With a little casual hexadecimal memorization and pattern recognition skill, you can become a QR code-reading machine — no pesky computer required!
The black and white boxes represent binary 1s and 0s, respectively, and it’s read in a zig-zagging pattern up and down the code, starting from the bottom-right corner. Check out this handy guide to learn how today!
From map views and smart TVs to smart buttons and generative AI, controlling your smart home is getting simpler and smarter — and less dependent on your smartphone.
The Schiaparelli couture show today featured expertly crafted garments in vinyl, satin, and lace — but the real show stoppers were a robot-like baby doll and dress, each encrusted with old phones, wires, calculators, and motherboards.
Creative director Daniel Roseberry told WWD it’s a nostalgic ode to a bygone era of technology:
“That’s all pre-2007, which is now basically prehistoric technology, things like the flip phones, the CDs, the calculators and things like that,” Roseberry said. “A lot of people on TikTok have been taking AI and turning my collections into digital collections and seeing who wore it best, so I was thinking, the only card I have to play now is really my memories.”
Over on X, Steve Moser posted that he noticed Safari on Vision Pro doesn’t have the “Add to Home Screen” option, which suggests that you can’t use Progressive Web Apps on the Vision Pro. This is in a simulator, it’s beta software, nobody really knows anything about how the final products will work! But given how much Apple needs great web apps for the Vision Pro to be a hit, it’s definitely a slightly worrying sign.
Apple and Google have defended their app stores as necessary tools to protect users, but Verge alum Russell Brandom highlights this article focusing on loan apps Google Play allows even though its own rules say it shouldn’t. Rest of World found dozens of apps in Mexico and Peru that broke Google’s TOS by requesting access to things like a user’s contact list, information which has been used to harass people over debts.
Wired tells the story of California detectives who tried to use facial recognition to identify a face made with machine learning and crime scene DNA by phenotyping company Parabon NanoLabs. That’s not a good idea, said Parabon’s director of bioinformatics, Ellen Greytak:
“What we are predicting is more like — given this person’s sex and ancestry, will they have wider-set eyes than average,” she says. “There’s no way you can get individual identifications from that.”
On a related note, a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on AI in criminal investigations is set for Wednesday.
I’m using an exclamation point to celebrate because this is exciting news if you’re an Apple Music Classical fan. Thanks to much improved metadata, the app is infinitely better than Apple Music for finding and surfacing classical music. Yet despite it being made by Apple, it’s been slow to come to the other places iOS apps usually come. That means there’s no official tvOS or iPadOS app, and there hasn’t been support for CarPlay.
But now you can update Apple Music Classical to version 1.2 and get it in CarPlay. That would have been nice to have during my 24-hour road trip this past weekend.
Part of the online ordering process involves a Face ID-like head scan using your iPhone to size the Vision Pro head strap, but as some complained in a MacRumors thread, multiple scans can produce multiple results.
Not to fear, though. Apple retail employees were told they can swap straps for online customers who get the wrong size, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Terraform Labs filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sunday, listing assets and liabilities between $100 million and $500 million.
The company’s co-founder, Do Kwon, is facing extradition to the US following the fall of TerraUSD and its sister token Luna, which vaporized billions of dollars in 2022.
The 2024 Lincoln Nautilus will get the new supersized screen, with other models to follow. And yes, it still supports CarPlay and Android Auto.
