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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, February 24, 2019
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple has a clever plan to fight off patent trolls" BGR 4:17 PM
  • "Galaxy S10's best feature is something the iPhone XS doesn't have: Your move, Apple." CNET 7:32 AM
  • "Depth Control — Alejandro — Apple" YouTube 4:17 PM
  • "Apple closes two Dallas stores in apparent bid to ward off patent litigation: Apple is fleeing the patent-friendly courts of the Eastern District of Texas." Ars Technica 2/23
  • "Apple Shanks Patent Trolls In Texas By Closing Stores In Eastern District" HotHardware 2/23
  • "Apple Watch Detects Heart Problem in Dallas Woman" NBC DFW 2/23
  • "You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook: Wall Street Journal testing reveals how the social-media giant collects a wide range of private data from developers; 'This is a big mess'" ["The social-media giant collects intensely personal information from many popular smartphone apps just seconds after users enter it, even if the user has no connection to Facebook, according to testing done by The Wall Street Journal. The apps often send the data without any prominent or specific disclosure, the testing showed."]  WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2/22
  • "Some iOS Apps Sending an Alarming Amount of Data to Facebook and Most Users Are Unaware" MacRumors 2/22
  • "iPhone, Android apps share sensitive health, financial data with Facebook without user's knowledge" AppleInsider 2/22
  • "Multiple iOS apps are reportedly sharing sensitive data with Facebook" Engadget 2/22
  • "Apple plans new store for Galleria Dallas, Plano and Frisco, Texas locations may close" 9to5Mac 2/22
  • "Apple Plans to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas in Fight Against Patent Trolls" MacRumors 2/22
  • "Apple will reportedly close 2 stores to avoid an infamous Texas patent court" VentureBeat 2/22
  • "Apple is reportedly closing its two stores in patent-litigation haven Eastern Texas for a brilliant reason" Business Insider 2/22
  • "Genius Barred: What to Do When You Can't Wait for Apple Support/Procuring an appointment at an Apple Store to fix your iPhone or Mac can be a laborious task, but certified repair businesses have found a way to ease consumer frustrations"  The Ringer 2/22
  • "Apple Watch's heart-reading tech may have saved another life" Cult of Mac 2/22
  • "Apple Car? More Like Apple Van, German Report Says: German site Manager Magazin on Monday reported that Apple's engineers have designed prototypes of the van with black and silver paint." PC Magazine 2/22
  • "Apple And Uber Are Trailing In Autonomous Car Development [Infographic] Forbes 2/22
  • "Has Apple rebooted its self-driving car program to develop autonomous vans?" Digital Trends 2/22
  • "Apple Urges Full Fed. Circ. To Undo $439M Patent Loss" Law360 [Paid Membership Required] 2/22
  • "Apple asking federal court circuit to reconsider $439M VirnetX ruling" AppleInsider 2/22
  • "Qualcomm demands an extra $1.3 billion from Foxconn, Pegatron, Wistron: exorbitant late 'processing' charge" ["On the same page, attorneys for Apple and its contract manufacturers argue that '[t]his is an illegal, unenforceable liquidated damages penalty barred by Cal. Civ. Code ยง 1671(b).'"] Foss Patents 2/22
  • "Watch how fast Apple's brand devoured Coke and Microsoft in 2013" Fast Company 2/22
  • "Canalys: In world's fourth largest country, Apple has nowhere to go but up" Apple 3.0 2/22
  • "Indonesian smartphone market Q4 2018" Canalys 2/22
Non-Apple News
  • "Google Assistant Oscar ads reimagine classic movies with a helpful AI" The Verge 8:26 PM
  • "Huawei security row overshadows annual telecoms gathering" Reuters 4:36 PM
  • "LG's V-series will now be exclusively 5G, G-series will be 4G only" Android Authority 5:20 PM
  • "LG G8 ThinQ can unlock by scanning the veins in your hand: New sensors on the G8's front camera offer a whole new way to interact with your phone." CNET 4:14 PM
  • "TCL Low Cost Foldable Display for Everyone: Patented DragonHinge" AnandTech 10:41 AM
  • "TCL/CSOT Reveals Mobile AMOLED & LCD Hole-Punch Displays" AnandTech 10:41 AM
  • "Seattle startup's path to greatness could be this captivating walk through physical and virtual worlds" GeekWire 10:20 AM
  • "TCL wants to make foldable phones that don't cost thousands of dollars" Android Police 10:16 AM
  • "Meet the Nokia 9: Five cameras bring a different approach to phone photography" Ars Technica 10:14 AM
  • "Nokia's new $700 smartphone has an insane 5 cameras, blowing up the 2019 trend for 3 lenses" Business Insider 10:14 AM
  • "Will Google, Amazon and Facebook fix the affordable housing crisis?" ["Many have been destitute for years, but others are newly minted refugees of a housing crisis created in large part by the very technology boom that has made Benioff and other tech entrepreneurs billionaires many times over."]  USA Today 8:26 AM
  • "Huawei breaks price ceiling with $2,600 folding 5G smartphone" Reuters 8:29 AM
  • "Huawei's 5G foldable costs $2,600" TechCrunch 8:12 AM
  • "Huawei launches file-sharing feature set to rival Apple's AirDrop" Metro UK 8:04 AM
  • "Huawei's Mate X is the most promising foldable phone yet" Mashable 7:59 AM
  • "Huawei's Mate X foldable phone is a thinner 5G rival to the Galaxy Fold: A foldable that folds without a gap"  The Verge 7:53 AM
  • "New Video Shows the Galaxy Fold Like You've Never Seen It Before" LAPTOP Magazine 7:53 AM
  • "China's Xiaomi unveils 5G smartphone for $680" Reuters 7:01 AM
  • "Google May Unveil Project Yeti Console at Game Developers Conference" Digital Trends 2/23
  • "Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs/Researchers also devise a Spectre-like attack with no known mitigation." Ars Technica 2/23
  • "Google Maps' Satellite view is a lie — and it was almost called 'Bird Mode'" Mashable 2/23
  • "Oppo's Folding Phone Patent Looks Impressively Clean With No Bezels, Pop-Up Camera" HotHardware 2/23
  • "Oppo Introduces 10x Optical Zoom Triple-Camera Smartphone" MacRumors 2/23
  • "An NYU professor explains why it's so dangerous that Silicon Valley is building AI to make decisions without human values" Business Insider 2/23
  • "Street protests are mounting against Article 13 of the EU Copyright Directive: more participants than last week" Foss Patents 2/23
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Gene Steinberg meets The Mac Observer's Andrew Orr, and Cat Murdock of the Innocent Lives Foundation, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 6:56 AM
  • "How gesture controls could bring multi-touch to Mac [Cult of Mac Magazine No. 285] Cult of Mac 2/23
  • "Podcast: Samsung Unpacked 2019, Galaxy Fold" Tech.pinions [Free/Paid Registration Required] 2/23
  • "The Talk Show: 'Plagiarists And Fabulists', With Special Guest Glenn Fleishman" Daring Fireball 2/22
  • "Apple and Content, Marzipan, and the Executive Shuffle, with Charlotte Henry -ACM 502" The Mac Observer 2/22
  • "5 Questions with John Martellaro" MacVoices 2/22
  • "Stacktrace Podcast 024: 'The fluffy keyboard'" 9to5Mac 2/22
  • "9to5Mac Daily: February 22, 2019" 9to5Mac 2/22
  • "Huge Apple hardware updates are on the horizon, this week on the The CultCastCult of Mac 2/22
  • "2019 iPhone, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro rumors, and more on the AppleInsider Podcast" AppleInsider 2/22