Feb. 28, 2020
Fri. 02/28 - Is Apple Gonna Give the iPad a Trackpad?
Are S10 sales in Korea the first indication of the Covid-19 effect? Is the FCC gonna fine the wireless carriers enough for selling location data? Is Apple going to release an iPad Pro with a trackpad? A hybrid scooter/tiny car. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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- Amazon bars one million products for false coronavirus claims (Reuters)
- Initial sales of Galaxy S20 series downbeat amid virus fears (The Korea Herald)
- FCC to propose $200 million fines for U.S. cellphone carriers over consumer data disclosures (Reuters)
- Apple Planning iPad Keyboard with Trackpad (The Information)
- An iPhone with no ports? It could happen in the very near future (Macworld)
- Second proof of concept of under-display camera, but won’t come to iPhone soon (9to5Mac)
- Citroën's new EV is a tiny two-seater that only costs $22 a month (Engadget)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- How Monzo brought Silicon Valley’s ‘wild ideas’ to Britain’s staid banking system (CNBC)
- The bank manager will see you now: is Monzo ready to grow up? (The Guardian)
- Inside the race to build the best quantum computer on Earth (MIT Technology Review)
- A parody Twitter account hits a nerve with Silicon Valley VCs (Protocol)
- How North Korean Hackers Rob Banks Around the World (Wired)
- YC’s New Guide to Raising a Series A (Y Combinator)
- Printing’s Not Dead: The $35 Billion Fight Over Ink Cartridges (Bloomberg Businessweek)
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