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HomeKit Smart doorbell with Face ID expected by 2026
Heat, heat, heat… if this doorbell can’t handle a south facing door location it will end up being a major black eye for Apple. I have TWO south facing doors in SoCal that are blasted by the sun. Dark gray doorbell cases often exceed 140 degrees (really, did nobody take thermal engineering ???)
I have been thru SIX doorbells that failed, One of the Aqara died this week. Plenty of power: 24V 40VA transformer. Great WiFi. Even tried painting eone case white. Sigh -
What to expect from the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Max
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Virginia launches first COVID-19 exposure notification app in US using Google-Apple API
Arrrgh. @heavypound is correct. I appolgize and retract my early morning statement that we would try this in California for employee clusters -- self-reporting is not supported. This app requires a six digit pin from VPH (virgina public health) upon confirmation of a positive test result.1. That is what I get for reading fast before dawn, before coffee and not attempting to submit a "positive" as a test.2. THE GOOD: news coverage says that interoperability between countries (which also implies US states) is now automatically built into the API after feedback from EU countries.3. THE BAD: we are doing things state-by-state. -
Virginia launches first COVID-19 exposure notification app in US using Google-Apple API
Our medical practice will recommend today that a couple of large local CALIFORNIA employers have staff install this Virginia app ASAP.
Best parts:
1. It works in any location.2. The API shares reported notifications “across countries” as a result of EU feedback. Here in the USA that implies (not guarantees) cross-state functionality when/if other states catch up.
Note the “works in any location” part of this design. All you need is a meaningful pool of users such as:
1,500 employees at California company A
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U.S. Senate, Google ban Zoom days after its launch of 'security council'
dysamoria said:Can anyone explain to me how this previously utterly-unknown-to-me Zoom suddenly became the video conference product of choice before the current round of realizations about how shitty it is?That is also a key source of their problems