Oct 22
“the uk needs to legalise weed so the great british bake off can have edibles week”
Oct 22
The Queen’s hospital admittance is understood not to have been related to coronavirus.
Oct 22
Climate Poses Many Threats To U.S. Financial System & Natural Gas May Be Major Risk
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe federal entity created to guard against another Great Recession issued its first landmark report on global warming.
Oct 22
As part of a larger update on Android for enterprise users, Google revealed plans to expand Work Profile availability. The feature enables users to separate their work and personal lives on a single handset, but it is only available for managed devices at this time. That’ll start to change next year when Google brings the feature to Workspace users with … Continue reading
Oct 22
Snap says Apple's privacy changes hurt its ad business more than it expected
Posted in: Today's ChiliSnap is finally seeing the effects of Apple’s iOS 14 privacy changes on its ad business and the changes have had a bigger impact than it expected.
The company reported revenue of just over $1 billion for the third-quarter of 2021. But despite that being a new milestone for Snap, it was $3 million shy of what the company had previously estimated. Snap executives said Apple’s iOS changes that make it more difficult for advertisers to track users were largely to blame for the shortfall.
“Our advertising business was disrupted by changes to iOS ad tracking that were broadly rolled out by Apple in June and July,” CEO Evan Spiegel said during a call with analysts. “While we anticipated some degree of business disruption, the new Apple provided measurement solution did not scale as we had expected, making it more difficult for our advertising partners to measure and manage their ad campaigns for iOS.”
It wasn’t all bad news for Snap, though. The company once again beat expectations on user growth, adding 13 million new daily active users for the second quarter in a row. Snap now has 306 million DAUs, a new high for the company.
Still, Spiegel called it a “frustrating setback” for the company, but added that increased privacy protections are “really important for the long term health of the ecosystem and something we fully support.”
The iOS 14.5 update forced developers to ask users to explicitly agree to sharing their device identifier (known as IDFA), which is used by advertisers to track users across apps and services. Though Apple previewed the changes more than a year ago, the update wasn’t released until April. Since then, third-party analytics have estimated that a vanishingly small percentage of iOS users agreed to allow apps to track them.
Snap isn’t the only company that has warned about Apple’s iOS changes on its ad business. Facebook, which has been publicly slamming the changes for more than a year, saying the changes will have an outsize impact on developers and small businesses. But Facebook has also warned investors that the changes are likely to hurt its own ad revenue in 2021. The social network is reporting its third-quarter earnings Monday, when it will share just how significantly it’s been affected.
Oct 22
Less than a year after it first started testing live audio rooms, Twitter is opening up Spaces to nearly everyone. Starting today, anyone on Android and iOS can host a Space, no matter how many people follow them. As of this past May, the feature was open to any Twitter user with more than 600 followers. At the time, the company said it put that limit in place to ensure a “good experience.” Now that the option is available to all Android and iOS users, you can start your own audio room by tapping on the compose button and then the Spaces icon.
One more mic check…the option to host a Space is now rolling out to everyone on Android and iOS!
New to Spaces? Here’s a thread to help you out… (1/7)
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) October 21, 2021
If there’s a reason Twitter waited almost a year to make hosting Spaces available to everyone, it’s because the company has spent the last few months adding features that enhance the experience significantly. Twitter recently added a topics tool that allows you to add pre-defined tags to make your audio room easier to find. It also recently added a co-hosting feature you can use to recruit people to help you with moderation. Those are all things that should make Spaces more appealing to first-time users.
Oct 22
After some frustrating covid-releated delays, Denis Villeneuve’s long-awaited adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi saga Dune is almost here; it launches in theaters and on HBO Max in mere hours (HBO Max will have it at 6:00pm ET today). But naturally, and no doubt to the streaming-averse director’s chagrin, online…
Oct 22
TCL just launched an attractive 10.36 inch Android tablet called TCL Tab Pro 5G. As its name indicates, it is a 5G-enabled tablet, but what makes it stand out is its 399.99 price that makes it the most affordable 5G tablet on the market.
Powered by the Verizon network, the tablet offers excellent “always-on” connectivity. Having 5G “always-on” broadband is much more comfortable than hunting for WiFi hotspots if that’s the situation you’re in and if you can afford the extra 5G subscription.
Looking at the technical specifications, the TCL Tab Pro 5G looks very decent for multimedia usage and basic productivity (web, email, social media, youtube). The 10.36-inch display has a 2000×1200 resolution, and the dual-speakers should give users a good movie experience.
I’m disappointed by the absence of 3.5mm audio jack connector on such a large device, but it seems like the world has moved on, and I already have a bunch of adapters.
The high-capacity 8000 mAh battery is a very nice highlight as battery life has always been one of the reasons why people buy Android tablets over a cheap laptop. TCL says it’s enough to use the tablet for “17 hours of mixed-use”, and depending on the display brightness, it’s believable for a best-case scenario.
The tablet can also serve as a battery bank to charge your phone, although it’s not clear at what (charging) speed.
Inside, you’ll find a mid-range Snapdragon 480 5G (4GB of RAM) hardware platform. It’s not as performant as tablets such as the Galaxy Tab S7 FE or the iPad mini 5G for sure, but that’s one of the reasons why the TCL tablet is so affordable.
For gaming purposes, you can run casual games and many older 3D games with decent graphics. The most modern games would run slower, and the solution would be looking for a faster (more expensive) tablet.
The 13MP rear camera and 8MP selfie camera seem like entry-level options, and I suspect they wouldn’t perform as well as phone cameras in the sub-$400 segment. We have the CAMERA HW benchmark for that and this seems like an obvious conclusion. However, the cameras should be fine for video calls and casual photography. In fact, most of these 8MP selfie cameras are much better than laptops’ for zoom videos, so if that’s your use case, it’s great.
The 64GB of flash storage capacity seems small to me, but you can add cheap microSD storage, so it’s a decent tradeoff, but keep in mind that microSD isn’t as fast as the internal storage.
Overall, the strength of the TCL Tab Pro 5G is that it is the only game in town in its sub-$400 10-inch tablet with 5G category, so that makes up for the several tradeoffs to reach that level of affordability.
TCL Tab Pro 5G 10 Inch Tablet @ 399.99
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Oct 22
Cause Of Death Determined For California Family That Mysteriously Died On Hike
Posted in: Today's Chili“This is a very unusual, unique situation,” a spokesperson said shortly after their bodies were found in August.
Oct 22
Supply chain issues are out of your control, but there are ways to make the process easier.
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