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It's Friday, May 07, 2021 Wednesday marked World Password Day, which is a convenient time to highlight better password practices. Maybe you're already using a password manager to keep track of your unique logins, and you've enabled two-factor authentication in all of the places it's available, but if you haven't, Google is going to give you a nudge. If your account is set up properly and you have a phone that supports it, Google will automatically enroll you in its two-step verification system. On iOS and Android, it sends a prompt to your phone, just to make sure it's really you logging in. It's easier to use than generating a code or carrying around a physical key, and more secure than sending a text message. If you hadn't already set up the prompt, expect to see it soon. — Richard Lawler Apple emails reveal how it tried to stop Netflix from pulling in-app iOS purchases According to internal emails from the Epic vs. Apple court case. Robert Galbraith / reuters Before Netflix dropped in-app purchases on the iOS Store, Apple really tried to convince the streaming company to keep the option. Netflix abandoned in-app iOS Store purchases in December of 2018, but that decision was still in the planning stages when the emails circulated in early 2018. Netflix was concerned that users who signed up for Netflix on iOS had a tendency to cancel more often than when they joined on Netflix's website or other ways — not to mention that 30 percent cut that Apple was taking. By July 2018, Apple had created a presentation meant to sway the streamer in favor of keeping in-app purchases. It highlighted all of the promotion work it did for Netflix and noted its advertising had boosted downloads by up to seven percent. But Netflix dropped in-app subscriptions anyway. Continue reading. Microsoft testifies on the struggle to bring xCloud to iOS It also took some knocks about its own Xbox Store restrictions. And Epic and Apple's legal battle continues to offer insights into cross-company interactions. Microsoft testified at the trial yesterday, as a witness for Epic, and explained how iOS rules essentially blocked its xCloud gaming service. Microsoft argued that other apps, like Netflix and Shadow (a Windows 10 PC simulator), offered similar "interactive" functionality to xCloud, yet were not barred from the store. It eventually gave up on getting xCloud on the App Store and instead released an iOS web browser version in beta. However, Microsoft's business development head, Lori Wright, noted that on iPhones all the gameplay is through the App Store and that people rarely play games on the browser on an iPhone. Continue reading. 'Animal Crossing' and 'StarCraft' join the Video Game Hall of Fame It also inducted 'Microsoft Flight Simulator.' The Strong After narrowing down a list of 12 finalists, The Strong National Museum of Play has inducted four new titles to its World Video Game Hall of Fame. In order of release, they are 1982's Microsoft Flight Simulator, 1985's Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, 1998's StarCraft and2001's Animal Crossing. They beat the likes of the original Call of Duty, Portal, Guitar Hero and FarmVille this year. Anyone can nominate a game, but a panel of journalists and video game historians helps the museum make its final decision each year. Both Flight Simulator and Animal Crossing have experienced recent boosts in popularity, with new titles expanding each series — and attracting new fans. Continue reading. Twitter's 'Tip Jar' is here In-app tipping for your Twitter users. Twitter just introduced its long-rumored in-app tipping feature. Some users can now add a tip jar to their profile, so other users can pay them without leaving the app. Twitter says for now it's making the feature available to "a limited group of people around the world who use Twitter in English," including creators, journalists, nonprofits and other influential users.  Accounts can be connected to Bandcamp, Cash App, Patreon, PayPal and Venmo. And, notably, Twitter doesn't take a cut from users' tips. Continue reading. Facebook adds new audio and inbox features to Messenger and Instagram You'll also find a new reply feature and more. Facebook is introducing several new features to its suite of messaging apps. There are now inbox-seen states in Instagram, so you'll know if the person you recently messaged has seen your DM, making it easier to find out if your friend — or online crush — is ghosting you. Some of the updates are even simpler, like swipe to archive gestures in Messenger to make hiding old chats easier. The next time you send a voice memo to a friend over Messenger, you won't have to hold the record button. Instead, all you need to do is tap the mic icon. This will also, eventually, come to Instagram, too. Continue reading. Cowboy 4 electric bike launches with a step-through model Both versions come with an integrated cockpit for your phone. Cowboy Cowboy's fourth-generation urban electric bike has landed, and this one comes in two frames. While the standard Cowboy 4 looks like its predecessors, the C4 ST version is a step-through model with an upright riding position meant to attract a broader audience looking for a more comfortable ride. In short, a lower top tube makes it easier to mount. Both models have 50 percent more torque than their predecessors. A new integrated cockpit has an easy smartphone mount, so you can use the company's app or any other navigation app. Docking your phone in the cockpit will wirelessly recharge it, too, using the bike's battery, perfect for extended map app use. The C4 and C4 ST both have a range of 70 KM (around 43 miles) and are now available for pre-order from Cowboy's website, with shipping due in September. Continue reading. But wait, there's more... Citroën turned its compact Ami EV into a tiny delivery van The best travel gear for graduates 'Returnal' patch fixes the save-breaking issue from yesterday's update YouTube TV is now available on PlayStation 5

