Dear Apple, please stop accepting app updates whose release notes can be summarized as “we continuously update the application, download and see what has changed.” Facebook is of course the original sinner and biggest perpetrator, but others are following suit. A couple applications that did great release notes recently come from Slack, The Omni Group, […]

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The Real Danger of Artificial Intelligence

When most people think of the dangers of artificial intelligence, this is probably more or less what comes to mind: Computer-literates and paranoids might raise (legitimate) privacy concerns and mention uncomfortable cases like the teenager whose parents learned she was pregnant when a machine learning algorithm started sending her parenting advertisements based on her purchasing […]

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If I Were More Mature I’d be Methuselah

Hats off for Withings – their customer support excellent – less than an hour after I sent a mail to their support, I got a response from Victor, who shall remain anonymous. I tried ordering again but with initially little luck. In the end, my order went thru, and I decided to share my experience […]

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