av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 29, 2018 | Ted
Adults tend to think of kids as ”future citizens” — their ideas and opinions will matter someday, just not today. But kids make up a quarter of the population, so shouldn’t they have a say in what the world they’ll inherit will look like? Urban planner Mara Mintzer shares what happened when she and her team asked kids to help design a park in Boulder, Colorado — and how it revealed an important blind spot in how we construct the built environment. ”If we aren’t including children in our planning, who else aren’t we including?” Mintzer asks.
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 27, 2018 | Ted
Eight apps with a total of more than 2 billion downloads in the Google Play store have been exploiting user permissions as part of an ad fraud scheme that could have stolen millions of dollars, according to research from Kochava, an app analytics and attribution company that detected the scheme and shared its findings with BuzzFeed News.
Seven of the apps Kochava found engaging in this behavior are owned by Cheetah Mobile, a Chinese company listed on the New York Stock Exchange that last year was accused of fraudulent business practices by a short-seller investment firm — a charge that Cheetah vigorously denied. The other app is owned by Kika Tech, a Chinese company now headquartered in Silicon Valley that received a significant investment from Cheetah in 2016. The companies claim more than 700 million active users per month for their mobile apps.
Källa: These Hugely Popular Android Apps Have Been Committing Ad Fraud Behind Users’ Backs
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 27, 2018 | Ted
Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort met secretly on multiple occasions with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London over several years, including one meeting in 2016 just months before Wikileaks published Clinton associate emails hacked by Russian operatives, the Guardian reported Tuesday.
The report does not detail what the nature of their meetings was, but it appears clear that the meetings would be of interest to Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation, whoch on Monday accused Manafort of lying to the investigators “on a variety of subject matters” in violation of his plea deal. In one Ecuadorian intelligence document listing Manafort as a guest of the embassy, “Russians” were also mentioned, according to the Guardian.
Källa: Report: Paul Manafort Met With Julian Assange Months Before Wikileaks Publication of Hacked Emails
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 27, 2018 | Ted
Demand for iPhone XR may well be weaker than Apple and analysts expected. I don’t know. But I will say this: you can’t judge this from poor-mouthing from Apple’s Asian suppliers. Every year, right around now, reports appear that Apple suppliers are claiming Apple has cut orders because demand for the latest iPhones is weaker than Apple projected. Every year. Some years, like with the iPhone 6S models, that probably was true. Most years, it’s nonsense — like last year, with the iPhone X. Apple cuts orders from suppliers for all sorts of reasons, and they don’t explain the reasons to the suppliers. Note that I’m not saying Goldman based this note on supplier reports. I just wanted to get the above off my chest. But it is the case that the WSJ story that prompted the Goldman note was based on bad forecasts from Apple suppliers.
John Gruber, Daring Fireball
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 26, 2018 | Ted
Have you ever watched a film or read a novel, wishing that you could change the narrative to save your favorite character? Game designer David Cage allows you do just that in his video games, where players make decisions that shape an ever-changing plot. In a talk and live demo, Cage presents a scene from his new project, letting the audience control a character’s decisions. ”Interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time,” Cage says.
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 25, 2018 | Ted
A few days ago, Apple released a new ad for the iPad Pro that gives five reasons it can be ‘your next computer.’ While I thought the ad was well done, I did come away from it frustrated. While I’ve been a big proponent of the iPad for a long time (I’ve bought 500+ iPads over the past eight years), I think the video shows serious flaws with Apple’s mindset at the moment. And I’ve been thinking, is the iPad Pro worth the money?
Källa: Opinion: 5 reasons why the iPad Pro shouldn’t be your next computer
