Category: computers
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Notes From Apple’s October 2016 Event
Apple held an event today at their Town Hall in Cupertino to announce new Macs. Here’s what got announced. Accessibility Apple opened with a video produced using their accessibility features, and announced a new accessibility website demonstrating them. As I get older I find myself using more of these features, so I am glad they…
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iPhone 7 and 7 Plus
Apple held an event at the Bill Graham Auditorium at just about the regular time as they’ve done for years to announce their new iPhones. Here’s a brief summary of what’s changed in this year’s phones. Headphones. As was rumored, the iPhones 7 have dropped the headphone jack. It was generally used as a single-purpose…
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The Definition of Genius
Ashton Applewhite has an article for the New York Times about ageism in hiring preventing good workers from working. In it is this incredible story of a former Apple engineering lead who couldn’t get a tech support job at Apple’s retail stores: I’m lucky enough to get my tech support from JK Scheinberg, the engineer at…
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Update Your iPhones and iPads Now
New exploits were found in the wild, being used to target human rights activists, that could take over your phone with one click on a link in a text message or through another vector. Unlike Google’s Android, Apple was able to roll out a fix for this issue very quickly to affected devices running iOS…
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Tech Companies Don’t Hire Minorities or Promote Women
Nick Heer, whose Pixel Envy is one of the best sites in my feed reader these days, has completely dismantled any notion you might have that diversity is an issue that big tech companies are working on resolving. Heer has been looking at the stats for years and his annual report for 2016 is now…