The Rebound

ALL HAIL THE ESSENTIAL PHONE: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/30/15711170/essential-phone-announcement-price-android-andy-rubin

LIKEWISE HAIL THEIR HOME THINGY: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/5/30/15711162/ambient-os-essential-home-andy-rubin

TechCrunch's coverage is a little more staid: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/30/nice-phone-essential-but-why-is-there-a-hole-in-the-screen/

There may indeed be updated MacBook Pros at WWDC: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/29/15-inch-macbook-pro-delivery-estimates-slip/

Mashable's complaints about the Apple Watch: http://mashable.com/2017/05/30/apple-watch-fitness-fail/

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Are new laptops coming at WWDC? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-16/apple-said-to-plan-laptop-upgrades-as-microsoft-enters-market

Jason Snell has some thoughts on a Siri speaker: https://sixcolors.com/post/2017/05/imagining-the-introduction-of-a-siri-speaker/

Apple acquired VocalIQ back in October of 2015: https://www.macrumors.com/2015/10/02/apple-acquires-speech-technology-startup-vocaliq/

If you didn't know, you can pay on your Mac with your finger on your iPhone: https://9to5mac.com/2016/06/13/apple-pay-mac/

Apple's latest transparency report: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/23/apple-2016-government-transparency-report/

How Anker made a great business off Apple and Samsung: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/22/15673712/anker-battery-charger-amazon-empire-steven-yang-interview

Apple creates a new VP of Diversity: https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/23/apple-denise-young-smith-vp-hr-includsion-diversity/

Lex still doesn't get Apple's Today at Apple events: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/16/today-at-apple-classes-launch/

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Alexa now makes phone calls and Dan thinks there's nothing wrong with any of it at all (can you tell Dan doesn't write the show notes?): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/21/amazon-echo-alexa-home-robot-privacy-cloud

The U.S. may ban laptops on flights from Europe: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/business/us-may-ban-laptops-on-all-flights-from-europe.html

Apple bought Lattice, a dark data company: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/13/apple-acquires-ai-company-lattice-data-a-specialist-in-unstructured-dark-data/

Apple also invested in Corning: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170512005101/en/Apple-Awards-Corning-Advanced-Manufacturing-Fund-Investment

To follow up on a question we asked in the show, Microsoft hadn't been providing security updates for Windows XP, but it did issue one this week for the latest ransomware attack: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/13/15635006/microsoft-windows-xp-security-patch-wannacry-ransomware-attack

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It appears that reports of an Amazon Echo with a screen were true. Enter the Echo Show: https://sixcolors.com/post/2017/05/echo-show-ships-on-june-28-for-230/

You can also get Cortana on a speaker thing later this year: http://www.harmankardon.com/invoke.html

There was a spot of trouble with the Wirecutter's pick for a NAS that we mentioned on a previous episode: http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-network-attached-storage/#wd-my-cloud-mirror

Lex and Moltz use Arq for offsite backup: https://www.arqbackup.com

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Want to kill hours on end? Blizzard made its classic game StarCraft available for free: https://us.battle.net/shop/en/product/starcraft

Lex now owns a Harmony Hub on Dan's recommendation: http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/harmony-hub

When purchasing the Anchor to hold your headphones, always get the installation: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P31BMHG?m=A28Q38CRNPX1WD&ref_=v_sp_widget_detail_page

Apple's results came out after we recorded this episode, just like always: https://sixcolors.com/post/2017/05/apple-q2-2017-financial-results/

Microsoft's new Surface Laptop: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/02/microsoft-surface-laptop-rival-macbook-pro-windows-10-s-battery-life

Google and Amazon have removed their Watch apps: https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/01/apple-watch-loses-major-apps/

Will Apple release an Echo competitor at WWDC? https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/1/15501496/apple-siri-speaker-wwdc-june-announcement

Will it critique what you wear like the Echo Look? https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/26/amazons-new-echo-look-has-a-built-in-camera-for-style-selfies/

