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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, December 18, 2017
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Most Game-Changing New Gadgets: iPhone X, Nintendo Switch, Amazon Key" [Section 1/3 way down page] Fortune 5:42 PM
  • "Fortune 500 Companies 2017: Who Made the List" [Apple #3] Fortune 5:41 PM
  • "Students with autism make music with iPads"  CBS News 6:56 AM
  • "Sorry, Apple Watch Series 3 LTE users: If you want to stop and start service it'll cost you/You'll be paying $10 a month whether you like or not."  Macworld 10:46 AM
  • "Amazon Says Prime Video Had Most First-Week Downloads of Any Apple TV App Ever" MacRumors 9:23 AM
  • "Apple removes imposter 'Cuphead' iOS game from the App Store" Digital Trends 8:39 PM
  • "Apple let a fake $5 Cuphead game into the App Store" The Verge 8:30 AM
  • "Apple let a fake version of a major game slip into the App Store" Business Insider 9:52 AM
  • "Apple Allows Fake Cuphead Game on to the App Store: Cuphead fans were excited briefly, now the developer is trying to get it taken down ASAP." PC Magazine 10:04 AM
  • "Today in Apple history: iPhone may have to seek new name" Cult of Mac 7:50 AM
Non-Apple News
  • "US declares North Korea the culprit behind devastating WannaCry ransomware attack" The Verge 8:34 PM
  • "Newly discovered polymer could make shattered screens a thing of the past" The Next Web 8:32 PM
  • "Tax Plan Strikes at Tech Giants' Foreign Profits: Firms such as Microsoft pay low taxes overseas, but their rates might go up" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:31 PM
  • "The Looming Net Neutrality Fight Is Looking Damn Good for Democrats" Gizmodo 8:40 PM
  • "The FCC disproved its own claim that net neutrality was an Obama plot" TechCrunch 8:36 PM
  • "Democrats will try the Republicans' favorite trick to save net neutrality" BGR 5:55 PM
  • "Does phone radiation give you cancer? Probably not, but scientists are still looking into it" The Verge 11:19 AM
  • "'There will be a [Senate] vote' to reinstate net neutrality, Schumer says: Congress could block net neutrality repeal, but Democrats face tough odds." Ars Technica 10:46 AM
  • "More dead commenters appear to come out against Net Neutrality" TechCrunch 9:23 AM
  • "Twitter Purge: Monitoring user behavior off platform starting Dec. 18"  Mashable 8:15 AM
  • "It's un-elfin'-believable what toys can do now: This year's top holiday toys come to life in new ways by responding to voice and motion commands." CNET 8:08 AM
  • "Baby tech makers, please figure out what parents actually need" CNET 8:08 AM
  • "Google Maps: Now it tells you when it's time to get off the train" ZDNet 8:07 AM
  • "Google kills off 3D depth mapping project Tango" V3 7:51 AM
  • "Facebook is clamping down on posts that ask people for Likes or shares" Recode 7:51 AM
  • "You can now block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook"  Telegraph 7:50 AM
  • "Artificial intelligence will detect child abuse images to save police from trauma" Telegraph 7:50 AM
  • "Russia meddled on Twitter after UK terror attacks, study says" BBC 7:44 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "TMO Background Mode Interview with Technical Journalist Dr. Gina Smith" The Mac Observer 1:45 PM
  • "The Mac's Future, Ronald D. Moore's Apple TV Show Deal -TMO Daily Observations 2017-12-18" The Mac Observer 12:41 PM
  • "Drafts: How Merlin uses it and what Greg's doing next" [Podcast] iMore 8:15 AM
  • "Is Silicon Valley threatening democracy? Noam Cohen, author of 'The Know-It-Alls,' thinks so, and explains why on the latest Recode Decode." [Podcast] Recode 7:50 AM