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• Sunrise — eastern and western view.
• "Maybe paying people more to be unemployed than to work has consequences? I've been out to eat with 2 waiters working an entire establishment."
• "In the span of two years, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has gone from one of President Joe Biden’s most prominent surrogates — important enough to get vetted as a potential VP pick..."
• Influencers strive to explain their decision to euthanize Bowser after he bit their 1-year-old child.
• "Mr. Gates was already working on his dream home before marrying Ms. Gates in 1994.... The place was 'a bachelor’s dream and a bride’s nightmare'..."
• "Frustrated by the lack of drugs available to carry out lethal injections in their state, South Carolina lawmakers are on the cusp of a controversial solution..."
• Pinkness.
• MIT News presents a robot to brush your hair.

Sunrise — eastern and western view. Posted: 07 May 2021 08:56 AM PDT At 5:48, looking right into the sun:    At 5:55, looking west:    The western view shows something that I've mostly ignored all my life: The spring foliage on the trees is varied in color like fall foliage. It's not just green. There's gold, orange, and brown along with a wide range of greens.

"Maybe paying people more to be unemployed than to work has consequences? I've been out to eat with 2 waiters working an entire establishment." Posted: 07 May 2021 08:19 AM PDT "No one wants to work now. Same thing with Lyft and gig work. Bring back proof of looking for employment and curtail unemployment benefits when we have this many job openings. Helicopter money is temporary, not permanent." That's a high-rated comment at "The Jobs Report: The Boom That Wasn't/April's anemic job creation was so out of line with what other indicators have suggested that it will take some time to unravel the mystery" (NYT).  From the article:  Employers added only 266,000 jobs last month, the government reported Friday morning, not the million or so that forecasters expected. The unemployment rate actually edged up, to 6.1 percent.... These numbers are consistent with the story many business leaders are telling, of severe labor shortages — that demand has surged back but employers cannot find enough workers to fulfill it, at least at the wages they are accustomed to paying.... Back in 2010, the Obama administration introduced one of the more unfortunate economic messaging concepts of recent decades, announcing that a "Recovery Summer" was underway. It became a punchline, because while the economy was expanding, Americans were still far worse off than they'd been before the 2008 recession, and improvement was coming very slowly. That's one outcome the Biden administration desperately wants to avoid. (To comment, email me at annalthouse@gmail.com.)

"In the span of two years, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has gone from one of President Joe Biden’s most prominent surrogates — important enough to get vetted as a potential VP pick..." Posted: 07 May 2021 07:59 AM PDT "... to abandoning what once was considered a shoo-in re-election bid.... [A] 60% spike in homicides and accusations that she had become disconnected from the community seriously complicated her chances.... [Bottoms's statement] lacked... any sort of explanation about why she isn't running. So her allies are filling the void. They say she genuinely believed she could have won a second term, but passed because she felt her motivation sapping.... Will she run for another office? Bottoms didn't rule it out, and several statewide offices are up for grabs next year. Your Insiders are skeptical of this possibility. If she faced a tough citywide re-election bid this year, a statewide race with a more conservative electorate would objectively be an even heavier lift." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.  Here's an AJC article from January: "Atlanta's deadliest year in decades has city on edge and demanding change":  Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms was hailed after her response to destructive rioting in May after protests over the death of George Floyd devolved into chaos. Glamour featured her in its Women of the Year issue.... Former APD investigator Lakea Gaither said Bottoms has "lost the confidence of the officers." An 18-year veteran saluted as Officer of the Year in 2013 and Investigator of the Year in 2015, Gaither was one of 37 officers who either retired or resigned in a single month, August of last year. More than 200 officers quit in 2020. Many left after Erika Shields stepped down as chief in June, shortly after former Officer Garrett Rolfe shot Rayshard Brooks after a scuffle in a Wendy's parking lot near downtown. After Bottoms quickly announced that Rolfe had been fired and then-Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced criminal charges, hundreds of officers staged an unofficial "blue flu" in protest....  Bottoms says pinning blame on her for Atlanta's historically high homicide tally is "misplaced frustration." One 2020 shooting left a man dead near her southwest Atlanta home even as a patrol car sat outside her house, she noted. "Even if we had officers on every single corner — and in this instance an officer was literally on the block — homicides can happen," she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Wherever people would like to place blame, (that) doesn't get us any closer to the solution. This is a challenge across the country and we're all trying to wrap our arms around it." (To comment, email me at annalthouse@gmail.com.)

