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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, May 20, 2015
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Demolition making way for new Apple Campus 2, Phase 2 buildings, aerial footage shows" AppleInsider 5:04 PM
  • "Apple gets closer to opening up its first store in Belgium" 9to5Mac 8:16 PM
  • "Apple Reportedly Planning an Early Russian Launch for Its Streaming Serivce" Billboard 2:59 PM
  • "Apple's Streaming Music Negotiations in Russia Confirm Plans for Multi-Country Availability" MacRumors 2:59 PM
  • "Apple Watch Demand Flattening as 42mm Models Estimated to Represent Over 80% of Orders" MacRumors 1:20 PM
  • "Tech giants asking Obama to support effective encryption, block backdoor requests" ["More than 140 companies and prominent figures in the tech industry, including the likes of Apple and Google, have sent an open letter to the White House proclaiming that 'strong encryption is the cornerstone of the modern information economy's security'."] BetaNews 8:42 AM
  • "Your brain's unique response to words can reveal your identity" New Scientist 8:47 AM
  • "Future phones could be unlocked by monitoring brain waves" Cult of Mac 8:46 AM
  • "Apple starts advertising Watch as part of connected iOS, Mac ecosystem" AppleInsider 7:58 AM
  • "Express Clothing Chain Now Accepting Apple Pay" MacTrast 9:12 AM
  • "Samsung Flow Enters Beta to Take on Apple Continuity" Tom's Guide 12:20 PM
Non-Apple News
  • "Flickr faces complaints over 'offensive' auto-tagging for photos: Auto-tagging system slaps 'animal' and 'ape' labels on images of black people, and tags concentration camps with 'jungle gym' and 'sport'" The Guardian 9:21 PM
  • "Bankruptcy Judge Approves Sale of RadioShack Name and Data" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:35 PM
  • "Venom Less Toxic Than Heartbleed: The Venom bug 'could enable complicated attack scenarios, but this isn't as big a deal as some other big open source bugs, because a lot of hypervisors either weren't vulnerable to the bug, or the cloud providers have already removed the dead code that enables the bug,' noted Jared DeMott, a principal security researcher at Bromium. 'With Venom, there's a lot of ifs, ands and buts.'" TechNewsWorld 1:20 PM
  • "Well, look at that: Spotify launches video/The subscription music service has grown to the biggest in the world: with losses to match. Video, with the highest ad rates online, could make its free tier more lucrative, but it risks complicating its format." CNET 11:53 AM
  • "Hackers cost the US economy $8bn in 2014, reports FBI" V3 10:30 AM
  • "Now it's even easier to watch illegal movie streams: Popcorn Time, a controversial streaming service for pirated movies, is now easier than ever to use." CNNMoney 8:47 AM
  • "This Is the Most Annoying Thing Google's Ever Made" Time 8:46 AM
  • "Why This Woman is Google's Worst Nightmare: Margrethe Vestager says Google is abusing its market dominance and faces more than $6 billion in fines" Time 8:46 AM
  • "Adblock Plus gets its own Android browser" Engadget 8:40 AM
  • "Adblock Plus Debuts Mobile Browser That Kills Annoying Ads Automatically" Forbes 8:40 AM
  • "These Guys Want to Build a Phone the Size of a Credit Card" Wired 8:21 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "ACM 307 -Dr. Mac's One Tip for Mastering Your Mac, Apple TV, and the Importance of Encryption" The Mac Observer 8:58 PM
  • "Jim Dalrymple On Apple Criticism and Expectations, Apple In Music and Apple Watch" MacVoices 2:26 PM
  • "Podcast: The app economy is amazing and terrible" Macworld 1:19 PM
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2015-05-20: Discovering Podcasts with Spotify & Watch OS 1.0.1" The Mac Observer 12:11 PM
  • "Tying software and hardware together through art/The O'Reilly Solid Podcast: Andy Cavatorta and Jamie Zigelbaum on art that combines physical and digital." O'Reilly Radar 10:25 AM
  • "Let's Talk Jailbreak 108: What great timing" iDownload Blog 8:27 AM
  • "Drunk Shopping Helps You Buy Useless Stuff After A Night Out" Digital Trends 8:10 AM