CS2C and Tianjin Kylin announce plans to develop a new Chinese operating system.
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Best smart plugs of 2019 - CNET
Smartening dumb devices has never been easier. These voice assistant powered plugs are your best bets for a connected home.
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Best smart plugs of 2019 - CNET
Smartening dumb devices has never been easier. These voice assistant powered plugs are your best bets for a connected home.
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Apple is now selling Brydge’s laptop-style iPad keyboards
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Apple’s online and retail stores in North America have started carrying products from Brydge, a company that’s known for producing MacBook-style Bluetooth keyboards for iPads. Models for the 10.2-inch iPad and 10.5-inch iPad Air are available.
Apple brought support for its Smart Keyboard to both of these iPad lines this year, suggesting it wants to encourage typing on lower-end iPads and not just the Pro series. Brydge does make a keyboard for the current iPad Pro (pictured above), which we tested and found to be the best laptop-style option available, but Apple doesn’t appear to be selling it right now.
If you have a 2019 iPad or iPad Air, though, these keyboards could be a good option. (The iPad Air version also works...
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Netflix is giving Line's cute mascots their own animated series
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Best YouTube Tech Videos of 2019
This is my list of the best tech videos of 2019. Others will have they own lists. Their own videos that meant the most to them. It's very likely I missed or have simply forgotten a bunch of objectively outstanding videos.
These are the ones that I saw and have stuck with me. Not the most popular, though certainly some are. Not the most produced, though some that too. But, the ones that changed how I see the world, how I think about this medium, and how I work.
I absolutely want to see any and all I missed, so please drop all your lists in the comments below. But, for right now…
This list is mine.
How Jibo The Robot Succeeded – By Dying by TheMrMobile
Michael Fisher isn't just a friend and a colleague, he's a performer in the most classical sense of the word. He has craft. And nowhere was that more on display than in 'How Jibo The Robot Succeeded – By Dying'. It's one of several videos he's done about how the social robots we bring into our lives only to have the server-side companies that bring them to life slowly, painfully, put them to death right in front of us.
I didn't think I could have an existential crisis watching a TechTube videos. But, dammit, MrMobile punched me right in the emotion chip with this one.
Vyplive by Vyyyper
VypLive isn't a single video but a constant live stream. I've joked that Vyyper streams so much, even his streams are streamed. And those streamed. But, on all streams, he brings together some of the most interesting people in the industry and then just lets them share what makes them so interesting. Sure, he talks tech, but he also talks about how people make videos, the business of YouTube and the issues people face in it.
He promotes other people, not just the biggest names or the hottest topics, but an incredibly diverse range of people from all different backgrounds with all different views. It's an amazing body of work that just keeps growing and becoming even more amazing.
A look inside the original Macintosh by MKBHD with iJustine
Often times, YouTube seems to love traditional media even more than their own homegrown. Just look at how TV talk show clips dominate recommendations and trending lists.
Hollywood kind of looks at YouTube the way papers used to look at blogs, only YouTube enables that in a way blogs seldom did.
So, seeing a YouTube original with not just one, but two tech YouTube originals: Marques Brownlee, MKBHD, and Justine Ezarik, iJustine, and involving one of the most original and beloved pieces of tech in history: the Mac, wasn't just terrific, it was important.
How Blind People Helped Create Apple TV+ SEE by James Rath
Before TV+ was even announced, Apple invited James Rath over to British Columbia to visit the set and see how they were portraying a world gone blind. The reason? James is legally blind and his channel, in part, covers accessible and assistive technologies in a way very few others do or can.
Accessibility is something not everyone thinks about but is something almost everyone will have to contend with, if not constantly like James, then sometimes intermittently, sometimes suddenly, but pretty much eventually.
James' work helps all of us consider it and maybe do more to help spread awareness about it, not one day, but every day.
