438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Filmic’s Entire Staff Laid Off
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Jaron Schneider (Hacker News): Filmic, or FiLMiC as written by the brand, no longer has any dedicated staff as parent company Bending Spoons has laid off the entire team including the company’s founder and CEO, PetaPixel has learned.[…]Considered for years as the best video capture application for mobile devices, the team behind Filmic Pro and […]
Ads When You Start Your Fire TV
Luke Bouma (Hacker News): Amazon is adding full-screen video ads that will play when you start your Fire TV unless you quickly perform an action on it.This new update will be rolling out to all Fire TVs made in 2016 or newer. With this update, the ad at the top of your Fire TV will […]
Slower Chrome Extension Updates
Ron Amadeo (via Hacker News): Google’s war on ad blockers is just gearing up, with YouTube doing its best to detect and block ad blockers and Chrome aiming to roll out the ad block-limiting Manifest V3 extension platform in June 2024. A new article from Engadget detailing the “arms race” over ad blocking brings up […]
Keyboard Cowboy 3.19
Christoffer Winterkvist (Reddit): With Keyboard Cowboy, users can automate repetitive actions, launch applications and scripts, control system settings, manipulate files and folders, and perform a wide range of actions – all without ever having to take their hands off the keyboard. […] Automating workflows by triggering them through application events, such as opening, switching, or […]
Castro May Be Dying
Jason Snell: The cloud database that backs the service is broken and needs to be replaced. As a result, the app has broken. (You can’t even export subscriptions out of it, because even that function apparently relies on the cloud database.) “The team is in the progress of setting up a database replacement, which might […]
iMessage Contact Key Verification
macOS 14.2 Beta: With iMessage Contact Key Verification, users can choose to further verify that they are messaging only with the people they intend. iMessage Contact Key Verification uses Key Transparency to enable automatic verification that the iMessage key distribution service returns device keys that have been logged to a verifiable and auditable map. When […]
Smaller and Faster Updates With Sonoma
Howard Oakley (Hacker News): When a user accepts Software Update’s invitation to upgrade to macOS 13 or 14, rather than downloading a full installer app of about 12 GB, Ventura or Sonoma will instead attempt an update, in which only changed files are copied to the System volume, substantially reducing the amount to be downloaded, […]
Sony Removing Purchased Discovery TV Shows
PlayStation Store (via Hacker News, Reddit): As of 31 December 2023, due to our content licensing arrangements with content providers, you will no longer be able to watch any of your previously purchased Discovery content and the content will be removed from your video library. It isn’t that streaming content is no longer available; they […]