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Apple announced a few things this week. The definition of "announcement" is... https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/03/initial-thoughts-about-apples-show-time-event/ Our thanks to Oregon State University E-campus. Want to take the fast track to your career in technology? Earn your computer science degree online from Oregon State University E-campus and tap into unlimited career possibilities in any fie...

Apple announced new iPads: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/all-new-ipad-air-and-ipad-mini-deliver-dramatic-power-and-capability/ And speed-bumped iMacs: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/imac-gets-a-2x-performance-boost/ And the AirPower charging ma- no, new AirPods, though: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/airpods-the-worlds-most-popular-wireless-headphones-are-getting-even-bett...

Our long national nightmare is over, you can get a battery pack for your Palm phone: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/3/11/18260713/mophie-palm-phone-battery-pack-charger-keychain In less thrilling news, Apple has announced an event for March 25th: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/11/apple-announces-march-25-event-video-and-news-services-expected.html Steven Spielberg has some weird thing...

Dan's new book is out: https://www.amazon.com/Bayern-Agenda-Book-Galactic-Cold/dp/0857668196/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1551813978&sr=8-1-fkmrnull Corning is working on foldable glass just to show Dan: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/03/05/apple-supplier-corning-foldable-glass-display/ iFixit says Apple has quietly fixed the footlighting issue on some MacBook Pros: https://ifixit.org/b...

Behold the Samsung Galaxy Fold: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/21/18233917/samsung-galaxy-fold-price-features-consumer-worth-buying-editorial And the Huawei Mate X: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18239374/huawei-mate-x-foldable-phone-samsung-galaxy-fold-design-mwc-2019 Lex enjoys the Endless Jeopardy Twitter account: https://twitter.com/endlessjeopardy Here's your big battery phone now buy it...

Ming-Chi Kuo says there's a lot of stuff coming this year: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/17/2019-iphones-bilateral-charging-frosted-glass-kuo/ Huawei is accused of doing some sketchy stuff: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/18/huaweis-efforts-to-steal-apple/ Please go to http://podsurvey.com/rebound to take a 5-minute survey. When you're finished you can enter a drawing for a $100 Amazon gift...

Amazon buys Eero: https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/11/amazon-buys-eero/ Kashmir Hill on cutting the big five tech companies out of her life for a week: https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194 Apple names Frank Casanova to head its product marketing of AR: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/11/apple-marketing-head-augmented-reality/ Rumor indicates the s...

Lex is enjoying "Russian Doll": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7520794/?ref_=nv_sr_2 "Travelers", a show the three of us enjoyed, has been canceled, but it did get sort of a finale: https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/travelers-canceled-netflix-1203126314/ Avi Bar-Zeev, head of Apple's AR/VR effort, has left the company: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/04/hololens-inventor-departs-apple/ Spotify is i...

There's a bad bug in FaceTime Group Calls but Apple has taken down the service since our recording pending a bug fix: https://www.imore.com/facetime-bug-allows-instant-audio-potential-video-access-fix-way John Gruber on Apple's potential plans for a subscription service for games: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/01/28/apple-game-subscription Apple had trouble with the Mac Pro because it cou...

Lex has a bunch of stuff from Control4 installed in his home theater setup: https://www.control4.com We discuss the Black Mirror choose your own adventure-style episode "Bandersnatch"": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9495224/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Apple was selling refurbished iPhone SEs for $249 but they're all gone: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/01/19/iphone-se-clearance-special-249/ John Gruber on a repo...

John Gruber on Apple's battery replacement program and its effect on Apple's earnings miss: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/01/14/iphone-batteries-and-apples-quarterly-miss Apple may ship a new iPod touch with a USB-C port: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/01/14/apple-7th-generation-ipod-touch/ United's relationship with Apple: https://onemileatatime.com/united-nice-to-apple-employees/ China...

Ben Thompson on Apple's revised quarterly guidance: https://stratechery.com/2019/apples-errors/ An iTunes app is coming to Samsung TVs: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/06/apple-is-bring-itunes-content-to-samsungs-smart-tvs/ WHO WANTS LINUX ON THEIR IPHONE?! Well, you can get this: https://ish.app The triple camera iPhone render looks like crap: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/01/06/2019-iphone-tripl...

Apple says bending iPad Pros are just fine: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/22/18152161/apple-dan-riccio-email-ipad-pro-2018-bending The iPhone XR accounted for 32 percent of iPhone sales in November: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/12/26/cirp-estimated-iphone-xr-sales-november/ Apple promoted the head of AI to senior vice president: https://9to5mac.com/2018/12/20/giannandrea-svp-of-ml-and-ai-stra...

