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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, April 18, 2016
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Bill Campbell, Legendary Silicon Valley Mentor, Dies at 75: The former Intuit CEO, known as 'The Coach,' was an adviser to Steve Jobs and Larry Page" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:59 PM
  • "Legendary Silicon Valley Advisor Bill Campbell Dies" The Mac Observer 1:30 PM
  • "Longtime Apple advisor, board member Bill Campbell dies at 75" AppleInsider 4:05 PM
  • "Apple runs secret car lab in Berlin with 15-20 employees, report says"  AppleInsider 6:48 AM
  • "Apple Reportedly Running Secret Car Lab in German Capital" MacRumors 6:49 AM
  • "The Apple Car is reportedly being developed in a secret Berlin lab" Business Insider 7:21 AM
  • "How many Apple Cars does Apple want to sell?" Apple Must 8:42 AM
  • "Woz says wearables – even Apple Watch – aren't 'compelling': 'It's an expense that bought me a few extra niceties' but shows Apple can swing and miss" ["Wozniak prefers as much functionality as possible to be available in hardware: he said the iPhone 4's voice hardware-based recognition did a fine job of obeying commands like 'Call John', but that once Siri arrived in the iPhone 4S that command required a network connection and therefore became less useful. His Apple Watch, he said, frustrates him in similar ways as he's sometimes tried to pay for items with his Watch only to realise he left his iPhone at home and therefore lacked the network connection needed to complete the transaction."]  The Register 7:27 AM
  • "Woz would have disagreed with Jobs about screen time for kids"  Cult of Mac 7:07 AM
  • "Apple Pay goes live in Singapore with American Express integration, Visa coming soon" AppleInsider 9:30 PM
  • "Six of the worst toxins Apple says it has phased out of its products" Quartz 7:32 AM
  • "How Apple recovers millions in gold from recycling old iPhones and iPads" Telegraph 7:08 AM
  • "Apple has literally extracted a ton of gold from recycling old hardware: Apple has found a pot of gold at the end of its efforts to recycle millions of devices last year under its reuse program." ZDNet 7:26 AM
  • "Apple's Recycling in 2015 Yielded 35,000 Ounces of Gold" The Mac Observer 11:20 AM
  • "Hackers use Congressman's iPhone to demo ability to listen into calls, monitor texts, track location" 9to5Mac 6:48 AM
  • "Congressman's iPhone hacked to show dangerous vulnerability" AppAdvice 8:50 AM
  • "Taylor Swift features in another new Apple Music commercial, singing along to Jimmy Eat World" 9to5Mac 8:50 AM
  • "Taylor Swift's newest Apple Music ad is today's dose of '00s nostalgia" Mashable 9:10 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "David Hockney's iPad art among 700 of his works to show in Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria to survey British artist's past decade of work, including portraits and landscapes created on the iPhone, iPad and video" The Guardian 9:28 PM
  • "Europe's Ruling to Curb Google Gave It More Power" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9:23 PM
  • "Sony Rebounds as Analysts See Limited Quake Impact on Sensors" Bloomberg 9:23 PM
  • "The CIA is getting serious about monitoring social media" BGR 8:15 PM
  • "We're approaching the end of Yahoo as we know it" Mashable 4:34 PM
  • "Outdated Apps Put 3.2M Servers at Risk for Ransomware" PC Magazine 4:30 PM
  • "Developer gets full Counter-Strike 1.6 game running on Android" 9to5Google 11:23 AM
  • "People now spend more Internet time on mobile than desktops or laptops" Business Insider 9:52 AM
  • "Google Books copyright appeal rejected: The US Supreme Court will not hear an appeal from a group of authors who claimed Google breached copyright laws by scanning books." BBC 9:52 AM
  • "How to see all the terrifying things Google knows about you" Telegraph 7:08 AM
  • "See Android N's 3D Touch demoed on one of the most popular launcher apps" BGR 7:06 AM
  • "Wozniak worried about Uber monopoly: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has expressed his concern over the operations of ridesharing company Uber, saying he wishes there were more alternatives." ZDNet 7:26 AM
  • "Steve Wozniak is not sure he trusts Uber to do the right thing" Mashable 7:00 AM
  • "Wozniak Doesn't Like Uber, Either" PC Magazine 4:30 PM
  • "Video streaming race heats up, Amazon now offers its Prime Video service independent of Prime subscription for $8.99/mo" 9to5Mac 6:48 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Weekly Podcast 179: A Solo Show With Magical Words About A Green App Store" Apple'n'Apps 6:45 PM
  • "TMO Background Mode: Interview With ScreenCastsOnline Founder Don McAllister" The Mac Observer 3:01 PM
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2016-04-18: Amazon Prime Video Goes Standalone, Apple Music Is Serious" The Mac Observer 1:29 PM
  • "When it comes to internet connection speeds, more is always better." The MT Show 6:39 AM