A Passionate Technologists' Journal

  WWDC 2021 Keynote - Summary Starts with developers around the world giving out crazy ideas to start the event with a short film for it Tim Cook enters into an auditorium with a huge audience with Memoji faces iOS: (Enter Craig, the hero) Introduces iOS15 FaceTime Audio: Spatial audio in FaceTime (Sound that comes in the position of the person in the video) Microphone - Voice Isolation prioritizes the audio of the person in the video talking Video Highlights the person talking Portrait mode (blurs the background) Facetime Link to invite for calls (anybody from the web could join the call) SharePlay - Listen to music, watch movies, share screens,   Share playback controls [Very much required in the post-covid world] (API’s open for 3rd part developers) Messages: Images collage/stack view in Messages app [News App will have a separate section that lists all the links shared by others] Music, Photos & other apple apps content gets linked Focus: Notifications Summary - A new ...

iOS14: App Library - Organisation of apps into a single page onto the home screen Widgets - On Home screen,   In any sizes you want Picture in Picture(PIP) - Across the system Siri: 25B requests/ month Send messages via Siri directly Supports translations Answers to common queries by browsing through the web for you Calls won’t block the whole app but come with a compact notification Translation App: Language translation Supports audio & text Supports 11 langs Messages: Memoji: More ways to style/design your memories Inline replies (Finally) Member mention in the group (Notified only when you’re mentioned) Maps: Privacy priority/matters as usual Looks like they’ve copied most of the features that google maps already has for years (Finally) Cycling/ Elevations EV routing CarPlay: 95% in the US | 80% new cars   worldwide New apps: Parking, EV Charging, Food Ordering iPhone is your car key: Digital version of Car keys (2021 BMW 5 Series) Keys can be shared with your co-driver...

Introduction: Unlike my other blog posts, this isn't a technical blog but a review of a fictional series called ' Upload ' that contains so many technicalities, so many good ones indeed. Hence, I couldn't resist myself from posting it here unusually.  Summary: The whole series is set in 2033 and is a fiction/prediction of how our world will evolve and how we’ll live and is based on one simple long-lived question: What if we could get to live an afterlife and If so, what it’d look like?   The whole series is based on answering this question with the digital world called ‘Upload’, where people after death have a chance to upload themselves aka their memories/brain/thoughts into a digital world from where they could have access with the people in the real world which literally means that there is no death to any conscious person unless their memories are deleted from the hardware. There are just so many good ideas with many interesting & fun facts sprinkled all across ...