Thursday 22 June 2017

The Morning After: Apple's misplaced paranoia and a Sega flashback

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Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

Welcome to Thursday morning. We’re reliving the ‘90s through, as Sega launches a selection of classic hits both with ads and without. We’re also talking Instagram and its stealth shills, and new emoji. We hope you like fairies.

It should focus less on surprise and more on delight.

Apple's paranoia about leaks is misplaced

Apple's inability to keep its secrets is so bad that even its internal presentation about confidentiality leaked. It reportedly conducted an hour-long briefing titled "Stopping Leakers -- Keeping Confidential at Apple" for about 100 employees to make sure they understood the importance of not leaking information. But that concern is misplaced: Clamping down on leaks won't help Apple's bottom line.

The games are free, but you can pay $2 to drop the advertisements

Sega Forever makes Genesis classics free on mobile

The Sega Forever collection is five titles meant to begin "a retro revolution that will transport players back through two decades of console gaming." Starting today, the 1991 version of Sonic the Hedgehog, fan-favorite RPG Phantasy Star II, classic arcade-style beat 'em up Comix Zone, platformer Kid Chameleon and Greek mythology-themed beat 'em up Altered Beast will be available on Google Play and iTunes as free ad-supported games.

Can Travis Kalanick's resignation fix Uber?

Uber's future is still tied to its founder

Uber’s disruptive effect on the taxi business, went hand in hand with throwing out the rulebook. Some of the rules avoided, however, included strict background checks on drivers, and safety laws to ensure that drivers didn't work for too long, according to Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, who sits as chairperson of the company's board. He said the team "failed to build some of the systems that every company needs to scale successfully." Those systems included restrictions on employees sexually harassing their colleagues and preventing engineers from developing tools to hinder law enforcement investigations. Following Travis Kalanick’s resignation, can Uber change enough?

Your next set of emoji includes zombies, vampires, fairies and dinosaurs.

The latest emoji update is a playful one

Finally, the monocle emoji.

A new tool could make hidden ads more obvious -- if shills use it.

Instagram gives social media influencers the benefit of the doubt

social media platform. The "Paid partnership with [enter brand name here]" post format is designed for users who want to advertise products on their page, letting them easily disclose when one of their posts is an ad. Instagram says this is an effort to bring the platform some much-needed transparency. The feature is set to roll out in the coming weeks to a "small number" of creators and businesses, according to the company. The question remains: Will influencers actually use the feature? And what will happen if they don't?

The monsters caught with cheating tools may not behave normally.

'Pokémon Go' will flag creatures caught using cheats

Niantic has decided that forcing Pokémon Go cheaters to a life of catching Pidgeys isn't quite enough punishment. Now, any Pokémon caught using "third-party services that circumvent normal gameplay" will be marked with a slash in people's inventories and "may not behave as expected."

But wait, there's more...

1. Airbus imagines a faster helicopter with wings

2. Google gets closer to building its own city in San Jose

3. Lenovo's pro workstation is as light as a MacBook Air

4. An iPhone is your only option on Virgin Mobile

5. Self-driving shuttles are coming to U of M this fall

6. Todoist 'Twist' is supposed to be better than email, less annoying than Slack

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Apple Centers Health Data Strategy on iPhone
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The Art of Manipulation and Misdirection
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Cook Gives Up a Few Crumbs of Apple Auto Info
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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- June 21, 2017

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Headline Scan
Google Launches Go-To Job Aggregation Site
Trump Wants Tech Leaders to Help Save $1 Trillion
Microsoft Expands Linux Container Support in Windows Server
Apple Centers Health Data Strategy on iPhone
The Art of Manipulation and Misdirection
Nintendo's New Lineup Electrifies E3
Cook Gives Up a Few Crumbs of Apple Auto Info
Art, History and 3D Printing
Xbox One X: More Speed, More Muscle

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Today's Story Highlights

Google Launches Go-To Job Aggregation Site

Google has announced the launch of new job search aggregation
technology. The new initiative will allow Google users to search for
jobs either on mobile devices or personal computers, and to use a set of
filters to obtain highly targeted results pulled from many different
sites across the Web. Google aims to use its machine learning
capabilities to make an immediate impact on people's lives.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84626.html

Trump Wants Tech Leaders to Help Save $1 Trillion

President Donald Trump aims to save taxpayers $1 trillion over the next
10 years with a little help from America's high-tech industry. "Our goal
is to lead a sweeping transformation of the federal government's
technology that will deliver dramatically better services for citizens,"
the president said Monday at a roundtable session of the American
Technology Council.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84625.html

Microsoft Expands Linux Container Support in Windows Server

Microsoft has decided to expand its support for Linux containers in the
next release of Windows Server. Linux containers and workloads will work
natively on Windows Server, said Erin Chapple, general manager for the
server operating system. The company also will extend Window Server's
Hyper-V isolation capability, which was introduced in the 2016 release
of the operating system.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84623.html

Apple Centers Health Data Strategy on iPhone

Apple quietly has been strategizing to expand its growing healthcare
business to include the management of digital health records, with the
iPhone operating as a central data hub. Apple reportedly has been in
talks with numerous health industry groups that are involved in setting
standards for the storage and sharing of electronic medical records, in
a way that would give consumers more control.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84621.html

The Art of Manipulation and Misdirection

Last week, I listened to an economist talk about Apple's complaints that
Qualcomm had charged Apple too much for access to patents. What was
fascinating was that Apple had folks focused on the 5 percent Qualcomm
had charged it instead of on the massive profit that Apple made on each
phone. The price of the iPhone 8 likely will be well over $1,000 -- but
it could cost well under $500 to build.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84616.html

Nintendo's New Lineup Electrifies E3

Nintendo previewed an impressive lineup of gaming content at E3 2017
this week, by many accounts. Its collection of new titles and targeted
versions of some of the industry's hottest third-party content seemed to
validate surprisingly strong sales of the Nintendo Switch console.
Moving easily from a living room big screen to a mobile gaming device,
the Switch already has gained a significant following.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84611.html

Cook Gives Up a Few Crumbs of Apple Auto Info

News about Apple's plans for the automotive market have been dripping
slowly from the company for months, and CEO Tim Cook this week released
a few more drops from the faucet. Apple's auto efforts are zeroing in on
autonomous systems, he said. Self-driving is a core technology that
Apple considers very important to its auto plans, but it's very
challenging from an AI perspective, Cook noted.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84618.html

Art, History and 3D Printing

The Tech Museum of Innovation last month debuted an exhibit that
includes numerous installations with an interactive component. Visitors
can don Occulus VR headsets to appreciate classical works of art in
virtual reality -- a completely new museum experience. There long has
been a debate on what constitutes "art" -- and opinions have differed as
to how music, film, radio and TV fit in.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84608.html

Xbox One X: More Speed, More Muscle

Microsoft earlier this week announced the next version of its Xbox line
of gaming consoles, ahead of E3 2017, now ongoing in Los Angeles. The
new Xbox One X, which goes on sale Nov. 7 for $499, is slimmer than
previous models and packed with power. With a 6-teraflop Scorpio engine,
the One X has 40 percent faster graphics performance than its chief
rival, Sony's PS4 Pro.
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