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Tue. 08/06 - The Apple Card is Here, And It's A... Credit Card...

Tech Brew Ride Home

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Tech News, News, Technology

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🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The Apple Card is here (for some of you), industrial cyberattacks have doubled, are Yelp and Grubhub partnering to hurt restaurants, Amazon’s scoot robots come to Southern California, 5G comes to New York City and what to expect from tomorrow’s Samsung event. Sponsors: Mealime Joybird.com/ride Promocode: RIDE Links: The Apple Card starts rolling out today (TheVerge) Cyberattacks against industrial targets have doubled over the last 6 months (ZDNet) Microsoft: Russian state hackers are using IoT devices to breach enterprise networks (ZDNet) Microsoft launches Azure Security Lab, expands bug bounty rewards (ZDNet) Yelp is Screwing Over Restaurants By Quietly Replacing Their Phone Numbers (Motherboard) Amazon Squeezes Sellers That Offer Better Prices on Walmart (Bloomberg) Amazon’s Scout robots roll out in Southern California (Venture Beat) AT&T rolls out (limited) 5g in (parts of) New York City (TechCrunch) Note 10 Plus? Here’s what to expect from Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked on August 7 (Digital Trends) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, August 6th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:09.0

The Apple card is here, for some of you at least. Industrial cyber attacks have doubled

0:14.4

our yelp and grub hub partnering to hurt restaurants. Amazon's scoot robots come

0:20.0

to Southern California 5G comes to New York, and what to expect from tomorrow's Samsung

0:24.7

Event.

0:25.7

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. I got to admit I can never quite make up my mind on this but the apple

0:38.1

card is here the credit card that apple is offering in conjunction with Goldman Sachs.

0:45.0

It is here, sort of.

0:47.0

Today, some unknown number of folks who signed up to get notified about its arrival. We'll see notifications today on their

0:54.4

iPhones to sign up for the card. You got to be on iOS 12.4 and you've just

1:01.9

got to enter your address, birthday, income level, and last four digits of your

1:05.4

social security number. Apparently it takes like a minute to sign up and if Goldman approves you,

1:11.4

your card will show up in your Apple wallet immediately, ready for use. If you want that

1:16.4

fancy physical titanium card, you have to request it when signing up and it will be mailed to you later.

1:22.4

Quoting Nelai Patel at The Verge. it when signing up and it'll be mailed to you later.

1:23.0

Quoting Nelai Patel at the verge.

1:25.6

I got to hold the card itself and it's very nice,

1:28.1

although it is fairly thick and felt a little bit heavier

1:31.1

than the typical metal credit card. You can use the card without your phone

1:34.9

nearby like any other card, but it doesn't support contactless payments. Apple obviously wants

1:40.1

you to use your phone or watch for that.

1:43.1

Once you're set up, you will actually

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