iOS 8 and Yosemite brought us iCloud Drive, and Apple’s marketing materials might lead you to think it can replace services like Dropbox. Here’s why it probably can’t.

 

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Tusentals flyktingar försöker varje år ta sig in i den lilla spanska enklaven Melilla i norra Marocko. Trots att rakbladsvass taggtråd och irriterande vätskor ska avskräcka dem från denna inkörsport till ”Fästning Europa”. Samtidigt befaras att EU:s nya insats på Medelhavet bli en ny mur mot migranter och flyktingar.

En man på moped skadades allvarligt i en olycka på länsväg 609 vid Rödöbron utanför Östersund vid 21-tiden på torsdagen.

Ett nytt sabotageprogram kan infektera Iphone-telefoner via en Mac-dator och utgöra ett hot mot apparaterna som tidigare ansågs vara relativt säkra. Forskarna på Palo Alto Networks, en säkerhetsfirma, säger att programmet unikt.

schwit1 writes If you feel a disturbance in the Force, it's millions of voices suddenly crying out the new title of Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens. The reveal comes as the movie finishes its final day of shooting (with many more months of post-production to come.) Although there were still a few days left of shooting, the cast of the J.J. Abrams film already celebrated their wrap party last weekend, following a bumpy few months of principal photography thrown into crisis when Han Solo himself, Harrison Ford, broke his leg on set in an accident involving a falling door on the Millennium Falcon.

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schwit1 writes If you feel a disturbance in the Force, it's millions of voices suddenly crying out the new title of Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens. The reveal comes as the movie finishes its final day of shooting (with many more months of post-production to come.) Although there were still a few days left of shooting, the cast of the J.J. Abrams film already celebrated their wrap party last weekend, following a bumpy few months of principal photography thrown into crisis when Han Solo himself, Harrison Ford, broke his leg on set in an accident involving a falling door on the Millennium Falcon.

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List objects, kitchen sink included

List objects, kitchen sink included

A distributed execution platform for Perl

A distributed execution platform for Perl

Den franske presidenten François Hollande framträdde på torsdagskvällen i en sällsynt och lång direktsänd tv-intervju. Han var uppenbart pressad. De senaste opinionsundersökningarna visar att bara tolv procent av fransmännen ger honom sitt stöd.

An anonymous reader writes Carnegie Mellon researchers have just launched Spliddit, a website that offers methods for helping people split rent, divide goods, and share credit. The novelty is that these methods are all "provably fair": there are mathematical proofs showing that each algorithm on the site provides rigorous fairness guarantees. For example, the method for splitting rent is guaranteed to be envy free: the assignment of rooms and division of rent is such that a housemate would never want to swap places with another housemate. All it takes is a pair of siblings to prove that there's no such thing as "provably fair," non-mathematically.

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Libyens internationellt erkända parlament förkastar högsta domstolens beslut att ogiltigförklara det. Beslutet har fattats ”under vapenhot”, anser parlamentet.

En smått kaotisk situation uppstod i Göteborgs kommunhus under kvällens val av ny kommunstyrelse. Moderaten Martin Wannholt, tidigare petat kommunalråd, tvingade fram en sluten omröstning och lyckades återta en plats, rapporterar Göteborgs-Posten .