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Who had "Apple starts off their developer conference with a musical" on their bingo card? #WWDC21
Starting off with iOS 15 FaceTime updates:
✅Now has Spatial Audio and Portrait Mode
✅Ability to send FaceTime invite links
✅A new feature called SharePlay that allows you to watch movies and listen to music together
With iOS 15, Apple unveils a new feature called Share With You—a list of content that friends have recently sent to you so you can catch up on it later.
Apple is bringing identity cards to Apple Wallet. Now your driver's license can be encrypted and stored in your phone. Apple says TSA is preparing to be able to use this feature to get through security checks. wired.trib.al/Cs8Hcep#WWDC21
The next iteration of Apple Maps is significantly more detailed—outlining things like overpasses, tourist attractions, and cross walks in 3D animation. wired.trib.al/Cs8Hcep#WWDC21
As users pivot toward privacy, Apple is making things like emails and Safari browsing even harder to track. wired.trib.al/Cs8Hcep#WWDC21
A new feature called Legacy Contacts will allow trusted loved ones to access your iCloud data if you pass away. wired.trib.al/Cs8Hcep#WWDC21
Apple will now measure your "Walking Steadiness", a feature that tracks how stable you are, and how likely you may be to fall. It also comes with movement exercises to help your strength and balance. wired.trib.al/Cs8Hcep#WWDC21
Your iPhone will soon let you share your health data with your doctor securely. No more making up how much you exercise. wired.trib.al/Cs8Hcep#WWDC21
Apple is bringing a new design to Safari—with tab groups, a redesigned sidebar, seamless integration with your other Apple device, and swipeable tabs and web extensions for your iPhone.
Bellingcat is the world’s biggest citizen-run intelligence agency, investigating everything from the 2014 shoot-down of MH17 to the various plots to kill Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. The person behind it all? Eliot Higgins. wired.com/story/how-to-l…
Bellingcat’s trajectory tells a scathing story about the nature of truth in the 21st century. Hard facts have been devalued. Online, everyone can present, and believe in, their own narratives, even if they’re mere tissues of lies. wired.com/story/how-to-l…
The year ahead may be the biggest of @bellingcat's life. In addition to tracking conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, its analysts will also be flooded with falsified artifacts from elections in the US, the UK, India, and dozens of other countries. wired.com/story/how-to-l…
Even before Sam Bankman-Fried, Faruk Fatih Özer had built a crypto empire. Now, the 27-year-old is facing a prison sentence of 11,196 years.
Did he almost get away with the biggest heist in Turkey’s history, or was it a misunderstanding? WIRED deep dive: wired.trib.al/wMvxpYp
Following decades of political turmoil in Turkey, at 23, Özer founded a crypto exchange called Thodex by investing just 40,000 lira ($11,100 US). He advertised his company as a way to prevent economic volatility, using a playbook from Silicon Valley. wired.com/story/faruk-oz…
In a few years, thousands of people bought in. Thodex expanded, reaching the upper echelons of society and government. By March 2021, Turkey became one of the top five nations for crypto use and Özer’s company was booming. wired.com/story/faruk-oz…
🧵 For 13 years, Del Harvey ran Twitter’s trust and safety team–if there was an issue with content people would say “DM Del.” Now, Harvey pulls back the curtain on Twitter’s decisions to mute, ban and block posts in the pre-Elon era 1/
But Del Harvey isn’t even her real name, although that’s what everyone knows her as. In 2003, Harvey worked for a nonprofit called Perverted Justice that investigated online predators. That led to Harvey working in TV with the NBC series “To Catch a Predator.” 2/10
Five years later, when a friend reached out and suggested Harvey take a job at a fledgling tech company, it seemed like a walk in the park compared to catching pedophiles. 3/10
🧵The Far North is thawing, unleashing clouds of planet-heating gas. Scientists rely on an arsenal of tech to understand permafrost environments better and sniff out just how nasty the problem really is. wired.trib.al/TwLiZ8G
As Arctic temperatures rise thawing permafrost releases methane, a gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide at warming the planet. Those clouds of methane raise global temperatures, which thaws more permafrost, which releases more methane. It’s a problem. 2/7
To reckon with how big of a problem we’re facing a group of self-described “methane detectives” use various instruments to determine how much organic matter exists within permafrost sites which will give them some idea of how much methane that site will release as it warms. 3/7
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