Most UI elements today are accessed as icons to be tapped or clicked upon, and I wonder if that's really the best idea we have. Nearly every UI concept can be boiled down to a word or two, and if not, logic can branch from there the way our own human language can. Text is just better in a lot of ways--our eyes just pass it to our brains faster. It's more accessible output in every sense of those words.
Remember last year when that story came out about how all of the major US cell networks are reporting user location data to shady third parties? Remember how all of the telcos posted contrite messages about how they would never, ever share user location data with random third-party companies ever again? Well, surprise: they were lying.
Joseph Cox, for Motherboard:
Nervously, I gave a bounty hunter a phone number. He had offered to geolocate a phone for me, using a shady, overlooked service intended not ...
Jack Dorsey reveals Twitter's huge new plans:
For the first time since the end of 2016, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey shed some light on the company’s thoughts about building an edit button for tweets. Speaking at an event in India’s capital of New Delhi, he said that the company has to carefully consider use cases for the edit button before making it a reality – and it could potentially be tooled to help fix typos.
Dorsey might also consider formulating a sane business ...
A Canadian-owned life insurance company wants to track your health data and base your life insurance premiums on it:
John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance and instead sell only interactive policies that track fitness and health data through wearable devices and smartphones, the company said on Wednesday.
There are lots of caveats to their actual approach given the highly regulated nature of the insurance industry, which may make this sort of situation sound ...
It's quite entertaining to watch Venmo try to explain away the default behavior of their app, which broadcasts users' transaction info publicly. The unnamed PayPal spokesbot cited in that story claims the service was "designed for sharing experiences," which is a delightful wad of claptrap devised in order to spin the fact that they must want to publish this data about your finances in an attempt to attract new users.
Everything in Silicon Valley may "need" to be a disgusting "growth hack" in order ...
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