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FaceTime alternative ToTok is a spy tool, purged from App Store
From the article:
” Officials have found that the government of the United Arab Emirates have been using ToTok to track users. This includes, but is not limited to data mining text conversations, collection of physical locations through location services, and recording of any sound and audio used by the device.”
Isn’t that essentially what FB, Google, and Alexa all do to varying degrees?
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Allegations of discrimination spawn investigation into Apple Card credit lines
When I was younger, and foolish, I worked in debt collections. We had access to a debt holders full credit report, but not any investments. We could only see loans through various lenders, but not if you had a rich aunt that put a bunch of money into an Ameritrade account for you. We could not see inheritance.apple ][ said:Haha, what a bunch of crap.
There are many factors that go into a credit score, and there is no minus on your score for being a female and there is no secret conspiracy against females, and various companies, in this case, Goldman Sachs has whatever criteria they have for approving or not approving applicants.
What's his income, what's his wife's income? Just because somebody is married that doesn't mean that their credit scores or their credit limit or their history will be identical.
I've never heard of this guy before or Ruby on Rails, but I read a few of the whiny tweets and BS claims he makes and he sounds like a real SJW and he probably has a pink pussy hat in his closet.
Hilarious how much mansplaining is flowing in this thread.
I’d be surprised to learn if the team at Apple working on this wasn’t over-represented with men, or at least women who haven’t had to worry about credit approval.
So yeah, I completely stand by my original charge: @AppleCard is a sexist program.Most importantly, each individual credit report was just that, individual. There were no joint credit reports.
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Xcode confirms Apple Watch S5 CPU is the same as S4, 10.2-inch iPad has 3GB RAM
I think in the keynote they mentioned that the series 5 display has a variable refresh rate, down to 1hz, which enables the always on functionality.NemWan said:So what would Series 4 battery life be if they implemented always-on display in a software update?
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Apple Pay VP Jennifer Bailey keen on cryptocurrency, iPhone as identification
From what I understand of blockchains is that they store every previous state, so that the energy usage grows exponentially over time. At least that’s how an electronics engineer explained it to me.larryjw said:I haven’t heard anything that would convince me cryptocurrencies are viable.
Coin mining takes the energy of a small city, yet they can only handle seven (7) transactions per second.
Cold fusion and cryptocurrencies are have a lot in common.
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USB 4 is here, and is essentially Thunderbolt 3
Ha! The pages states 550 three times by my count, the first two of which are quite prominent.mr. h said:
Is this a trick question? The page you linked to states over and over again that the read speeds are up to 550 MB/s.riclf said:What I'd like to ask the great minds at AppleInsider and their very smart readership is WHY, if I use a new Sandisk Extreme Portable SSD https://www.sandisk.com/home/ssd/extreme-portable-ssd configured with a USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C connector, connected to a new Macbook Pro's Thunderbolt 3 port, do I ONLY get 550MB/s (4Gbps) instead of 10Gbps (1250MB/s) ? Seems like I'm chugging at half speed. What am I missing here?
