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Re:Google Pixel Watch 3: bigger, brighter, fine-tuned for fitness on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @08:39PM (#41241394)
Automatic (out-of-cycle) sleep tracking is coming in watchOS 11.
Re:'Meridian': Why Netflix Is Helping Competitors with Content and Cod... on Saturday June 22, 2024 @11:21AM (#40759692)
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Re:Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia will be completed in 2026 on Monday March 25, 2024 @09:34AM (#39816093)
There are a number of material and technology advances [1] that accelerated the pace of the Sagrada Familia's construction — the techniques used to construct the basilica have evolved significantly since construction began.

https://www.archdaily.com/964178/from-handcrafted-stone-to-3...

Re:InVision has no physical headquarters and all 700 employees work re... on Monday October 08, 2018 @12:38PM (#18168927)
The most recent version of Sketch (52) seems to resolve a lot of the general slowness around large files. It's Metal-accelerated now.

https://blog.sketchapp.com/dark-mode-data-a-brand-new-look-a...

Re:This Is the Mindfulness App Apple Doesn’t Want You to Have on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:36PM (#14094284)
There are a few workarounds that don't involve undocumented APIs for this, as someone else in this thread mentioned.

Facebook's Groups app uses (disclaimer: as far as I can tell) an interesting technique involving saving data URIs to the home screen and then deep linking them.

Re:Let's crash the integrated browser in Facebook on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @12:04PM (#13868685)
You can roll your own browser interface using WKWebView — if (for whatever reason) your app supplements the browsing experience, you'd use WKWebView.

SFSafariViewController provides its own Safari-like interface and has an extremely limited set of configuration/customization options.

Re:iOS 10 and MacOS Sierra: Networking for the Modern Internet on Friday June 24, 2016 @03:03PM (#11972494)
Without going into tremendous detail, this is roughly how:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Networ...

Re:Digit: Save money without thinking about it on Thursday March 10, 2016 @07:44AM (#11258826)
Bank of America has a similar program called "Keep the Change".

https://www.bankofamerica.com/deposits/manage/keep-the-chang...

Re:Show HN: Mechanical clock simulation in WebGL on Sunday October 18, 2015 @12:43AM (#10407248)
Safari 9 on OS X 10.11 has this behavior.
Re:A look at how Macintosh accessories are prototyped and tested on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @07:43PM (#10384212)
Apple did release peripherals today, so that's likely.
Re:Exploring Apple's 3D Touch on Monday October 12, 2015 @01:36PM (#10375950)
A long press is a function of time: "How long has the user pressed?"

3D Touch is a function of pressure: "How hard has the user pressed?"

In practice, things that your application previously accomplished with long presses may be more suitably accomplished with 3D Touch — things like contextual menus or shortcuts come to mind. Additionally, iOS has new APIs for presenting content using 3D Touch. The article briefly references them.

Re:Validating Your Version of Xcode on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @12:23PM (#10259615)
It appears that a Chinese company named Kunlun licensed IP from Rovio and is developing Angry Birds apps specifically for the Chinese market. Perhaps they're also distributing the app themselves.

http://www.rovio.com/en/news/press-releases/621/rovio-gets-w...

Re:The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (2007) on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @09:08AM (#9968333)
Opportunity knocks (rather, gets served by pneumatic tube): the domain http://burritos.nyc appears to be for sale.
Re:Exploit to get root on OS X 10.10 fits in a tweet on Thursday July 23, 2015 @07:55AM (#9935118)
They've issued security updates as far back as Mountain Lion as recently as June 30.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222

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