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In a recently published meeting agenda, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs teaches a master class in how to write a strategic plan. By Justin Bariso, Author, EQ Applied@JustinJBariso Steve Jobs. Getty Images On October 24, 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs sent a very important email. It contained the agenda for the company's upcoming "Top 100" retreat, a top secret and…...

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Steve Jobs Summed Up Apple’s Entire Strategy Using Just 6 Bullet Points. Each One Teaches an Amazing Lesson In a recently published meeting agenda, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs teaches a master class in how to write a strategic plan. By Justin Bariso, Author, EQ Applied@JustinJBariso Steve Jobs. Getty Im…

When Tim Cook took over as chief executive of Apple, it was a corporate transition unlike any other. He stepped out from the shadow of one of the best-known American CEOs and took the reins of one of the world's biggest tech companies facing some uncertainty about how much more successful it could be. Ten years into the job, Cook now leads the…...

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How Tim Cook has grown the Apple empire in his decade as CEO When Tim Cook took over as chief executive of Apple, it was a corporate transition unlike any other. He stepped out from the shadow of one of the best-known American CEOs and took the reins of one …

This year, DuckDuckGo plans to significantly expand its privacy offerings.Illustration: Sam Whitney; Getty Images I was driving up through Pennsylvania last summer, somewhere along US Route 15 between Harrisburg and Williamsport, when I saw a familiar face: a goofy cartoon duck wearing a green bowtie. It was the logo for DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine, along with a message: “Tired of Being Tracked Online?...

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DuckDuckGo’s Quest to Prove Online Privacy Is Possible This year, DuckDuckGo plans to significantly expand its privacy offerings.Illustration: Sam Whitney; Getty Images I was driving up through Pennsylvania last summer, somewhere along US Route 15 betw…

I will never forget the first time I drove a Tesla Model X. My producer rented one when we met up with a movie star to record narration for a film I was directing. “This better not be tacked onto the film budget,” I griped. He grinned and tossed me the Tesla-shaped key. “It’s your birthday present.” I dropped the body to its most ground-hugging setting, set the acceleration to Ludicrous Mode, and roared out of the airport....

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Tesla Is Dead (And Elon Musk Knows It) – The $600+ billion company is a game-changer, but it won’t exist in 50 years I will never forget the first time I drove a Tesla Model X. My producer rented one when we met up with a movie star to record narration for a film I was directing. “This better not be tacked onto t…

had an interesting conversation with an activist short-seller yesterday. He’s taken down more than a dozen corrupt companies, exposing billions of dollars of fraud, literally saving lives, sending criminals to prison, and personally reaping millions in his efforts to make the world a more ethical place. I asked him if there were any similarities between all of the fraudulent companies, and his answer was immediate:...

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Bitcoin is a Giant Ponzi Scheme – It’s time to get brutally honest about trust-based currencies had an interesting conversation with an activist short-seller yesterday. He’s taken down more than a dozen corrupt companies, exposing billions of dollars of fraud, literally saving lives, sending …

OneOne of our themes on Decoder is that basically everything is a computer now, and farming equipment like tractors and combines are no different. My guest this week is Jahmy Hindman, chief technology officer at John Deere, the world’s biggest manufacturer of farming machinery. And I think our conversation will surprise you. Jahmy told me that John Deere employs more software engineers than mechanical engineers now, which completely surprised me....

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John Deere turned tractors into computers — what’s next? OneOne of our themes on Decoder is that basically everything is a computer now, and farming equipment like tractors and combines are no different. My guest this week is Jahmy Hindman, chief technol…

It’s time to ditch Chrome As well as collecting your data, Chrome also gives Google a huge amount of control over how the web works Kheat / GOOGLE / WIRED Despite a poor reputation for privacy, Google’s Chrome browser continues to dominate. The web browser has around 65 per cent market share and two billion people are regularly using it. Its closest competitor, Apple’s Safari, lags far behind with under 20 per cent market share....

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It’s time to ditch Chrome It’s time to ditch Chrome As well as collecting your data, Chrome also gives Google a huge amount of control over how the web works Kheat / GOOGLE / WIRED Despite a poor reputation for priv…

Apple employees push back against returning to the office in internal letter “Over the last year we often felt not just unheard, but at times actively ignored” Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple employees are pushing back against a new policy that would require them to return to the office three days a week starting in early September. Staff members say they want a flexible approach where those who want to work remote can do so, according to an internal letter obtained by…...

