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Apple TV+ greenlights 'Foundation' season two
I’m not sure when this show will get to Foundation’s “sequel books,” which were books 6 & 7 but they were ABSOLUTELY the best books. They were also the first books of Asimov to hit the NY Times best seller lists.
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Google kills plans to offer bank accounts through Google Pay
Google Plex! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex <--
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Doctor uses iPhone 13 Pro camera to take macro images of patient's eyes
That's a fair question/point, but all digital cameras have been altering colour since their invention because every camera sensor has twice as many green detectors as red or blue. This processing is done in order to create the RAW image file. People think RAW files are unprocessed, but they are very much processed to account for the colour changes required.begborrow said:Does it make any sense for a doctor to use, for diagnostic purposes, a camera system designed specifically to alter the resulting images?
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Apple threatened to pull Facebook from the App Store over human trafficking
Clearly human trafficking and Facebook are evil things and should be banned worldwide permanently.
But this raises some interesting questions. For example, what is the complete list of services that are banned from the App Store worldwide? I'm looking at the App Store guidelines and there is a complete prohibition on Human Trafficking (section 5) tobacco (section 1.4.3), and a few other things.
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ <--
But surely it's a tricky area for Apple to be in charge of a list for banning apps worldwide when different countries have different laws. For example, China has a long list of apps that Apple cannot sell on its app store in China (eg, Twitter, FaceBook, Youtube, Instagram, WhatsApp, Tinder, Google, etc.) So you could say that China's app restrictions are adding to Apple's app restrictions. But on the other hand you could say that each country permits, rather than bans, apps. There's no practical difference between having a "permitted list" and a "prohibited list," since the end result can be the same. One list might be shorter than the other, but the result is the same.
I'd like to see a complete list of which apps are allowed (or banned) in each country. Is there a website that tracks these things? I couldn't find one. I found several countries with lists of banned apps, but nothing that tracks the situation world-wide.
During my research I was surprised to learn that TikTok is banned in China even though it's actually developed there. That doesn't instil in me a lot of confidence in that product. There is a different product from the same company for use in China, but it has different client code, different server code, and different censorship rules. I presume/guess that the version for China has more privacy violations than the one for outside China. But there probably are no privacy laws in China, so that's legal there.
This is a tricky area for Apple to deal with. It probably keeps Apple's lawyers busy.
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'M1X' MacBook Pro set to arrive in 'several weeks'
I'm very happy with my M1 Mac Mini and bought a $10 USB hub to allow more USB ports for things like charging my other Apple devices. The thing that impresses me most is that its temperature is cold, even when running heavy software. Whereas my new Intel Mac Mini could fry an egg on its surface (and feels 50% slower when running certain software.) Please pardon my language, but this analogy seems pertinent: if Intel's chips burn as hot as hell, maybe the company is going to burn in hell also.
Although it's always smart to avoid purchasing products that are about to be updated, I've heard pundits back in January 2021 advising purchasers to wait until the M1X comes out. Meanwhile I've been using this machine daily for nearly a year, and loving it.
