The winter temperatures in the American Midwest may have plummeted, but in the technology world, it’s Apple and Facebook bouncing off the floor — and into each other over user privacy. El Kaiser and J.D. chew through the events of the past week, and also pause to ponder another question: How many streaming services can one actually have until it feels like paying the same old big bucks for a cable subscription? Click up Episode 299 to hear it all!
Links to News Stories Discussed on This Week’s Show
- Apple Bug Lets IPhone Users Listen in on Others Via FaceTime (Bloomberg)
- Apple Was Slow to Act on FaceTime Bug That Allows Spying on iPhones (The New York Times)
- Attorney General James and Governor Cuomo Announce Investigation Into Apple FaceTime Privacy Breach (New York State Attorney General’s Office)
- Apple Music takes flight on American Airlines (Apple)
- New iPhone, iPad in 2019 and 2020: What to Expect from Apple (Bloomberg)
- Apple bans Facebook’s Research app that paid users for data (TechCrunch)
- Apple is punishing Facebook big-time for breaking its rules (Recode)
- Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps (The Verge)
- Google will stop peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door (TechCrunch)
- Maybe Only Tim Cook Can Fix Facebook’s Privacy Problem (The New York Times)
- Facebook Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2018 Results (Facebook)
- Does Facebook Really Know How Many Fake Accounts It Has? (The New York Times)
- What you need to know about the sunset of consumer Google+ on April 2 (Google Cloud Blog)
- IBM Research Releases ‘Diversity in Faces’ Dataset to Advance Study of Fairness in Facial Recognition Systems (IBM Blog Research)
- MIT robot combines vision and touch to learn the game of Jenga (MIT News)
Swimming in Streams
- How Long Do We Have Until We Reach Peak Streaming Service? (Gizmodo)
- Expect peak streaming to further fragment the industry (The Business Journals)
- Guide to Streaming Video Services (Consumer Reports)
- Best Streaming Video Services 2019 (Tom’s Guide)
- The Complete List of Streaming Services – 100+ Services (Flixed)
