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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, March 27, 2019
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "AT&T CEO claims HBO will glean consumer data from Apple TV viewers: AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson in an interview this week said HBO will have access to viewer data from third-party distribution channels like Apple TV, seemingly contradicting Apple's stance on total consumer privacy." AppleInsider 7:39 PM
  • "Apple's New Services: 5 Trends Working in Their Favor/Changes in consumer spending habits and the pressures facing game developers and print publishers should help Apple out. However, Apple also faces some challenges to adoption of its services." TheStreet 7:55 AM
  • "Millions Are Being Lost To Apple Pay Fraud — Will Apple Card Come To The Rescue?" Forbes 12:24 PM
  • "Apple Arcade puts the world's biggest game market in play: The unique elements of the iOS app market present a distinct set of opportunities and tradeoffs for Apple Arcade. The result may be a service that does more to create a consistent Apple cross-media experience than fundamentally change mobile gaming." ZDNet 10:55 AM
  • "Apple AR glasses concept is both futuristic and retro" Cult of Mac 7:26 AM
  • "Two Beautiful New Apple Stores Expected to Open Soon in Singapore" MacRumors 12:28 PM
  • "Scientists blended an iPhone to dust to show the amount of natural resources it takes to produce just one device" [Video] Mashable 12:28 PM
  • "App Store Search Ads rolls out to 46 more countries" 9to5Mac 7:33 AM
  • "Connecticut event planners soar with FileMaker, Inc." FileMaker 11:00 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "President Trump has personally blocked his critics on Twitter and a federal appeals court is deciding if that violates the First Amendment" Business Insider 3:51 PM
  • "FTC shuts down four major robocall operations" Engadget 2:40 PM
  • "Facebook bans white nationalism, white separatism on its platforms" Reuters 1:19 PM
  • "Europe's Article 13 Copyright Rule Is a Transatlantic Trade War: Europe's Article 13 copyright rule is a finger in the eye to a set of American tech companies with which Europe has long been struggling." PC Magazine 12:32 PM
  • "Samsung's Galaxy Fold Showcased In Mechanized Synchronistic Folding Glory" HotHardware 3:52 PM
  • "Watch Samsung fold the crap out of the Galaxy Fold" TechCrunch 10:50 AM
  • "Elizabeth Warren comes out in support of a national right-to-repair law: The proposal focuses on farm equipment, but could have significant implications for Apple" The Verge 11:30 AM
  • "Elizabeth Warren Calls for a National Right-to-Repair Law" Motherboard 10:49 AM
  • "The latest dark web cyber-criminal trend: selling children's personal data/Fraudsters are looking for a clean credit history, and are using stolen identities to create them." ZDNet 8:32 AM
  • "Why Hackers Are Stoked That Beto O'Rourke Was One Of Them: This week, CYBER speaks to Oxblood Ruffin, a long-time member of the legendary hacking group Cult of The Dead Cow." Motherboard 8:02 AM
  • "Twitter birth-year hoax locks users out of accounts" BBC 7:46 AM
  • "Inbox is about to die, and Google still hasn't brought its best feature to Gmail" Android Police 2:16 PM
  • "Apple Card won't drive Google, Samsung to offer their own credit cards" CNET 7:45 AM
  • "A coder created a 'Killed by Google' graveyard for the search firm's now dead products" Business Insider 8:07 AM
  • "Google is taking a cautious step back into the world of robotics: After the failures of its ambitious 'Replicant' project, the tech giant is reportedly refreshing its efforts" The Verge 7:33 AM
  • "'Godfathers of AI' honored with Turing Award, the Nobel Prize of computing: Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun laid the foundations for modern AI" The Verge 7:30 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Apple Books+, Publishers vs Apple News – TMO Daily Observations 2019-03-27" The Mac Observer 1:34 PM
  • "#287: The Opposite of What They're Doing/Subscription gaming services, what would make Apple's TV+ offering more compelling, third-party keyboards, and whether or not we will be getting the Apple Card." Relay FM: Clockwise 1:10 PM
  • "Stacktrace Podcast 029: 'A very special Apple special event' with special guest Mark Gurman" 9to5Mac 12:27 PM
  • "The Rebound 231: Steven Bielberg/Finally, some real honest-to-goodness Apple news...about Apple News? Plus, a whole lot of stuff that isn't shipping yet, which gives us plenty of time to dissect the methodology of Apple's announcements, whether it's wise to not show, uh, shows, and the credit card that nobody really expected, despite knowing that it was coming. And, of course, the update you've all been waiting for on Dan's Mac mini." The Rebound 10:48 AM
  • "9to5Mac Daily: March 27, 2019" 9to5Mac 9:42 AM