👨‍🚀 NASA+ Streaming Service

👨‍🚀 NASA+ Streaming Service Coming Soon!

NASA is launching its very own streaming service called NASA+ later this year!

The service is totally free and won't have any annoying ads. You'll be able to watch live coverage of upcoming launches, documentaries, and original series, all on the platform.

You can access the service through the NASA app on your iOS or Android devices, as well as streaming media players like Roku, Apple TV, and Fire TV.

The new web experience is going to be topic-driven, so you can easily find what you're looking for. Plus, they're adding a common search engine and integrated navigation to make it even easier to get around.

Jeff Seaton, the CIO of NASA, wants to make sure that NASA's information is easy to find, easy to access, and well-protected.

🕰️ An iPhone App That Helps You Remember Everything

Rewind, a personal data recording startup just launched their iPhone app.

What it does is it privately records your activity on Safari, and lets you ask questions based on your browsing history later.

The app doesn’t record anything when you are browsing in incognito mode by default, you can also customize it to exclude certain pages from being recorded.

Rewind uses text recognition so you can search for specific terms to find screenshots or whatever you browsed on Safari. The app also has a GPT-4 integration, so you can ask questions like “Who mentioned Twitter last week?” or remind yourself about how you know someone.

The company said that all user data is private and is not sold or used to train AI models. Rewind has raised $10 million at a $75 million valuation from investors like a16z and First Round Capital.

🔍 Apple's Strict Crackdown of Misused APIs

Apple is cracking down on developers that are misusing their APIs.

Apple has long focused on user privacy in its App Store, with rules around data collection and anti-tracking measures. With the new policy, developers will need to provide a reason for accessing certain APIs.

Some APIs can be misused by developers to collect data about users’ devices through “fingerprinting,” which means the APIs are being used to identify the device or the user. Apple doesn’t allow fingerprinting, even if the user has given the app permission to track them.

The new policy will take effect in fall 2023, giving developers several months of lead time to make necessary changes, starting with warnings explaining what needs to be done.

Apps and app updates that don’t include a reason for their use of the API will be rejected starting in spring 2024.

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