July 2020

Amid antitrust scrutiny, Apple makes quiet power moves over developers

During Apple’s annual developer’s conference in June, it announced that smaller developers would finally have access to its “Find My” app, a move that on the surface could appease developers who have asserted that Apple has too much power. It turns out the announcement was not what it seemed. Apple has placed strict restrictions on how consumers will be able to use the app. Apple customers who use Find My to locate a device will be barred from using other competing services simultaneously. The move is unusual, developers say.

July 20-24, 2020
Weekly Digest

Broadband Costs Too Much

Benton Institute for Broadband & Society

Friday, July 24, 2020

U.S. hatches plan to build a quantum internet

US officials with the Department of Energy and scientists unveiled a plan to pursue what they called one of the most important technological frontiers of the 21st century: building a quantum Internet. They set goals for forging what they called a second Internet — one that would function alongside the globe’s existing networks, using the laws of quantum mechanics to share information more securely and to connect a new generation of computers and sensors.