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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, April 29, 2019
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple says it pulled a bunch of screen time apps because they were using 'highly invasive' technology" Business Insider 7:37 AM
  • "Apple's 5G modem project lead Ruben Caballero has left the company" AppleInsider 3:30 PM
  • "Apple Engineering Leader Handling 5G Efforts Leaves Company" MacRumors 3:30 PM
  • "Apple's Ambitious in-House 5G Modem Plans Suffer First Blow as Project Lead Departs From Company" WCCFTech 7:04 PM
  • "The man who predicted Antennagate is no longer at Apple: Rubén Caballero was reportedly leading Apple's 5G modem efforts until January" The Verge 8:44 PM
  • "Apple says it removed parental control apps because they posed privacy risk" AppleInsider 7:37 AM
  • "Apple reveals why App Store parental control app crackdown took place: The tech giant says apps were removed due to the use of highly invasive software." ZDNet 8:15 AM
  • "Apple defends removing parental control apps" BBC 8:38 AM
  • "Apple insists it restricted rival parental control apps due to security concerns" VentureBeat 8:16 AM
  • "Apple's Siri ties with Google Assistant for most-used voice assistant" AppleInsider 10:22 AM
  • "Siri is more popular than Alexa (sort of)" Cult of Mac 12:11 PM
  • "Apple just took another step toward iPhone as ID" Apple Must 10:49 AM
  • "Apple poached a top Intel 5G modem chipmaker" Cult of Mac 7:51 AM
  • "iPhone Co-Creator Says He Leaves China Investment to the Experts" Bloomberg [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:01 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "Sprint and T-Mobile extend deadline to complete merger as approval concerns loom" 9to5Mac 8:51 PM
  • "Apple-marketed robotics firm Anki goes into shutdown mode" AppleInsider 5:47 PM
  • "Robotics startup Anki featured in Apple keynote shutting down" 9to5Mac 4:04 PM
  • "The once-hot robotics startup Anki is shutting down after raising more than $200 million" Recode 3:42 PM
  • "FCC plans broadband expansion to over 100,000 rural homes and businesses" Engadget 2:14 PM
  • "Mark Zuckerberg is about to give our best look yet at how he plans to navigate Facebook past its endless scandals" [BI Prime] Business Insider 1:21 PM
  • "Survey: Trust in tech giants is 'broken'/High-profile cases of data misuse and data loss to hackers created a huge issue for US tech companies." ZDNet 10:34 AM
  • "A robot will probably read your résumé before a human does. Here are 3 simple tricks to make sure they don't pass it by" Business Insider 10:23 AM
  • "Google Workers Set Up Phone Banks To Demand Congress Put an End to Forced Arbitration" Gizmodo 2:58 PM
  • "Google Pixel 3a Surfaces on Geekbench with 4GB RAM, Android 9 Pie as Launch Draws Closer" MySmartPrice 9:09 AM
  • "Thanks to Amazon, more retailer sites will bombard you with ads: There's a ton of money to be made in digital ads, and retailers are trying to get in on the action." CNET 8:38 AM
  • "Samsung imagines a wraparound smartphone display" Engadget 8:02 AM
  • "World's first vertical television launched by Samsung for millennials who watch most things on their phone" Telegraph 11:01 AM
  • "Samsung thinks millennials want vertical TVs" The Verge 7:55 AM
  • "'Superzoom' lenses will be the biggest thing to happen to smartphone cameras in years" Android Police 7:52 AM
  • "Spotify is first to 100 million paid subscribers" The Verge 7:38 AM
  • "Spotify Has 100 Million Paid Subscribers" Thurrott 7:34 AM
  • "Galaxy S10+ Beats All Flagship Phones for Download Speeds: It's not often a smartphone can boast a 19 percent performance gain over the latest iPhones, but Samsung has achieved just that for data downloads with the Galaxy S10+." PC Magazine 7:25 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Not all USB-C Is Created Equal – Mac Geek Gab 759" The Mac Observer 6:20 PM
  • "Upgrade #243: Fiddling Around With Folders" Six Colors 5:47 PM
  • "NAB -MyCaseBuilder Can Make A Custom Case For Any and All of Your Gear" MacVoices 3:59 PM
  • "Parental Controls, macOS-iOS Merging – TMO Daily Observations 2019-04-29" The Mac Observer 1:53 PM
  • "Why did Apple remove those parental control apps? (The 3:59, Ep. 551)" CNET 12:12 PM
  • "NAB -iZotope Acquires Exponential Audio, Improves RX 7 with Machine Learning" MacVoices 10:21 AM