Google just gets creepier and creepier. “The NSA gathers data on innocent people – I’m shocked, I tell you!”<\/p>\n
I have an app called Waze – it’s in theory a useful app – it is crowd sourced traffic. It watches the speed of the people who have the app open to monitor the speeds on the freeways, etc and you can report accidents, construction, radar traps, red light cameras, and even socially interact with other people on the road.<\/p>\n
As a byproduct, it is of course tracking everywhere you drive, which has the potential to disclose way too much information about you. Not a problem as long as Google doesn’t buy them. Oops!<\/p>\n
iOS7’s new features were introduced yesterday. Beyond the cosmetics, one of the more significant changes is to the way multitasking and background processes work. With a few exceptions like streaming music, iDevices are not really multitasking, they just switch quickly from one app to another and sometimes remember what you were doing. The new multitasking will allow generally most processes to lurk in the background and continue doing stuff without having to be the visible app.<\/p>\n
What hath God wrought?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Google just gets creepier and creepier. “The NSA gathers data on innocent people – I’m shocked, I tell you!” I have an app called Waze – it’s in theory a useful app – it is crowd sourced traffic. It watches … Continue reading