Apple’s March event hardware, iOS 15.4 new features, & Apple Car get patented! (CultCast #530)
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🗓️ 4 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week:
- iOS 15.4 beta lets you use Face ID while wearing a mask
- iOS 15.4 allows third-party apps to use 120Hz ProMotion on iPhone 13 Pro
- Fun new emoji coming in iOS 15.4 will let you salute, melt and tear up
- Mini-LED iMac Pro launch might slip to summer
- Hey Siri, darken the sunroof glass in my Apple Car
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This week's stories
iOS 15.4 beta lets you use Face ID while wearing a mask
- Face ID in iOS 15.4 will let users unlock their iPhones while wearing a mask. The system will simply scan "unique features around the eye area to authenticate," Apple says.
iOS 15.4 allows third-party apps to use 120Hz ProMotion on iPhone 13 Pro
- Apple’s new iOS 15.4 beta eliminates a bug that prevents third-party apps from using iPhone 13 Pro’s super-smooth ProMotion feature.
Mini-LED iMac Pro launch might slip to summer
- The new iMac Pro with a mini-LED display rumored to launch this-coming spring might not come along so soon. It now looks more likely to show up sometime during the summer, display analyst Ross Young said Monday.
Add ports to your M1 Mac with a Satechi USB-C Multiport MX Adapter - Giveaway
- Cult of Mac is giving away two USB-C Multiport MX Adapters from Satechi. This adapter allows you to experience the full potential of your M1 Mac with multitudes of data ports using just a single USB-C port.
How to download Wordle to your device so it stays free forever
- When word went out that The New York Times bought Wordle, panic struck for lots of people who play the popular game. Will the Times ruin Wordle by placing it behind a paywall? (The Times charges for other games.)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Two roads diverged on the way to the internet, and I took the faster, simpler, less expensive, |
| 0:16.1 | and far more colorful, one, and that made all the difference. |
| 0:32.3 | Hello and welcome to the Hulcassi Best 30 Pussman app conversation you're going to hear. |
| 0:37.5 | Oh week long, I'm your host, here for Elijah, join me today, if he were a lord of the |
| 0:43.4 | Brings Wizard, it's going to be a good one, here we go. He's been known as Leand off the green, |
| 0:48.2 | and his pipe smoke rings would be far more mystical than anything Gandalf the White could hope to blow. |
| 0:53.9 | He's the founder of Coltomac, Leandercanius here. I just crave actually. I'll do this chasing down |
| 1:02.7 | escaped Coltomac riders in his cars, proven far too easy, so he's been experimenting with a horse |
| 1:09.0 | in a lasso. It's tricky, but a lot more fun. He's imagining it, I'm Coltomac. Lewis Wallace is here. |
| 1:17.8 | Oh boy, horses, how like horses, but they kind of scare me. Yeah, horses scare me too. |
| 1:23.8 | I hear they can sense that, which is bad. Yeah, wait until that makes it worse. |
| 1:29.4 | I have only written a horse maybe once or twice in my life, and this horse knew I was freaked out, |
| 1:34.2 | and it was, it was point with me, and I'd be standing there and able like reach over and like |
| 1:38.4 | try to like grab my shirt and like and tug it, right? It was totally, yeah. No, with its hands, Lewis. |
| 1:47.3 | You're sure. He stood up on his hind hooves, and he took his other horse arms with his hooves |
| 1:53.8 | and grabbed one of my shirt and he pulled me. That's really scary. Yeah, he kept doing that, |
| 1:59.3 | and when I was riding him, he would like reach down with his horse mouth and tug on my |
| 2:05.1 | pant leg like he knew I was freaked out, and he was, he was trying to toy with me. Did you just |
| 2:10.2 | smack him real good? No, scared of him. Didn't do anything, Lewis. Just keep biting me, please. |
| 2:19.6 | I was on his back, and you know, there's nothing I could do, and he knew it, and I was pressed down. |
| 2:23.9 | Double horse from. It was got some horse riding ranch that my then girlfriend, |
| 2:28.7 | outwife wanted me to go to with her, and she loves horses, of course, and you know, I want to do |
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