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Apple and Google suspend manual voice reviews and Samsung suspends the headphone jack on Galaxy Note 10

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I was going to try and cram in Apple earnings analysis today but I think I'll save it for tomorrow after all the headlines and hindsights hot takes have had time to cool down. Instead, let's talk about Google's big Pixel 4 leak-nouncement. Yeah, another one. Basically, it's Face ID. But is it a cutting edge reinvention or just a lame retread?

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Another huge milestone for us and what we're all building here together — This channel just hit 20 million views.

Almost 250 videos and 122 thousand subscribers since we started, it's humbling to think this little idea for an optimistic, deeply researched, steak-over-sizzle, facts-over-flex, punching up and never down conversation about technology and culture we started just over a year ago has found an audience as smart and savvy and frankly as magnificent as all of you.

I know we're not huge yet by YouTube standards, but I'm truly grateful for all of you, and I really appreciate each and every one of you for hitting that subscribe button, Superman smashing that bell gizmo so you actually get notified when new videos drop, and sharing your favorites with your friends so they can join us and we can keep all of this going and growing.

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• Who hears your Siri recordings? Report says contractors could be listening
• Kuo: All Three iPhones Coming in 2020 Will Support 5G - MacRumors
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• Apple Expected to Adopt Keyboard With Scissor Mechanism for Upcoming 16-inch MacBook Pro - MacRumors
• DigiTimes: 16-Inch MacBook Pro Will Feature Narrow Bezels and Launch in September - MacRumors
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Humans listen to segments of our voices captured by Siri, Google, and Alexa to help train the natural language engines. It's always been done this way but it's never gotten much attention. Not until Bloomberg reported on it all back in April, focusing on Alexa. But the VRT NWS piece on Google and now The Guardian's piece on Siri have really caught fire. Especially the latter.

Maybe because, unlike the others, it front-loaded the part about sex, crime, medicine, and business. Or maybe just because it came out after Apple started putting big privacy billboards up in Las Vegas, Toronto, and Hamburg.

So, while some say Apple is being held to a higher or different standard here, it's not by anyone other than Apple themselves.

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It's Friday and once again I'm taking three stories from around the web that are important but that either wouldn't fill a full video or I just plain missed out on covering during the week.

I'm planning on doing these more often going forward too, so if you have stories you want to see covered next week, just drop them in the comments or hit me up on Twitter. Then hit subscribe and dropkick that little bell dingus so you don't miss them when they land.

On deck for today are some privacy promising iOS migration updates, Facebook's $5 billion fine, iPhone 11 photography, and the return of the Galaxy Fold.

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There have been rumors of Apple working on their own cellular modems for years. Those are the radios that phones and other gear use to connect to carrier networks like AT&T, Verizon, Rogers, Vodafone, and all the rest.

They're mainly LTE right now but 5G is on the horizon and they're already speccing out 6G beyond that. So, it's a critical part of the hardware we all use every day and Apple likes to control all of those parts.

The rumors picked up recently when Apple settled with Qualcomm, the biggest modem maker in the game, and Intel, who'd been providing Apple with modems during the spat, announced they'd be getting out of the business now that the other two had made up.

But that left Intel's modem portfolio up for grabs. And, much like Apple once bought PA Semi, licensed ARM's IP, and began making custom A-Series chipsets for iPhones and iPads, the rumor here is that Apple will buy that modem business, license Qualcomm IP, and begin making custom modems as well.

To help me sort the facts from the wishful thinking, I've got Ben Bajarin on the line. Principle at Creative Strategies and founder of TechPinions.

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Back in September for 2018 — and wow but does that already seem like a technology lifetime ago! — Apple's chief operating officer and head of Watch and Health products — took to the stage at the companies annual September event to announce Apple Watch Series 4 and its bold new edge-to-edge display.

But he also announced something else: Irregular heartbeat notifications and, for the first time ever in a direct-to-consumer device, the ability to take an electrocardiogram. In a watch. On your freaking wrist.

It shipped in the U.S. on December 6. It shipped in much of the E.U. and in Hong Kong on March 27. And today, it's shipping in Canada.

But, as always, there's a lot more to this story.

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There's a feeling among some people in the tech community that the next iPhone looks too much like the last iPhone, which looked pretty much exactly like the iPhone before that.

Apple's design has become stale, they say. Iterative. Boring.

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Our long, browser nightmare is over. Google web apps like GSuite now work as expected in Safari. So do Square Space and Wordpress. It's a modern mobile miracle. But it's also more than that: A download manager, a ton of keyboard shortcuts with modifiers, the ability to save and open tab sets, per site settings, text size controls, the whole WebKiit and caboodle.

Apple is calling it Desktop Class Safari for iPad. The full-on web finally optimized for iPad or the iPad finally fully optimized for the web. And it's coming with iPadOS this fall and, a fair amount of it, with iOS 13 for iPhone as well.

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So you want to buy a new MacBook, maybe for school, maybe for work, maybe to create something that lets you change how and why you work. Whatever. You need it, you want it… but you're just not sure which new MacBook to get. At least not yet.

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