Apple Inc.’s long-promised overhaul for the Siri digital assistant
is facing engineering problems and software bugs, threatening to
postpone or limit its release, according to people with knowledge
of the matter.
New research published from Apple machine learning researchers Yuhan Hu, Peide Huang, Mouli Sivapurapu, Jian Zhang:
Nonverbal behaviors such as posture, gestures, and gaze are
essential for conveying internal states, both consciously and
unconsciously, in human interacti...
Joe Rosensteel:
Netflix deeply regrets accidentally making Netflix a better
product for its customers. It temporarily pushed out a change that
let people see Netflix shows in the Apple TV app, a change
people have been asking for since the debut of the Apple TV app in
20...
Guy Chazan, Amanda Chu, and Joshua Franklin, reporting for the Financial Times (left-wing anti-capitalist fake-news ideologues):
In private conversations, some Wall Street executives go much
further. One senior investment banker says the disorder and
unpredictability of ...
Key Codes displays information about the characters you type, as
you type them into the log window. For each key, you’ll see its
Unicode value, key code, and any modifiers.
Unless you’re a developer or script/macro tinkerer, you probably don’t need Key Codes. But when you do need it, it’s a godsend. There’s nothing else like it (anymore). Just a perfect little utility that the clever folks at Many Tricks have made available free of charge for a long time. (Available in the Mac App Store, too.)
Jay Peters and Alex Heath, reporting for The Verge:
Nearly a month after it was banned in the US, TikTok has returned
to the App Store for iPhones and other Apple devices as
well as the Google Play store for Android phones and
tablets.
The return follows US Attorney Gen...
Jack Ewing, reporting for The New York Times:
The department’s procurement forecast for 2025, which details
purchases the agency expects to make, includes $400 million for
armored Tesla vehicles. The document does not specify which Tesla
model, but the electric Cybertruc...
Tim Cook, on X:
Get ready to meet the newest member of the family.
Wednesday, February 19. #AppleLaunch
Most people are guessing, I think correctly, that this is about the iPhone SE 4. We’re also right on schedule for the M4 generation of MacBook Airs, but I don’t thi...
Sean Heber, of The Iconfactory:
It appears that Apple’s new account migration stuff does NOT work
for TestFlight access. That by itself is fine - whatever. The
problem here is that it appears when someone does an account
migration, it kind of half-migrates TestFlight som...
Joe Rossignol, MacRumors:
Apple this month started advertising on X for the first time in
more than a year. The company had stopped advertising on
the social media platform in November 2023 following controversial
remarks made by its owner Elon Musk.
For example, the @A...
Apple Newsroom:
The Apple TV app is now available to download from Google Play on
Android mobile devices — including phones, tablets, and foldables — offering Android users access to hit, award-winning Apple
Original series and films on Apple TV+, along with MLS Season
P...
Benj Edwards, writing at Ars Technica:
The original idea for WikiTok originated from developer Tyler
Angert on Monday evening when he tweeted, “insane project
idea: all of wikipedia on a single, scrollable page.” Bloomberg
Beta VC James Cham replied, “Even better, an inf...
WikiTok is the creation of Isaac Gemal. The premise is that it’s a TikTok-style interface for random articles from Wikipedia. One thing at a time on screen, swipe up to scroll down to the next item whenever you’re ready, and you can keep going forever if you want. But instea...
Allison Johnson, writing at The Verge:
Samsung’s Galaxy S-series is in its software era. Maybe the whole
smartphone industry is, too, save for a few phones with hinges
(Samsung’s included). But overall, we have exited the
hardware-driven innovation cycle and are firmly i...
Qianer Liu and Jing Yang, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas — MacRumors summary):
Apple has recently started working with Chinese internet and
e-commerce giant Alibaba Group to roll out artificial intelligence
features in China, according to one person with ...
From the Apple Newsroom archive, dateline “Macworld Expo, San Francisco — January 5, 2000”:
Apple today took the wraps off its highly anticipated Internet
strategy, introducing a new category of Internet services called
iTools; a completely redesigned Apple.com web site ...
Pixelmator last year announced that it was being acquired
by Apple, and today the company confirmed that the acquisition has
been completed after Apple received regulatory approval. The
Pixelmator for iOS, Pixelmator Pro, and Photomator apps were today
updated with a new splash screen announcing the deal.
New Apple support document dropped today:
You can choose to migrate apps, music, and other content you’ve
purchased from Apple on a secondary Apple Account to a primary
Apple Account. The secondary Apple Account might be an account
that’s used only for purchases. You’ll ...
Angela Watercutter, with a great behind-the-scenes look at the Apple-Music-sponsored halftime show by Kendrick Lamar:
While “making it work” means one thing when you’re putting on a
Madonna concert or the Democratic National Convention, it means
something different when ...
A scorebug is industry jargon for the sub-genre of chyron (itself jargon) that shows ever-present information about a televised sporting event while you’re watching. These graphics display the teams, the score, the time remaining, and other metadata pertaining to the current...
Well, the Philadelphia Eagles, of course, won the actual Super Bowl, winning in a romp so one-sided that they would have embarrassed the Chiefs less if they had pantsed Patrick Mahomes at the 50-yard line. But the second contest is for best commercial. And my vote goes to Ni...
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Looks like more of an Eddy scene than a Tim scene, but everyone’s having fun. There’s a reason this is the 11th Super Bowl held in New Orleans.
Should be a good football game, too. The Chiefs and Eagles are both very good teams (and both very well-run franchises). There’s a...
Zara Stone, reporting for The Standard:
“There’s a renaissance happening now in Aaron Swartz-land,” said
Lisa Rein, the co-founder of Creative Commons, a nonprofit devoted
to expanding public access to information. She founded Aaron
Swartz Day in 2013, an annual hackatho...
TikTok, on X:
We’re enhancing ways for our community to continue using TikTok by
making Android Package Kits available at
http://TikTok.com/download so that our U.S. Android users can
download our app and create, discover, and connect on TikTok.
Tens of millions of use...
Jason Snell, in a column for Macworld back in November (same column at Six Colors, for members):
This is an important moment. Apple has built two separate models
for running software on our devices. In one, there’s a gradient of
trustworthiness that strongly encourages u...
Ashley Belanger, reporting for Ars Technica on new details from an authors group lawsuit alleging Meta trained its AI models on a trove of pirated books:
Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large
dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of million...
This week Jason Snell published his annual Six Colors Apple Report Card for 2024. As I’ve done in the past — 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 — I’m publishing my full remarks and grades here. On Snell’s report card, voters give per-category scores ranging from 5 to 1; I’ve...
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