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MacSurfer's Archive: Wednesday, July 31, 2019
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple and Samsung earnings show most people don't want $1,000 phones"  CNBC 4:00 PM
  • "AirPods and Apple Watch are now a bigger money-spinner than iPad" Cult of Mac 7:18 AM
  • "Titanium Apple Card could be here in days: CEO Tim Cook finally gives a timeline for Apple's hyped credit card, stating it would launch in August" GearBrain 7:49 AM
  • "Apple Card: The Apple credit card is coming in August" BetaNews 7:50 AM
  • "Emergency texts from Apple Watch set off chain reaction to save mum-of-three's life: Kate Donald could have been dead had it not been for these text messages that helped save her life." News.com.au 12:24 PM
  • "Apple's 'Bug Wrangler' Moves to AR Team" ["Kim Vorrath, who led program management in the software team for more than 15 years, has moved over to the team headed by Mike Rockwell, the vice president of AR and virtual reality at Apple, said a person familiar with the situation."] The Information [Subscription Required for Full Article] 2:07 PM
  • "Apple Shifts 'Bug Wrangler' to AR Team to 'Bring Some Order' to AR Headset Development" MacRumors 2:07 PM
  • "Apple teams up with Xbox co-creator ahead of Arcade game service launch" 9to5Mac 12:29 PM
  • "Xbox co-creator, Nat Brown, has joined Apple" iDownload Blog 12:29 PM
  • "Apple, Google, and Microsoft partner to provide digital access to patients' health records" The Next Web 7:35 AM
  • "iPhone Bluetooth traffic leaks phone numbers—in certain scenarios: The Apple bug that might accidentally help catch people behind the recent AirDrop dick pic epidemic." ZDNet 10:35 AM
  • "Spotify subscribers, Apple Music's closest competition, hit 108 million: Apple, meanwhile, has 60 million." CNET 7:36 AM
  • "Spotify reports bigger-than-expected loss, paid subscribers disappoint" Reuters 6:40 AM
  • "Spotify hits 108M paying users and 232M overall, but its average revenue per user declines" TechCrunch 7:50 AM
  • "Spotify paying subscribers hit 110M against Apple Music's 60M" 9to5Mac 7:37 AM
  • "Computer festival boasts world's largest gathering of rare Apple 1s" Cult of Mac 12:18 PM
Non-Apple News
  • "Verizon adds four US cities to growing 5G network" AppleInsider 6:44 PM
  • "One chip to rule them all: It natively runs all types of AI software/Machine learning and artificial neurons right at home on new chip." Ars Technica 6:11 PM
  • "Qualcomm's Q3 sales fall short as demand for 4G devices slows: Qualcomm says it is well positioned for the 5G ramp to come in early 2020." ZDNet 4:34 PM
  • "Fourth U.S. City Bans Facial Recognition, Citing Threats to Free Speech and Civil Rights" Gizmodo 2:25 PM
  • "Here's how AG Barr is going to get encryption 'backdoors': Here we go again." Engadget 1:21 PM
  • "DeepMind creates algorithm to predict kidney damage in advance" Financial Times [Paid Membership Required] 12:17 PM
  • "DeepMind's AI predicts kidney injury up to 48 hours before it happens" VentureBeat 12:17 PM
  • "Here is the teeniest gaming laptop you ever did see: The ThinkTiny is a miniature version of the Lenovo ThinkPad" The Verge 11:21 AM
  • "Samsung targets iPad Pro with the Galaxy Tab S6" TechCrunch 10:33 AM
  • "The Lost Art of Warez: A hacker graffiti scene surfaces in new documentary." Vice 7:49 AM
  • "Face filter bug reveals this young vlogger is actually a middle-aged woman" The Next Web 7:35 AM
  • "Seattle woman charged in Capital One breach may have data from other companies" USA Today 7:31 AM
  • "How Phones Made the World Your Office, Like It or Not: From desk to car to pocket."  New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 6:41 AM
  • "Children Are YouTube's Most Numerous Watchers—and Its Most-Watched: A Pew study arries as the FTC investigates YouTube for violating the privacy of children." PC Magazine 6:40 AM
  • "IoT home security camera allows hackers to listen in over HTTP: Unauthenticated, remote snooping is possible over the Internet." ZDNet 6:39 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "9to5Mac Watch Time podcast episode 3: Apple Watch and managing mental health with Alex Cox" 9to5Mac 4:01 PM
  • "Stock Market School, Data Transfer Project – TMO Daily Observations 2019-07-31" The Mac Observer 1:15 PM
  • "Stacktrace Podcast 047: 'How to fix Siri'" 9to5Mac 12:07 PM