• The Best Samsung Galaxy S10+ You Can Buy: First Look
• Facebook Pivots to Privacy
• Saudi Women Tracking App Might Not Be So Bad After All
• Google's Dragonfly is Dead
• Waymo's Lidar Play
• Google's Privacy-Focused AI Framework
• AI Will Be Better Than Us at Understanding the "Incomprehensible Intricacy of our Everyday World."

Picks of the Week

• Leo's Tools: Rotimatic, Samsung Galaxy S10+ and Galaxy Buds
• Jeff's Number: Great thread on German/European publishers' attempts to use copyright and political capital for protectionism through the ages
• Stacey's Things: Amazon Newsletter, Party With Stacey at SXSW!

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• Here's the real reason Microsoft is already testing 20H1
• Also: Windows Calculator is open-sourced for some reason. Could Notepad be next???
• Microsoft Edgium screenshots leak. Surprise, it looks like Chrome, not Edge. But that could change.
• Microsoft Band was dead two years ago, but now it's really, really dead. A look back at Microsoft Band from its biggest fan
• It's interesting to watch Intel follow Microsoft down the same path to the future
• The USB Promoter Group needs to be stopped: It announced USB 3.2 and then USB4 within a week of each other.
• And in "better late than never" news, MJF got to try the HoloLens 2 -- and may have discovered an interesting bug.
• Microsoft will allegedly ship a "disc-less" Xbox One S in May
• Plus: Microsoft plans to announce a new Xbox One console at E3 in June. Expect NvME storage and 4K/60 fps.

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: Surface Pro 6 + Type Cover Bundle
• App pick of the week: Pocket Casts
• Plus: Grammarly Keyboard for iOS adds Dark theme, more.
• Enterprise pick of the week: Excel (mobile) can turn photos of table data into working spreadsheets
• Enterprise pick No. 2 of the week: Microsoft opens its first datacenters in Africa
• Beer pick of the week: Jack's Abby Barrel Aged Framinghammer

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• Apple Lays Off 190 Auto Engineers
• USB 4: What You Need to Know
• Publishers Want More Apple Money
• Apple Secretly Fixes Flexgate
• Apple's 2022 Folding Glass iPhone
• Apple Buys Lighthouse Patents
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• The increasing feasibility of making a sustainable career out of hunting for software bugs
• A newly available improvement in Spectre mitigation performance and who can try it now
• Adobe's ColdFusion emergency and patch,
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• A Docker vulnerability being exploited in the wild
• The end of Coinhive
• A new major Wireshark release
• A nifty web browser website screenshot hack
• Continuing troubles with the over-privileged Thunderbolt interface
• Bot-based credential stuffing attacks

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• Foldable Phones: is $2000 Too Much?
• All the Other Wacky Phones at MWC 2019
• HoloLens 2 and the Cloud
• Our Heads-Up Display Future
• 5G at MWC 2019: When is 5G Really Coming?
• Congress Wants a Word With Google
• Google vs Oracle Might be Coming Back
• How Do You Pronounce Amicus?
• Huawei: Threat or Menace?
• Lighthouse Goes Out of Business
• Suicide Tips in YouTube Kids
• Worst Job in Tech: Facebook Moderator
• Facebook Knows When You are Menstruating
• Facebook Kills its VPN Under Protest
• Ray Ozzie Will Make All Your IoT Devices Secure
• Assistant on Messenger
• Biometric ID on Android Apps
• Google AI Grammar Checker on G Suite
• FedEx Robots Coming this Summer
• SEC Wants Elon Musk Held in Contempt over Tweets

Picks of the Week:

• Ant's Stuff: How to Be Black, Everyday People Talking about Everyday S***, and Premiere Tutorials on •
• Stacey's Thing: A World Without Clouds
• Leo's Plea: Open call to anyone at Google who watches TWiG: Can we get on a YouTube takedown whitelist?

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