Category Archives: QA

China Spying on Western consumers

Yes, there is even an app for THAT… >>breaking 2019-03-22 China’s Finnish Spy?! << Hard on the Heels of the November 16 Android news story comes this item from 12-02-2016: China’s WeChat is censoring group chats without users’ knowledge From … Continue reading

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Android Spies on 700M

update: weChat Android’s phenomenal popularity has soared because of being associated by Google, its flexibility  and LOW, LOW, LOW price compared to Apple’s iPad. Their cost per feature make them an irresistible purchase this season. But we still remember the old warning … Continue reading

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Biolite Adds “Quality of Life”

Refactored Rocket Stove leverages 1st world techno-slavery to improve 3rd world health One US techie / graduate found himself under Milky Way’s bright stellar canopy in Thailand. The only electricity was a single incandescent light in the village center just over the  well.  People were … Continue reading

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iPhone Disabled by 3rd party Sensor Repairs

UK Guardian and BBC Reports Error 53 The latest software update for iPhone 6 handsets is rendering the devices useless if it detects repairs not carried out by Apple. The problem is known as “error 53” and has appeared in … Continue reading

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Tattoos & Apple Watch

Or “After Thoughts in QA” Apple is credited with being the biggest, most successful single corporation in history. But it’s even BIGGER than you think!  Inspiring “spin off” accessories, in less than ten years, arguably reversing poverty for many of a … Continue reading

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Electric Beetle Rediscovered in San Diego

An ancient idea whose time has come, again? (See full article at WSJ) Technology and jobs followed typewriters, copiers, fax machines, personal computers, the move of software away from PCs to the cloud  … what’s the next techno-frontier?  “Oil freedom” like … Continue reading

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21st Century iJunque I

Yet ANOTHER 21st Century invention impossible to explain to your grandparents… They laughed at Columbus, and Orville and Wilbur… but I am laughing at this anyway… if I had been “dumb enough” to patent it, I could laugh all the … Continue reading

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