Tag: party

How to use a BBC micro:bit to make a sound-activated mirror ball

A BBC micro:bit program and a sound sensor will get the party started. Here’s how to make a disco ball that automatically spins when music plays Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232351-000-how-to-use-a-bbc-microbit-to-make-a-sound-activated-mirror-ball/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Google Explains How It Licenses Song Lyrics For Search, Will Add Attribution

Over the weekend, Google Search was caught allegedly copying song lyrics from Genius.com. In response, Google published a long explanation of how lyrics in Search work and said that they will add attribution to note which third-party service is supplying the lyrics. 9to5Google reports: When you look up a song in Search, Google often returns a YouTube video with the Knowledge…

China Is Harvesting Organs From Detainees, Tribunal Concludes

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: An independent tribunal sitting in London has concluded that the killing of detainees in China for organ transplants is continuing, and victims include imprisoned followers of the Falun Gong movement. The China Tribunal, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, who was a prosecutor at the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,…

Huawei Started Serving Ads On Phone Lock Screens Without Asking Users’ Permission

Huawei is reportedly displaying advertisements on the lock screen of its smartphones, seemingly without warning or any sort of announcement. Huawei says that it’s doing no such thing. “The ads are not initiated by Huawei. We encourage individuals to check app settings, or follow publicly available directions on how to remove lock screen ads,” Huawei said in a statement to Digital…

‘Apple Wants To Kill the Ad Industry. It’s Forcing Developers To Help.’

“As a consumer, the idea of Apple sign-in is genuinely an exciting one…” writes developer/tech journalist Owen Williams at Char.gd. “As a person in digital marketing, as well as a coder and startup founder, the feature terrifies me… I don’t have a choice. Apple plans to force developers using third-party signin features to add its signin along any competing ones, rather…

Maker Faire and Make Magazine Have Laid Off All Staff and Paused All Operations

McGruber quotes TechCrunch: Maker Media Inc ceased operations this week and let go of all of its employees — about 22 employees” founder and CEO Dale Dougherty told TechCrunch. “I started this 15 years ago and it’s always been a struggle as a business to make this work. Print publishing is not a great business for anybody, but it works ….

Google Launches Android Q Beta 4 With Final APIs and Official SDK

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Google today launched the fourth Android Q beta with final Android Q APIs and the official SDK. If you’re a developer, this is your fourth Android Q preview, and you can start testing your apps against this release by downloading it from developer.android.com/preview. The preview includes system images for the Pixel, Pixel XL,…

Apple Asks Developers To Place Its Login Button Above Google and Facebook

Apple will ask developers to position a new “Sign in with Apple” button in iPhone and iPad apps above rival buttons from Alphabet’s Google and Facebook, according to design guidelines released this week. From a report: The move to give Apple prime placement is significant because users often select the default or top option on apps. And Apple will require apps…

Apple Is Now the Privacy-As-A-Service Company

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Apple’s truly transforming into a privacy-as-a-service company, which shows in the way that it’s implementing both the new single sign-on account service, as well as its camera and location services updates in iOS 13. The SSO play is especially clever, because it includes a mechanism that will allow developers to still have the…