Off doesn’t mean off under IOS 11, but that’s OK your iPhone is too complex for you to fix anyway; You’ll soon know where you are with super accuracy thanks to new GPS chips; and Russian election tampering on Facebook was a feature, not a bug.
All this plus Flying Taxis on this week’s GeekSpeak.
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With the iPhone 8 ($699.00 at Apple) and 8 Plus, Apple has once again changed the button combination used to force restart a frozen phone.
Apple wants iPhone repair to be “fairly priced and accessible” but says it needs to control access to the market.
Verizon recently notified 8,500 customers in 13 states that they will be disconnected on October 17 because they used roaming data on another network. But these customers weren’t doing anything wrong
Today marks the general availability of SQL Server 2017 for Linux. There’s also a containerized version for deployment using Docker.
The batch of more than 3,000 Russian-bought ads that Facebook is preparing to turn over to Congress shows a deep understanding of social divides in American society, with some ads promoting African American rights groups, including Black Lives Matter, and others suggesting that these same groups pose a rising political threat, say people familiar with the covert influence campaign.
What does it take to advertise on Facebook to people who openly call themselves
Facebook allowed advertisers to target user-edited fields without validating the content. Distrusting user added data is “Threat Model 101” with regard to programming.
Today Facebook detects ad images with too much text and also validates text ad content. OCRing image then validating text of racist memes is absolutely doable.
Dubai staged a test flight on Monday for what it said would soon be the world
Thread outlining the data supporting the notion that racism not only exists but is being exploited for maximum effect.
