Category: computers
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Disabling Windows 10’s Built-in Spyware and P2P Update Sharing
Alec Meer: Windows 10‘s privacy settings very much need to be frowned at. Essentially: unless you pay close attention to the fluffy options offered when you first install Microsoft’s new operating system, it’s going to quietly track your behaviour and use it to fire targeted ads at you, as well as keeping tabs on your…
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Goodbye, Android
Rightfully scathing article from Vice’s Motherboard’s Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai: I’ve been antagonistic with Apple products ever since I was a teenager, when Apple used to try to shove its apps down my throat (cough iTunes cough) whenever I just wanted to watch a movie trailer on Quicktime. I never liked Apple’s walled garden and “we-control-everything” approach,…
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Windows 10 Impressions
About a month ago I moved my desktop Windows installation to the Windows Insider Preview Program, which gets you an early and unfinished version of Windows 10. Tomorrow the first regular Windows upgrades to 10 will begin. Kind of like Chrome’s different update channels, there are two different paths in the preview program. The different update channels,…
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What do machines sing of?
Martin Backes: “What do machines sing of?” is a fully automated machine, which endlessly sings number-one ballads from the 1990s. As the computer program performs these emotionally loaded songs, it attempts to apply the appropriate human sentiments. This behavior of the device seems to reflect a desire, on the part of the machine, to become…
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Apple Music and Beats: 1
Apple’s streaming music subscription service, Apple Music, was released last week in addition to the new streaming radio station Beats: 1 and other features in the new versions of Music on iOS and iTunes on Windows and Mac OS X. I’ll admit that although I had tried Pandora and Spotify they’d never really stuck. Why not own my…