came bundled with magazines: all the freewares, sharewares, Quicktime videos, and MP3s.
~
Thanks for reading.