av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 23, 2020 | Lästips
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What the EU Gets Right—and the US Gets Wrong—About Antitrust
THERE’S A GROWING bipartisan consensus in the US to rein in the massive power accumulated by dominant tech firms. From state capitals to Congress, officials have launched multiple investigations of whether the big four of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are now forces more for harm than good and whether their size and scale demand government action to curtail them or potentially break them up.
US regulators have not yet shown all their cards, but they should pause before arguing that too big equals anticompetitive, or seeking to break up or substantially restructure the tech giants. Instead, they might want to look to Europe.
Källa: What the EU Gets Right—and the US Gets Wrong—About Antitrust
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 23, 2020 | Lästips
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Apples satsning på AR, Augmented Reality, är ingen hemlighet och trots att det är Apples hemliga vapen så har du redan AR – i din iPhone.
Sometime in the not-too-distant future, Apple will reportedly unveil an augmented- or mixed-reality headset. Apple hasn’t discussed any headgear yet. But augmented reality is alive and well on the iPhone — and it’s getting better fast.
Apple began its AR journey in 2017, making a splash with virtual Ikea furniture and realistic-looking outdoor Pokemon Go battles. This year, I’ve been standing on street corners scanning fire hydrants with Apple’s new iPhone 12 Pro. I’ve mapped my house’s interior. I’ve navigated lava rivers on my floors.
In many ways, Apple’s depth-sensing lidar sensor on the latest iPhones and iPads, with its advanced 3D-scanning possibilities, feels like the backbone of the Apple headsets of the future.
CNet
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 13, 2020 | Lästips
Tid för att läsa: < 1 minutPå torsdagskvällen lanserade Apple macOS Big Sur och fick samtidigt stora problem med ett av sina säkerhetssystemen – en funktion som kontrollerar de program du startar i din Mac.
macOS kontrollerar nämligen program som du startar och det görs med kommunikation med Apple – om datorn är uppkopplad. Jeffrey Paul är säkerhetskonsult, hackare och grundare av EEQJ, ett konsultföretag.
It’s here. It happened. Did you notice?
I’m speaking, of course, of the world that Richard Stallman predicted in 1997. The one Cory Doctorow also warned us about.
On modern versions of macOS, you simply can’t power on your computer, launch a text editor or eBook reader, and write or read, without a log of your activity being transmitted and stored.
It turns out that in the current version of the macOS, the OS sends to Apple a hash (unique identifier) of each and every program you run, when you run it. Lots of people didn’t realize this, because it’s silent and invisible and it fails instantly and gracefully when you’re offline, but today the server got really slowand it didn’t hit the fail-fast code path, and everyone’s apps failed to open if they were connected to the internet.
Jeffrey Paul
Tack till Christoffer för tipset.
av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 29, 2020 | Lästips
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Sara Silverman är en av USAs mest kända komiker – hon har en egen show, syns ofta i tv-sofforna när hon inte gästspelar i filmer och tv-serier. 2007 fick hon hård kritik för att några år tidigare målat sig svart – blackface – i en sketch. Kritiken och upprördheten kostade henne en filmroll.
Frågan är när är det tid för att förlåta, låta saker vara och gå vidare?
Sarah Silverman has argued in favour of a “path to redemption” for people facing instances of “cancel culture”.
The comedian herself has faced backlash for wearing blackface in a 2007 sketch. She said last year that she lost out on a movie role due to a resurfaced photo of the sequence.
She referred to Christian Picciolini, a former skinhead who left a white supremacist movement in 1996 and has since worked as an activist against hate groups. Silverman interviewed Picciolini in an episode of her series I Love You, America in 2017.
The Independent
av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 25, 2020 | Lästips
Tid för att läsa: < 1 minut EVEN WITH A knee injury, Maddie Stone is formidable. As she sets up to do modified circuits at her San Francisco Olympic weightlifting gym—essentially a glorified garage and driveway that have been converted into an indoor/outdoor workout space—she’s totally at ease, even gleeful despite the chilly January fog. I joke nervously that if I end up puking in a trash can while Maddie is crushing reps, it’ll at least make for a good anecdote. Casually setting the clips on her loaded barbell she flashes one of her trademark grins. “You could probably make it happen!”
Stone’s smile and easy laugh may be her most recognizable traits, but her determination reveals itself quickly, too. Her bum knee has been keeping her from doing her preferred workouts—everything from wall stands to the rowing machine is now off limits—so she settles for modified lifts and grinds away on upper-body machines. (“Now is the time to get Michelle Obama arms.”) After years playing competitive tennis in her youth, Stone, now 29, is more used to knee surgeries than she would like. Moving her focus to Olympic lifting and hiking during her twenties didn’t help. Last year she even summited Mount Kilimanjaro.
Wired
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 27, 2020 | Lästips
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Internt får ledningen för Facebook hård kritik för att slippa igenom hat, rasism och vara för slapphänt mot Donald Trump.
Stora delar av den amerikanska användarbasen tycker tvärtom – att Facebook censurerar och slår mot konservativa åsikter.
Mark Zuckerberg, grundare, försöker hitta en medelväg och hålla sig i mitten.
In 2020, Facebook would be roiled by a global pandemic, internal protests over racial injustice, a deeply polarizing election, and the ongoing threat of multiple state and federal investigations into antitrust and privacy. But on the morning of July 16th, Mark Zuckerberg found his workforce asking for something else: their missing office snacks.
A major sell to candidates is our office perks include free food, read the question, which had ranked near the top of questions asked that week in an internal poll. And now, with work from home, we’ve lost a huge financial part of our package. What is the plan on this?
The Verge
