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Google Will Soon Stop Scanning Your Gmail to Sale its Ads

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Google announced on June 23 in local time, that it will soon stop scanning the emails of its free Gmail users for the purpose of delivering personalized ads later this year. For most consumers, that would be an entirely good news, that Google's finally giving up its long-standing habit of going through your inbox to see what you're interested in, and then publish its ads in head page of your Gmail. The Development of Long-Standing Habit  The long-standing habit began from 2014 since Google had launched free email service Gmail, it scans the user's email content to promote targeted advertising. For example, when a user read about running in his/her mail to friend, this user will find the sport shoes of some Nike or Asics on his/her mail head page. You might say “this habit” seems like a smart action, but some consumers will be scared away by this insulting scanning without notification of users. In fact, this is more like a privacy disclosure same as wire-tapping

Do You Want macOS to Open Source License?

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A recent analysis pointed out that now that Apple has no extra energy to ensure the regularly updated of Mac, so they can authorize the macOS to develop for other companies. Incidentally, last week Apple has released a Darwin open source components, which includes major part of macOS kernel, Linux BSD partition and some of the other Drivers. Therefore, some people have thought this was prelude before Apple opening source license. Unfortunately, this was not. Because provides the Darwin open source components is something Apple has been doing for16 years. Even though Apple has offered the entire macOS Sierra, it is little possibility of developers in the make an issue of it. Because of this and open source is not the same thing. What is Apple Open Source License? So what’s the meaning of Apple open source? Though Apple had said it would increase the intensity of open source, but the provision of Darwin open source code is not as the fact as some might imagine. macOS is a system