Apple is Better Without Steve Jobs by Front Page Tech
You can agree or disagree with the premise of this video, feel like Steve Jobs would never do what Tim Cook has done or Steve Jobs never would have been able to do what Tim Cook has now done.
That doesn't matter. This isn't about anyone's opinion. This is about Jon Prosser's opinion. And what matters is how well he argues it in a video that's very different than the kind he typically posts on an almost daily business. You know, the ones about quack-censored dicks and shit.
It's the kind of video that challenges not just preconceptions but misconceptions, and the kind we need more of.
4. Don't Not Buy The iPhone 11 by Unbox Therapy
Unbox Therapy has been controversial for iPhone giveaways becoming fade-aways, being things with Apple logos on them but not Samsung, and recently for the way they launched their new-but-familiar phone case lineup.
But Lew from Unbox also presented something of a personal revelation this year — a raw, credible video discussing how he's handled sensationalism in the past and how he wants to skew far closer to substance in the future.
He has more subscribers than just about anyone in tech. He didn't have to make this video. He could just keep on keeping on. But whether nothing changes or everything does, sharing ideas like this with the Unbox audience makes everyone not just think about the nature of tech coverage, but think again.
Pixel 3a XL Review - REAL Day in the Life! By Arie with UrAvgConsumer
Talk about a plot twist, Arie takes Judner's familiar Your Average Consumer format and flips it completely around. Which is fitting, given how Google's Pixel 3a flipped the familiar flagship around.
It's such a different voice and different perspective, but still grounded in everything that's made the channel so great over the years.
It's also such a brilliant, and one I hope we see more people experiment with it in the tech space.
Crimson Engine by Rubidium
I first became familiar with Rubidium and his Crimson Engine channel when someone shared his Using Air Diffusion video with me. And it was a revelation.
Anyone who watches my videos know I'm all about the a-roll, the talking head, but the way Rubidium handles talking head a-roll is just so director of photography. So, literally, lit. People throw around the word "cinematic" all the time, but this was far more show than tell.
His whole channel changed how I thought not just about my own videos but my interest in video completely.
The Samsung Galaxy Fold Is Great... If You Live in a Bubble by Joanna Stern
The Wall Street Journal, as traditional an institution as they come, has somehow managed to consistently produce some of the most creative tech videos on the planet. And it's all thanks to Joanna Stern and her team.
I've said many times before, Joanna's mix of video and column directly inspired what I do with this channel and iMore. And she's not just at the top of her game. She just keeps getting better and better.
iPhone 11 Pro VS $7500 Pro DSLR Camera by Matti Haapoja
On one hand, you have the big sensors and big glass of traditional cameras. On the other, the big compute of modern camera phones. Likewise, you have tech people reviewing the camera capabilities of a phone… and then you have camera people reviewing those same capabilities but in a very different context.
Matti Haapoja does just that with particular aplomb — open-minded about computational photography but never putting gimmicks ahead of results.
His comparison between an iPhone 11 Pro and a DSLR shows that off… picture perfect. And, as I find myself plunging back into camera gear, like with Tyler Stalman, I find it an incredibly informative perspective to have.
The Pixel 4 is Confusing by Jonathan Morrison
Jonathan Morrison's The Pixel 4 is Confusing video is crispy as always, if missing his usual depth of field. You don't notice it at first because the camera work is so fresh. Almost trippy. Only at the end do you find out the whole thing is being shot in 4K60fps on — wait or it — an iPhone 11 selfie cam.
But it's not just that. From hyper-creative shots to Pepsi challenges to bringing in hardcore creative pros to test creative pro hardware to editing on everything from an iPad to — I kid you not — an iPod touch, TLD just keeps making me question the creative limits of YouTube and wanting to achieve more.
And more, in a tech world so often filled with such shallow sensationalism, Jonathan busts it in just the best way possible. With facts.
There are a few others I want to make sure don't miss either.
