Apple Don’t Touch My Stuff

Apple Don’t Touch My Stuff
Number	2754
Broadcast Date	MAY 6, 2016
Episode Length	38:49
Hosts	Tom Merritt
Guests	Ashley Esqueda

An Italian luxury mini-yacht company has plans to crowd fund floating self-sustainable houses. Do we want to live in 30 square meter house bubbles in the Ocean? Ashley Esqueda and Tom Merritt discuss.

Guest

• Ashley Esqueda
  • CNET's Tomorrow Daily

Headlines

• Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.

Wednesday James Pinkstone wrote a blog post claiming Apple deleted 122GB of his music music. He said someone named Amber, whom he never identified as an Apple employee, told him Apple deletes files from your computer. Apple says on its Website that “Apple Music doesn’t change or alter your original music files that reside in iTunes for Mac or PC or on your iOS devices from which they were added.” Serenity Caldwell from iMore.com explains how secondary device may have music removed to save on storage. And Jason Snell noted the dialog box for deleting a song or just removing the download is confusing. Ben Lovejoy from 9to5 Mac points out that Jim Dalrymple lost 4700 tracks to a similar bug and 9to5 Mac’s Greg Barbosa described a similar experience.

• Apple Music’s new student membership option discounts the service by 50%

Apple launched new discounted Apple Music plans for eligible college students. In the UK, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the US, can get 50% off the normal subscription rate for up to four years. Eligibility will be validated by UNiDAYS.

• Facebook Must Face Privacy Claims Over Photo-Tagging Feature

San Francisco’s U.S. District Judge James Donato denied Facebook’s request to throw out a lawsuit accusing the company of using biometric identifiers without consent in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act of 2008. Facebook facial recognition system identifies people and suggest users tag them in photos. Facebook argues that its user agreement requires disputes be resolved under California law. It also argues that photographs are not covered under the Illinois law.

• Microsoft removes store-blocking from Windows 10 Pro

An update to Windows 10 Pro has removed the ability for administrators to block access to the Windows Store. The ability remains in Windows 10 Enterprise and Education editions. Thursday Microsoft announced Windows Store for business will allow developers to sell paid apps in volume.

• Google and Honeywell resolve patent dispute over Nest's thermostats

Google and Honeywell have resolved a 2012 patent suit filed by Honeywell claiming Nest’s Learning Thermostat infringed on several of its patents. According to a press release the two companies said they have “reached a long-term patent cross-license agreement reflecting the respective strength of the companies' patent portfolios” and that it “fully resolves pending patent litigation between Honeywell and Nest Labs”. The terms of the agreement were not made public.

• Streaming music has become Warner Music’s biggest business

Warner Music Group announced that revenue from streaming service like Spotify was its single biggest source of recorded music revenue in Q1. That’s the first time streaming has topped the revenue charts at a major label. Streaming revenue rose $72 million, downloads declined $17 million and physical sales dropped $6 million. Music sales rose 10% overall as did the company’s total revenue.

• Millions of Android devices have been vulnerable for 5 years (but don’t worry too much)

Jake Valletta of FireEye security has identified an Android vulnerability that could allow access to things like system settings, call history and the SMS database. The problem comes from a Qualcomm software package used in Google’ Android, Cyanogen and others. The vulnerability comes in the netd daemon that allows tethering capabilities. It’s been present as far back as Ice Cream Sandwich in 2011. Qualcomm fixed the problem within 90 days of being informed by FireEye.

• A completely digital company without employees is the third largest crowdfunding in history

avsa submitted a writeup to the DTNS subreddit about The DAO or Decentralized Autonomous Organisation. It’s a decentralized VC firm to pool money together to invest in blockchain enterprises, developed by the Etherum development and design team. Voting rights are proportional to the amount of DAO tokens held. The company exists only on the Internet and funds itself through the Ethereum blockchain. The campaign has raised the equivalent of US$20 million.

Submitted by avsa

Discussion

• Tiny homes turn to the sea in this pod ship concept (Tomorrow Daily 358)
• The future of the Internet of Things with Intel's Bridget Karlin (Tomorrow Daily 360)
• Unidentified Floating Object
• UFO home concept floats off-grid ocean living
• Launch version of Jet Capsule could be yours – for $150,000
• Ethereum Project

Pick of the Day

• Inkscape

I'd like to recommend a ​piece of software that I don't think gets enough love; Inkscape. Inkscape is free vector graphics creation software that is to Adobe Illustrator as GIMP is to Photoshop. I've used Inkscape to create scalable graphics for web and print but the coolest thing was being able to create schematics for a mini arcade cabinet and send them off to be laser cut. If I manipulated vector graphics all the time I probably would get Illustrator but for the occasional project Inkscape really can't be beat.

Submitted by Brian in Pittsburgh (formerly just "Brian")

Messages

Really enjoyed the discussion on the ideal streaming service yesterday. Of course I am continually stymied in cord cutting by local sports, there just seems to be no simple solution (I've tried to make the argument that getting MLB All Access and using an out of state VPN is simple to my wife, to no avail). This got me thinking, would it be better to make ALL professional sporting events Pay-Per-View? Is that the only way to give teams the revenue they expect for streaming to loosen their grip. More importantly, am I really going to pay $5 a game to watch the stinking Browns?

Sent by Rich from Lovely Cleveland

Zenattitude sent me a note claiming you could add tips for Uber in the online platform. I told him I didn’t see that option in my app and he sent me a screenshot.

Turns out on the Uber website, you can pre-set a tip for TAXIS on the website (not in the App like Lyft) and the site says, “ This will apply to TAXI fares only (not Black, SUV, or uberX) and be paid to your driver.”

Uber has partnered with taxi companies in some markets. For example, in April 2012 Uber introduced Uber Garage experiment, letting users hail Chicago Taxis from the app. And in 2013 UberTaxi launched in New York City, allowing you to hail cabs from the app.

Thanks to Zenattitude for pointing out the feature!

Sent by Zenattitude

Links

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Apple Don’t Touch My Stuff

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