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Apple employees say that embracing remote work is paramount for the company’s diversity and inclusion efforts. Apple employees push back against returning to the office in internal letter “Over the last year we often felt not just unheard, but at times actively ignored” Illustration by Alex Castro / The Ver…

Abstract: Android has come a long way in enhancing its security features and building out privacy controls for users, including with its Android 12 innovations. But as Apple continues to crack down on ad-tracking in an iOS 14 feature, the bar is higher than ever—and in ways that increasingly complicate Google's balance between the privacy its users deserve and the targeted advertising that drives its business. ...

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Google increasingly complicates the balance between the privacy its users deserve and the targeted advertising that drives its business. Abstract: Android has come a long way in enhancing its security features and building out privacy controls for users, including with its Android 12 innovations. But as Apple continues to crack down…

The New iOS Update Lets You Stop Ads From Tracking You—So Do ItFacebook and other advertisers fought the move, but App Tracking Transparency is finally here.The long-awaited iOS 14.5 update gives you superpowers over cross-platform tracking. If you're sick of opaque ad tracking and don't feel like you have a handle on it, a new iOS feature promises to give you back some control....

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Google: Marketers assign your Google device an ID and then monitor your web and in-app behavior across different platforms to generate composite profiles of demographic information, purchasing habits, and life events The New iOS Update Lets You Stop Ads From Tracking You—So Do ItFacebook and other advertisers fought the move, but App Tracking Transparency is finally here.The long-awaited iOS 14.5 update gives y…

It’s the biggest lie of our time: “I have read the terms and conditions and privacy policy.”Read a bajillion words of legalese before hitting “agree” to use an app? Surrre.Yet I have one request for you when iOS 14.5 arrives on your iPhone and privacy pop-upalooza begins: Read them. Lucky for you, they’re short and crucial to understanding how your most personal info is used....

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A Guide to Apple’s New App-Tracking Controls (ATT) in IOS 14.5 It’s the biggest lie of our time: “I have read the terms and conditions and privacy policy.”Read a bajillion words of legalese before hitting “agree” to use an app? Surrre.Yet I have one request fo…

Apple’s biggest mid cycle operating system update ever, iOS 14.5, is due to launch over the next few days, the iPhone maker has confirmed. The iOS 14.5 ugrade includes a barrage of cool new features, but the most outstanding by far is App Tracking Transparency (ATT)—and it will change your iPhone forever. ATT has ruffled many feathers across the advertising industry because it effectively spells the end of the IDFA (...

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How This Apple IOS Feature Will Change Your iPhone Forever Apple’s biggest mid cycle operating system update ever, iOS 14.5, is due to launch over the next few days, the iPhone maker has confirmed. The iOS 14.5 ugrade includes a barrage of cool new feature…

Signal recently launched a beta integration of MobileCoin (MOB) for payments. Its price has jumped from $7 to over $55 in the past month. Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike, whom MobileCoin previously described as a technical adviser, may have been more deeply involved in the cryptocurrency project. An earlier, nearly identical white paper found online, which MobileCoin CEO Joshua Goldbard called "erroneous," lists Marlinspike as the project's original CTO....

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Signal Founder May Have Been More Than a Tech Adviser to MobileCoin Signal recently launched a beta integration of MobileCoin (MOB) for payments. Its price has jumped from $7 to over $55 in the past month. Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike, whom MobileCoin previousl…

Source: Signal Adds a Payments Feature—With a Privacy-Focused CryptocurrencyThe encrypted messaging app is integrating support for MobileCoin in a bid to keep up with the features offered by its more mainstream rivals.MobileCoin will bring payments to Signal, but also added complexity and potential regulation. Illustration: Elena Lacey When the encrypted communications app Signal launched nearly seven years ago, it brought the promise of the strongest available encryption to a dead-simple interface for calling and texting....

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Marlinspike argues, Signal didn’t enable those criminals, but instead simply made their tools available to more casual, non-criminal users. Source: Signal Adds a Payments Feature—With a Privacy-Focused CryptocurrencyThe encrypted messaging app is integrating support for MobileCoin in a bid to keep up with the features offered by its mo…

A little piece of history. Source: Amazon What you need to know An Apple sign is up for auction, but it's nothing like the ones you'll see at an Apple Store today. This sign features the famous six-color rainbow logo from somewhere around 1978. An unusual sign is available for auction with bidding starting at $12,000. You know with numbers like that involved this is going to be something special....

