Category: Personal Investing Ideas & Strategies
Apple Vision Pro hands-on: A new milestone for mixed reality, but issues remain
"Wow, wow, wow. Bellissimo." That was the first thing I heard from one excited WWDC attendee as I waited to test Apple's Vision Pro mixed reality headset. That level is excitement is exactly what Apple is hoping for. Realistically, not everyone will be able to afford a $3,499 device. But…
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Apple’s Assistive Access simplifies iOS 16 for people with cognitive disabilities
With Global Accessibility Awareness Day just days away, Apple is previewing a raft of new iOS features for cognitive accessibility, along with Live Speech, Personal Voice and more. The company said it worked in “deep collaboration” with community groups representing users with disabilities, and drew on “advances in hardware and…
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OpenAI improves ChatGPT privacy with new data controls
OpenAI is tightening up ChatGPT’s privacy controls. The company announced today that the AI chatbot’s users can now turn off their chat histories, preventing their input from being used for training data. The controls, which roll out “starting today,” can be found under ChatGPT user settings under a new section…
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BeReal says it has more than 20 million daily active users
BeReal, Apple’s iPhone app of the year for 2022, wants you to know that it’s still going strong. The app sends users a notification at a different time each day, prompting them to drop everything and share photos taken with their phone’s front and rear cameras simultaneously. You have a…
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The best way to compost your food scraps
I’ve thought a lot about composting. It was a daily part of life for five years when I lived off-grid. Granted, we were composting more than just food, but I got to know carbon/nitrogen ratios, ideal moisture levels, proper aeration and everything else that distinguishes a healthy compost pile from…
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The Morning After: Pentagon leaks suspect was outed by his Steam profile
Accused of leaking classified documents, Jack Teixeira was charged after a quick investigation focused on his digital trail. The New York Times' investigative journalism team identified Teixeira by finding an Instagram account mentioned in his Steam profile. That, in turn, showed photos of the granite kitchen countertop and floor tiles…
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