av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 19, 2019 | Lästipset
Beats PowerBeats Pro review: Apple’s fitness AirPods rock
Bluetooth earbuds have long battery life, rock-solid connectivity and stay firmly planted on your ear.
The PowerBeats Pro are Apple-owned Beats’ first true wireless Bluetooth earbuds that cut the cable and seek to be the ultimate running and gym earphones.
As with Apple’s original AirPods, whoch looked like a set of the firm’s standard EarPods with the cables cut off, the £220 PowerBeats Pro are basically the firm’s popular PowerBeats 3 neckband Bluetooth earbuds without the cables joining the pair.
That includes the signature ear hook, whoch tucks behind the top of your ear to hold the earbuds in place. As such the PowerBeats Pro are neither small nor subtle. They come in black, but also a series of attractive colours such as a dark green. Still, if you were looking for a discreet set of earbuds you’ll need to look elsewhere.
Källa: Beats PowerBeats Pro review: Apple’s fitness AirPods rock
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 19, 2019 | Lästipset
What I Learned by Printing Thousands of Pages of My Facebook Data
In my attic lies a big box of scrapbooks and diaries chronicling my preteen through early college years, from the mid-1990s to early 2000s, in minute and sometimes cringe-inducing detail. The books are fat, their pages stuffed with doodles, notes passed in class, pictures clipped from magazines, and ticket stubs from multiple viewings of Titanic. But the box also speaks volumes with what’s not in it: namely, any books dated after 2004. That was the year Facebook launched, and my journaling habits tanked.
I joined as a sophomore in college, only a few months after Mark Zuckerberg hatched thefacebook.com in his Harvard dorm room. Back then, the site was accessible only to college students and felt tailored to that particular stage of our lives. It was a flirty, irreverent, and sparse online space where users could create personalized profiles, search for and “poke” each other, and not much else. As we grew into adulthood, so did Facebook. It opened its doors to anyone over the age of 13, rolled out a bevy of stimulating features like the News Feed, “reactions,” and livestreamed video, and embedded itself, uninvited, into the tasks and rhythms of our lives.
Källa: What I Learned by Printing Thousands of Pages of My Facebook Data
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 4, 2019 | Lästipset
Stavfel och ord som tolkas fel i vår digital tillvaro kan leda till helt felaktiga beslut och rent vådliga konsekvenser. Här är långläsning och felktolkningar och stavfel.
One day in May this year, Luigi Rimonti left his home in Gateshead to catch a ferry from North Shields, the first stage in a 1,000-mile drive across Europe to Italy. A dapper, energetic 81-year-old, Rimonti had grown up in a suburb of Rome before coming to the north-east of England as a young man. Often, over the years, he had driven back to Rome, insisting to his two adult sons, Gino and Valter, that he preferred to make this long journey by car. They worried about their father on these drives, and this spring, for the first time, they persuaded Rimonti to equip his car with a satellite-navigation device.
The Guardian
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 7, 2019 | Lästipset
May-Li Khoe har jobbat inom Apple och jobbat med Jony Ive. Här hennes bild av hur Apple fungerar. och den all som Ive har spelat inom företaget.
May-Li Khoe: How design and operations really work at Apple
An interview with someone super smart and super talented who was actually there, who worked on prototyping and design at Apple, going back to the days of Steve Jobs and the original iPhone and who understands how and why the design culture at Apple works the way it does.
There’s an article on Jony Ive going around that, while I think it absolutely captures the frustration of a segment of people, also feels like it represents an extreme perspective, reaction, and yes, even agenda, from those people.
Källa: May-Li Khoe: How design and operations really work at Apple
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 30, 2019 | Lästipset
Inside Apple’s Long Goodbye to Design Chief Jony Ive
Jony Ive has been leaving Apple Inc. for years. When it was finally made official on Thursday, there was nevertheless hand-wringing about the company’s future.
Ive led a stable, close-knit team of designers who created the slick look and feel of Apple’s hardware and software for more than two decades. At least six members of the group have left in the past three years.
The departures herald a new era. The days when Apple could reliably deliver a whole new category of device — a spare music player, a sleek tablet, an elegant smartphone — every few years have waned. More recently, the company has focused on iterations of its existing lineup. Now, the company needs another hit, but this one will require fundamental technological innovation, not just the design genius of Ive and his team.
Bloomberg
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 30, 2019 | Lästipset
An app using AI to ’undress’ women offers a terrifying glimpse into the future | Arwa Mahdawi
‘The world is not yet ready for DeepNude’
Want to see Taylor Swift naked? There’s an app for that. It’s called DeepNude and it uses AI to “undress” photos of women and produce a realistic nude image.
Or rather, there was an app for that: the creators of the horrifying program took it down on Thursday after a Vice article about DeepNude catalyzed widespread outrage. “We created this project for user’s entertainment a few months ago,” the app’s creators tweeted. “We never thought it would become viral and we would not be able to control the traffic. Despite the safety measures adopted (watermarks) if 500,000 people use it, the probability that people will misuse it is too high. The world is not yet ready for DeepNude.”
Källa: An app using AI to ’undress’ women offers a terrifying glimpse into the future | Arwa Mahdawi
