I think – I hope – my change has made me a better, more present mother. There are, after all, few things that seek quite as much attention as toddlers and WhatsApp groups. If I had to choose, I’d rather give that attention to the three-year-old trying to climb the curtains/put the dog in the washing machine/feed his baby brother a stick of chalk, than a phone that fizzes and bleats with alerts that masquerade as urgent but, really, are anything but.
Apple will begin selling new MacBook Air models featuring its latest M4 chip by March "at the latest," mirroring the time frame of the M3 MacBook Air launch last year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
Apple is "exploring" the idea of showing search ads in the Apple Maps app, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
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Ads in the Apple Maps app would not be the traditional banner ads that you see on websites, but rather paid search results.
Nadia Odunayo never planned to take on the mighty global juggernaut that is Amazon, but for many book lovers, she has become the hero they didn’t know they needed.
The purpose of a calculator app is to give you correct answers. Floating point numbers are imprecise - they cannot represent 0.3 or 10^100.
This means a calculator built on floating point numbers is like a house built on sand.
In this period of creative and financial crisis for the indie film industry, many are starting to see a different possibility — one where AI, if implemented with care, could be a catalyst for creativity rather than a threat to it.
Many artists worry about the encroachment of artificial intelligence on artistic creation. But Sougwen Chung, a nonbinary Canadian-Chinese artist, instead sees AI as an opportunity for artists to embrace uncertainty and challenge people to think about technology and creativity in unexpected ways.
I seldom turns on "Do not Disturb" on my iPhone… but I do intentionally pare down notifications from apps that I feel it is worthwhile to be disturbed by every notification that makes a sound.
There are notifications that, even though I allow, I turn off the sound. These basically fall under two categories: work apps, such as Teams, and banking apps that mixes their 2FA notifications with marketing notifications.
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