A 3D printed face fooled Android face detection: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/12/16/3d-printed-head-android-face-id/ The Apple Music account tweeted from an Android phone: https://9to5google.com/2018/12/18/apple-twitter-for-android/ Lex is a fan of the new Caavo: https://caavo.com Another device Moltz won't be getting is the Amazon Echo wall clock: https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/14/amazon-echo...

Dan got a pair of TaoTronics but has a problem with them: https://www.taotronics.com The HomePod is on sale: https://www.theverge.com/good-deals/2018/12/12/18136701/apple-homepod-deal-sale-b-h-photo Qualcomm won a ban on iPhones in China: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/12/13/qualcomm-seeks-iphone-xs-xr-sales-ban-china/ Google's Sundar Pichai testified before Congress and it didn't go all that grea...

Apple presents its Best of 2018: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/12/apple-presents-the-best-of-2018/ Apple Music comes to the Amazon Echo: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/30/apple-music-echo-december/ Lex recommends Jackbox Games: https://jackboxgames.com Jason Snell on Apple's rumored TV stick: https://www.macworld.com/article/3323389/apple-tv/how-an-apple-tv-stick-could-make-apples-video-s...

Apple's Black Friday sales this year were four days of meh: https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/23/apple-black-friday-sale-now-live-us/ Giving us yet another reason to love him, the president suggests he might put tariffs on Apple devices made in China: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-expects-to-move-ahead-with-boost-on-china-tariffs-1543266545 Moltz loves Kingdom Rush - Vengeance: https://itunes.apple...

Lex wants a Switch for his birthday: https://www.nintendo.com/switch/ Moltz recommends Breath of the Wild because duh: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-switch And SnipperClips for playing with the kids: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/snipperclips-switch Dan is enjoying Red Dead Redemption 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dead_Redemption_2 Lex...

Lex bought an Echo Spot and Moltz says good luck with that: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073SQYXTW?tag=mh0b-20&hvadid=78546412580719&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_9cv60cpes2_e Some users have had to reset their Apple IDs: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/13/locked-out-apple-ids/ Apple and Amazon agree on deal to sell Apple products: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/09/apple-amazon-new-product...

Marco Arment's review of the 2018 Mac mini: https://marco.org/2018/11/06/mac-mini-2018-review John Gruber's review of the 2018 MacBook Air: https://daringfireball.net/2018/11/the_2018_retina_macbook_air Gruber's commentary on Dan Frakes's move to Apple: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/11/02/frakes-mac-app-store Our thanks to Legacybox (http://legacybox.com/rebound) the world's largest, most...

Apple announced new MacBook Airs and Mac minis: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/30/2018-macbook-air-mac-mini-hands-on/ And new iPads: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/30/2018-ipad-pro-hands-on/ Jason Snell's thoughts on the event: https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/10/brooklyn-event-impressions-love-for-the-mac/ Our thanks to LightStream (http://lightstream.com/rebound). Consolidate your credit ca...

John Gruber's iPhone XR review: https://daringfireball.net/2018/10/the_iphone_xr Mike Hurley's iPhone XS vs Pixel 3 photo comparison: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17861051287295881/ Apple's October 30th event invitations were unique: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/18/apple-event-new-york-city/ Tim Cook asks Bloomberg to retract its China chip spying story: https://www.reuters.co...

Dan is curious about the new AirPlay 2 speakers from Libratone: https://www.libratone.com/us/products/#speakers Steve Troughton-Smith is making some cool Watch faces: https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/1051918185941913601 Yves Luther explains how you can do it: https://yves.io/blog/2018/10/what-watch-is-it Jason Snell has some thoughts about the stock Watch faces: https://www.macworld.com/...

Google's Pixel 3 event announcements: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/09/google-announces-pixel-3-smartphone-home-hub-smart-speaker-and-pixel-slate-tablet/ Facebook Portal? No, thanks: https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/technology/2018/10/08/facebook-unveils-portal-video-chat-camera-people-who-still-trust-facebook/ Google shuts down Google+: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/08...

Behold the woozy face emoji: https://twitter.com/jeremyburge/status/1047186613028225024 Anyway, we're getting some new emoji in iOS 12.1: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/02/ios-12-1-new-emoji-characters-coming/ Dan's photo with his iPhone XS: https://www.instagram.com/p/BoXMRxrlMcY/?taken-by=dmoren Remember Microsoft HoloLens? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_HoloLens Microsoft did announ...