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Rather than using electrical tape, I'd recommend fluorescent color gaffer's tape.

The Flir One Camera (with Lightning plug) can do all sorts of wonderful science and help make an efficient house. Flir makes an Android phone with a built-in IR camera: the Cat S60. Hybrid capture of images from both the normal and IR camera in the iPhone X would be very cool. Can the IR camera...

I stumbled across an article that notes how marketers are already adapting to this tech: "How Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention works & why Google/Facebook could benefit most". This article references a blog article from John Wilander "Intelligent Tracking Prevention". That WebKit article...

Two related questions about macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) Safari: 1. How will disabling video autoplay impact advertisers and the revenue model in general for websites? Some websites seemed to get awfully addicted to video advertisements quickly. 2. Assuming it works, how will disabling of...

pkcable's answer is correct. Besides teh language, Playgrounds allows you to explore a variety of Swift APIs. The Keynote demo shows the use of the gyroscope API, and the demo from the WWDC 2016 session #408 shows more.

The only place to write iOS, tvOS, watchOS, or macOS apps is on a Mac. There are some cross-dev environments, but they are all convoluted and ugly. With very few exceptions, all apps you see on the app stores come from the XCODE development environment on the Mac. There could be a Swift...