av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 11, 2020 | Lästips
Välkommen till platsen där det inte finns något internet, inget mobilnät – en plats utan nät.
Viral dance memes and dance challenges on TikTok largely bypass Green Bank, W.Va. So do viral sensations like augmented reality filters on Snapchat and Instagram.
And when a Facebook fad had people all over the globe dumping ice water on their heads a few summers ago, Charity Warder, now a senior at Pocahontas County High School, was late to the game.
Sure, Charity has an iPhone, but she uses it mostly as a clock and a calculator. She makes phone calls from a landline, and she rarely texts her friends. Texting and driving? “It’s not a thing here,” she said.
When Charity wants to get online at home, she sits at her family’s desktop computer, which has a broadband connection that is so sluggish, it takes minutes to load a YouTube video.
New York Times
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 1, 2020 | Lästips
Lauren Powell Jobs är återfinns på plats nummer 35 över världens rikaste människor. Sedan Steve Jobs bortgång så har hon hållit sig undan publika framträdanden men på senare år så har han förvärvat andelar i flera tidningar och andra medier.
I en exklusiv intervju med New York Times berättar Lauren Powell Jobs om sin syn på klimatförändringar, medier, den amerikanska demokratin ich det jot hon anser att Donald Trump utgör.
Before I could interview Laurene Powell Jobs, she wanted to interview me.
It was an unusual request, but not a particularly surprising one coming from Ms. Powell Jobs. Nearly a decade after the death of her husband, the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, she remains an intensely private person.
When Mr. Jobs was alive, Ms. Powell Jobs stayed out of the public eye. She ran a natural food company, worked on education and immigration reform, and cared for their family. And while Ms. Powell Jobs has in recent years become increasingly ambitious with her business and philanthropy, she keeps a low profile, granting relatively few interviews and eschewing the spotlight. If she was going to agree to a sit-down, she wanted some sense of who would be asking the questions.
New York Times
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 14, 2020 | Lästips
Schweiziska Crypto skickade data från 120 länder vidare till amerikanska CIA i över 50 år. Hemlig underrättelseinformation skickades vidare från företaget som har svenska kopplingar.
Den svenska uppfinnare och entreprenören Boris Hagelin flydde via Norge till USA under andra världskriget ich gjorde då affärer med den amerikanska militären då Hagelin sålde krypteringsutrustning. Boris Hagelin drog vidare till Schweiz där han startade Crypto AG. Schweiz var en förutsättning för att Hagelin skulle kunna sälja sina krypteringslösningar mera fritt. de svenska neutralitetslagarna satte hinder i vägen annars men i Schweiz gick det att starta upp ett bolag i branschen.
Hela historien nystades upp redan 2016 i Sixten Svenssons bok. Då fick uppgifterna ingen större uppmärksamhet, förrän nu då Washington Post publicerat uppgifterna.
Länkar
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 8, 2020 | Lästips
Blackberry var en av de mest använda mobiltelefonerna – innan Apple lanserade iPhone. Idag kommer användare knappt ihåg Blackbery och minns inte hur telefonen såg ut. Det här är historien om hur Apple och iPhone dödade en av de mest använda telefonerna.
Apple found unprecedented mainstream success with the iPod. 1000 songs in our pockets was just the beginning. But Steve Jobs never made the mistake of confusing Apple’s products for its business. And he knew the iPod was just a product.
The iPod was the smash hit of its time, to be sure, but time is relentless. Something was coming for it. Something that was more than just a product. A convergence. The phone combined with the mobile internet and, yes, with the MP3 player. An existential threat.
So, Jobs turned Apple towards the iPhone. And, at that moment, that very moment, BlackBerry was ended. We just didn’t know it yet.
iMore
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 3, 2020 | Lästips
Jonah goldberg, the conservative author and longtime fixture at National Review, used to have a go-to metaphor he’d deploy whenever he found himself defending one of his noisier compatriots in the right-wing media.
“I had this whole spiel about how the conservative movement is like a symphony,” he told me in a recent interview. “You need the fine woodwinds like Yuval Levin or Irving Kristol, but you also need that guy with the big gong who just smashes out the notes.” Sure, the talk-radio ranters were shouty and crass, he would reason, but they had their part to play.
These days, Goldberg has abandoned such rationalizations. “We’re holding a lot of symphonies where it’s basically all gong,” he said. “I didn’t think the gong would swamp the woodwinds quite the way it did.” Looking back, he admits even he was part of the problem: “I could be quite loud.”
Källa: The Conservatives Trying to Ditch Fake News
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 19, 2020 | Lästips
Amid its ongoing encryption battle with the FBI, Apple has published its latest biannual transparency report. This report reveals how many requests were made for user data by governments around the world, and how many with which Apple could comply.
This data covers January 1, 2019 through June 30, 2019. Apple is required by Justice Department rules to delay the release of these figures by six months, as noted by TechCrunch’s Zack Whittaker.
During this period, Apple says that governments made 31,778 requests for devices, which up by around 500 compared to the first half of 2018. Those requests covered a total of over 195,000 devices, and Apple says it was able to provide data in 82% of those instances. On a per-country basis, Germany made the most device requests at just over 13,500. The United States made 4,796 requests.
Källa: Apple publishes new transparency report detailing govt data requests and App Store removals – 9to5Mac
