Paul Bischoff gives us a breakdown of the top 25 lobbying spenders in 2018, and how much they spent.
2018 was the biggest year yet for ISP lobbying at $80 million. Top spenders include AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast, which have amassed lobbying expenses of $341 million, $265 million, and $200 million, respectively since 1998.
Ever dreamed of managing one of the biggest pop acts on the planet? Well, South Korean pop superstars BTS are giving you that chance in their new iOS game. In BTS World, you start leading the band from their formation in 2012. It gives fans the chance to hear each band member’s story, and conduct conversations with them in the game. The game is free to download but there are a variety of in-app purchases. Oh, and if you don’t know who BTS is, ask your daughter/granddaughter/niece/younger sister. They will know, and will probably have downloaded this game.
Apple released a guide with information on all the Democratic presidential hopefuls in Apple News, which it will update during the campaign.
Apple completed the purchase of self-driving car startup Drive.ai, a struggling self-driving vehicle startup.
At WWDC 2019, Apple announced that macOS Catalina would reside in its own read-only volume. Security is greatly enhanced.
Dark patterns is a phrase used to refer to design practices companies use to manipulate you. The DETOUR Act wants to change that.
Randy Krum created an infographic to visualize Apple product release patterns since 2007. He updated it for this year.
This year I further broke apart all of the individual product lines so you can see their separate release patterns, or lack of any discernible pattern. Some product lines, like the iPhone Release Pattern (ABOVE), have clearly defined release patterns that can be used to predict future product announcement and releases.
It’s a neat website, and he predicts that the 2019 iPhone will be announced September 10 and released September 20.
Apple released iWork 5.1 versions for Numbers, Keynote, and Pages for iOS. It includes text styles, face detection, an enhanced 128-bit calculation engine, and more.
Charlotte Henry and Andrew Orr join host Kelly Guimont to discuss a new approach to fighting robocalls and Spotify’s complaint against Apple.
Security researchers have discovered a piece of Mac malware called OSX/Linker that can exploit a zero day vulnerability in macOS GateKeeper.
