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MacSurfer's Archive: Saturday, April 7, 2018
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple lights up Shinjuku: Apple Shinjuku opened this morning in Tokyo, welcoming thousands of customers to experience Apple's latest retail design for the first time in Japan." Apple 8:02 AM
  • "After fending off lawsuit, French activist group Attac holds protests & 'die-in' at Apple Stores" 9to5Mac 11:47 AM
  • "Apple CEO Tim Cook calls #MeToo, DACA and Parkland student activists 'heroes'" CNBC 7:59 AM
  • "Today in Apple history: System 7 gets its final update with Mac OS 7.6.1" Cult of Mac 8:09 AM
  • "Gallery: Line of nearly 500 customers estimated at grand opening of Apple's Shinjuku retail store" 9to5Mac 4/6
  • "Some tech giants can take the moral high ground: Apple and Microsoft keep controls on data privacy and would be a good model to follow" Gulf News 4/6
  • "Tim Cook blasts 'creepy' web tracking" Axios 4/6
  • "Apple's Siri, HomePod and the voice assistant showdown: The battle of the smart assistants is intensifying, and while people seem to want to get more from using Siri, people want to turn Cortana off, and Google Assistant isn't far behind. How can Apple exploit its advantages to push HomePod higher?" Computerworld 4/6
  • "Emergency services now able to tell where iPhone users may be calling from" Stuff: New Zealand 4/6
  • "See how ARKit will make grocery shopping easier" Cult of Mac 4/6
  • "Thonburi Steam: Nikon DSLR and iPhone RAW" ["I took three cameras with me on a planed visit to the station and shed areas: the iPhone X, using the RAW app, ProCamera; a Nikon D7000 that also takes RAW images (NEF); and a Hasselblad film camera. I will have to wait for the three rolls of film I took to be developed, but I spent some time editing the digital images."] eXtensions 4/6
Non-Apple News
  • "Homeland Security To Compile A Database Of Journalists, Bloggers And Influencers" HuffPost 7:14 PM
  • "Homeland Security database would track bloggers, social media" Engadget 5:15 PM
  • "U.S. senator warns of possibility of breaking up Facebook over privacy concerns" Digital Trends 4:50 PM
  • "Global cyberattack targets 200,000 network switches" Engadget 3:54 PM
  • "YouTube's new ad rules will drive creators to Twitch" The Next Web 7:50 AM
  • "Best Buy may also have had customer data exposed: The same breach that affected Sears and Delta customers could have also hit Best Buy." Engadget 4/6
  • "Blind software engineer taps into his 'superpowers' to write and fix code at Amazon" GeekWire 4/6
  • "How IoT can Change Cities Run More Efficiently" ReadWrite 4/6
  • "This over-the-top gaming PC is an engineering marvel: The Maingear F131 runs cool and looks cool" The Verge 4/6
  • "Facebook Comes Up With a New Data Access Plan" TechNewsWorld 4/6
  • "Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica two-and-a-half years ago but we didn't check" Business Insider 4/6
  • "Facebook secretly deleted some of Mark Zuckerberg's private messages over fears the company could be hacked" Business Insider 4/6
  • "Facebook Admits Mark Zuckerberg and Top Execs Have Deleted Their Sent Messages Remotely" Gizmodo 4/6
  • "Your ISP can peep on your browsing, so Cloudflare is pulling down the shade" Digital Trends 4/6
  • "MIT's AlterEgo headset can read words you say in your head" CNET 4/6
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Podcast: Facebook, Intel CPUs, YouTube" Tech.pinions 7:50 AM
  • "9to5Mac Daily 059: April 6, 2018" 9to5Mac 4/6
  • "SwitchArcade Roundup: 'Wolfenstein II' Footage, 'ClusterPuck 99', and More" Touch Arcade 4/6
  • "Geared Up Podcast: The great privacy debate — and how companies like Apple could benefit" GeekWire 4/6
  • "Apple's Latest Mac Pro News -TMO Daily Observations 2018-04-06" The Mac Observer 4/6
  • "iMore show 601: Lory's List" iMore 4/6
  • "AppleInsider podcast talks 2020 Mac Pro, ARM on Mac, Apple's poaching of Google's John Giannandrea, and more" AppleInsider 4/6