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MacSurfer's Archive: Saturday, July 28, 2018
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Gallery: Details from Apple Broadway Plaza's grand opening in Walnut Creek, CA" 9to5Mac 3:53 PM
  • "Apple Music: Asahd vs.Khaled: The Negotiation — Apple" YouTube 7:37 AM
  • "Apple plans 'Time Bandits' remake as a new TV show: 'All the the dreams you've ever had: and not just the good ones...'" Engadget 7:51 AM
  • "Apple Makes Rights Deal To Turn Terry Gilliam's 'Time Bandits' Into TV Series"  Deadline 7/27
  • "Apple May Turn Fantasy 80s Movie 'Time Bandits' Into a TV Series" MacRumors 7/27
  • "New patent lawsuit targets Apple over voice control tech in Siri- & HomeKit-enabled devices"  AppleInsider 7/27
  • "Trump claims again that Apple is building 'plants' in the United States" Business Insider 7/27
  • "Apple is not building new plants in the U.S., even though Trump continues to say it is" BGR 7/27
  • "Apple will repair iPhones, iPads and Macs damaged by Japanese floods for free" 9to5Mac 7/27
  • "Apple provides Japanese customers with free repairs following floods and landslides" AppleInsider 7/27
  • "Over 11 million people have installed spyware from 'Big Star Labs': Apps are quietly collecting full browser histories against Google rules/A new batch of spyware has been discovered by AdGuard Research. The malware comes in the form of Android app (and one unsanctioned iOS app) and extensions for Chrome and Firefox." TechSpot 7/27
  • "In his own words: Steve Jobs was surprised by App Store's early success" iDownload Blog 7/27
  • "Video: Steve Jobs on designing the NeXT logo" Apple Must 7/27
Non-Apple News
  • "AI may soon save a ton of cute (and ugly) animals from drug testing" The Next Web 7:51 AM
  • "How conspiracy sites keep outsmarting big tech companies: Facebook and YouTube never anticipated a site like Infowars" The Verge 7:38 AM
  • "Why SMS and voicemail are making a comeback: Assumed to be smoldering on the ash heap of history, SMS and voicemail are finding new life with new technology." ["The reason SMS and voicemail are still not only relevant but resurgent is that everybody has them. No proprietary service will ever match the universality of SMS or voicemail."]  Computerworld 7:27 AM
  • "Facebook Slapped With Lawsuit After Shares Of FB And Market Cap Plummet" HotHardware 3:55 PM
  • "Tech firms should be made liable for 'fake news' on sites: UK lawmakers" Reuters 7:23 AM
  • "British Lawmakers Accuse Facebook of Failing to Aid Inquiry Into 'Fake News'" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:22 AM
  • "Fake news a democratic crisis, MPs warn" BBC 7/27
  • "For Better or Worse, YouTube Now Adapts to Multiple Aspect Ratios" Gizmodo 7/27
  • "The Trump administration is talking to Facebook and Google about potential rules for online privacy"  Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 7/27
  • "Comcast installed Wi-Fi gear without approval—and this city is not happy: After Comcast broke a city's rules, cable lobby asked FCC to preempt them." Ars Technica 7/27
  • "White House reportedly working on federal data privacy policy: Officials are looking to give consumers more control but also limit state efforts." Engadget 7/27
  • "Samsung's (Foldable) 'Galaxy F' Price Will Make The iPhone X Look CHEAP" Know Your Mobile 7/27
  • "Why two seemingly identical wireless network tests give such different results" BGR 7/27
  • "Samsung teases Galaxy Note 9's big battery, memory" ZDNet 7/27
  • "Google follows in Apple's footsteps by cleaning up its Play Store" TechCrunch 7/27
  • "Amazon challenges ACLU study on facial recognition tech and police" GeekWire 7/27
  • "Google warns about 'inherent bias' in face recognition: Silicon Valley is having a rocky relationship with face recognition technology"  V3 7/27
  • "Google bans crypto-mining apps from Play Store" BBC 7/27
  • "Twitter shares fall 18% as number of monthly users slips" BBC 7/27
  • "Facebook could spend $10 million this year to protect Mark Zuckerberg — that's over $27,000 per day" Business Insider 7/27
  • "Facebook stops InfoWars host posting for 30 days" BBC 7/27
  • "Facebook removes four videos on pages operated by Alex Jones and InfoWars" CNNMoney 7/27
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Podcast: US Consumer Electronics Trends: PCs, TVs, Headphones, Smart Home and Wearables" Tech.pinions 7:54 AM
  • "The Talk Show: 'Cut That Mustache With Scissors', With Special Guest Marco Arment" Daring Fireball 7/27
  • "Gadget Lab Podcast: The New MacBook Pro" Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7/27
  • "Macstock -Julie Kuehl On CoSchedule, Macstock, and Star Trek Las Vegas" MacVoices 7/27
  • "Under the Hood with iPhone Cellular Data, Uninterrupted Power Supplies -TMO Daily Observations 2018-07-27" The Mac Observer 7/27
  • "Macworld August 2018 Digital Edition" Macworld UK 7/27
  • "iPad & iPhone User 134 Digital Edition" Macworld UK 7/27
  • "Podcast discusses new MacBook Pro thermal fix, listener questions, and more" AppleInsider 7/27
  • "2018 MacBook Pro performance, after the patch, on The CultCast" Cult of Mac 7/27