This’ll make you groan a bit. Following last year’s findings as to how easy it was for outside parties to buy real-time location data of US wireless customers via lax carrier standards, it was noted that data was winding up in the hands of shady third-parties, and bounty hunters. Now, after what it described as […]
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Fantastical is nifty. And it’s been updated of late. Fantastical, which functions as a hyper-powered calendar, can be activated with either a single click or keystroke. The application features a natural-language engine, allowing you to write in your own style. Other cool features include a location engine that locate the user and allow you to […]
Over on the mobile end of things, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 13.3.1 updates on Tuesday. The updates offer the following fixes and changes: Fixes an issue in Communication Limits that could allow a contact to be added without entering the Screen Time passcode. Adds a setting to control the use of location services by […]
If you were looking for some benchmarks as to T-Mobile’s newly-launched 5G network, the cool cats at Venturebeat have some numbers for you. During testing, the low-band 5G downloads peaked at 227Mbps, or two to four times faster than T-Mobile’s LTE service at the same locations, and far higher than the aforementioned 20 percent estimate. […]
Roughly one year ago, Apple announced a huge change to its Maps app, stating that the company was completely overhauling its fundamental map data. The new data would expand upon what was there, now including buildings, rivers, roads, and vegetation in a vastly more accurate and detailed form. Apple began rolling out the new mapping […]