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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, May 23, 2016
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple and feds issue warning about iTunes gift card scams, say one victim lost $31K" GeekWire 3:58 PM
  • "Apple Offers to Replace iPads With MacBooks in Maine State Classrooms" MacRumors 7:10 AM
  • "Apple & Maine Dept of Education swapping out iPads for MacBooks, iPads dismissed as 'toys'" 9to5Mac 7:15 AM
  • "Maine Schools Dismiss iPads As 'Toys,' Ready MacBooks Instead" Fortune 12:11 PM
  • "The Terrible Truth About How Your Gadgets Die: Our obsession with pretty devices has made them VERY hard to recycle." ["'Apple designs things not to live a very long time in terms of repairing them,' Puckett told HuffPost. 'The construction is good. But more and more as they squash the size down, they are making them non-repairable.'"] The Huffington Post 3:01 PM
  • "Adweek's Power List 2016: The Top 100 Leaders in Marketing, Media and Tech Mark Zuckerberg leaps into lead spot" ["3. Tim Cook"] AdWeek 11:19 AM
  • "Chromebooks beat Mac notebooks 1.4-to-1 in U.S.: IDC pegs Chromebook shipments at 1.6M for Q1, versus 1.2M Mac notebooks" Computerworld 7:27 AM
  • "Cock fight? Not half. Microsoft beats down Apple in Q1: Microsoft won bragging rights over Apple in Britain's biz slab sales stakes following the first full quarter the two rivals went head to head with their Pro devices." The Register 7:23 AM
  • "Contactless payments tripled in popularity in the UK last year" The Verge 7:17 AM
  • "More than a billion contactless payments in UK highlight potential for Apple Pay" 9to5Mac 7:17 AM
  • "Apple reverses decision and approves controversial game 'Liyla and The Shadows of War'" Canadian Reviewer 8:40 PM
  • "Tim Cook reportedly thought a real iPhone case made by Apple was a fake" Business Insider 10:04 AM
  • "Prototype iPhone 6 with 'SwitchBoard' operating system & red Lightning port hits eBay" 9to5Mac 8:08 PM
Non-Apple News
  • "Facebook Says an Investigation Found No Evidence of Bias in a News App" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9:05 PM
  • "Facebook To Revamp Trending Topics Selection Process" PC Magazine 9:05 PM
  • "Facebook says found no political bias on Trending Topics" Reuters 9:04 PM
  • "Facebook admits rogue employees may have shown bias against conservatives: Social media giant denies 'systematic' discrimination"  Washington Times 8:12 PM
  • "Facebook Announces Sweeping Changes to Trending Section" Gizmodo 7:36 PM
  • "Marissa Mayer took home only $14 million last year because Yahoo 'fell short' of goals" Business Insider 6:57 PM
  • "Yahoo says Marissa Mayer faced 'specific security threats' throughout 2015" Business Insider 5:01 PM
  • "Beware of keystroke loggers disguised as USB phone chargers, FBI warns: Private industry notification comes 15 months after debut of KeySweeper." Ars Technica 4:44 PM
  • "Samsung's painful smartphone makeover" Reuters 8:17 PM
  • "Samsung Galaxy S7 Active's full specs revealed ahead of AT&T launch" VentureBeat 1:14 PM
  • "Amazon stopped giving refunds when an item's price drops after you purchase it: The company that prides itself on customer centricity may have just ostracized some customers." Recode 1:13 PM
  • "Xiaomi sales near flat in 2015, says report" CNBC 12:12 PM
  • "Snapkeys shows off its idea of an Android Wear keyboard" The Verge 11:12 AM
  • "Samsung's sleeker Gear Fit 2 appears in new leaked promo images" The Verge 7:40 AM
  • "Why I switched back to Firefox" Computerworld [Insider Content] 7:27 AM
  • "Google's 'Magenta' project will see if AIs can truly make art" Engadget 7:13 AM
  • "Hello Moto? Motorola hints at return of iconic Razr flip phone" Telegraph 7:07 AM
  • "Take a look at Samsung's insane Galaxy S7 edge billboard [Video] 9to5Google 7:07 AM
  • "Google's summer plan: To become the OS of your life" VentureBeat 6:26 PM
  • "Google wants to teach computers to create art from scratch" The Next Web 7:06 AM
  • "Hack, Hack, Hustle, Nap, Repeat: Life as a Young Techie in San Francisco" Wired 6:55 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Nude and surrounded by trees: TWiT talks Apple retail" iMore 6:43 PM
  • "Weekly Podcast 184: Solving The Spiral Of Robot Calls On iOS" Apple'n'Apps 3:58 PM
  • "Paul Kafasis Updates Us On Rogue Amoeba's Products" MacVoices 3:55 PM
  • "TMO Background Mode: Interview With AquaMinds Co-founder Scott Love" The Mac Observer 3:00 PM
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2016-05-23: iPhone Calling Patent Lawsuit, Fitbit Heart Rate Accuracy" The Mac Observer 12:54 PM