Pokemon GO players increased their activity levels by 25%
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602706/pokemon-go-increased-us-activity-levels-by-144-billion-steps-in-just-30-days From doing query relating websearch terms w. band usage
Monitor & Find Everything: Wireless #Sensor Tags
http://wirelesstag.net Useful for temp & motion. Can be combined w/ other stuff via @IFTTT
See Everything #Google Knows About You (at MyActivity.Google.com) & Delete the Embarrassing Stuff
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/07/01/google_launches_my_activity_browsing_history_tool.html #privacy
Things…You Could Do with Dropbox
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/15-things-didnt-know-dropbox/ interesting bits about overlay photoshoot.io domain & 200Gb/day bandwidth limit
How Twitter Is Changing…#Warfare
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/war-goes-viral/501125/ Changing the traditional emphasis from information secrecy to wide broadcast
How Hackers Could Send Your Polling Station into Chaos
https://www.TechnologyReview.com/s/602484/how-hackers-could-send-your-polling-station-into-chaos Corrupting voter registration DBs to affect #election turnout
Inside…Sierra: $AAPL’s Optimized Storage
http://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/196115/inside-macos-sierra-apples-optimized-storage-and-management-features Strong filesystem-icloud integration. Maybe good but also heavy handed
QT:{{”
“paxman said:
I am curious though, what do you mean by a very secure iCloud account? Do you just mean that you use two step verification and ‘difficult’ password? or is there something more?
Extremely strong password becaue it’s an internet-facing account that hold so much personal data
Password unique to that account
2FA
Notifcations of access attempts (if that’s possible to set up. I forget) Answers to personal questinons and birthday purposely inaccurate (in other words, the questions are a key to the get the correct answer generated randomly)”
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Prick up your ears
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21707955-wireless-headphones-and-smart-speakers-herald-new-class-devices-prick-up-your-ears To come for #headphones: layered listening (audio augmented reality), nod detection, assistants
#BlackBerry’s Rise & Fall in 10 Phones, an arc embodied in plastic https://www.Wired.com/2016/09/blackberrys-rise-fall-10-phones Would be alive now if Android switch done earlier
The @Verge’s…Editor…Ziegler Was Secretly Working for Apple for 2
Months http://gizmodo.com/verge-deputy-editor-chris-ziegler-was-working-for-apple-1787018849 Rather stunning from a #COI perspective