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This original Apple rainbow logo sign could be yours for $12,000 A little piece of history. Source: Amazon What you need to know An Apple sign is up for auction, but it’s nothing like the ones you’ll see at an Apple Store today. This sign features th…

Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, literally wants to inflict pain on Apple, on Tim Cook. To make them hurt. To lobby the government against them, to claim anti-trust, to do everything they can to paint Apple dirty. Why? Because Apple wants to give us, the customers, the users, the ability to choose whether or not Facebook gets to track us outside their own apps, across other apps, even across the web....

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Apple wants to protect privacy — Facebook wants to ‚inflict pain‘ Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, literally wants to inflict pain on Apple, on Tim Cook. To make them hurt. To lobby the government against them, to claim anti-trust, to do everything they can to paint Ap…

The Facebook news ban revealed how problematic it is to rely on corporations to provide fundamental public services By business reporter Gareth Hutchens Facebook harvests our personal data in unimaginable quantities, Gareth Hutchens writes.(Reuters: Dado Ruvic) The fog lifted for a moment. Last week, when Facebook blocked Australians from viewing and sharing "news content" on its platform, we saw what role it plays in Australian society....

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The mass surveillance of society has made companies extremely wealthy The Facebook news ban revealed how problematic it is to rely on corporations to provide fundamental public services By business reporter Gareth Hutchens Facebook harvests our personal data in unima…

Facebook’s decision to ban legitimate news from being shared in the middle of a global pandemic is a breathtaking display of defiance. It is also entirely consistent with the social media behemoth’s belligerent corporate character. The move - which inadvertently resulted in pages of health departments in Queensland, WA and ACT being wiped just before a critical vaccine rollout begins - shocked the Australian media and political establishment....

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Facebook’s devastating display of defiance is vintage Zuckerberg Facebook’s decision to ban legitimate news from being shared in the middle of a global pandemic is a breathtaking display of defiance. It is also entirely consistent with the social media behemoth’…

If the lack of news is a deal-breaker for your use of Facebook, how can you delete your account – and what are the consequences? With Facebook blocking all news pages and links from its Australian service, some people will be weighing up how they’ll continue to use the social media platform. Facebook is ubiquitous, and for many of us serves as a link to our friends, family, events, photos and memories....

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How you farewell a Facebook account. And what you can do next If the lack of news is a deal-breaker for your use of Facebook, how can you delete your account – and what are the consequences? With Facebook blocking all news pages and links from its Australia…

If there was ever any doubt about Facebook’s cavalier attitude to the network of users it has created, this news blackout is definitive. To Facebook, we are all merely pieces of data to be observed, exploited and monetised. As citizens we are worthless. Australians need to respond with our mouses. We need to unfriend Facebook and find alternative places to connect and collaborate, free of its surveillance models and reckless self-interest....

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It’s time to unfriend Facebook when it resorts to starving us of news If there was ever any doubt about Facebook’s cavalier attitude to the network of users it has created, this news blackout is definitive. To Facebook, we are all merely pieces of data to be observ…

The Facebook-owned messaging service has been hit by a global backlash over privacy. Many users are migrating to Signal or Telegram. Should you join them? WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram: three leading choices for messaging services. Photograph: Rafael Henrique/Sopa Images/RexShutterstock Kate O'Flaherty Earlier this month, WhatsApp issued a new privacy policy along with an ultimatum: accept these new terms, or delete WhatsApp from your smartphone....

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Is it time to leave WhatsApp – and is Signal the answer! The Facebook-owned messaging service has been hit by a global backlash over privacy. Many users are migrating to Signal or Telegram. Should you join them? WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram: three lea…

Some use the internet, some function without servers, some are paid and others are free, but all these apps claim to have one thing in common—respect for user privacy Image: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Ever since WhatsApp announced an update in its privacy policy, thousands of people rushed to download messenger alternatives such as Signal and Telegram. While these two have been in the news for their security features that are tighter than the messaging giant’s, there are other applications that have been around, used for both facilitating consumer-to-consumer messaging and within enterprises for their internal communication.While some of these alternative apps need the internet, others don’t....

