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Apple shuts down Dark Sky for Android and Wear OS

August 1, 2020
Apple made a surprise acquisition of Dark Sky in March and there are signs that it’s already live in iOS 14. As part of this, Dark Sky is gradually being disabled for non-Apple devices and services, starting with a shut down of the Android, Wear OS, and web apps today. The official Dark Sky app for Android was originally scheduled to stop working on July 1. Ahead of that deadline, the…
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Stadia Achievements can now be viewed on iOS and Android

August 1, 2020
A month after launch, Stadia picked up the ability to view game Achievements online and on Chromecast. The streaming service logged awards from day one, but an interface wasn’t ready until December. Stadia Achievements are now rolling out on the Android and iOS apps. Like…
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Researchers examine the ethical implications of AI in surgical settings

August 1, 2020
A new whitepaper coauthored by researchers at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence examines the ethics of AI in surgery, making the case that surgery and AI carry similar expectations but diverge with respect to ethical understanding. Surgeons are faced with moral and ethical dilemmas as a matter of course, the paper points out, whereas ethical frameworks in AI have arguably only…
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Russian company offers ugly solid gold iPhone 12

July 31, 2020
Russian ‘luxury’ accessory company Caviar is noted for really ugly, crazily priced re-cased iPhones, and it’s solid gold iPhone 12 may be the ugliest version it has offered yet … Caviar buys iPhones from Apple, removes the casing and replaces it with its own ……
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PSA: Missing haptic feedback in the Twitter app on iPhone? The latest update brings it back

July 31, 2020
Last week, an update to the Twitter app for iOS removed the haptic feedback that is triggered when you like a tweet. As it turns out, this was simply a bug and a new update to the Twitter for iOS app today brings the functionality back. The removal of haptics support in the Twitter app appears to correlate to version 8.28 of the app, which was released on July 23. Usually, when you like a tweet…
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Apple facing a second multi-state probe over iPhone throttling and shutdowns

July 30, 2020
Last week we learned that the Texas Attorney General was leading a multi-state probe against Apple and could potentially file a lawsuit over an unnamed violation of consumer law. Today, another multi-state probe is making the news for investigated Apple’s throttling of older iPhones. Reported by Reuters, the Arizona AG is heading up this multi-state investigation concerning the throttling of…
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