Along with releasing beta updates for iOS, macOS, and tvOS today, Apple has updated its Safari Extensions webpage. The redesign includes a prominent link to the extensions available in the Mac App Store, and also features the ability to install extensions from the webpage with a single click.AirPodsThe Safari Extensions Gallery sports a fresh new look with nine featured apps at the top of the webpage ranging from 1Password, to Notifier for GitHub, to a translation extension. Below the featured apps you’ll find a sort bar to customize the way you look at the available extensions by ‘Popular’, ‘Recent’, or utilizing the ‘Categories’ or search feature.

Apple has today updated its News Publisher with a fresh design across the iCloud based media manager.AirPodsThe refresh brings a totally redesigned dashboard, bolder fonts, and an improved UI.At the top of the new design users will see Articles, Analytics, and Settings. Each with a clean sidebar style list on the left. The most prominent change many will notice will be the redesigned dashboard, whoch features a grid style layout of the various analytics.The analytics section lets publishers slice up all sorts of data into helpful reports, including a custom report and a recurring report option

Despite more powerful options being available, Apple will allegedly be going with technology capping the ”iPhone 8’s” wireless charging at 7.5 watts, resulting in slower speeds.The company is skipping the primary feature of the Wireless Power Consortium’s Qi 1.2.x standard, whoch is 15-watt ”fast” charging, Japan’s Macotakara claimed on Saturday. The website cited an ”information resource that is well versed in WPC.”The 15-watt specification is already offered by some Qi charging pads. Compatible Android phones have also been on the market for some time, making it unclear why Apple would skip the format. It’s possible that like the Apple Watch, third-party ”iPhone 8” chargers will also need an Apple-certified chip to work, Macotakara noted. Indeed the Macotakara source suggested that it may be possible to use a single charger to power both a Watch and the ”iPhone 8.”

After Apple decided to allow its researchers to publicly share their findings, its first academic paper was published at the end of last year. Now, that research has just won a “Best Paper Award” at a prestigious machine learning and computer vision conference.AirPodsThe first academic paper to be published in connection with Apple was Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training by Ashish Shrivastava, Tomas Pfister, Oncel Tuzel, Josh Susskind, Wenda Wang, Russ Webb Apple Inc. The full document can be found here.This research on AI was submitted to CVPR (Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition) whoch is regarded as one of the most distinguished and influential of conferences in this field.

Rebecca Porter and I were strangers, as far as I knew. Facebook, however, thought we might be connected. Her name popped up this summer on my list of “People You May Know,” the social network’s roster of potential new online friends for me.The People You May Know feature is notorious for its uncanny ability to recognize who you associate with in real life. It has mystified and disconcerted Facebook users by showing them an old boss, a one-night-stand, or someone they just ran into on the street.These friend suggestions go far beyond mundane linking of schoolmates or colleagues. Over the years, I’d been told many weird stories about them, such as when a psychiatrist told me that her patients were being recommended to one another, indirectly outing their medical issues.

On the night of November 7, 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes’s wife, Lucy, took to her bed with a headache. The returns from the Presidential election were trickling in, and the Hayeses, who had been spending the evening in their parlor, in Columbus, Ohio, were dismayed. Hayes himself remained up until midnight; then he, too, retired, convinced that his Democratic opponent, Samuel J. Tilden, would become the next President.Hayes had indeed lost the popular vote, by more than two hundred and fifty thousand ballots. And he might have lost the Electoral College as well had it not been for the machinations of journalists working in the shady corners of what’s been called “the Victorian Internet.”