Google is right to attack Apple on this front. My mother has a 16G iPhone, no desktop computer, and no broadband at her home. This is our procedure for getting pictures off her iPhone.

1. She brings an iPhone cable to work whenever she can.
2. Her photos & video are uploaded to iCloud Photo Library over her work’s WiFi.
3. I manually download them and put them in her Dropbox.
4. I delete them from her iCloud Photo Library, and they disappear from her phone.

Talk about jumping through hoops.

I collaborated with Dr. Hugh Harvey to build this Chrome extension. It changes words and phrases on news articles about the UK’s NHS budget crisis to highlight the issue of drastic underfunding.

Some backstory from the description,

The NHS is undergoing the largest chronic underfunding period in its 70 year history. The Department of Health (and thus the media) tend to blame this on hospitals and staff, as if it were their fault. In reality there simply isn’t enough money provided by the Treasury to provide the services that are needed, with staff overstretched, waiting lists increasing and patient care suffering in quality.

As a US citizen, I don’t really have any skin in this game. But from my experience doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers on the “front lines” do their level best, with the resources available, to provide the best care to as many patients as possible.

We got an indoor Nest Cam last year as a baby monitor. It worked great until it completely stopped working.

Anyway, the problem I see with Nest cam Outdoor is that power is delivered via an outdoor electrical socket. It seems like someone could easily disable it by walking along the wall, face turned opposite the camera, and simply unplugging it.

Another possibility: Could app submission volume be decreasing?

At this stage, I don’t want any appliance in my home that isn’t fully functional without an internet connection.

My kindle was packed for moving for a few months, during which time it missed a critical software update. As a result, it can no longer connect to Amazon to download new books or software updates.

Workers with facial hair were less likely to be colonized with Staph- ylococcus aureus (41.2% vs 52.6%, P 1⁄4 0.02) and meticillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci (2.0% vs 7.0%, P 1⁄4 0.01).

And,

Overall, colonization is similar in male healthcare workers with and without facial hair; however, certain bacterial species were more prevalent in workers without facial hair.