Hmmm ... that doesn’t seem to be changing anything on my end, but I’ll keep at it. Thanks for the tip. Much appreciated.

Is there a setting for the Voicemail Transcription or some kind of minimum hardware requirement or something? I have visual voicemail on my carrier but I’ve left myself voicemails on my 5S in iOS 10 and they are not getting transcribed.

That’s too bad, particularly because Downcast is part of CarPlay, I believe.

I want support for Downcast, so I can get Siri to change my podcasts while I drive.

Although I fully realize that in the BIG PICTURE OF LIFE, droid names are not important at all... this was still the best thing I’ve read on the Internet this week.

I was once a “calendar app guy” and tried all sorts of calendar apps. And my wife, who uses the stock iPhone calendar app, kept getting upset with me because the calendar invitations that I’d share from Calendars 5 or Cal or Sunrise or whatever I was using that month always came in to her emailgarbled and hard to…

Sure. The issue that a lot of people have identified however, is that Twitter is very quick to restrict speech over, say, posting GIFs of the Olympics. (This past weekend, in fact, several accounts were banned over posting GIFs of a WWE PPV.) They are ... inconsistent.

I agree completely. The question is how that’s done. And there are no easy answers for it.

Sure, but there is no “freedom of speech” on a privately-run social media platform. Constitutional guarantees of free speech are there to protect citizens from government intrusion on their speech rights (which is basically the example you use regarding reporters not being disappeared by their governments for…

Agreed. My proposal is by no means fool-proof. But now that Twitter has opened up verification for application, rather than awarding it at their discretion, they are asking people through the verification application form to give some proof of who they are and cross-reference other social media accounts. It’s a start,…

My thought has always been some combination of a much tougher terms of service for Twitter along with effectively mandatory verification and/or a real names policy. Give a blue checkmark to everyone who can take reasonable steps to prove their identity with Twitter, and agrees to a strict terms of service.

As a very happy iPhone user... this is a dumb idea.

Nate Silver has an excellent chapter in his Signal and Noise book on weather forecasting and talks about things like why TV weather forecasting will be different than what you read online or in your newspaper (spoiler: TV weather forecasters will over-estimate chance of rain because they want you to bring an umbrella…

Sweet! I was unaware of that, but, yeah, that’s pretty much exactly what I’d love to see integrated into Google or Apple Maps.

Yup, that’s an entirely fair point.

It’s the new marketing campaign - like the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

Here’s a Google Maps feature I’d like to see - using the make/model of my car, estimated gas consumption and route info to tell me where I would reasonably need to fill up my car BEFORE I leave on the trip.

This is the greatest thing I have ever seen. I don’t even care if the movie is terrible. That’s just terrific.

That’s the Khan-do spirit!