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MacSurfer's Archive: Tuesday, March 20, 2018
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple poised to jump into video, with over 50 percent of U.S. now subscribed to streaming services" AppleInsider 8:12 AM
  • "Photos: Apple's secretive race for new Silicon Valley office space" AppleInsider 9:13 AM
  • "'Ambitious' Apple Store Put Up For Sale by Chicago Landlord: The building on Michigan Ave. goes on the block at a time when retail real estate is under pressure" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2:39 PM
  • "Smartwatches to Have More Than Just Fifteen Minutes of Fame, According to IDC" ["Over half of all smartwatches in 2017 were shipped by Apple, and while the company will maintain its lead in this category, competing products from the likes of Fitbit, Garmin, and all the Wear OS (previously Android Wear) vendors will gain traction over time."]  Business Wire 7:41 AM
  • "Apple ramping self-driving car testing, more CA permits than Tesla and Uber" Electrek 11:03 AM
  • "Apple's Fleet of Self-Driving Vehicles Has Almost Doubled Since January" MacRumors 11:38 AM
  • "Apple's mysterious self-driving car fleet just keeps growing" Cult of Mac 11:38 AM
  • "Heaven can't wait: Church of England offers faster way to pay/The Church of England is offering its members a faster way to pay - through contactless transactions or Apple and Google Pay." BBC 8:29 AM
  • "Jimmy Iovine tells us what he thinks is missing from hip-hop today" NME 7:55 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "EU to unveil plan to tax turnover of big U.S. tech firms" Reuters 8:44 PM
  • "Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos plays ping-pong with robot" CNET 7:52 PM
  • "Amnesty International Calls on Twitter to Release Its Raw Data on Abuse" Gizmodo 7:34 PM
  • "Telegram Loses Bid to Stop Russia From Getting Encryption Keys" Bloomberg 9:35 AM
  • "FTC to Probe Facebook Over Cambridge Analytica Incident" PC Magazine 8:46 PM
  • "Cambridge Analytica CEO suspended, and that's not even the worst news for them today" The Register 8:46 PM
  • "Facebook and Cambridge Analytica: Here's what you need to know" The Next Web 8:38 PM
  • "Email fraud warning: Now hackers want your data as well as your money/More people are being targeted with business email fraud attacks- and data is increasingly the target as well as cash." ZDNet 9:14 AM
  • "Mark Zuckerberg's silence amid controversy has Facebook execs frustrated" CNNMoney 7:43 PM
  • "The End for Facebook's Security Evangelist" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:43 PM
  • "FTC reportedly investigating Facebook on use of personal data by political consulting firm" Seattle Times 7:16 PM
  • "Mark Zuckerberg is 'working around the clock' on the Cambridge Analytica controversy, Facebook says: And Sheryl Sandberg is too" The Verge 6:38 PM
  • "Facebook plans a briefing for state AGs on Thursday" Axios 4:48 PM
  • "Exclusive: Mark Zuckerberg AWOL From Facebook's Data Leak Damage Control Session" The Daily Beast 4:16 PM
  • "Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned to explain the Cambridge Analytica scandal to Parliament — more proof this is now a personal crisis" Business Insider 10:42 AM
  • "Facebook to hold crisis meeting without Zuckerberg: The meeting will be led by Facebook's deputy general counsel as CEO Mark Zuckerberg remains silent on the data scandal." Sky News 9:22 AM
  • "UK Tells Mark Zuckerberg to Get His Ass to London, Accuses Facebook Officials of Being 'Misleading'" Gizmodo 9:14 AM
  • "Facebook plans all-staff meeting on Cambridge Analytica scandal" Engadget 8:06 AM
  • "The Dark Web: How much is your bank account worth? Researchers explore just how much our bank accounts, identities, and more are worth to customers in the web's underbelly." ZDNet 8:06 AM
  • "T-Mobile's parent company lets customers opt-out of bloatware" The Verge 7:59 AM
  • "A.I. and speech advances bring virtual assistants to work" Computerworld 7:40 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Let's Talk iOS 231: The Bermuda triangle of tech problems" iDownload Blog 8:11 AM
  • "AppStories, Episode 47 – Apple App Acquisitions" MacStories 8:11 AM