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Jon Rettinger, who's been doing YouTube for as long as I've been watching YouTube but totally upped his game in terms of production and storytelling this year, especially with videos like "there is no iPhone 11". It just makes me want to tell better stories. Also, shout out to his podcast partner and another O.G. TechTuber, Andru Edwards.
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Gerald Undone, who's been around for a while but I just discovered and binged, does amazing deep-dives into not just cameras but the technology behind cameras. I'm learning so much, which I love. His trailer with Tyler Stalman, iPhoneDo, This is Tech Today, Armondo, and many others was also slick genius.
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Simone Giertz TURNED HER TESLA INTO A PICKUP TRUCK with the help of Laura Kampf, Rich Rebuilds, and Marco Ramirez. This was months before Elon Musk and company announced the minimalist polygon martian tumbler of a CyberTruck. And she single-act-of-willed her own version into existence with a Model 3, a saw, and ludicrous speed amount of talent. Again, it just makes me want to do more better.
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Evan from Polymatter crafts videos where he animates and explains complex, global business and technology topics in a way that's just so spectacularly approachable and digestible. Not just the stories everyone is looking at, like Apple in China, but the ones everyone needs to look at more like Why Apple Fails in India (& Why it Matters).
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Despite friends of mine pushing me for years, I came to YouTube only recently. And, while I knew all the big names, outside of blogging and podcasting, I didn't know much of anyone else. But that didn't matter. The aforementioned Vyyper and the tech YouTube community, from Roberto Blake to Zak Talks Tech, Jason of Painfully Honest Tech to Chris of DailyTek, Quinn from Snazzy Labs to Michael from the DetroitBorg, Canoopsy, Emkwan, Jaime Rivera of PocketNow, David Cogen, the Unlockr, Sara Dietchy, Jenna Ezarik, Jon Prosser, and have all been just so friendly and welcoming and helpful and informative and I've learned a ton. My Mobile Nations now Future Labs fam, MrMobile, Modern Dad, and Android Central's Hayato Huseman, who I learn from every day, Likewise, Dave Wiskus and all the Standard creators like Tomas Frank, Devin from Legal Eagle, Marton from TechAltar, Brian from Real Engineering, and all the rest, who's literally helped me make this channel better than I ever thought possible.
So, that's my list. Now drop me yours in the comments.
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Apple accused of abusing DMCA to take down viral tweet
A takedown of a viral tweet has ignited the latest debate about jailbreaking.
What you need to know
- Security researchers are accusing Apple of abusing DMCA.
- The most recent occurence has to do with a tweet that was taken down.
- Hackers have been fighting Apple for years to find ways to jailbreak their devices.
Apple is being accused by security researchers of abusing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) for the takedown of a viral tweet. Reported by Motherboard, the tweet in question was an encryption key that could be used to jailbreak the iPhone.
On Sunday, a security researcher with the Twitter handle Siguza tweeted out what is believed to be an encryption key that could potentially be used to reverse engineer the Secure Enclave, Apple's secure chip on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac that handles encryption and stores sensitive data.
iPhone11,8 17C5053a sepi 9f974f1788e615700fec73006cc2e6b533b0c6c2b8cf653bdbd347bc1897bdd66b11815f036e94c951250c4dda916c00
— Siguza (@s1guza) December 8, 2019
A couple days after the tweet was sent, a law firm that has worked on behalf of Apple in the past sent a DMCA takedown notice to Twitter asking that the tweet be deleted. Twitter complied and removed the tweet until today when it reappeared on the site. Accordint to Siguza, the DMCA request was "retracted".
According to Motherboard, Apple confirmed that it was the company behind the takedown request. The company said that by the time it had retracted the request, Twitter had already taken down the tweet. Apple then reached out to Twitter to restore the tweet and the company complied.
Around the same time, Reddit had received several DCMA takedown requests for posts by security researchers on the r/jailbreak subreddit. It is a popular area for security researchers and hackers to share ideas about how to jailbreak the iPhone and other Apple devices. Motherboard has not been able to identify who is behind the requests, but the Reddit community believes it to be Apple.
