Wed. 12/30 – Apple Loses A Copyright Lawsuit

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 30 December 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Apple loses an interesting copyright law case. Get ready to see TikToks in your Google searches. Amazon’s “other” business unit is becoming a monster. The tech consumers did, and did not AS MUCH partake in over the holidays. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. For the final time in 2020, here’s what you missed in the world of tech. Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride DoubleUp.Agency Links: Apple loses copyright battle against security start-up Corellium (Washington Post) Google pilots a search feature that aggregates short-form videos from TikTok and Instagram (TechCrunch) Amazon’s advertising business booms in pandemic (Financial Times) Apple iPhone Devices Sweep 9 of Top 10 Devices on Christmas 2020 (Flurry) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The Turing Test is obsolete. It’s time to build a new barometer for AI (Fast Company) Tech Choices Dictate Teen Friendships During Pandemic (WSJ) Ambani Sold a Tech Dream for $27 Billion. Now He Has to Deliver (Bloomberg) Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us (The Atlantic) With Money, and Waste, China Fights for Chip Independence (NYTimes) The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life (NYTimes) 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 Wednesday, December 30th, 2020, the final episode of the year.
0:10.0	I'm Brian McCullough. Today, Apple loses an interesting copyright case.
0:15.1	Get ready to see Tik-Tocks in your Google searches.
0:18.2	Amazon's other business is becoming a monster.
0:22.0	The tech that consumers did and did not as much partaken
0:26.0	over the holidays and of course the weekend long read suggestions for the final
0:30.0	time in 2020 here's what you missed in the world of tech.
0:34.0	A federal judge has dismissed Apple's claims that mobile device virtualization company Corellium violated copyright law
0:46.2	with its software that allowed folks to run iOS on PCs, quoting the
0:51.8	Washington Post.
0:53.4	In a ruling that has wide-reaching implications for iPhone security, research, and copyright law,
0:58.7	a federal judge in Florida threw out Apple's claims that Corellium had violated copyright law with its software
1:04.8	which helps security researchers find bugs and security holes on Apple's products.
1:08.9	Corellium, co-founded in 2017 by husband and wife Amanda Gorton and Chris Wade was a breakthrough in
1:15.2	security research because it gave its customers the ability to run virtual
1:18.7	iPhones on desktop computers.
1:21.1	Corellium's software makes it unnecessary to use physical iPhones that
1:24.6	contain specialized software to poke and prod iOS, Apple's mobile operating system.
1:29.2	The judge in the case ruled that Corellium's creation of virtual iPhones was not a copyright
1:34.6	violation in part because it was designed to help improve the security for all
1:39.6	iPhone users. Corellium wasn't creating a competing product for consumers, rather, it was a research
1:46.0	tool for a comparatively small number of customers. Apple did not immediately respond to a request
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