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Apple is rolling out more teases for the upcoming Apple TV + streaming service.

The Apple Card starting arriving for some people this week. Dave is still upset about Apple using Yelp, especially with news about the company this week and we talk about Time machine backups.

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I’d love to see this. If any of you are lucky enough to live in one of the featured cities, please let me know what the experience was like!

The elementary, high school and college educators who attended this summer’s academies came from different states, schools and backgrounds — but they all shared one new and very important responsibility: shepherding their students into a world where coding is a common language. The teachers are determined not only to teach their students about coding, but to show them how they can channel that knowledge to make the world a better place, starting with their communities. On that front, they’re leading by example.

Apple has always taken its responsibility to education seriously, but these types of things are even better than anything else they’ve done. This is helping teachers instruct the kids that are our future.

It’s always a little mindboggling to see the effort that goes into these kinds of shots.

I’ve been critical of the lack of additional benefits to users of the Apple Card vs other cards so it’s good to see a few more details from MasterCard that show benefits not mentioned in the past. But they still don’t match up to the Visa cards I use now. For example, the Apple Card does not offer purchase protection and extended warranties for cardholders which, in my opinion, are table stakes for most cards.

While I disagree completely with the reasoning, it’s still interesting to see what anti-Apple Card people might say and think. And, to be clear, I wouldn’t get an Apple Card even if it was offered here in Canada. But that doesn’t mean I don’t think it has value for others.

It’s not the end of Nikon — yet. But they have significant work ahead of them to weather this particular storm.

I’m a complete Olympics junkie so the more sports, the better. New events are Karate, Skateboarding, Sport Climbing, and Surfing.

This young man has come up with a brilliantly simple solution. Whether it can be used commercially is the question.

Like his movies or not, his musical selections are almost always spot on.

Truly hilarious.

Apple has always been doomed, even when they’re not. The media always finds a way to report the bad about Apple, and sometimes the bad is really hard to find. We also take a look at the improvements to Apple Maps in iOS 13.

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That’s a great list of bands.

When the opening riff of Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times Bad Times” came through the radio in 1969, everything changed. Jimmy Page altered the course of popular music with a single guitar: his 1959 Fender Telecaster. Co-designed with Page, the Fender Jimmy Page Telecaster is an homage to that legendary instrument, which created some of the most iconic riffs of the 20th Century.

I remember Jimmy playing mostly Gibson guitars, but any instrument co-designed by Page is worth a look.

Timed with the spread of its first-party mapping data, Apple is giving the Maps app a big upgrade in iOS 13 that represents the company’s biggest push yet to overtake Google Maps as the world’s most trusted, go-to mapping service. Apple Maps in iOS 13 represents – if you’re in the US at least – Apple’s purest vision to date for a modern mapping service.

I really like Apple Maps these days. Yes, it had a difficult start, but that was years ago and Apple has been doing a lot of work to make Maps the best.

Many of you may have missed the “good old days” of the drive-in theaters (and today’s movie-going experience is in many ways vastly better) but there was a time when this was the best way to see a movie. We went often when I was a kid in high school, sneaking in friends, beer, and candy in the trunk.

I saw this in the theater during its initial release. You couldn’t pay me to sit through it again.

Some of us certainly did. I’ve been saying for years that all of these services are creating a giant PITA when it comes to finding the things you want to watch.

I posted a different hack on Twitter earlier this week but this one works as well.

As a fellow motorcyclist, doing a single “Iron Butt Day” (1,000 miles in 24 hours) is inconceivable to me. The most I’ve ever done is 800 miles in a day and I was utterly exhausted for two days afterward. Crockett did 1,000 miles a day for 11 consecutive days. 12,998.9 miles.

With Apple putting so much marketing and company effort into differentiating itself on privacy, the company must not only do better than “the other guys,” they must be seen to be doing better than the other guys. this incident is not a good look for the company.

Dave and I looked at the recently announced DOJ investigation into tech companies, as well as the return of Walkie-Talkie on the Apple Watch, and the first ever iPhone call.

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Definitely a bucket list item for me.

Foreign policy via tweets. Hell of a way to run a country.

The majority of us are smart and savvy enough to not fall for this but please remind family and friends Apple will NEVER call you out of the blue and they should NEVER answer or respond to any calls, texts or emails purporting to be from Apple if they haven’t specifically requested.

I love the competition between Apple and Spotify. It makes both services better and brings out the best in both companies.

Tech’s worst held secret is officially out. That sound you hear is Qualcomm yelling, “DAMMIT!”

The camera is a hugely important part of the iPhone and Apple has done a lot of work in making it an amazing device to capture images. But it will always come down to the skill, and sometimes luck, of the photographer. But with a camera that is so easy to use and can capture stunning pictures, it’s even easier to “get the shot.”

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