Tim Cook confirms Apple Music’s 50 million users, push into TV and mov

Tim Cook confirms Apple Music’s 50 million users, push into TV and mov

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In an appearance on Bloomberg Television on ”The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations,”, Cook was forthcoming about paid versus trial Apple Music subscribers. He said that in total, the service has more than 50 million users between paid members and trials, in contrast to the 40 million paid subscribers the company declared in April.

Looking at Apple’s growth numbers, the company appears to be posting about 4 million conversions a month to a paid subscription above and beyond any makeup for cancellations.

Källa: Tim Cook confirms Apple Music’s 50 million users, push into TV and mov

Tim Cook confirms Apple Music’s 50 million users, push into TV and mov

A ’technologically illiterate’ New Yorker illustrator explains why he finally started drawing on an iPad

blankEven if you don’t know who Mark Ulriksen is, you’ve probably seen his work.

His ”gracefully awkward” art has graced several magazine covers, including a widely praised New Yorker cover featuring Martin Luther King kneeling with Colin Kaepernick from earlier this year.

But despite his success in the field with pen and paint, recently he’s taken up a new challenge: Drawing with an iPad.

Källa: A ’technologically illiterate’ New Yorker illustrator explains why he finally started drawing on an iPad

Tim Cook confirms Apple Music’s 50 million users, push into TV and mov

The Puzzle of Sarah Huckabee Sanders

blankSarah Huckabee Sanders is best known to the American public for running the White House daily briefing, a televised performance in whoch, without so much as raising her voice, the president’s press secretary manages to deflect questions, flatly contradict facts and generally throw wet blankets over the countless fires burning around the administration of Donald Trump. But the most Sandersesque moment yet may be one that happened away from the West Wing, at a little-publicized February event in downtown Washington. She was appearing alongside Mike McCurry, who had held the same position under Bill Clinton, on a panel about the job. McCurry was letting her have it.

Källa: The Puzzle of Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Tim Cook confirms Apple Music’s 50 million users, push into TV and mov

CNN investigation: 103 Uber drivers accused of sexual assault or abuse

blankAfter an evening of cocktails in San Diego, a woman got into the back of an Uber for a ride home. She was so intoxicated she had to ask the driver to stop so she could vomit. She says she then passed out in the backseat.

When she regained consciousness, the Uber driver was on top of her, raping her, a block from her home, according to the police report and two sources familiar with the investigation.

She was able to escape and dial 911.

Källa: CNN investigation: 103 Uber drivers accused of sexual assault or abuse

Tim Cook confirms Apple Music’s 50 million users, push into TV and mov

Big Tech is an extractive industry, it must be regulated as such

blankThere is a quiet coup unfolding in the global economy. Over the past decade, firms like Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook have soared to become the world’s most highly valued firms. A few big companies now hold huge power over the ”New Oil” that is our personal data. In doing this, they have overtaken many of the firms that extract regular oil while for many years avoiding the negative reputations in liberal society that extractives firms like BP, Shell or ExxonMobil have.

Källa: Big Tech is an extractive industry, it must be regulated as such