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Traveling has never been this easy. Now, you can search and save your flights, get up-to-date notifications on any changes, share your travel coordinates with friends and family, and much more — all from one easy-to-use app.

Get real-time flight tracking for updates on departure and arrival times, delays, cancellations, gate and baggage claim information.

Available on all your devices: Add your flights on your iPhone and your flight information will be automatically synced to your iPad and Apple Watch all with an easy-to-use and clutter-free interface.

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Dani Deahl and Casey Newton have a breathtaking look at what’s going on inside the sinking ship of SoundCloud. If you’re hosting your podcast there, I’d spend this weekend looking for a new host.

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Part Two of Avie Tevanian’s oral history has been posted to YouTube by The Computer History Museum.

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Joe Rossignol, MacRumors:

The rumor comes from French-language blog iGeneration, which cited an unnamed source claiming Apple will hold a product event in late August to introduce an updated version of the 4-inch smartphone.

Mickaël Bazoge, the author of the article, told MacRumors that he received the info from a “new source” with an unproven track record. He expressed some skepticism, but added that the source “seems reliable.”

As Rossignol points out, no iPhone has ever been launched in August. However, the SE was the first iPhone to launch in the spring outside of the Verizon iPhone 4.

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A new online journal, published by Apple, about machine learning. A while back, there was a story about how important publishing is in this field. While this doesn’t meet all those needs, it’s a nice look into what the people on this team are working on, at least to an extent.

There’s even an RSS feed.

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This week on my new tech Q&A show with Serenity Caldwell:

Michael wants to keep his location private on social media, Neal is looking into iCloud Family Sharing and Max just wants to keep his AirPods clean. Then, a fix for a forgetful Spotlight and the country Ren calls home.

Oh, and Ren has a fake child in her iCloud account, stuck there until they turn 18.

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This week on the most educational podcast on your iPhone:

Many people have gone over Niagara Falls in things like barrels and giant rubber balls. You shouldn’t try it.

My thanks to our sponsor:

• Mack Weldon: Smart underwear for smart guys. Get 20% off with the code UNGENIUSED.

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This week on Liftoff, Jason and I were honored to talk with Dr. Katie Mack. She is a theoretical astrophysicist working on dark matter at the University of Melbourne. On this episode, she explains what dark matter is, and the potential it has to change our understanding of the universe, physics and more.

It was a real honor to talk to Dr. Mack, and I hope you enjoy our interview. Thanks to Blue Apron for sponsoring this week’s episode.

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Panic’s FTP client for macOS just received a huge update. The new version is faster, supports more cloud services, and now syncs your servers with other Macs and iOS devices. Interestingly, but not shockingly, Transmit 5 is not in the Mac App Store.

I’ve used Transmit for a decade, and was glad to upgrade today. Go check it out.

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Word spaghetti.

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Eric Berger, writing about the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle program, which was mothballed after a single flight in 1988:

When I visited Russia and Kazakhstan in 2014, one of the Buran mock-ups was on display in Moscow, and a second vehicle could be toured on the grounds of a museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This is the spaceport where Yuri Gagarin launched from more than half a century ago and where Russian and US astronauts still fly to the International Space Station today. During our visit, we saw a hangar where additional Burans were rumored to exist from a distance and asked to go inside. We were given a perfunctory no, so we didn’t.

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On this week’s Connected, Federico is busy chasing turtles, so Myke and I got to talk about Echo rumors, phones you can squeeze, and macOS High Sierra.

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