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Legacy Contact on iPhone, Inactive Account Manager on Google: how to leave photos, files, and accounts to loved ones. Free, in fifteen minutes. Few people know.
Starting July 1st, Swiss operators will block spoofed numbers. But against an AI-cloned voice, that isn't enough: a family password is the way to go.
Swiss AI Apertus was born at the Lugano supercomputer. Available for free via browser, it excels at translations and is already operational within the Ticino administration.
AirDrop doesn't talk to Windows. BLIP does: files of any size between iPhone, Android, PC, and Mac, in original quality and without going through the cloud.
YouTube Premium costs 17.90 francs per month in Switzerland. The iPhone app that covers its main features for free, with three limitations to be aware of beforehand.
Read.ai transcibes online meetings and sends the summary to all invitees. What you need to know about costs, privacy, and article 179-ter before using it in a professional environment.
Let me tell you about a scene I have experienced many times. A client calls me from his cottage in a Ticino valley. He wants internet. He has tried 4G/5G: but......
Many readers are starting to feel surrounded by acronyms: AI, chatbots, Gemini. Within this world, Google has created a tool that is low-profile but very useful.
Sometimes it is enough to open a new app, and after a few seconds the message arrives: “Do you want to allow access to your location?”. Many click “yes” without thinking about it. Others don’t even realize they have already granted permission. In this way, our phone tells the story of our every movement, even when we don’t want it to. But why do so many apps want to know where […]
Last week we talked about Radio Garden, that fascinating application that allows you to listen to any radio station on the planet simply by rotating a globe. Today it is the turn of its visual "cousin": it's called TV Garden, and the concept is the same, but this time you watch, not just listen. While radio works with the imagination, the […]
There is an application that, with a single touch, allows you to listen to any radio station in the world as if you were right there. No complicated lists, no menus: just an interactive globe to explore with your finger. It is called Radio Garden, and it offers a unique, almost poetic experience that unites technology and humanity. In an era where algorithms decide what we should […]