Tues. 03/10 - Hold Me Closer, Tiny iPhone

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A leaked version of Apple’s iOS 14 reveals a treasure trove of details about an upcoming iPhone and iPad, augmented reality software, and tracking tags; an analytics company has secretly operated VPN and ad-blocking apps and gathered data from tens of millions of users without proper disclosure, a company offering panopticon service to the state of Utah once developed disguised social-media scraping apps, Google adds quantum computing to its machine-learning open-source TensorFlow development kit, DoNotPay lets users share streaming and news logins, the latest on the coronavirus impact on the tech world, and things fall apart: political strife broke the knitting community at Ravelry. Sponsors Links: iOS 14 reveals iPhone 9 and updated iPad Pro details, new Apple TV remote, AirTags, more (9to5Mac) Apple developing new augmented reality app for iOS 14, testing Apple Store and Starbucks partnership (9to5Mac) Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7 to include ‘Infograph Pro’ with tachymeter (9to5Mac) Apple Invents Foldable iPad and iPhone that could enter a ‘Joint Operating Mode’ Similar to Microsoft’s Surface Neo (Patently Apple) Popular VPN And Ad-Blocking Apps Are Secretly Harvesting User Data (BuzzFeed News) Twitter thread from Will Strafach on Sensor Tower apps (Twitter) Surveillance Firm Banjo Used a Secret Company and Fake Apps to Scrape Social Media (Motherboard) Announcing TensorFlow Quantum: An Open Source Library for Quantum Machine Learning (Google AI Blog) Google launches TensorFlow Quantum, a machine learning framework for training quantum models (VentureBeat) DoNotPay Chrome browser extension (Chrome Web Store) Now you can share your Netflix account just by sending a link (Fast Company) How to clean your Apple products (Apple) All but four of Apple’s stores in mainland China have reopened after coronavirus shutdown (CNBC) Silicon Valley is effectively on lockdown over coronavirus (Cnet) Amazon Tells New York and New Jersey Employees to Stay Home Uber to offer drivers 14 days sick leave if they fall ill with coronavirus (CNN) Engineer Who Attended Cyber Event Contracts Coronavirus (Bloomberg News) How a ban on pro-Trump patterns unraveled the online knitting world (MIT Technology Review) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, March 10th, 2020.
0:10.0	Today a leaked version of Apple's Iowas 14 reveals a treasure trove of details about an upcoming iPhone and iPad
0:16.4	augmented reality software and tracking tags. An analytics company has secretly operated
0:22.0	a VPN and ad blocking apps and gathered data from tens of millions of users without proper disclosure.
0:28.0	A company offering Panopticon service to the state of Utah once developed disguised social media scraping apps.
0:34.9	Google adds quantum computing to its machine learning open source
0:38.2	Tensor Flow Development Kit.
0:40.0	Do not pay lets users share Streaming and News Logins,
0:43.7	The latest on the coronavirus impact on the tech world,
0:46.6	and Things Fall Apart.
0:48.3	Political strife tears apart the knitting community at Ravelry.
0:52.3	I'm Glenn Fleischman in for Brian McCullough and here's what you missed in the world of tech today.
1:00.4	Details about a new iPhone iPad Pro, watch, and Apple TV appeared in a leaked version of
1:05.8	iOS 14 obtained by the site 9-5 Mac.
1:09.4	The early version of the next release of the operating system also painted a clearer picture about putative air
1:14.4	tags.
1:15.4	Small tracking devices that Apple has been rumored to be in the process of making for some time.
1:20.1	9-5 Mac has a strong record in its sourcing making its story quite credible.
1:24.8	However, early OS releases often include elements that don't make it into the final releases
1:29.3	if hardware isn't ready or is cancelled before release or if software features are pulled or delayed.
1:35.4	The site found traces of an app called Gobi which would provide more integrated support
1:39.7	for augmented reality or AR all in one place. This seemingly included hooks needed for
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