These actions are a chapter in a long history of tension between Apple and security researchers. Hackers have, after years of no jailbreak being available for the iPhone, recently discovered how to jailbreak iPhones running iOS 13 up to and including the iPhone X (iPhone XR, XS, and 11 are not affected). Researchers like Pwn20wnd believe that Apple is responding to the vulnerability by using the court system to stifle jailbreakers.
"They just completely lost control of the battle (Jailbreaking) on iPhone X and older...so they are trying to pick up a legal fight and waste our time, thus money / resources."
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Most tech giants paid their share of tax during 2018 financial year, ATO reveals
Except there were still some repeat offenders that continued to pay nothing.
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Elon Musk's mom shares gawky photo of him fixing car in 1995 - CNET
That cybertruck smashup wasn't the first time the Tesla CEO was faced with a busted window.
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NASA solar probe snaps elusive asteroid trails for the first time - CNET
A "catastrophic" event that shattered asteroid 3200 Phaethon left a dusty tail of debris. Astronomers have finally seen it.
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2021 Chevy Tahoe gets diesel power, independent rear suspension - Roadshow
This full-size SUV has been completely redesigned, riding atop a new architecture. Two V8s and one diesel are on the powertrain menu.
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First pictures of Galaxy S11? video - CNET
A reliable source says images of Samsung's next big phone are out there, right now, and they show a huge camera bump that's housing a ridiculous camera.
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'Forza Horizon 4' is getting a 72-car battle royale mode
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Canberra launches digital platforms plan of attack
It will include a review of the Privacy Act and the standing up of a dedicated unit within the ACCC to monitor digital platforms.
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Watch this machine made out of Lego sort other Lego using AI
Back at my parents’ house, there’s a couple giant tubs of Lego sitting in my old bedroom closet stuffed with over 20 years of my Lego collection. If I ever had to sort that collection by hand, it would probably take me the better part of the next 20 years — but perhaps I could use this AI-powered Lego sorting machine that’s made in large part out of more than 10,000 Lego bricks (via ExtremeTech).
Dubbed the “Universal Lego Sorting Machine” by its creator, Daniel West, it’s a pretty neat contraption that’s far more useful than any of the Lego science projects I used to make. The machine is apparently able to use AI to sort Lego into one of 18 different buckets at a rate of “about one brick every two seconds.” West says he trained the...
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Rick and Morty fans, pucker up for Pickle Rick Pringles - CNET
They're kind of a big dill, with a Super Bowl ad and everything.
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How well does the 2021 Chevy Tahoe ride? - Roadshow
We got chauffeured around GM's proving ground in Milford, Michigan, and here are our findings.
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Disney's Bob Iger, Time's Businessperson of the Year, holds Baby Yoda in painting - CNET
"As soon as those ears popped up from under the blanket, and the eyes, I knew," Iger told Time.
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Between Netflix, Amazon and Disney Plus, TV is starting to feel like homework - CNET
Commentary: In the battle between what you should watch and what you want to watch, it's hard to choose sides.
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The Science of New Zealand's Eruption, Toy Store Surveillance, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.
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Cousin Greg to play equally tall, inept WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann in new series
After WeWork’s disastrous IPO filing, many were claiming the company would soon be valueless. But there is still something of worth at WeWork: its story and its potential as IP for Hollywood.
Variety confirmed that Chernin Entertainment and Endeavor Content will produce the WeWork story, based on Wall Street Journal reporters Maureen Farrell and Eliot Brown’s reporting and book, for the screen — though it’s unclear whether this is a feature film or a TV series or a Quibi. But there’s exciting news even for this early project: Nicholas Braun, best known for standing 6-foot-5 in his role as Cousin Greg on HBO’s Succession, has been cast as WeWork’s Adam Neumann, best known for standing 6-foot-5 while handing out tequila shots after firing...
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