New stuff in Mojave:
The preview is really beefed up now,
https://www.macworld.com/article/3282418/article.html
macOS Mojave: Hands-on with 20+ new changes and features [Video]
Google Location Management
Google to roll out auto-delete controls for location history and activity data
Facebook Misinformation
It seems like fake news spreads faster than real information on facebook
https://nypost.com/2019/04/05/vaccine-wars-social-media-battle-spread-of-misinformation/
Blockbuster Video is down to one store worldwide
Streaming and Redbox have slain the mighty blockbuster, now most of their income comes from tourists buying t-shirts
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/04/01/1718201/blockbuster-video-now-has-just-one-store-left-on-earth
https://www.apnews.com/e543db5476c749038435279edf2fd60f
A parody was made over ten years ago
Hacking an iphone
There was a 60 minutes that described the hack tools that governments use to break into phones
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvakb3/inside-nso-group-spyware-demo
Really cool graph of the city populations of the world,
https://observablehq.com/@johnburnmurdoch/bar-chart-race-the-most-populous-cities-in-the-world
The code to make the graph is on the page,
Qualcom
Apple was using intel to supply the 4g chips, only Qualcom had a good 5g chipset. From what I read, iphones will get qualcom chips in two years, and they are supposed to work better than the intel ones.
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/04/30/apple-qualcomm-resolution-tim-cook/
Spyfinder
https://www.brickhousesecurity.com/counter-surveillance/spy-finder/
747 max crash
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-19/how-an-extra-man-in-cockpit-saved-a-737-max-that-later-crashed
New Ipad Mini
It has been a while,
It has the lightning connector, you can use an original apple pencil, and it is much, much faster than the old one!
https://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/
Toyota will retrofit your 2018 Camry or Sienna
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/04/29/toyota-carplay-2018-camry-sienna/
https://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/available-models/
Windows 10 Bloatware
https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-710-notes.pdf
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3250464/faq-windows-10-ltsb-explained.html
Zillow 3d home
https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/22/zillow-launches-ai-powered-3d-home-tours-in-the-u-s-and-canada/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zillow-3d-home/id1265223425?mt=8
Hyperdrive for Ipad Pro
HyperDrive 6-in-1 USB-C Hub for iPad
Samsung
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-samsung-elec-fold/samsung-electronics-retrieving-all-galaxy-fold-samples-source-idUSKCN1RZ09G?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews
in app puchases
They have moved all this around in ios 12
https://appletoolbox.com/2018/08/where-are-restrictions-in-ios-12-we-found-it-and-more/
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204396