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MacSurfer's Archive: Monday, February 3, 2020
 

 

General Interest/Potpourri
  • "Apple News launches special coverage of the 2020 presidential election" Apple 8:10 AM
  • "Apple News adds coverage of 2020 U.S. presidential election, including guides to candidates, issues & news literacy" TechCrunch 8:58 AM
  • "Apple's reported $200 million acquisition of Xnor.ai is part of the bigger red-hot trend of edge computing" [BI Prime] Business Insider 7:44 AM
  • "Huawei Beats Apple To Reach No. 2 Smartphone Spot" Silicon UK 8:32 AM
  • "Apple wants to remind you Arcade exists: A site takeover and a post-Super Bowl ad made it quite clear." Engadget 8:32 AM
  • "Apple Arcade characters invade Apple's homepage for fun promotion" Cult of Mac 7:37 AM
  • "Eddy Cue and Paul McCartney watch Super Bowl together" Cult of Mac 7:36 AM
  • "'Carpool Karaoke': James Corden Hits Out at 'Tow' Claims" The Mac Observer 9:27 AM
  • "Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet — First Look | Apple TV+" YouTube 12:36 PM
Non-Apple News
  • "Huawei reportedly asks FCC to drop national security risk label: Chinese telecom giant calls action 'unlawful and misguided.'" CNET 8:20 PM
  • "Twitter briefly took over a parody account and gave it to the school it mocked" The Verge 7:42 PM
  • "Facebook adds Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to board of directors" ZDNet 7:01 PM
  • "Researchers Find 'Anonymized' Data Is Even Less Anonymous Than We Thought: Corporations love to pretend that 'anonymization' of the data they collect protects consumers. Studies keep showing that's not really true." Vice 3:24 PM
  • "YouTube reveals strategy for fighting misinformation ahead of 2020 elections" Mashable 3:12 PM
  • "YouTube Will Police Political Videos More Closely: The social media site says it will remove manipulated videos and content that promotes conspiracy theories, marking a contrast with Facebook." Wired [Free/Paid Registration Required] 12:52 PM
  • "T-Mobile and Sprint Merger Looks Less Likely" Market Realist 9:06 AM
  • "For once, Google might not have been evil: A case before the US Supreme Court could determine the very future of computer software." Australian Financial Review 8:40 AM
  • "Google will pick your best photos and print them with new trial service: $7.99 gets you 10 prints a month" The Verge 7:43 AM
  • "Artist lugs around wagon full of phones to create virtual traffic jams in Google Maps" Android Police 7:34 AM
  • "Meet Meena: Why you'll want to hire this Google chatbot/Google reports a breakthrough in chatbot technology — it's the perfect idea for replacing its own Google Assistant ... and search. (And read on to judge Meena's joke-telling ability.)" Insider Pro [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:28 AM
  • "Alleged Leaked Video Shows Samsung 'Galaxy Z Flip' in Action" MacRumors 7:28 AM
  • "MIT's 'smart surface' could improve your WiFi signal tenfold" Engadget 7:28 AM
Publications/Podcasts
  • "Ten Years of iPad – TMO Daily Observations 2020-02-03" The Mac Observer 1:23 PM
  • "9to5Mac Daily: February 3, 2020 — Will there be a spring Apple event?" 9to5Mac 7:43 AM
  • "One Eight Hundredth Geek Out! – Mac Geek Gab 800" The Mac Observer 7:22 AM