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The App Store review process is very strict to ensure that apps comply with Apple’s guidelines. And soon, this whole...

The Securities and Exchange Commission approved new rules Wednesday requiring companies that it regulates to quickly disclose “material” cybersecurity incidents and share the details of their cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance with the commission on an annual basis.

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. In 1973, Roy Amara hired a team at Stanford Research Institute to investigate how scientists were using ARPANET, a precursor to the Internet that was only four years old at the time. They found that scientists were not only using the network for work but also for personal matters (one scientist realized he forgot his razor at an overseas conference and used ARPANET to request it bac

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So far this year, the “Big Five” most valuable U.S. tech companies have made just five known startup acquisitions, per Crunchbase data.

CardioComm, a Canadian company which provides heart-monitoring technology to hospitals and consumers, has revealed that it has been forced to take its systems offline following a cyberattack.

About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters.

Did platform feeds sow the seeds of deep divisions during the 2020 US presidential election?

Meta will open source LLaMa 2, but with a license requirement for companies with 700 million monthly active users—an interestingly specific threshold.

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North Korean state actors linked to the RGB have been identified in the JumpCloud hack! An OPSEC mistake exposed their IP address.

Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.

Dashing the hopes of liberal arts professors and teachers, OpenAI decommissions its AI content detector due to poor accuracy.

France's Thales said on Tuesday it would buy U.S. cybersecurity company Imperva in a deal worth $3.6 billion as it steps up expansion outside its historic defence business in the war against bots and hackers.

After years of steady growth, many technology companies are laying off workers and giving up millions of square feet of office space in the city.

Security researchers report that the latest stable version of iOS, 16.6, and the one before it, 16.5.1, still bypass VPN connections.

Newswire services are being used to distribute pro-PRC content to subdomains of legitimate U.S.-based news outlets.

The vaccine stuff seems pretty simple. But if you take a closer look at the data, it's still simple, but bigger. And slightly blurry. Might need reading glasses.

I spent a bunch of time on this at the weekend: my LLM tool for interacting with large language models from the terminal has now been accepted into Homebrew core, …

The WebAssembly (Wasm) ecosystem is transforming. Developers can look forward to a modular, virtualizable, and robust environment for building applications, libraries, and services.We are excited to be working towards this with implement...

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Using AirPods as a Hearing Aid (Revised) I posted a link to an article earlier about what we can do to prevent dementia. https://mstdn.social/@garry/110004588618144618 One thing that was news to me is that there is a link between poor hearing and dementia. And one thing that many people don't know is that you can use AirPods as a hearing aid. It takes a few minutes to set up but can make a world of difference. I spent a lot of time some years ago working with very loud sound while producing music with pro level headphones. Subsequently my ability to hear sounds at 1,000 Hz and above was greatly reduced. Amongst other things this meant that it was difficult to hear consonants in speech, effectively making me partially deaf. I got a pair of AirPod Pro earbuds and set them up for my personal hearing needs. Later that day I went for a walk in my local woods and literally gasped out loud at hearing the birds I'd been missing for some years! The way you set them up is buried deep in the Settings, so it's not surprising that not many people know about it. Here's where you need to go. You need to have the AirPods connected to your iPhone or iPad. Settings Accessibility AirPods Audio Accessibility Settings Headphone Accommodations Custom Audio Setup Headphone Audio Customisation You run through a couple of hearing tests, one for voice volume levels and one for best music settings. After the tests you should see a volume slider. It's important to move that to wherever you need it. Hearing sounds at all frequencies is great, but I found that I wanted a slight volume boost to enhance conversations. Some people might want to turn it down if it's enhancing the sound too much. After this you should be good to go, but you can always set it up again. And maybe make a note of where the settings are. (Why can't we bookmark particular settings, Apple?) "A few points to note: 1) If you can get an audiogram (from a free hearing test?) you can input that at an early stage of the setup. I didn't have one to test but I imagine that it speeds up the whole process. 2) This process worked for me, but I'm not an audiologist, so it's your decision whether to go this route. 3) Here's the list of devices it works with, and the news is good for anyone with any of these devices: AirPods Pro (1st and 2nd generation) AirPods (2nd and 3rd generation) AirPods Max Apple EarPods (with 3.5mm Headphone Plug or Lightning Connector) Powerbeats Powerbeats Pro Beats Solo Pro Beats Fit Pro I tried it with the EarPods that came with my iPhone XS and they weren't recognised for some reason. Maybe it's only with newer models. 4) Airpods Pro 2 cost £248 currently in the UK. That's a fair amount of money. Hearing aids that actually work typically cost between £500 and £3,000, and that's just for one. You usually get a discount for two, but it's still a lot of money. Cheaper to get an audiogram and the AirPods. 5) It should be obvious that you need to use the AirPods in Transparency mode for this to work. You can, of course, listen to music in Transparency mode, and you should find that you can turn the music up or down without affecting the volume of the sounds around you. Now, if Apple would just add extra sensitivity for the sound of ebikes and scooters... 6) Dr Rob (@PapaBear@4bear.com) reminded me that you can use Live Listen (sometimes jokingly referred to as Espionage Mode), which is where, say, you put your iPhone in the middle of a desk during a meeting, or right in front of the TV. You can read about that here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/airpods/dev85c352340/web 7) I'm going to repeat the warning that Apple (and every other manufacturer of such audio devices gives you, slightly revised for the context: Listening (to anything through AirPods) at high volumes can damage your health. 8) Paul (@beerbaking@tech.lgbt) suggested a way of using a Shortcut to access the Settings without having to dive down one level at a time. Open the Shortcuts app, tap Add Action, tap URL (you can search for it first), enter prefs:root=ACCESSIBILITY&path=AUDIO_VISUAL_TITLE/AXPAEnableSpecID (perhaps copy and paste to avoid mistakes) in the field with the paperclip icon, tap Open URLs under Next Action suggestions, tap Done. Tap the new Shortcut to try it. You can then long-press on the Shortcut to Rename it. You can also long-press, tap Share, then tap Add to Home Screen for a one-tap solution that avoids going back into the Shortcuts app every time. I hope you find this information useful. And especially that it keeps some of you from worse hearing loss, let alone dementia. There are a couple of articles you might be interested in: Study: AirPods Pro are this close to being full-fledged hearing aids https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/study-airpods-pro-are-this-close-to-being-full-fledged-hearing-aids/ Apple AirPods getting new health features in the next few years https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/03/12/apple-airpods-getting-health-features-in-the-next-few-years #Apple #AirPods #HearingLoss #HearingAid #DeafAid #audiogram