Hoverboard travel is here! In experimental trips across the English Channel, anyway. El Kaiser and J.D. take off through the week’s headlines, including more accusations of retaliatory workplace culture at Google, the move toward “pay with your face” forms of authentication and requirements for getting one of those new Apple Cards. J.D. also hosts a (Hopefully) Helpful Hint about getting more of that notepad program on your smartphone. PTJ 315 awaits!
- Terminating Service for 8Chan (Cloudflare)
- Apple is spending more than ever on R&D to fulfill the ‘Steve Jobs Doctrine’ (Patently Apple)
- Amazon Gives Option to Disable Human Review of Alexa Recordings (Bloomberg)
- Our hardware sustainability commitments (Google)
- Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant Women in Viral Memo (VICE)
- Apple Card Customer Agreement goes live on Goldman Sachs’ website ahead of August launch, warns about jailbreaking (9to5Mac)
- Apple Card customer agreement (Goldman Sachs)
- Half of all Google Chrome extensions have fewer than 16 installs (ZDNet)
- Streaming media player growth slows, smart TVs step up (nScreenMedia)
- As China turns towards facial recognition payments, are QR codes on their way out? (South China Morning Post)
- For Many Diabetes Patients, Skin Patches and Phones Are Replacing Finger Pricks (The Wall Street Journal)
- Flyboarding Frenchman crosses English Channel (BBC News)
(Hopefully) Helpful Hint
- Collecting Your Thoughts Is Good. Organizing Them Is Even Better. (The New York Times)