av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 22, 2019 | Lästipset
Justin Mann är fotograf och han har testat nya iPhone 11 Pro, grundligt.
iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review — Austin Mann
I’m here as I continue on-going work photographing The Bach Project w/ Yo-Yo Ma, a world tour where Yo-Yo is performing Bach in unconventional places around the globe. It’s been a privilege to photograph this amazing journey, and when I considered how to test the iPhone 11 Pro’s new capabilities, I thought a shoot on this project could be a great fit as many of these shoots have been in extremely low light!
Of course, I’ve also been anxious to see what this Ultra Wide lens can do, so shortly after the performance I popped out to the countryside to find some epic landscapes and have been out exploring this big, beautiful country ever since.
Källa: iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review — Austin Mann
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 17, 2019 | Lästipset
Nordkorea, en av världen hårdaste diktaturer, har statligt anställda hackare och enligt underättelsekällor så finansieras landets vapenprogram, kärnvapenprogram, genom intrång och stölder av bland annat kryptovalutor.
Även om tonen utåt ter sig rätt avslappnad, i varje fall mellan Donald Trump och diktatorn Kim Jon-un, så pågår en helt annan typ av kommunikation ute på nätet. Här möts västerländska underättelsetjänster och de olika grupper som anses vara knutna till Nordkorea, Lazarus Group och undergrupperna Bluenoroff och Andariel.
Sanktioner
USA har nu infört ännu hårdare sanktioner riktade mot Nordkorea som en direkt följd av att USA anser att Nordkorea är skyldig till en rad intrång, försök till intrång och informationsstölder.
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 6, 2019 | Lästipset
Uber told investors last month that it had lost $5.2 billion in the second quarter, a record loss for a company that has never been profitable even as its ride-hail app has reshaped how many cities work. As it ballooned into a unicorn while bringing millions of riders and drivers onto its platform, Uber became embroiled in just about every kind of scandal possible in today’s tech industry: privacy invasions, sexual harassment, a toxic bro culture, intellectual property lawsuits, mistreatment of gig workers. In 2017, co-founder Travis Kalanick was finally ousted as CEO.
The new book Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, by New York Times technology reporter Mike Isaac, chronicles this pileup of scandals in rubbernecking detail. It’s an account of the company’s founding, its rapid rise, and the careening troubles that led to an investor-led putsch against Kalanick.
Källa: The Bonkers Story of Travis Kalanick’s Downfall
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 1, 2019 | Lästipset
The Cost of Next-Day Delivery: How Amazon Escapes The Blame For Its Deadly Last Mile
Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos And Carnage To America’s Streets — But The World’s Biggest Retailer Has A System To Escape The Blame
Deaths and devastating injuries. A litany of labor violations. Drivers forced to urinate in their vans. Here is how Amazon’s gigantic, decentralized, next-day delivery network brought chaos, exploitation, and danger to communities across America.
Valdimar Gray was delivering packages for Amazon at the height of the pre-Christmas rush when his three-ton van barreled into an 84-year-old grandmother, crushing her diaphragm, shattering several ribs, and fracturing her skull.
“Oh my God!” screamed Gray as he leaped out of his van. It was a bright, clear afternoon on December 22, 2016, and the 29-year-old had been at the wheel of the white Nissan since early that morning, racing to drop Amazon packages on doorsteps throughout Chicago. He stood in anguish next to Telesfora Escamilla as she lay dying, her blood pooling on the pavement just three blocks from her home. After the police arrived, Gray submitted to drug and alcohol tests, whoch came up clean. He would later be charged with reckless homicide.
Källa: The Cost of Next-Day Delivery: How Amazon Escapes The Blame For Its Deadly Last Mile
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 29, 2019 | Lästipset
Jag kände exakt igen ljudet när ett US Robotics kopplade upp sig och jag hörde skillnad på vilken typ av uppkoppling det var och vilket protokoll som användes. Modemet lät olika beroende hur det kopplade upp sig och jag visste också när en uppkoppling inte lyckades.
The Guardian har skrivit en krönika om datorljuden spm nu är på väg att försvinna.
The first time I ever put a 5¼-inch disk into an Apple II drive to play Lode Runner, I was hooked. It seemed wildly futuristic – this was in the early 1980s – but there was also something pleasingly analogue about the process. You had to slide the disc from its sleeve like a vinyl record, then gently feed it into the mouth of the drive, before closing the little plastic door behind it with a satisfying click.
The loading noise was a stuttering series of electronic snare drum taps, accompanied by the baseline hum of the computer itself. There was something almost organic about it, like a CT scan or ultrasound. To me it seemed incredible that typing something on a screen could cause the disk to start loading, as though I was talking to the computer, and the clicking noise only accentuated this feeling of communication.
The Guardian
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 22, 2019 | Lästipset
Yesterday, President Donald Trump canceled a meeting with the new Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, because she refuses to discuss the sale of Greenland. Greenland used to be a Danish colony but now belongs to the people of Greenland—the Danish government could not sell the island even if it wanted to. Trump likely did not know that Denmark is one of America’s most reliable allies. Danish troops, for example, fought alongside U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and suffered 50 fatalities, and Danish forces were among the earliest to join the fight against the Islamic State.
Many Americans may laugh off Trump’s latest outrage, but Trump crossed an important line. It is one thing to float a cockamamie idea that no one believes is serious or will go anywhere. “Let’s buy Greenland!” Yes, very funny. A good distraction from the economy, the failure to deal with white supremacy, White House staff problems, or whatever is the news of the day. It is quite another to use leverage and impose costs on Denmark in pursuit of that goal—and make no mistake, canceling a presidential visit is using leverage and imposing costs.
Källa: Trump Has Defected
