av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 7, 2017 | Lästips
Mochelle Obama Talks Tech, Trump and Life After the White House at Apple WWDC – NBC News
Mochelle Obama shed some light on life after the White House and dropped some pearls of wisdom on Tuesday to thousands of computer programmers gathered in San Jose, California for Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference.The former first lady’s appearance was kept a secret until Monday, when Apple CEO Tim Cook announced at the end of his keynote that Obama would be joining the group for a fireside chat. (Her husband was in Canada at the time.)Cooked described Obama as someone who has been a champion for inspiring young people to reach higher.
Källa: Mochelle Obama Talks Tech, Trump and Life After the White House at Apple WWDC – NBC News
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 7, 2017 | Lästips
Content about Labour is dominating Twitter in the run-up to the general election, according to a new study from the University of Oxfords Internet Institute.The researchers, who have been tracking the changes in activity over time, looked at traffic on Twitter over the final week of May to identify trends around political engagement, ultimately cataloguing almost 2.5m tweets spread over a number of election-related hashtags.They found that the number of posts using Labour-related hashtags dwarfed those featuring content about other parties, ultimately making up 62% of all tweets mentioning a specific party. This was up from 40% at the start of the month. Labour support spiked highest during the debate programmes that occurred during that week: the back-to-back Q&A with May and Corbyn on 28 May, the general election debate on 31 May that the Prime Minister declined to attend, and Question Time on 2 June featuring the two leaders.
Källa: Labour dominating Twitter discussions, researchers say | Technology | The Guardian
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 7, 2017 | Lästips
Could Apple’s Next Move Finally Kill the Need to Carry Cash? – NBC News
The new HomePod speaker may have stolen the show at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, but there was one announcement that could help ring the death knell for something many of us use every day: cash.When the iOS 11 update is rolled out to iPhones and iPads this fall, it will come equipped with a new Apple Pay feature that will support peer-to-peer payments in iMessage, further bolstering the functionality of the mobile payments solution Apple introduced in October 2014.Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi speaks about Apple Pay on stage during Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference in San Jose, California on June 5, 2017. Josh Edelson / AFP – Getty Images”What this does is it makes you think about Apple Pay a lot more than you did before, particularly if you are in a demographic of people who already use Venmo,” Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, told NBC News. ”Based on how easy it is to do this, people are going to start sending money all over the place.”
Källa: Could Apple’s Next Move Finally Kill the Need to Carry Cash? – NBC News
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 7, 2017 | Lästips
Facebook blocks Chechnya activist page in latest case of wrongful censorship | Technology | The Guardian
Facebook censored a group of supporters of Chechen independence for violating its community standards barring organizations engaged in terrorist activity or organized criminal activity, the latest example of the social network mistakenly censoring government dissidents.The Facebook group, Independence for Chechnya!, was permanently deleted by Facebook in late May, according to the group administrator, an Estonian human rights activist who asked to be identified by her initials, MP. She said she was shocked when she received a message from Facebook informing her of the deletion. We do not support terror, MP said. We support [a] political[ly] legal way for returning Chechen independence.After the Guardian contacted Facebook about the group, it was reinstated. A company spokesperson said that the deletion had been made in error and pointed out that with millions of reports each week, the company sometimes gets things wrong.
Källa: Facebook blocks Chechnya activist page in latest case of wrongful censorship | Technology | The Guardian
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 7, 2017 | Lästips
Avgrävd fiberkabel kan påverka kunder i hela landet | SVT Nyheter
En större driftstörning har drabbat kunder som får internet via fiber från IP-Only, ett företag som levererar till flera stadsnät. Felet uppstod under tisdagseftermiddagen och var åtgärdat först vid 4.30-tiden på onsdagsmorgonen.Vid 16.30 på tisdagseftermiddagen inträffade en incident mellan Boxholm och Eksjö, på gränsen mellan Östergötland och Jönköpings län. Troligtvis har en fiberkanalisation grävts av och detta kan påverka kunder i hela landet, som på grund av detta inte har tillgång till internet via sin fiberanslutning. Felet uppkom i nätet mellan Östergötland och Småland, men även andra områden kan vara påverkade, säger Niclas Karnhill, presskontakt på IP-Only.Bland annat påverkas Aneby, Tranås och Stockholm.
Källa: Avgrävd fiberkabel kan påverka kunder i hela landet | SVT Nyheter
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 7, 2017 | Lästips
Exclusive: Apple makes iPhone screen fixes easier as states mull repair laws | Reuters
Hey Siri, where can I get my cracked iPhone screen fixed?Apple Inc customers will soon have more choices as the company looks to reduce long wait times for iPhone repairs at its retail stores.By the end of 2017, Apple will to put its proprietary machines for mending cracked iPhone glass in about 400 authorized third-party repair centers in 25 countries, company executives told Reuters.Among the first recipients is Minneapolis-based Best Buy, whoch has long sold and serviced Apple products. The electronics retailer already has one of the screen-repair machines at a Miami-area store and one coming soon to an outlet in Sunnyvale, California.Fixing cracked screens may seem like small potatoes, but it’s a multi-billion-dollar global business. The move is also a major shift for Apple. The company had previously restricted use of its so-called Horizon Machine to its nearly 500 retail stores and mail-in repair centers; and it has guarded its design closely.The change also comes as eight U.S. states have launched ”right to repair” bills aimed at prying open the tightly controlled repair networks of Apple and other high-tech manufacturers.Apple said legislative pressure was not a factor in its decision to share its technology. It allowed Reuters to view and photograph the machines in action at a lab near its Cupertino, California headquarters. Until now, Apple had never formally acknowledged the Horizon Machine’s existence.
Källa: Exclusive: Apple makes iPhone screen fixes easier as states mull repair laws | Reuters
