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MacSurfer's Archive: Tuesday, October 3, 2017
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Google's AI is no smarter than a first grader, study says: Chinese researchers also found Google's artificial intelligence technology to be twice as smart as Apple's Siri."  CNET 8:05 AM
  • "Google AI vs Siri vs Bing: IQ tests show one is smartest by a mile" ZDNet 8:15 AM
  • "$1,150 iPhone X Is One Shoppers Really Want" Tom's Guide 8:58 AM
  • "Apple News Is Testing DoubleClick Ads, Publishers Say" Advertising Age 9:20 AM
  • "Google and Apple aim to help publishers monetize: Google will end its 'first click free' policy, which essentially required news publishers to give users free access to a certain number of articles, The Wall Street Journal reported. And Apple is letting certain publishers use their own ad tech to serve ads on Apple News, according to Ad Age." Business Insider 9:18 AM
  • "Inside Hong Kong's Wanchai computer market, where unofficial iPhone repairs are a cottage industry" 9to5Mac 9:20 AM
  • "How Would That Couch Look at Home? Check Your Phone" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:06 AM
  • "Why Samsung Stands to Gain If iPhone X Is a Hit" Investopedia 8:12 AM
  • "The New Bedtime Story Is a Podcast" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:07 AM
  • "Read Tim Cook's touching email about Las Vegas shooting" Cult of Mac 12:38 PM
  • "'Siri, call mom': How one woman found a Las Vegas victim's family after he died in her arms" Mashable 1:30 PM
  • "MLB testing iPhone, Apple Watch NFC technology for contactless ticketing" AppleInsider 8:10 AM
  • "MLB Tests NFC Apple Pay-Style Tickets With iPhone, Apple Watch - 23 Teams to Use System Next Season" MacTrast 8:26 AM
  • "Apple Maps vehicles to start touring Scotland & Wales later this month" AppleInsider 3:36 PM
  • "The 10 countries where apps like Venmo and Apple Pay could replace cash sooner than you think" Business Insider 12:38 PM
  • "So you bought the new iPhone? Here are your rights if it breaks: Do you know your rights under Australian law if your iPhone suffer that most common of breakages — the shattered screen?" The Conversation 8:22 AM
  • "The secret to Steve Jobs' and Elon Musk's success, according to a former Apple and Tesla executive" [Video Report] Business Insider 8:50 AM
  • "New iPhone Models Only Popular With Indonesians on Launch Day: Study" Jakarta Globe 8:57 AM
  • "Microsoft throws in the towel on its Apple Music rival" Cult of Mac 10:59 AM
  • "Laurene Powell Jobs is joining the wide world of sports: Steve Jobs' widow is purchasing a stake in a DC-based sports group that owns the NBA's Wizards and NHL's Capitals." CNET 2:50 PM
  • "New battle for DC power: Bezos v Powell Jobs" Axios 12:34 PM
Non-Apple News
  • "Senate Russia Probe Targets Youtube and Gmail: RT Network's YouTube presence may be part of U.S. lawmakers' scrutiny" Bloomberg 4:11 PM
  • "Yahoo says all 3 billion accounts affected in 2013 hack" Reuters 4:13 PM
  • "Yahoo says 3 billion affected by 2013 hack" ZDNet 4:12 PM
  • "Yahoo just said every single account was affected by 2013 attack — 3 billion in all" CNBC 3:48 PM
  • "The City of Amazon? Community in Atlanta suburbs offers tech titan its own town" GeekWire 3:42 PM
  • "Starfleet still runs Microsoft Windows on Star Trek: Discovery" The Verge 1:31 PM
  • "Dropbox redesigns itself as a hipster file sharing service" The Verge 1:29 PM
  • "Leak: Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL aren't the only new products coming tomorrow from Google" BGR 8:21 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Jeff Butts' Terminal Tinkering Goes Beyond The Terminal" MacVoices 4:38 PM
  • "Connected, Episode 162: Daily Dongle Carry" MacStories 3:50 PM
  • "Goodbye Groove, Amazon Echo and Privacy -TMO Daily Observations 2017-10-03" The Mac Observer 12:51 PM
  • "Let's Talk iOS 207: An outsider from faraway" iDownload Blog 8:30 AM