Episode 24: It's time for Masked unlocks, Fitness casting, health-check for your wallet, iCloud Passwords here and then gone, Stadia concerns and we all go to Greenland, plus logging that flight!
The Weekly Tech Rant with Jay and Karl
English - February 08, 2021 14:58 - 57 minutes - 53.3 MBTechnology Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week we covered:
News
Apple raises credit for the return of Dev Kit Macs - please can we have our dev units back!
iOS 14.5 Unlock with Apple Watch(for Mask wearing) - finally no more fumbling to unlock your phone when out and about in 2021!
Rumours of Financial Health info coming to Apple Wallet - Not just looking after your physical health!
Another 14.5 update brings Fitness+ casting to supported devices - too late shouts Karl!
New Chrome extension for adding Apple iCloud passwords to the browser - and Google Apple have pulled it from the store! (Well pulls iCloud 12 which the extension needs)
In wake of Apple privacy controls, Facebook mulls just begging its iOS app users to let it track them over the web - Desperate measures from Book of faces!
Google Stadia closes two studios and cancels multiple projects - So how long before the plug is pulled on Stadia?
Google is reportedly working on an anti-tracking feature for Android - Karl hasn’t stopped laughing at this one!
Films
Greenland - another apocalyptic action thriller!
Games
Volanta - Flight tracking app for MS FS2020 and DCS
As always please let us know your thoughts in the comments!