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John Gruber on the Apple Watch's success: https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/apple_watch_success

Stephen King's pseudonym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bachman

Did you know that Dan has a scifi book coming out soon? Get it here: https://www.amazon.com/Caledonian-Gambit-Novel-Dan-Moren/dp/1940456843/

Are you sitting down? Like, maybe in a car? Because Apple has delayed Carpool Karaoke: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-video-idUSKBN17R02R

New software can copy anyone's voice. Sort of well: https://lyrebird.ai/demo

The Incomparable's Star Wars trailer review did it the old fashioned way: https://www.theincomparable.com/bonustrack/347b/

Uber keeps stepping in it: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanick-pushes-uber-and-himself-to-the-precipice.html

Apple's Today At Apple program: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/04/today-at-apple-bringing-new-experiences-to-every-apple-store/

Dan on Apple Watch 3 rumors: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-watch-3-rumors,news-24938.html

A Sonos article answers some of Lex's questions: https://sonos.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2248

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The iPhone 8 might be having fingerprint reader troubles: https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/18/bloomberg-new-iphone-8-glass-steel-fingerprint-sensor/

AirPods are still 6 weeks out for shipping: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/04/18/airpods-shipping-delay

Want them painted black for $100? You can at http://blackpods.store (Not a sponsor!)

Bose should not be doing this: http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/19/15356108/bose-connect-private-listening-song-list-sharing-data-lawsuit

Lex got a Sonos Playbase: https://www.macobserver.com/reviews/featured-review/sonos-playbase-review/

iWork and the apps formerly known as iLife all go free: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/18/apple-imovie-garageband-iwork-free-for-all-users/

Along with GarageBand, people use Audacity for podcast editing: http://www.audacityteam.org/

You can run the classic Mac operating system in a web page on Archive.org: http://blog.archive.org/2017/04/16/early-macintosh-emulation-comes-to-the-archive/

Archive.org also has a lot of back issues of Macworld magazine: https://archive.org/details/macworld-magazine

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Lex is away so Dan and I start out by talking about the trailer for the next Thor movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7MGUNV8MxU&feature=youtu.be

Apple is ditching graphics chips from Imagination in favor of its own: https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/04/apple-ditches-imagination-technologies-shares-collapse/

This makes some think they'll do the same with other chips like power management: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/11/apple-could-be-designing-its-own-power-management-chip-as-well/

Apple moves to fifth in Tom's Hardware's laptop ranking: http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/laptop-brand-ratings

Moltz has yet to try Clips: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clips/id1212699939?mt=8

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ZOMG NEW MAC PROS ARE COMING! http://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives

Matthew Panzarino also has some thoughts: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/04/apple-pushes-the-reset-button-on-the-mac-pro/

The whole Mac Pro chat basically went down exactly like the movie *The Interview*: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2788710/

Additional information after we recorded: Based on what's currently on Apple's site, the "2017 Mac Pros" appear to be just price reductions on the existing models and moving CTO options to a standard option rather than speed bumps as we may have stated. http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

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Why you might want to consider getting a VPN: http://www.npr.org/2017/03/28/521831393/congress-overturns-internet-privacy-regulation

Apple filed a trademark for the PowerBook name: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4359876/Apple-drops-hint-return-retro-laptop-Powerbook.html

Apple switched iOS devices to APFS and no one even noticed: https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/03/a-tour-of-ios-10-3-checking-out-apfs-the-settings-app-and-other-tweaks/

Changing the white face of your red iPhone to black: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAzfZ0lQJO0&feature=youtu.be

Lex just got a red case instead: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NGTX8KS/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Lex has some thoughts about CarPlay: https://twitter.com/lexfri/status/844886720768176135

macOS 10.12.4 has Night Shift: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/night-shift-macos-sierra-10-12-4/

Apple TV also got an update this week: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/03/27/apple-releases-tvos-10-2/

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