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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, March 6, 2019
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Mayor Faulconer, Apple Partner to Grow Company's Presence in San Diego: Apple Cites San Diego's Quality of Life and Economy as it Plans to Add 1,200 Local Jobs, Make City a Main Engineering Hub"  The City of San Diego 3:01 PM
  • "Apple is adding 1,200 employees in Qualcomm's backyard as their legal dispute wages on" CNBC 3:02 PM
  • "Apple to add more jobs at new San Diego tech hub" KGTV San Diego 2:54 PM
  • "Apple to add 1200 new jobs in San Diego for software and hardware engineering, starting later this year" 9to5Mac 2:54 PM
  • "Apple Adding 1,200 New Jobs in San Diego at Upcoming Engineering Hub" MacRumors 3:01 PM
  • "Apple will add 1,200 jobs in Qualcomm's hometown: It's part of a larger engineering push." Engadget 6:55 PM
  • "Apple's Everyone Can Code being used in 4,000 schools, 80 community colleges in US" AppleInsider 5:41 PM
  • "Chinese online retailers slash iPhone prices for second time this year"  Reuters 7:07 AM
  • "Chinese Online Retailers Start Second Round of iPhone Discounts" MacRumors 7:10 AM
  • "Apple will struggle with 5G for years – analyst" Telecoms 8:06 AM
  • "'Grotesque': Marco Rubio leads intense criticism of Google for refusing to pull down Saudi government app that lets men track and control women" ["Apple also hosts a version of the app. The company says it is still investigating what actions to take."]  Business Insider 7:53 AM
  • "Brie Larson to Star in, Produce Straight-to-Series Drama at Apple" Variety 1:51 PM
  • "Prey data shows the most likely ways to lose a device" 9to5Mac 7:16 AM
  • "That's iPhone - iPhone Features" Apple 12:00 PM
  • "Apple Shares New 'iPhone Can Do What?' Features Page" MacRumors 11:46 AM
  • "Apple ramps up iPhone marketing with feature-packed 'iPhone can do what?' campaign" 9to5Mac 12:00 PM
Non-Apple News
  • "Your best loved brands, but where is tech? Only two tech brands are included in the list of most loved brands, according to a new report." ["HTC and Alienware are the only tech brands named in the top 10 -- out of more than 500 brands analyzed. HTC ranked fourth in the online category behind Clean and Clear and Mary Kay, and Alienware ranked sixth behind Five Guys and Fisher-Price."] ZDNet 3:15 PM
  • "'I worry about the world I helped create', says Android founder" ["Rich Miner, who helped build the Android operating system, said he feared for the 'interrupt driven world I helped create' and the impact it will have on younger generations."] Telegraph 2:35 PM
  • "Creative wallpapers that use the Galaxy S10 hole-punch camera properly" Digital Trends 1:52 PM
  • "Samsung predicted to ship up to 45M Galaxy S10 units in 2019: On the back of strong pre-order demand, research analyst Ming-Chi Kuo on Wednesday revised shipment predicts for Samsung's new Galaxy S10 smartphone lineup, estimating the South Korean tech giant will move between 40 and 45 million units in 2019." AppleInsider 7:17 PM
  • "Samsung is reportedly working on three different foldable smartphones" Ars Technica 1:33 PM
  • "Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp: Mark Zuckerberg says the future is private messaging" Recode 1:32 PM
  • "Ajit Pai's net neutrality repeal would be reversed by Democrats' new bill" Ars Technica 11:49 AM
  • "New Net Neutrality Bill Would Strip the FCC of Its Power to Mess With the Internet" Gizmodo 11:15 AM
  • "Fitbit launches lower-cost fitness devices to combat Samsung, Apple" Reuters 8:35 AM
  • "Don't look now: why you should be worried about machines reading your emotions/Machines can now allegedly identify anger, fear, disgust and sadness. 'Emotion detection' has grown from a research project to a $20bn industry" The Guardian 8:28 AM
  • "Let Google and Tilda Swinton show you the Big Bang in AR: The tech giant teamed up with CERN for an interactive Big Bang experience." Engadget 8:24 AM
  • "A serious shortage of cybersecurity experts could cost companies hundreds of millions of dollars" CNBC 8:21 AM
  • "Huawei's security boss says the company would sooner 'shut down' than spy for China" Business Insider 7:52 AM
  • "France unveils plan to tax internet giants: The French government on Wednesday unveiled plans to slap a 3 percent tax on the French revenues of internet giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook." Associated Press 7:32 AM
  • "Samsung Working on Two More Foldable Smartphones" Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:30 AM
  • "Qualcomm Cites National Security Risk in Bid to Settle FTC Case: Defense and Energy Department officials lend support, saying Huawei stands to gain from a Qualcomm loss" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:18 AM
  • "Why content moderators fall for conspiracy theories: A stressful job, plus repeated exposure, can change a person's views" The Verge 7:17 AM
  • "Meizu CEO says port-less phone was a publicity stunt" The Verge 7:16 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "#284: Fairy Facts and Unicorn Facts/Devices we've repaired ourselves, the features we'd choose for a thicker, heavier phone, our thoughts on WebAuthn and the future of passwords, and our privacy concerns for video doorbell cameras." Relay FM: Clockwise 2:35 PM
  • "Apple's Environmental Impact – TMO Daily Observations 2019-03-05" The Mac Observer 12:54 PM
  • "Stacktrace Podcast 026: 'You're not gonna touch your glasses'" 9to5Mac 12:39 PM
  • "Laurene Powell Jobs says President Trump's attacks on the press are 'right out of a dictator's playbook': Powell Jobs founded the Emerson Collective, which owns Pop-Up Magazine and has a majority stake in the Atlantic." Recode 7:12 AM