people and companies with less powerits cool to be a rebel with a cause its uncool and unsympathetic to be a rich and powerful giant tim cook apples chief executive has repeatedly said that he still views apple as a pretty small company insert my booming laughterapple google amazon and facebook are scrooge mcducks swimming in vaults of gold but they like to act as if theyre still ragamuffins taking on the man theyre not they are the mantip of the weekhow to record a call with a smartphonebrian x chen our personal tech columnist gives us advice on using our smartphone to record a phone call and writes this issues before we go sectionmany people view recording phone calls as creepy and invasive and in certain states it is illegal unless all parties consent to being recordedbut there are legitimate purposes like keeping a record of important business conversations or documenting calls made to customer service representatives i for one record phone interviews with important tech executives only after getting permission from everyone involvedmany iphone apps offer the ability to record calls android users unfortunately will have a tougher time google added restrictions that made it difficult and impractical to record callsheres what you can doon iphones the free app rev call recorder works well first you place a phone call to revs recording service then you start another call with someone or wait for a call to come in and merge the calls to begin recording after you hang up the app stores a recording of the conversation on your device there is also an option to pay for the recording to be transcribedthe privacyconscious may want to avoid using the app to record and transcribe sensitive calls the company says customer files are encrypted but employees review the recordings when transcriptions are requestedcall recording is trickier for androids googles website has instructions on how to set up the google voice app to let you record incoming calls but the feature doesnt work for outgoing calls there are thirdparty apps for call recording but generally they dont work well because of limits put in place by google android users are not totally out of luck google appears to have a call recorder for its phone app in the worksbefore we go farewell intel in a virtual announcement on monday apple is expected to outline its plan to replace the intel microprocessors used in mac computers with chips it designed itself starting next year the company may ship macs with chips based on arm the same semiconductor architecture used in iphones and ipads my colleagues explain why apple is making this shift after 15 years of relying on intel chips and what this means for inteldid trump get pranked by teenagers the trump campaign was anticipating huge crowds to attend a rally in tulsa okla over the weekend but the turnout was far from that my colleagues investigated the possibility that tiktok users and fans of korean pop music