av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 16, 2020 | Lästips
PCWorlds Ryan Whitwam har gjort resan från Android till iPhone ich iOS. Läs hans text om vad Apple gör bra och vad Apple gör mindre bra, enligt hans sätt att se det.
I hopped on the Android bandwagon early: I sold my iPhone 3G in 2009, bought an HTC Hero, and never looked back. I’ve been using Android every day since then, writing about Google’s platform as a tech journalist. Nonetheless, I’ve tried to keep pace with iPhone developments, and recently set aside a week of my life to get reacquainted with Apple’s smartphone.
I put all my Android phones in a drawer and settled into life with the iPhone 11 Pro. Admittedly, the iPhone does some things extremely well, even for a long-time Android user like myself. However, there are also plenty of things I hate with a fiery passion.
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av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 9, 2020 | Lästips, Tipset: TV och Film
Året som nyss passerats var ett rekordår för Apples tjänstedel. En rad nya tjänster lanserades parallellt med att tidigare tjänster hittade fler kunder och abonnenter än någonsin.
Apple inledde övergången från hårdvara (iPhone) till tjänster för flera år sedan och tjänstedelen har en mycket snabb tillväxt.
“2019 was the biggest year for Services in Apple’s history. We introduced several exciting new experiences for our customers, all while setting the standard for user privacy and security,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “We begin the new decade with incredible momentum and gratitude to our customers who have shown such enthusiasm for all of our Services, and we continue to celebrate the work of the world’s best creators, storytellers, journalists and developers.”
Rullar ut dem
Apple Arcade, Apple TV+, Apple News+ och Apple Card är nya tjänster som lanserades 2019 och Apple rullar just nu ut dem över världen vilket betyder att Apple bör kunna se fram mot fortsatt tillväxt.
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av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 7, 2020 | Lästips
A brutal year: how the ’techlash’ caught up with Facebook, Google and Amazon
Privacy scandals and antitrust issues dogged Facebook and Google and Amazon saw a rise in employee organizing
What goes up must come down, and in 2019, gravity reasserted itself for the tech industry.
After years of relatively unchecked growth, the tech industry found itself on the receiving end of increased scrutiny from lawmakers and the public and attacks from its own employees.
“The whole year has been brutal for tech companies,” said Peter Yared, chief executive officer and founder of data compliance firm InCountry. “The techlash we have seen in the rest of the world is just now catching up in the US – it’s been a long time coming.”
From new privacy legislation to internal strife, here are some of the major hurdles the tech industry has faced in the past year.
Källa: A brutal year: how the ’techlash’ caught up with Facebook, Google and Amazon
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 6, 2020 | Lästips
Vår nya digitala tillvaro har skapat speciella problem för en mycket speciell verksamhet – spioner.
Vi lämnar alla spår efter oss, även spioner, och alla spår kan följas.
When hackers began slipping into computer systems at the Office of Personnel Management in the spring of 2014, no one inside that federal agency could have predicted the potential scale and magnitude of the damage. Over the next six months, those hackers — later identified as working for the Chinese government — stole data on nearly 22 million former and current American civil servants, including intelligence officials.
The data breach, which included fingerprints, personnel records and security clearance background information, shook the intelligence community to its core. Among the hacked information’s other uses, Beijing had acquired a potential way to identify large numbers of undercover spies working for the U.S. government. The fallout from the hack was intense, with the CIA reportedly pulling its officers out of China. (The director of national intelligence later denied this withdrawal.)
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av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 28, 2019 | Lästips
Smartphones Transformed India. Now Indians Are Turning Them Against The Modi Government.
Cheap data and inexpensive smartphones brought millions of people online in India this decade. As the country’s government cracks down, protesters are using the internet to resist.
Last week, after the Indian government turned off access to the internet from mobile devices in state after state as furious protests erupted over an anti-Muslim citizenship law, I sent a WhatsApp message to a colleague in panic.
“Is there any chance in hell that Delhi would lose internet?”
For days, I had watched as authorities plunged districts across the country into digital darkness. On December 10, far-flung districts in the northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura went offline, followed a day later by parts of neighboring Assam. The authorities had shut off internet access to try to stymie protests against a law passed that week by India’s Hindu nationalist government, whoch made getting an Indian citizenship easier for immigrants who practice all major South Asian religions except Islam. People opposing the law say that it destroys India’s secular ethos.
Källa: Smartphones Transformed India. Now Indians Are Turning Them Against The Modi Government.
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 26, 2019 | Lästips
Silas Warner skapade Castle Wolfenstein och gav därmed upphov till en helt ny genré av spel – där du spelar i första person. Du ser dina händer och det du har framför dig – First-Person-Shooter, FPS.
Hans namn är trots det inte särskilt välkänt utanför spelvärlden och kanske beroende på att han gick bort 2004 bara 54 år gammal. Det här är historien om en spelutvecklare som skapade en helt ny typ av spel.
The late Silas Warner is barely remembered in gaming, but he did something extraordinary.
UntilUntil recently, Kari Ann Owen ran a therapeutic horse ranch in Montana. Now focused on writing and political activism, she isn’t much interested in video games. But she takes her late husband’s legacy very seriously. “He was a genius,” she says of Silas Warner. “And he’s never received the credit or the rewards he was due.”
Silas Warner’s most notable contribution to gaming was to create Castle Wolfenstein in 1981, whoch was the first game to include digitized speech and an early example both of stealth gaming and of the World War II shooter. Three years later, he released a follow-up, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein.
Källa: The man who made Wolfenstein
