It's Monday, September 02, 2019. Hey, good morning!  Welcome to your Monday morning! It’s the first week of those tech tariffs, and while you might not feel the effect right now, you might in the future. This week’s Bad Password outlines how the Apple Card may not be as private as you think, and we give our verdict on the smaller Galaxy Note 10. This week, we’ll be reporting live from Europe’s big tech show, IFA 2019, where there’ll be news from Samsung, Sony and a whole range of PC and phone makers. There will probably be some silly tech, too. It will affect cameras, flash storage and other common tech items.
 Some of the tech you like is about to get more expensive. Sticking to its earlier plans, the Trump administration has formally enacted a new round of tariffs against China-made products, which will take effect September 1st. The measures will hit tech companies with 15 percent tariffs on a range of goods, with Apple potentially feeling the pinch harder than most. The hikes will affect AirPods, the Apple Watch, some Beats earphones, the HomePod and iMacs -- notably, not iPhones. Beside ‘core’ consumer tech companies, the tariffs will also affect components including cameras, flash storage, optical discs (like Blu-ray and DVD) and lithium-ion batteries. A further wave of tariffs affecting prices for phones, laptops, consoles and other tech is due on December 15th, unless something suddenly changes.
| | The Dark Pictures Anthology is off to a rocky start.
 The spiritual sequel to 2015’s Until Dawn, a playable slasher horror flick, has landed across PS4, Xbox and PC. Man of Medan is the first instalment of a proposed series called The Dark Pictures Anthology, which is being released on multiple platforms and published by Bandai Namco, rather than long-time partner Sony. But it’s a shaky start...
| | You know, the smaller one.
The Galaxy Note 10 squeezes a 6.3-inch screen into a phone that’s about the same size as an iPhone XS. And it’s much easier to use with one hand than any other entry in the Note line.
The Note 10 is largely the same as the 10+. That means the same powerful performance and basically the same cameras. But, it does make tradeoffs to shave off those millimeters: Most notably it has a lower-res screen, less RAM and Samsung ditched the microSD slot. Sadly, the price didn’t get the same treatment and remains as huge as ever.
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