If you like websites that look polished and load faster, good news: A technology called OpenType Variable Fonts is about to arrive. Adobe, Microsoft, Google and Apple created OpenType Variable Font technology in 2016 so designers and website developers could customize their typefaces. A font adapted with the technology essentially comes with a bunch of …
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Apple has unequivocally rejected an ad industry request to “rethink” a privacy-protecting browser feature set to arrive this month in the newest version of its Safari web browser. Six ad industry groups said Thursday that a Safari 11 feature called intelligent tracking prevention breaks existing browser conventions and “will … sabotage the economic model for the internet.” On Friday, Apple …
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When Safari 11 arrives on iPhones and Macs later this month, Apple‘s browser will come with a feature called Intelligent Tracking Prevention that makes it harder for advertisers and publishers to track what you do online. Surprise! Advertisers hate it. Six advertising groups published a letter Thursday asking Apple to “rethink” the technology, warning that it will “sabotage the economic model for …
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If you regularly plug headphones into your computer when browsing the internet, you likely know the evils of autoplay videos. One second you’re browsing in peace, the next your eardrums are obliterated by an insanely loud advertisement. Google is being the ultimate pal: In an upcoming update to its Chrome web browser, it will block any autoplay video that has …
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Hello, iPhone X. Goodbye, iPhone names as we know them. When Apple announced the iPhone X (pronounced “ten,” not “ex”) with no home button, the electronics giant might have also subtly prepped us for a major sea change in how Apple phones are named. Stick with me here. Last year we got the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus. This year …
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iPhone 8 and iPhone X unveiled: Pictures, photos from the Apple event +47 more See all photos Another year, another iPhone. Maybe it’s getting to be a little ho-hum, but this is also the event that determines a lot of peoples’ phone-buying plans for the next 12 months. And then there’s the big device that’s been languishing for a while, …
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Dear Siri, Tomorrow, Apple is holding an event to most likely announce the next iPhone. Many people are hoping for a radical redesign, others are debating what the new phone will be called: iPhone Pro, Edition, X, or just 8? But my mind is on you, Siri. To quote Joey Tribbiani: How you doin’? It’s been six years since you …
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Another apparent leak of Apple software is revealing a treasure trove of information on new iPhones and other products that the company is widely expected to announce at its event on Tuesday, September 12. A leak of the iOS 11 “gold master” firmware, as reported by 9to5mac and others, is said to reveal everything from how the new iPhone will …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image “Hey, come meet my ex.” Apple So now we know. Or, at least, we think we know. Irish iPhone programming guru Steve Troughton-Smith now feels sure he has the names of the three phones to be launched by Apple on Tuesday. Should you have …
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Now playing: Watch this: Google Drive is dying — time to update 1:05 The Google Drive app for personal computers will stop working March 12, 2018. Its fuller-featured replacement, Backup and Sync, is available now. Stephen Shankland/CNET If you’re among the hundreds of millions of people using Google Drive to synchronize files across your PCs and phones, be warned: you’ve …
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