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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, May 9, 2016
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Report: Foxconn set to open $10 billion iPhone manufacturing plant in India" 9to5Mac 9:17 PM
  • "Apple is Accepting Red Cross Donations to Help Victims of the Alberta Fires" iClarified 10:35 AM
  • "Apple launches Red Cross donations via iTunes to help victims of Fort McMurray forest fires" AppleInsider 11:08 AM
  • "The 10 Most Influential People in Automotive Technology" [#3 Tim Cook; #6 Jony Ive]  The Drive 5:03 PM
  • "Apple's Tim Cook, Jony Ive among most influential people in automotive tech" AppleInsider 5:04 PM
  • "Apple is working to sort out its podcast issues" Cult of Mac 7:05 AM
  • "Apple Meets With Podcasters to Allow Them to Air Grievances" MacTrast 8:10 AM
  • "Podcasters are feeling dissed by Apple: Producers of the popular shows complain Apple isn't providing enough listener data or staff support, according to The New York Times." CNET 1:33 PM
  • "PC Market Falls To 2011 Levels As Tablet Sales Drop For Sixth Straight Quarter – Apple Still Leading" MacPrices 12:45 PM
  • "India claims to have tool to defeat iPhone encryption" CNET 5:01 PM
  • "Apple Music is helping, not hurting Spotify" Engadget 4:08 PM
  • "Spotify growing even faster thanks to launch of Apple Music, VP says" AppleInsider 4:08 PM
  • "Apple Music launch gave Spotify a shot in the arm, says exec" iMore 4:08 PM
  • "Siri-creator shows off first public demo of Viv, 'the intelligent interface for everything'"  TechCrunch 12:43 PM
  • "Move Over Siri. Your Parents Just Gave Birth To Viv And It's Much Better"  Forbes 5:39 PM
  • "Meet Viv, the new voice assistant from the creators of Siri" Macworld 12:42 PM
  • "Siri Creator Demos New AI That Doesn't Suck This Time" Gizmodo 12:42 PM
  • "The creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible" The Verge 10:49 AM
  • "Siri Creator Gives Birth To Viv, A Next-Gen Virtual Assistant With Superior AI" HotHardware 4:20 PM
  • "Mobile App Revenue Outlook Remains Healthy Despite Slowing Download Volumes and Smartphone Growth, According to IDC" ["Apple's App Store 'ecosystem' captured nearly 58% of global direct app revenue in 2015, an increase of 36% year over year. Meanwhile, Apple's share of global app install volume was only 15%, down nearly 8% year over year."] Business Wire 9:42 AM
  • "Photos: A look inside the massive space that will become Apple's $2 billion 'data command center'" Business Insider 10:45 AM
  • "Neil Patrick Harris (and Siri) star in Apple's new iPhone 6s 'Thank You Speech' ad" 9to5Mac 1:34 PM
  • "Sanjay Kaul will lead Apple's operations in India" iMore 7:17 AM
  • "Apple exclusivity for Drake's latest album pays off with 1M sales in five days" 9to5Mac 7:06 AM
  • "Apple slashes 50% off one of its biggest products, and here's how to get the discount" Express UK 7:41 AM
  • "15-Year-Old's 200 Vintage Apple Computers Are Now a Mac Museum" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 10:24 AM
  • "Apartment expansion project next to Apple spaceship campus to be reviewed Tuesday" San Jose Mercury News [Free Registration Required] 7:43 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Microsoft researcher stops VR motion sickness by stuffing a headset full of LED lights" Digital Trends 7:41 PM
  • "Report: Twitter bars U.S. intelligence agencies from using analytics tools" CBS News 5:17 PM
  • "HTC Reports Staggering 64 Percent YoY Revenue Drop, Hopes For Strong HTC 10 Sales" HotHardware 4:20 PM
  • "Minecraft and Mario, Together At Last" Wired 4:09 PM
  • "Americans now have nearly as many smartphones as TVs: There are 2.4 smartphones per household, compared with 2.8 televisions." Re/code 11:13 AM
  • "Facebook denies filtering conservative news stories" Engadget 9:08 PM
  • "Facebook's trending news feed may be a sham: The world's largest social network calls out the top trending stories on its site, which is visited by more than a billion people every day. But the list may be manipulated by Facebook's employees, who are allegedly deciding what's 'trending' based on their political views." CNET 5:29 PM
  • "Facebook says it doesn't permit censorship in Trending Topics: Report said conservative outlets were being left out" The Verge 4:03 PM
  • "Report: Facebook omitted conservative topics from trending list" The Hill 9:47 AM
  • "Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News" Gizmodo 9:47 AM
  • "25 years later, Walt Mossberg says technology is still too hard to use" Re/code 7:58 AM
  • "One of Reddit's biggest communities wants to ban links from publishers that force you to turn off your ad blocker" Business Insider 7:55 AM
  • "Google is seen as the bad boy of Europe. Here's one way it's fighting back" ZDNet 7:55 AM
  • "Google News will now highlight local news sources for major stories" The Verge 7:55 AM
  • "Adblock Plus passes 100 million active users" VentureBeat 10:35 AM
  • "AdBlock Plus closes in on a billion downloads" TechCrunch 10:35 AM
  • "The Ad-Blocking Hacker Making Your Browser More Paranoid" Wired 7:46 AM
  • "Inventor of the cell phone says this is the next big thing" CNNMoney 7:46 AM
  • "Google is testing a radical change by turning people's search results black" Telegraph 7:05 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Upgrade #88: Happy Apple Watch Users" Six Colors 5:05 PM
  • "MGG 604: You're Only Paranoid If They're Not Out To Get You" The Mac Observer 5:00 PM
  • "Incomparable #299: Stark Differences" Six Colors 2:47 PM
  • "TMO Background Mode: Interview With PJC Sr. Research Analyst Gene Munster" The Mac Observer 1:51 PM
  • "The Road to Macstock -Don McAllister and Allison Sheridan" MacVoices 1:22 PM
  • "TMO Daily Observations 2016-05-09: Apple's Neglected Products" The Mac Observer 12:35 PM
  • "#319: Teaching Workflows with Teddy Svoronos" Relay FM 8:20 AM
  • "Doom developer Marty Stratton talks guns, gore and gorgeous graphics" Stuff: New Zealand 6:54 AM