Influencers strive to explain their decision to euthanize Bowser after he bit their 1-year-old child. Posted: 07 May 2021 06:26 AM PDT   It's all very influencer-style — not the sort of thing I'd ordinarily watch — but I'd read "Family Vloggers Euthanize Their Dog, Prompting Collective 'Why?'" at New York Magazine...  Several influencers, including Jaclyn Hill, Jeffree Star, and Tana Mongeau, have commented on the situation. YouTuber LaurDIY, who also owns a bull terrier, posted an entire reaction video, in which she says, "They failed to set boundaries for their child and their dog, who has obvious past, unaddressed trauma that was their responsibility to correct and rehab." ... and I just wanted to say that this couple did the right thing in putting the dog down. Whether they should have made this long video reenacting their angst is another matter. (To comment, email me at annalthouse@gmail.com.)

"Mr. Gates was already working on his dream home before marrying Ms. Gates in 1994.... The place was 'a bachelor’s dream and a bride’s nightmare'..." Posted: 07 May 2021 05:12 AM PDT "... with 'enough software and high-tech displays to make a newlywed feel as though she were living inside a video game.'... After six months of discussions about whether the entire project should be scrapped, Ms. Gates decided to influence further construction by incorporating her preferences — and insisted on making the place a home for a family and not a lone tech wizard.... Perhaps Mr. Gates may now recommit himself to designing and building a smart house (though that may not be a challenging project for him today, now that connected devices are everywhere). Because despite the changes she made to the couple's home, Ms. Gates recently expressed misgivings about continuing to live there. 'We won't have that house forever....I'm actually really looking forward to the day that Bill and I live in a 1,500-square foot house." From "Who Gets Xanadu 2.0, the Gates Family Mansion? Melinda Gates, at least, has been open about her desire to live in a smaller house" (NYT). A 1,500-square foot house. I guess I can give this post my "tiny house" tag. How big is the "Xanadu" mansion? 66,000 square feet. That's 44 times the size of the house she purported to dream of. In a house so big, why worry about your estrangement from the other person? So easy to avoid them. Even hard to find them. Or I guess there were electronic devices to help you find them — in case you ever want them. It's beyond separate bedrooms. You're living in a place the size of a small town. Go live in another part of that town. (To comment, email me at annalthouse@gmail.com.)

"Frustrated by the lack of drugs available to carry out lethal injections in their state, South Carolina lawmakers are on the cusp of a controversial solution..." Posted: 07 May 2021 04:39 AM PDT "... forcing death row inmates to face the electric chair or firing squad when lethal injection is not possible. A bill proposing that change, approved by the State House this week, appears almost certain to become law in the next few days, and is being lauded by Republicans, including Gov. Henry McMaster, who have been vexed by pharmaceutical companies' refusal to sell states the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections. The lack of drugs, they say, is a key reason South Carolina has not executed anyone in 10 years. Opponents are appalled by the bill, which would make South Carolina the fourth state — along with Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah — in which death by firing squad is an option for the condemned.... The firing squad measure was proposed by State Senator Richard A. Harpootlian, a Democrat and former prosecutor, who argued that it was more humane than the electric chair.... 'an extraordinarily gruesome, horrendous process... where they essentially catch on fire and don't die immediately.'" The NYT reports. (To comment, email me at annalthouse@gmail.com.)

Pinkness. Posted: 06 May 2021 03:23 PM PDT In the Arb...

MIT News presents a robot to brush your hair. Posted: 06 May 2021 07:44 PM PDT   We're told: "With rapidly growing demands on health care systems, nurses typically spend 18 to 40 percent of their time performing direct patient care tasks, oftentimes for many patients and with little time to spare. Personal care robots that brush hair could provide substantial help and relief."  So you've got someone who can't brush her own hair. You're going to need to position her next to the robot. I can't believe that's not harder than just brushing her hair directly. But maybe there's a robot to move the patient around into range of the hair-brushing robot. By the way, I have hair, and I brush it, and I can tell you for sure that hair-brushing robot isn't accomplishing hair-brushing at all in that video: The robot is equipped with a camera that helps it "see" and assess curliness, so it can plan a delicate and time-efficient brush-out.  Yes, that's the problem. It's too wary and timid about getting into the hair! (It's there near the top of the sidebar — "To comment, just email me at annalthouse@gmail.com.)

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