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Longtime friends Theresa Shaska and Tatiana Triplin tape into the raw but aspirational ethos of Detroit techno.

On Always Centered At Night, Moby’s 22nd album, he collates some of the chroniclers of our time to replicate the spirit of discovery.

Mixmag's guide to the best DJ mixes of 2024 so far

Regular blogging by Terence Eden.

Watch hundreds of teenagers grow up into adults – and see how their lives turn out

With iPadOS 18 Apple is making the app experience confusing and unnecessarily complex.

An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

It was clear that Apple didn’t want to be a part of this. For years now, the company has resisted using the phrase Artificial Intelligence to describe what it does. It’s facile and misl…

Gov. Parson will kick off the I-70 project adding a third lane in both directions. The Rocheport Bridge replacement is on schedule.

With the release of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 18, visionOS, and tvOS 18 this fall, Apple is enhancing the services users love with all-new features.

Keychron’s new keyboard brings Hall effect switches one step closer to the mainstream.

These are the 15 most anticipated horror books hitting shelves this summer.

When social media gets to be too much, Neocities is there

Assassin’s Creed successfully returns to the stealthy style that launched the series.

Apple's 13-inch iPad Pro is a testament to the power and efficiency of Apple Silicon, but WWDC has to address at least some of the shortcomings of iPadOS for those hardware upgrades to mean anything.

We have exclusively discovered how much iOS 18 and macOS 15 will upgrade Siri and improve everything you do. Here's what the new-and-improved Siri will be able to do.

Hopefully, Folium improves in the future -- because, right now, game compatibility is spotty at best.

Apple is just a week away from revealing iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15, tvOS 18, and watchOS 11 at WWDC 2024. Here's what the rumor mill believes is in store.

I’ve been playing around with Kino, a video camera app by Lux, on and off for the past day. That’s not long enough to do a full review, so instead, I got up this morning and headed out for a walk with Kino in tow to see what the default experience is like. The short

Personal website of Aaron Czichon, Software & Web Engineer

Popular Mac email app Airmail is now available for iOS, offering a wide array of features including the ability to snooze emails, interactive notifications, filters, customizable swipe actions, Apple

It started with a very simple setup. Two github repositories: One for our backend, which included...

My in-depth review of the 13-inch Magic Keyboard (2nd generation) for the iPad Pro (7th generation).

Ah, its nice to have a little color talk here on the podcast. Dublin, Irelands' ⁠ACHES⁠ is a theorist of color. He combines a multitude of ideas and s...

I’m not usually nostalgic about apps. I appreciate classic designs from the past, but I find ‘new’ more exciting. However, for every rule, there’s an exception, and for me, it’s Mario Guzmán’s beautiful, pixel-perfect reimagining of classic Apple music apps. Guzmán’s latest app is QuickTune, a remote control utility for Apple Music. The app is

The proliferation of harmful content and misinformation on social networks necessitates content moderation policies to maintain platform health. One such policy is shadow banning, which limits content visibility. The danger of shadow banning is that it can be misused by social media platforms to manipulate opinions. Here we present an optimization based approach to shadow banning that can shape opinions into a desired distribution and scale to large networks. Simulations on real network topologies show that our shadow banning policies can shift opinions and increase or decrease opinion polarization. We find that if one shadow bans with the aim of shifting opinions in a certain direction, the resulting shadow banning policy can appear neutral. This shows the potential for social media platforms to misuse shadow banning without being detected. Our results demonstrate the power and danger of shadow banning for opinion manipulation in social networks.