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Airchat Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Obsession

16Apr

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Airchat Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Obsession

Ravikant said most of the funding for Airchat has come from his own fund, as well as from Jeff Fagnan, a founding partner at Accomplice Ventures. “[OpenAI CEO] Sam Altman threw in a check, kind of blindly,” Ravikant said. He communicated all of this to me in a public response on Airchat, after politely declining to respond to my DMs and insisting our conversation should happen in public. “It can’t be a side-channel, DM-based interview. That’s the old world that we are leaving behind,” he told me. (In the old world, as in the new world, conducting an interview synchronously is almost always … preferable.)So far the Airchat feed appears to be filled with tech enthusiasts, early adopters, venture capitalists, and journalists. There’s lots of Bitcoin posting. Winefluencer Gary Vaynerchuk is o...

Use Apple Shortcuts to Build the Ultimate Daily Digital Journal

15Apr

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Use Apple Shortcuts to Build the Ultimate Daily Digital Journal

I started journaling in 2019. It's not that I love keeping a journal, exactly. It's more that I find my brain works better if I spend a little time dumping its contents onto paper every morning. This practice got me through 2020, an extremely difficult year, and I've kept it up ever since.My journal isn't advanced. I've got a few sections recommended by my therapist from around the time I started—there's a section I fill in every day with things I'm looking forward to, for example. I use another section to think through what I'm going to eat and other things I'm going to do that day. All of this is straightforward; I just use a template that includes headers for those things.But there's a bit of information I like to gather and include. Each day's weather, for example. I've noticed that I...

British Airways to use new real-time apps to help mitigate impact of weather – Business Traveller

13Apr

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British Airways to use new real-time apps to help mitigate impact of weather – Business Traveller

The new technology follows the carrier’s introduction of a new Electronic Aircraft Maintenance (eLog) system earlier this year – which replaces the old paper-based system and allows the immediate transfer of data from the aircraft to engineers, “meaning any required parts can be pre-ordered to help to resolve issues more quickly”. Commenting on the news René de Groot, chief operating officer at British Airways, said: “It’s exciting that we’ll be the first UK airline to combine the technology of both apps, which will allow us to make even better operational decisions in the moment using real-time data. “These applications represent a step-change in the quality of weather information we receive, and, in the future, will enable pilots to collaborate in real-time during a flight with operati...

Google Podcasts Is Gone. Here’s How to Transfer Your Subscriptions

2Apr

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Google Podcasts Is Gone. Here’s How to Transfer Your Subscriptions

Steve McLendon, a product manager at Google, admits he’s sad to see Google Podcasts head toward the software graveyard. He suggests that the app’s simplicity, one of its core strengths, is what led to its downfall: “Podcast experiences can be improved for users in a way that I think Google Podcasts would never really be able to deliver.”After launching the app in 2018, the company wound down Google Podcasts on April 2. YouTube Music will serve as Google’s new home for podcast listening. While some users crave the bare-bones experience of an RSS feed catcher for podcasts, McLendon is eyeing a future where algorithmic discovery and video podcast clips are more central to the user experience.“Google may be notorious for having lots of different products that kind of do similar things,” he sa...

Beeper’s iMessage Fight With Apple Has Blown Up Into a Debate Over Regulating Big Tech

20Dec

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Beeper’s iMessage Fight With Apple Has Blown Up Into a Debate Over Regulating Big Tech

Beeper, a YCombinator-backed startup, initially came up with an expensive and inherently insecure method to make a beta version of its app work. This method sent every message through a relay server before arriving at the recipient’s messaging client. Then, late this summer, the company landed on a breakthrough technique, originally drafted as a proof of concept by a 16-year-old high school student in Pennsylvania. The young coder reverse-engineered the way notifications work on iPhone, found a loophole in the way credentials are registered with Apple’s servers during the notifications process, and applied that to messaging.Beeper bifurcated its product: It kept its original relay system in place (called Beeper Cloud) and separately launched a version of its app (called Beeper Mini) that ...

Google’s App Store Ruled an Illegal Monopoly, as a Jury Sides With Epic Games

12Dec

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Google’s App Store Ruled an Illegal Monopoly, as a Jury Sides With Epic Games

More bad news for Google could come in mid-2024 when US district judge Amit Mehta in Washington, DC, is expected to issue his ruling on whether Google has unlawfully maintained its monopoly over web search. Testimony in that case, which was brought by the US Department of Justice and attorneys general for nearly every US state and territory, concluded last month.A similar case two years ago had not gone too well for Epic. In Epic v. Apple, a federal judge in Oakland, California, ordered that Apple make just one change to its App Store practices. The judge found that most of the other Apple practices that Epic viewed as anticompetitive were justified, because the iPhone maker needed to recoup its investment in developing the app marketplace. Apple still has not had to comply as it awaits t...

Beeper Mini Turns Android’s Green Bubbles Into Blue Bubbles on iPhones

5Dec

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Beeper Mini Turns Android’s Green Bubbles Into Blue Bubbles on iPhones

Earlier this year Gill had become intrigued by how Apple’s push notification service works, and how these bidirectional notifications might offer some clues into breaking open Messages.First, he had to better understand how the Apple ID worked, so he reverse engineered how Apple Music operated on a Windows computer. He noted the traffic and how a non-Apple device registered with Apple servers. Next, he noted how a macOS computer signs into iMessage, then inspected that traffic. Then he reproduced it all in Python.He began to put together a proof-of-concept that examined the various handoffs between the Apple ID, its push notification service, and its messaging technologies.“In theory, iMessage uses public encryption keys, because that’s how end-to-end encryption works,” Gill says. (Gill i...

14Nov

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5 countries where WhatsApp is banned

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‘All apps under India stack safe’: Govt rejects Moody’s fears on Aadhaar

26Sep

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‘All apps under India stack safe’: Govt rejects Moody’s fears on Aadhaar

NEW DELHI: Amid concerns raised by Moody’s Investor Services over the safety of Aadhaar, the government has said that not only the biometric citizen identity system but all applications under “India stack” remain highly protected against cyberattacks despite the country witnessing several hack attempts every single day.Abhishek Singh, the CEO and MD of Digital India Corporation, under the IT ministry, said that the trust of citizens in government-managed services remains strong as the systems are safe, secure, and protected. “…the security and privacy is unparallelled (and) the amount of efforts the government spends in ensuring that our data and our systems remain safe doesn't get noticed, because there are no breaches, or no major breaches. We have heard about Citibank losing their data...

Travel Apps and Websites for Last-Minute Labor Day Plans

28Aug

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Travel

Travel Apps and Websites for Last-Minute Labor Day Plans

Finding accommodationsIf you found a flight but aren’t purchasing a package, you’ll most likely need a place to stay. HotelTonight is a great resource for discount hotel rooms, with the home page search defaulting to “Tonight,” though you can book 100 days out. Unlocking the Daily Drop feature, available once a day for only 15 minutes, offers further discounts — but nonrefundable rates — on a specific hotel. (Like many travel websites, HotelTonight says many of its best deals are found only on its app.)Hot Deals is a feature on Hotwire’s hotel results page after you have entered your search specifics. Click on the Hot Deals tab, and the page shows a list of hotels with their daily rates, ratings, location and amenities, but the traveler does not see the name of the hotel until booking. Al...