I’ve been watching your questions pile up on AirTags, and how to keep from losing your stuff.
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Cellebrite, the machine used to take data from your iPhone, is taking software from Apple
The Signal blog has a post which details security vulnerabilities in a Cellebrite device. Among the details they noticed? Cellebrite is using DLLs that are distributed with iTunes for Windows.
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The best summary: Making sense of the Apple products just announced, April 2021 version
Apple announced a lot of things yesterday: new iMacs, new Apple TV and remote, a new iPad Pro, and a purple iPhone. What should you get, what will actually help you, and what’s better than the last version? Buckle up, I’ll help you make sense of it.
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Nintendo Amiibo cards are bullshit
Nintendo, in partnership with Sanrio, released cards for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Basically, they sell cards with NFC chips in them to make the game attract villagers in the appearance of the Sanrio characters to your island in the game. Why are they bullshit? Because it makes no sense to program chips, print cards, packaging, and ship them around the world for what is essentially a 540 byte file for an Internet-connected game console.
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How to get that lawyer’s cat
A viral video of a lawyer on a zoom call appeared, showing a judge, opposing counsel, and a lawyer as a cat. “I’m here live, Judge. I’m not a cat,” the lawyer said.
He was absolutely frustrated by the cat filter, and the judge’s attempts to help him remove the filter. “I’m prepared to go forward with it,” the lawyer said, in a way that recalls Larry David / Arrested Development script-writing.
But that’s not important here. What’s important here is, how can we get that cat?
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Google kills Stadia, just like everything else Google has made
Stadia was Google’s in-house game development group, intended to make game streaming mainstream. Like many other things Google attempts, they found out that it’s significantly harder than they imagined initially.
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What the hell is going on with Robinhood, WSB, and Gamestop: a primer
Gamestop, AMC, Blackberry, and Nokia are all stocks that redditors at r/Wallstreetbets (WSB) identified as stocks that were being shorted by hedge funds, to the point where there were more shorts than stock.
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Keep cool with the LOOK.in Remote 2 smart AC controller
Imagine you’ve got a mini-split air conditioner. Now, imagine you’re me, and don’t want to have to get up to use a remote control to change temperatures or turn it on.
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Overviewer for iOS turns your phone into a document camera
If you’re using Zoom or videoconferencing software, you’re familiar with the fact that your iPhone’s camera is excellent, and your computer or webcam are probably horrible.
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