Amazon’s efforts to deal with COVID-19 at its warehouses haven’t been enough to sway at least some workers. The labor union Verdi has announced that staff at six sites in Germany will strike for a minimum of two days over a claimed lack of transparen…
Some people in the U.S. are throwing fits over having to wear face masks in public, despite the fact that we have more coronavirus cases than any other country in the world. Now, some people are going beyond selfish whining and committing straight–up fraud in order to get out of a wearing face masks in public.
Attaching an external drive to the iPad is pretty easy and straightforward, and thanks to Apple finally introducing a dedicated file manager with the Files app, users will be able to browse the contents of their drive pretty easily. The good news is that if you do rely on encrypted drives and would like to access them on the iPad, that will be possible soon enough.
In the upcoming iOS 14 update, it seems that Apple is finally adding support for encrypted drives that you can access either through your iPhone or iPad. The process of attaching the drives to your drive will be pretty much the same as before, but these encrypted drives will now show up in the sidebar of the Files app.
All users have to do is tap on the drive in question and enter the password that they use for the encryption and they should be good to go. However, and this is kind of a big catch, is that these drives need to be encrypted in the APFS format. This means that if your drive is using a different format, then you would be out of luck.
This might be an issue for some users who have chosen to format their drives to make them compatible on both Windows and Mac, but if you’re a pure Mac user, you can encrypt your drive using the Disk Utility app on macOS that will encrypt it with the APFS format.
iOS 14 Will Support Encrypted Drives
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The other day, it was reported that popular music app TikTok was snooping on the clipboards of iOS users. This is actually thanks to a new feature in iOS 14 in which it will notify users whenever an app accesses their device’s clipboard. Now upon further investigation, TikTok is not alone in doing this.
Speaking to ArsTechnica, researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk revealed that TikTok was not alone in snooping on the clipboard, and that more than 50 popular iOS apps were equally as guilty. This includes news apps such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Fox News, as well as games like Fruit Ninja and PUBG Mobile. Social media apps were also found to be doing this like Viber and Weibo.
According to Mysk, “It’s very, very dangerous. These apps are reading clipboards, and there’s no reason to do this. An app that doesn’t have a text field to enter text has no reason to read clipboard text.” While we’re not sure why these apps might be trying to access your clipboard is unclear.
However, as far as TikTok is concerned, the company justified it by saying that it was done to prevent spam, and later promised that they would be removing this feature. We imagine that for the most part, these apps aren’t accessing your clipboard for malicious reasons, but even so as Mysk points out, there really isn’t any reason why they should be accessing it in the first place.
Besides TikTok, More Than 50 iOS Apps Have Been Caught Snooping On Your Clipboard
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The Last of Us Part 2 was recently released and it has sold very, very well. There have been some mixed reviews where there are some who feel that it does not quite live up to the original game. It is exactly those sentiments that makes it seem like a third title in the franchise would be quite a difficult feat to pull off.
This is according to Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann who in an interview with IndieWire, hinted that the studio could find it a bit hard to justify creating a third entry in the series. According to Druckmann, one of the reasons why the first game was so popular was because there were essentially zero expectations from gamers and the developers could do whatever they wanted.
However, since the game’s release and characters in the game and the world have already been established, making Part 2 was already a challenge.
According to Druckmann, “Finding it with the sequel was much harder than it was with the first game, and going forward it would be exponentially harder to justify going back to that world and finding a way to vary things up. There’s already so many things you’ve seen about the backstory, about how the outbreak happens, so we’d really have to figure out how to create a new experience that matches the emotional impact of these stories and I don’t know what that is. Currently.”
This doesn’t mean that Part 3 will not be happening (Druckmann had previously hinted that they could be looking to work on Part 3 soon), but given the challenges he laid out, perhaps it could take a bit longer as they try to figure out how to best approach it.
The Last Of Us Part 3 Would Be ‘Exponentially Harder To Justify’
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OnePlus recently pledged to go back to doing what it does best, and that’s launching affordable smartphones with flagship or near-flagship specs. While it doesn’t discount the possibility of still putting out more expensive and higher-end phones, OnePlus is supposedly keeping in touch with its budget-conscious fans with what is now believed to be called the OnePlus Nord. Despite the … Continue reading
If the rumors are correct, we might finally be hearing the official word on the Surface Duo in a few weeks. While the hardware is pretty much already known, save for confirmation of those specs, the software is still pretty much a mystery outside of the parts that Microsoft tried (and partly failed) to show off. Now one more part … Continue reading
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