Month: June 2021
GoDaddy customers can now sell their products on Amazon and eBay GoDaddy offices
The web hosting giant GoDaddy has announced that its Canadian customers can now sell their products on Amazon and eBay directly through its Websites + Marketing solution. For those unfamiliar, Websites + Marketing pairs an easy-to-use website builder with a suite of marketing tools to help small businesses grow and…
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Apple Music begins rolling out lossless streaming and Dolby Atmos spatial audio
Apple Music has flipped the switch on its previously announced lossless-quality streaming and spatial audio features. Starting now, if you’ve got the latest iOS, iPadOS, and macOS updates installed, you’ll be able to stream select tracks both in standard lossless/CD-quality audio and high-resolution lossless (if you have an external DAC…
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Apple’s new encrypted browsing feature won’t be available in China, Saudi Arabia and more: report
Apple announced a handful of privacy-focused updates at its annual software developer conference on Monday. One called Private Relay particularly piques the interest of Chinese users living under the country’s censorship system, for it encrypts all browsing history so nobody can track or intercept the data. As my colleague Roman…
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Watch Apple’s Siri blaze through requests with on-device processing
During the privacy segment of WWDC, Apple talked about moving Siri’s processing from the cloud onto your device, using the “Neural Engine” built into Apple silicon. While having the voice processing happen on your phone instead of one of Apple’s servers is obviously better for privacy, it can also help…
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Amazon Prime employees allege gender inequality and workplace harassment
A new report citing an internal letter to Amazon’s human resources department alleges mistreatment of women within Amazon’s Prime membership division, including but not limited to harassment and disproportionate growth opportunities for men versus women at the company. Citing a letter to a former head of diversity and inclusion, as…
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Apple may have done the coolest drag and drop demo ever
At today’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple showed off its new version of macOS, and with it a feature called Universal Control, which lets you use your Mac’s mouse or trackpad to control the cursor on an iPad or another Mac’s screen, reaching into and across multiple devices. On paper it…
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