Apple put out a press release Tuesday promoting 13 different pre-release reviews of iPhone XR. As expected, they’re all positive reviews full of gushing commentary about Apple’s new entry-level XS-era device.
Steve Carell Joins Jennifer Anniston and Reese Witherspoon Apple TV Show
The Office veteran will play, “a morning show anchor who is struggling to maintain relevance in a changing media landscape.”
Apple Has Been Doubling Down on HDR Video
This tidbit is from February, but it has some interesting facts. First, H.266 is in the works and will offer 30% better compression than the H.265 standard used for 4K TV. It’ll be needed for 8K TV.
Plus, “Jason Power, Sr Director of marketing/broadcast at Dolby Labs, said that the progress made by Dolby Vision was further boosted when the codec was accepted at CES by Apple for its portfolio of video products, and where Apple was aggressively promoting High Dynamic Range (HDR) as ‘the new normal’ for broadcasters. There were now more than 200 titles available in HDR from Apple.” No wonder the iPhone XS/Max and XR both fully support HDR10 and Dolby Vision.
Bloomberg Spy Chip Piece Doesn't Pass Peer Review
With the famous Bloomberg spy chip article, other news organizations have attempted to copy Bloomberg’s research. But they haven’t gotten the same results.
According to a company source, editorial staff has been “frustrated” that competing news organizations haven’t managed to match the scoop. Sources tell the Erik Wemple Blog that the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and The [Washington] Post have each sunk resources into confirming the story, only to come up empty-handed.
In science, peer review is an important part of scientific research. If other scientists follow the exact methodology you used, and they get the same results, your experiment is valid. But if they don’t get the same results, there is something wrong with your experiment.
Apple Ads in App Store, News, Worth Billions
Apple’s Search Ad business (App Store) alone could be worth US$2 billion by 2020.
8 Advanced Photo Editing Techniques for iPhone
Gizmodo has a great list of 8 advanced photo editing techniques for the iPhone.
You might already be familiar with the quick fixes you can apply to your pictures after you’ve snapped them, right on your phone—but if you want to take your mobile photo editing to the next level there are tools and apps that can help here too.
The editing techniques include: Combining photos together (compositing), removing objects from photos, adjusting the depth of field, adjusting white balance, brightening shadows, healing, correcting image distortion, and photo pixelation.
Private Internet Access VPN 2-Year Subscription: $55.55
We have a deal on a 2-year subscription to Private Internet Access VPN. This VPN uses Blowfish CBC encryption to protect your data, and it works with Mac, iOS, Windows, Android, and Linux. You can get a 2 year subscription for $55.55. There are also 1 and 3 year options available on the deal listing.
Get These Halloween Movie Bundles on iTunes
There are also non-horror bundles on sale as well, like Lord of the Rings, a bunch of Dreamworks movies, Batman, Twilight, etc.
Apple's Mystery Manufacturing Space, Intel's 7 nm Problem - TMO Daily Observations 2018-10-23
Bryan Chaffin and John Martellaro join Jeff Gamet to discuss Apple’s mystery manufacturing space in Silicon Valley, plus they look at Intel’s 7 nm chip manufacturing conundrum.
Companies Should Have a Chief Ethics Officer
Who will teach ethics to Silicon Valley? Kara Swisher asks this in her column for The New York Times. A title of Chief Ethics Officer should become the norm.
Grappling with what to say and do about the disasters they themselves create is only the beginning. Then there are the broader issues that the denizens of Silicon Valley expect their employers to have a stance on: immigration, income inequality, artificial intelligence, automation, transgender rights, climate change, privacy, data rights and whether tech companies should be helping the government do controversial things. It’s an ethical swamp out there.
I think the answer to this is US. It’s up to American citizens to elect responsible politicians who will “nudge” corporations into having ethical and privacy standards.