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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, January 8, 2017
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple's new ad pretends people have never seen a camera before: The ad will air during tomorrow's Golden Globes ceremony" The Verge 1/7
  • "Apple's latest iPhone 7 Plus ad focuses on Portrait Mode camera feature" 9to5Mac 1/7
  • "Apple Shares 'Take Mine' Ad Showcasing Photos Taken in Portrait Mode on the iPhone 7 Plus" MacRumors 1/7
  • "Apple's latest iPhone 7 Plus commercial showcases dual-lens 'Portrait' photo mode" AppleInsider 1/7
  • "Apple MacBook Pro May Have Saved Man's Life in Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting" iClarified 1/7
  • "Man says a MacBook Pro saved his life during Fort Lauderdale airport shooting by blocking a bullet" 9to5Mac 1/7
  • "Two-year probe of Apple's alleged anti-competitive behavior shut down by Canadian government" AppleInsider 1/6
  • "Apple Confirms South Korea Store Plans, Challenging Samsung at Home: IPhone maker said to be planning its first retail outlet blocks from Samsung's headquarters in Seoul" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 1/6
  • "Apple plans first retail store in South Korea, posts hiring notices" Reuters 1/6
  • "Apple is setting up shop in Samsung territory: Apple is moving into arch rival Samsung's backyard." CNNMoney 1/6
  • "Apple confirms plans for first retail store in South Korea" ZDNet 1/6
  • "Downtown Brooklyn Apple store rumored, Fifth Ave cube renovations begin this month" AppleInsider 1/6
  • "While Apple goes thin, Windows PCs go fat at CES 2017" Cult of Mac 1/6
  • "Apple History: Acorn, a virtual click-wheel-based OS which lost out to iOS, shown in its 2006-era glory [Video] 9to5Mac 1/6
  • "Today in Apple history: Apple is back in the black" Cult of Mac 1/6
Non-Apple News
  • "Alphabet's Waymo Cuts Cost of Key Self-Driving Sensor by 90%" Bloomberg 9:18 PM
  • "SoundCloud is losing a lot of money — is an acquisition coming soon? The company could run out of cash before the end of the year" The Verge 5:31 PM
  • "Uber Extends an Olive Branch to Local Governments: Its Data" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 3:45 PM
  • "Nikkei: Nintendo Switch will sell for less than $250 in Japan/The paper expects Nintendo to sell its next console for just 25,000 yen." Engadget 3:19 PM
  • "This is the new Hulu experience with live TV: Could Hulu be the company to get internet TV right?" The Verge 1/7
  • "The Most High-Profile Security Breaches of 2016" Among Tech 1/7
  • "Introducing HDMI 2.1, more pixels, more refresh rates, more awesome" Neowin 1/7
  • "How Samsung Weathered the Galaxy Note 7 Recall" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 1/6
  • "CyberPower showed some sweet gaming PCs at CES" PCWorld 1/6
  • "Can Wikileaks Actually Build its Proposed Twitter Database?" Digital Trends 1/6
  • "US: Putin ordered cyber-meddling to favor Trump/A declassified report from US intelligence agencies cites hacking, leaks and propaganda" IDG News Service 1/6
  • "TV Gimmicks Are Dead. 2017 Is the Year of Real Next-Gen Television" PC Magazine 1/6
  • "VR is the reason why laptops are bulking up" Mashable 1/6
  • "Google Hangouts API gets hung out to dry: Draw with your face? Conference call ping pong? Not any more. Google today quietly revealed that it will shut down the Hangouts API, preventing new apps from being built and shutting off existing apps on April 25th. There was no blog post about this, just an updated FAQ and email notification to developers active on the API, which were forwarded to us by one of these devs." TechCrunch 1/6
  • "Amazon's store of the future has no cashiers, but humans are watching from behind the scenes: Machines in the front, hominids in the back." Recode 1/6
  • "The next generation of HDMI will support 8K video with HDR" The Verge 1/6
  • "CES 2017: The Sirius A is a pocket PC with more ports than your laptop" The Next Web 1/6
  • "Sony wants you to stop touching (or talking to) your car's infotainment system" The Next Web 1/6
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Happy Hour Podcast 101 | CES 2017, Zac's Apple Watch journey, and iOS 10.3 rumors" 9to5Mac 1/6
  • "Podcast 540: Happy new year? It's 2017 and we're happy to be alive, but troubling news abounds." Macworld 1/6
  • "CES 2017 Wireless Earpods and Drone Blocking -TMO Daily Observations 2017-01-06" The Mac Observer 1/6
  • "The worst gadgets of CES 2017, this week on The CultCast" Cult of Mac 1/6
  • "AppleInsider podcast at CES talks Apple HomeKit, tech trends, and the struggle to ship" AppleInsider 1/6
  • "The Committed Podcast on Apple Music, Smart Playlists, AirPods, and More" Kirkville 1/6