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How to remove metadata from your photos on iOS

Jun27
by on June 27, 2019 at 12:40 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Basics


Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Shortcuts app for iOS is a very useful way to automate your iPhone or iPad. In this series, we’ve been looking at different workflows to make your Apple device a lot more powerful to accomplish specific tasks. Another automation that could come in handy is removing metadata from photos. Every photo that you take with your phone (or any camera) comes with a lot of technical information. They might include details like: Data and time…

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How to remove metadata from your photos on iOS

Jun27
by on June 27, 2019 at 12:40 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Basics


Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Shortcuts app for iOS is a very useful way to automate your iPhone or iPad. In this series, we’ve been looking at different workflows to make your Apple device a lot more powerful to accomplish specific tasks. Another automation that could come in handy is removing metadata from photos. Every photo that you take with your phone (or any camera) comes with a lot of technical information. They might include details like: Data and time…

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Is it time for technology conferences to ditch meat?

Jun27
by on June 27, 2019 at 11:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Opinion


Last night, I stumbled on an interesting tweet thread from Manchester-based PHD student Oli Clark, who argued that conferences should serve vegetarian food as the default option. This would be a reverse of the current situation, where events offer several meat-infused dishes, and scarcely anything for those on a plant-based diet. My hot take 🔥: #vegetarian food should be the default #conferences/buffet events, and meat should be dietary request: — Oli Clark (@PsyTechOli) June 26, 2019 As hot takes go, this one’s as fiery as a vindaloo. Why? Because people are often extremely particular about the food they eat. This…

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Dublin crime ring recruited 14-year-olds to hide drugs bought with Bitcoin

Jun27
by on June 27, 2019 at 11:33 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


A drug-smuggling kingpin has been using west Dublin teenagers as young as 14 to store large amounts of narcotics bought with cryptocurrency via the dark web, reports Irish local media The Journal citing sources familiar with the matter. Authorities suspect they run a criminal enterprise that distributes illegal drugs like cocaine, MDMA, and ketamine within the west Dublin area. A 17-year-old boy arrested earlier this week over $682,000 (€600,000) worth of ecstasy seized at Lucan postal centre is believed to have actually been paid to hold them for the dodgy dealers. He was later released without charge. According to reports,…

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Here’s why India wants to build its own WhatsApp and Gmail

Jun27
by on June 27, 2019 at 11:22 am
Posted In: Around the Web


The Indian government is reportedly planning to build its own WhatsApp-like chat platform to facilitate secure communications for government agencies, according to news outlet Economic Times. The move is meant to reduce the country’s reliance on US technology companies, and ensure that all communication and data transmitted over the service will be stored locally in the country. This also includes email services like Gmail, which have become the de facto means for official communication. “We need to make our communication insular,” an unnnamed official was quoted as saying in the report. “We should have email, messaging, all sorts of systems, at…

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