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Tesla auto pilot seems to be about 10 times safer than a human driving.

“In the 2nd quarter, we registered one accident for every 4.53 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 2.27 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 1.56 million miles driven. By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 479,000 miles.”

Source: Tesla Vehicle Safety Report | Tesla

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Source: iOS 14 Includes Redesigned Field Test Mode – MacRumors

I didn’t know this even existed in the current iOS!!

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Interesting post about radio as per usual from Doc Searls:

The question on Quora was How long does a radio station last on average? Here is my answer, which also addresses the bigger question of what will happen to radio itself. Radio station licenses will…

Source: How long will radio last?

Lets not always believe what the competition says! Macrumor article here.

Apple says the attack was “narrowly-focused” rather than a broad-based exploit of iPhones as described. Fewer than a dozen websites targeting Uighur Muslims were affected, according to Apple. Further, Apple says that Google created a false impression of mass exploitation, causing fear among iPhone owners.

Google also got the length of the attacks wrong. Apple says the websites were operational for approximately two months rather than two years, with the vulnerabilities fixed 10 days after Apple learned about them. Fixes were already in the works when Google approached Apple.

Wait a minute, MySpace still exists??!!

Source: MySpace loses 12 years worth of photos, songs & video files

Who knew Corel still existed after all these years!!!

Source: CorelDRAW Returns to Mac After Nearly 20 Years With macOS Mojave Dark Mode and Touch Bar Support – MacRumors

Interesting short film created in VR using Quill

Looks like you can now have some free private repositories on GitHub:

Source: GitHub now gives free users unlimited private repositories

This is very curious that a single app can cause an iPhone to misbehave like this. This shouldn’t happen regardless of what the app is doing. I suspect we will hear more about this in the coming days.

Source: Apple Identifies Issue With GasBuddy App Causing Some iPhones to Become Unresponsive [Updated] – Mac Rumors

This should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone considering we are talking about Google here:

Source: Google’s iOS and Android Apps Track and Store Location Data With Location History Disabled – Mac Rumors