Fri. 12/06 - The Future of the iPhone is NO Ports?

The Uber safety report, more Galaxy S11 rumors, could Apple be about to kill the charging port on iPhones entirely and what would that mean, Samsung’s new chips to make AR mainstream and of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:Uber Says 3,045 Sexual Assaults Were Reported in U.S. Rides Last Year (NYTimes)Samsung to Take on iPhone’s Popularity With Big Camera Overhaul (Bloomberg)Kuo: Apple to Launch 'Completely Wireless' iPhone Without Lightning Connector and 'iPhone SE 2 Plus' With Touch ID Power Button in 2021 (MacRumors)5G and face tracking: The weird future of VR headsets like Oculus Quest and HoloLens (CNET)Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8c and 7c processors will power cheaper ARM laptops (The Verge)Spotify Year In Review Thread (@baekdal)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:How Ring Went From ‘Shark Tank’ Reject to America’s Scariest Surveillance Company (Motherboard)Inside VSCO, a Gen Z-approved photo-sharing app, with CEO Joel Flory (TechCrunch)Commentary: Andy Jassy aims to reinvent Amazon Web Services for the cloud’s next generation (Silicon Angle)Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Bonkers For European Startups (Forbes)A decade of hacking: The most notable cyber-security events of the 2010s (ZDNet)HOW SONY BOUGHT, AND SQUANDERED, THE FUTURE OF GAMING (The Verge)The difference between Windows Notepad and WordPad, and when to use each (Windows Central)Why ‘The Mandalorian’ cites Fortnite dev Epic Games in its credits (VentureBeat)Unintended Perk of the Online Mattress Boom: Never-Ending Free (WSJ)

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