Tues. 03/10 - Hold Me Closer, Tiny iPhone

A leaked version of Apple’s iOS 14 reveals a treasure trove of details about an upcoming iPhone and iPad, augmented reality software, and tracking tags; an analytics company has secretly operated VPN and ad-blocking apps and gathered data from tens of millions of users without proper disclosure, a company offering panopticon service to the state of Utah once developed disguised social-media scraping apps, Google adds quantum computing to its machine-learning open-source TensorFlow development kit, DoNotPay lets users share streaming and news logins, the latest on the coronavirus impact on the tech world, and things fall apart: political strife broke the knitting community at Ravelry.

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• iOS 14 reveals iPhone 9 and updated iPad Pro details, new Apple TV remote, AirTags, more (9to5Mac)
• Apple developing new augmented reality app for iOS 14, testing Apple Store and Starbucks partnership (9to5Mac)
• Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7 to include ‘Infograph Pro’ with tachymeter (9to5Mac)
• Apple Invents Foldable iPad and iPhone that could enter a ‘Joint Operating Mode’ Similar to Microsoft’s Surface Neo (Patently Apple)
• Popular VPN And Ad-Blocking Apps Are Secretly Harvesting User Data (BuzzFeed News)
• Twitter thread from Will Strafach on Sensor Tower apps (Twitter)
• Surveillance Firm Banjo Used a Secret Company and Fake Apps to Scrape Social Media (Motherboard)
• Announcing TensorFlow Quantum: An Open Source Library for Quantum Machine Learning (Google AI Blog)
• Google launches TensorFlow Quantum, a machine learning framework for training quantum models (VentureBeat)
• DoNotPay Chrome browser extension (Chrome Web Store)
• Now you can share your Netflix account just by sending a link (Fast Company)
• How to clean your Apple products (Apple)
• All but four of Apple’s stores in mainland China have reopened after coronavirus shutdown (CNBC)
• Silicon Valley is effectively on lockdown over coronavirus (Cnet)
• Amazon Tells New York and New Jersey Employees to Stay Home
• Uber to offer drivers 14 days sick leave if they fall ill with coronavirus (CNN)
• Engineer Who Attended Cyber Event Contracts Coronavirus (Bloomberg News)
• How a ban on pro-Trump patterns unraveled the online knitting world (MIT Technology Review)

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