To make its platform more appealing for children, Netflix is releasing short-form Kids Clips that show short videos from its catalog of kids shows.
How To AirPlay From Your iPhone To Your MacBook
You can AirPlay music, TV, and Movies from your iPhone to your MacBook with macOS Monterey. Learn more from Mac Geek Gab 898.
Apple Poaches Tesla Autopilot Director for Company Car Team
Christopher Moore has moved to Apple to join its car team after having led the autopilot group at Tesla.
OWC Announces Accelsior 8M2 PCIe SSD With Up to 64 Terabyte Storage
The OWC Accelsior 8M2 brings impressive speed and storage capacity to 2019 Mac Pros, Windows or Linux computers, and PCIe expansion systems.
Robinhood Data Breach Leaked Email Addresses From Social Engineering
Robinhood suffered a data breach recently through a social engineering attack on a customer support agent.
At this time, we understand that the unauthorized party obtained a list of email addresses for approximately five million people, and full names for a different group of approximately two million people.
The Exhausting Velvet Underground — Media+
Mic Wright joins Charlotte Henry to discuss Todd Haynes Apple TV+ film ‘The Velvet Underground’. They also look at the potentially important role of music and other documentaries for the streaming platform.
AirPods Gen3 Product Review
Apple’s New AirPods 3 are a massive upgrade in your phone call and music listening experience.
Learn more about Apple’s new AirPods in this review from Mac Geek Gab 898.
Verizon Names Manon Brouillette as CEO and Executive Vice President
Verizon Communications announced Manon Brouillette as Executive Vice President and CEO of Verizon Consumer Group effective January 1, 2022
FTC Returns $60 Million to Amazon Drivers That Company Illegally Kept
The Federal Trade Commission will return US$60 million to over 140,000 drivers for Amazon that the company illegally withheld.
Martellaro Monday: What We're Watching – TMO Daily Observations 2021-11-08
John Martellaro joins host Kelly Guimont to share the latest tv shows he’s watching and Kelly offers a few picks of her own.
Honeywell Home T9 Adds HomeKit Support
A popular smart thermostat, the Honeywell Home T9 is HomeKit-compatible. Owners can use Siri or Home app to control their home temperature.
US Government Asked for 83,000 Apple Data Requests in 2020
Apple has released its transparency report for 2020. These include data requests about Apple customers from governments and law enforcement.
Billie Eilish 'Was Excited And Scared' About Apple TV+ Doc
Billie Eilish spoke about the Oscar-contending Apple TV+ documentary The World’s a Little Blurry at an event moderated by Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. She described the emotions she felt being followed by cameras for three years, Deadline reported.
“I was excited and scared and nervous, and worried and hopeful,” she told attendees at a post-screening Q&A. “It was not acting, I wasn’t playing a character. It was real life footage of my life… It was a very real and good interpretation of my three years that you were filming it, or however long it was, and it’s really scary. It’s hard to tell anybody a lot of information about your life, let alone put it on a platform for literally anyone in the world to see.” Millions have seen it, noted Zane Lowe, Apple Music’s creative director, who moderated the discussion. Billie was joined on stage by Cutler and by her parents, Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell, who feature prominently in the film. The only family member missing (apart from dog Pepper and cat Misha) was Finneas O’Connell, Billie’s older brother and songwriting partner.
App Store Accepting Submissions Through Holiday Season
Apple has announced that the App Store will continue to accept submissions over the forthcoming holiday period.
Smart Home Technology Finally Has a Standard
The Matter standard is doing what we’d hoped for: unifying smart home technology with a standard way for devices to talk to each other.
Report: How Pinterest is Ruining the Internet for Everyone
Chris Stokel-Walker isn’t happy with Pinterest and writes how the company has ruined image search for internet users.
Beloved by moodboard aficionados and wedding planners alike, the platform is hated by rank-and-file web surfers. It’s not that it doesn’t have its purpose; it’s just that it intrudes on the search experience of pretty much everyone who doesn’t want to use it.
I have Pinterest to thank for one thing. My annoyance, and eventual hatred, spurred me to move to a standardized data curation system in which I store files in my own folders and not inside Pinterest’s putrid platform.
10 Arduino IoT Projects for Beginners
Got an itch to start tinkering with Arduino, but want it to be something useful? As I explained on Apple Context Machine, Arduino is a microcontroller that lets you do just about any task you can find parts and write code for. A great way to get started and have it mean something is with a project that helps your daily life. One way to achieve both is with an Internet of Things (IoT) project. There are hundreds of tutorials on building with Arduino. Some are useful, some are just cute and/or fun. This MakeUseOf article highlights 10 Arduino IoT projects perfect for beginners. From monitoring your plants’ health to reminding you when it’s time to take your medicine (and even dispensing a glass of water to wash the pills down), these Arduino IoT projects will get you on the right path. There’s even a tutorial on building your own automated pet feeder.
Coinbase Adds Apps, NFTs, and DEXes to its Browser Extension Wallet
Coinbase has added full standalone functionally to its wallet browser extension to add NFTs, DEXes, and more features.
Police Called on Parents Who Built an Open Source School App
Parents in Stockholm built an open source version of a school app that didn’t work properly. The school called the cops on them.
The work started at the end of November 2020, just days after Stockholm’s Board of Education was hit with a 4 million SEK GDPR fine for “serious shortcomings” in the Skolplattform. Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten, Sweden’s data regulator, had found serious flaws in the platform that had exposed the data of hundreds of thousands of parents, children, and teachers. In some cases, people’s personal information could be accessed from Google searches.
Apple Music Responds to Tragedy at Live Streamed Travis Scott Concert
Apple Music has responded to the tragic events at Travis Scott’s Astroworld performance on Friday, saying they were “devastated.”
A Summit of Geeks – Mac Geek Gab 899
MacMost’s Gary Rosenzweig joins John and Dave today to share Quick Tips, Cool Stuff Found and, yes, to help answer all of your Apple-related tech questions. Topics include dealing with Monterey’s “Load Content Directly” issues in Mail, Network Utility Replacements, Monterey image tricks, portable Apple Watch chargers, and much more! Press play and learn at least five new things with your three favorite geeks!
Digging into Arduino, Getting Started with Smarthome Tech, with Jeff Butts - ACM 559
Bryan Chaffin and Jeff Butts get geeky with a deep dive into Arduino and a look at how to get started with all this smarthome stuff, especially Apple’s HomeKit.
Companies Totally Miss the Point of App Tracking Transparency
Peloton is the latest to blame Apple’s App Tracking Transparency for lost revenues. Instead of pointing fingers, change they should adapt.
A Drone Tried to Attack a Pennsylvania Power Station in 2020
Wired published a fascinating story of a unknown person who used a drone to attempt to short circuit a power substation last year.
The operator of the Pennsylvania drone appears to have attempted a less brute-force approach. But efforts to hide the operator’s identity may have contributed to their failure to connect with the intended target. By removing the camera, the joint bulletin says, they had to rely on line-of-sight navigation, rather than being able to take a drone’s eye view.