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The Messenger Alternatives Some use the internet, some function without servers, some are paid and others are free, but all these apps claim to have one thing in common—respect for user privacy Image: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto v…

WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years, Actually “I don’t trust any product made by Facebook,” says Evan Greer, deputy director of the digital rights group Fight for the Future. “Their business model is surveillance. Never forget that.” A pop-up notification has alerted the messaging app's users to a practice that's been in place since 2016....

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WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years, Actually WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years, Actually “I don’t trust any product made by Facebook,” says Evan Greer, deputy director of the digital rights group Fight for the Future. “The…

Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses The encryption app is putting a $50 million infusion from WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton to good use, building out features to help it go mainstream. Photograph: Michelle Groskopf...

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Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses The encryption app is putting a $50 million infusion from WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton to good use, building out features to help it …

WASHINGTON — Federal officials issued an urgent warning on Thursday that hackers who American intelligence agencies believed were working for the Kremlin used a far wider variety of tools than previously known to pe*****te government systems, and said that the cyberoffensive was “a grave risk to the federal government.”The discovery suggests that the scope of the hacking, which appears to extend beyond nuclear laboratories and Pentagon, Treasury and Commerce Department systems, complicates the challenge for federal investigators as they try to assess the damage and understand what had been stolen.Minutes after the statement from the…...

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More Hacking Attacks Found as Officials Warn of ‘Grave Risk’ to U.S. Government WASHINGTON — Federal officials issued an urgent warning on Thursday that hackers who American intelligence agencies believed were working for the Kremlin used a far wider variety of tools than prev…

Encrypted messaging app Signal has added group video calls, and the famed NSA whistleblower says it’s a long time coming. Signal has added encrypted group video calls to its iOS and Android messaging app. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, an avowed Signal user, tweeted about the news. Up to five people can now take part in an end-to-end encrypted video call....

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Edward Snowden Hails Launch of Signal’s Encrypted Group Calls Encrypted messaging app Signal has added group video calls, and the famed NSA whistleblower says it’s a long time coming. Signal has added encrypted group video calls to its iOS and Android messagi…

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana in 1993 | Photo By Stephen Sweet/REX/Shutterstock Jacklyn Grambush The word grunge, which means grime or dirt, came to describe a music genre, fashion style and lifestyle exclusively attached to the Pacific Northwest and, specifically, Seattle. With the effects of this movement still relevant some 30 years later, it’s worth exploring how it all began – and how grunge entered the mainstream....

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A Brief History of Grunge: The Seattle Sound Kurt Cobain of Nirvana in 1993 | Photo By Stephen Sweet/REX/Shutterstock Jacklyn GrambushThe word grunge, which means grime or dirt, came to describe a music genre, fashion style and lifestyle excl…

There’s a renaissance underway in structural battery research, which aims to build energy storage into the very devices and vehicles they power. ELON MUSK MADE a lot of promises during Tesla’s Battery Day last September. Soon, he said, the company would have a car that runs on batteries with pure silicon anodes to boost their performance and reduced cobalt in the cathodes… [ 2,319 more words ]

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The Batteries of the Future Are Weightless and Invisible There’s a renaissance underway in structural battery research, which aims to build energy storage into the very devices and vehicles they power. ELON MUSK MADE a lot of promises during Te…

Source: Apple told some developers that it will delay the enforcement of an anti-tracking feature that's being implemented in iOS 14, reports The Information. In ‌iOS 14‌, Apple is requiring apps to seek customer consent before the IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) can be used to track user behavior and preference across apps and websites for ad targeting purposes. [ 404 more words ]
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Apple Delays Ad Anti-Tracking Features Planned for iOS 14 Source: Apple told some developers that it will delay the enforcement of an anti-tracking feature that’s being implemented in iOS 14, reports The Information. In ‌iOS 14‌, Apple is requiring …

Source: Credit: JL IMAGES / Shutterstock As iOS 14 betas continue to roll out and the software’s full release grows near, more people are noticing just how revolutionary some of its privacy and security features appear to be. There’s some exciting stuff there, but one of the most interesting – and, until recently, overlooked – features is called “Approximate Location.” [ 711 more words ]
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What iOS 14’s Hidden ‘Approximate Location’ Feature Is (and Why It’s Important) Source: Credit: JL IMAGES / Shutterstock As iOS 14 betas continue to roll out and the software’s full release grows near, more people are noticing just how revolutionary some of its privacy and sec…