In this issue

When you speak to a virtual assistant on your mobile device, wearable, computer or smart speaker, it's easy to assume that it's a truly private conversation between just you and the assistant. However, numerous revelations in recent weeks and months will, for many people, have cast significant doubt on that theory. Many big-name tech companies have been listening in, albeit reportedly only in a select few, carefully justified instances. Do we have reason to be worried?

Leather Wallets, Loose Change Pose Danger For New Apple Card

Apple tried to make the new Apple-branded credit card attractive, copying the heft and sleekness of higher-end cards like the Chase Sapphire. But cardholders are discovering that with such a design, they’ll have to give it special care.

1 min

Film On Factory Is First Netflix Project Endorsed By Obamas

A documentary about an Ohio auto glass factory that is run by a Chinese investor debuted Wednesday on Netflix as the streaming service’s first project backed by Michelle and Barack Obama’s new production company.

3 mins

Don't Want To Buy? You Can Borrow Household Items Too

Amanda Blum enjoys trying new recipes and experimenting in the kitchen, but like many home cooks, she’s reluctant to buy expensive and bulky kitchen appliances.

3 mins

Weedmaps To Stop Advertising Unlicensed Pot Businesses

The major online pot shop directory and cannabis marketplace Weedmaps announced Wednesday that it will no longer allow blackmarket businesses to advertise on its site, a decision that could boost California’s efforts to rein in its vast illegal market. State regulators and licensed businesses had been pressuring the company to ban unlicensed businesses. Allowing untaxed, unregulated product on the site alongside the taxed marijuana of licensed and regulated stores undercut the legal market, they said.

2 mins

Why Streaming Services Are The New Credit Card Rewards Binge

When it comes to credit card rewards, it’s not all about gas, groceries, and restaurants anymore. Issuers are moving beyond suburban staples to include millennial-friendly categories such as transit and streaming subscriptions.

3 mins

Pentagon Cancels Billion-dollar Missile Defense Project

The Pentagon is pulling the plug on a billion-dollar, technically troubled project to build a better weapon that would destroy incoming missiles. The move is aimed in part at considering new approaches to missile defense at a time of rapid technological change.

2 mins

China ‘Will Not Sit Idly By' Over US Arms Sale To Taiwan

China “will not sit idly by” if the U.S. proceeds with a sale of advanced F-16V fighter jets to Taiwan, a senior Chinese army officer said Thursday while warning of other potential countermeasures in addition to punishing foreign firms involved in the deal.

2 mins

How Tech Titans Listen In On Voice Recordings

When you speak to a virtual assistant on your mobile device, wearable, computer or smart speaker, it’s easy to assume that it’s a truly private conversation between just you and the assistant.

5 mins

Work For Apple: 2.4 Million US Jobs And Counting

As Apple reveals its US jobs footprint has grown to 2.4 million, we pull back the curtain on one of America’s biggest employers, explore how the firm has transformed the technology industry, and explain how anyone can make a living from Apple and its ecosystems…

7 mins

Twitter Shuts Chinese Accounts Targeting Hong Kong Protests

Twitter said it has suspended more than 200,000 accounts that it believes were part of a Chinese government influence campaign targeting the protest movement in Hong Kong.

3 mins

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