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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Jony Ive to leave Apple later this year after two decades at the company, will start a creative business called LoveFrom, with Apple as its first client — Jony Ive is leaving Apple after more than two decades in which his iconic designs for the Mac, iPod and iPhone turned …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
It's not worrying that Jony Ive is leaving Apple, but it is worrying that he's not being replaced, and the design team reporting to operations makes no sense — Apple Newsroom: … First: Wow. There've been rumors for years that Ive had one foot out the door, that his last real interest …
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Financial Times, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Wareable, and MacStories
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Interview with Jony Ive on why he is leaving Apple, continuing to work with the company with his new firm LoveFrom, whose name was inspired by Steve Jobs, more — It is the end of an era at Apple. Jony Ive will leave the company later this year to start a new venture of his own, called LoveFrom — with Apple as his first client.
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BuzzFeed News, CNET, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, Patently Apple, MacDailyNews, and GameSpot
Tweets: @panzer, @chandrarsrikant, @flyosity, @mattmiesnieks, @panzer, @smartenlight, @financialtimes, and @tim
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple design team leaders Evans Hankey and Alan Dye will now report to COO Jeff Williams; 24-year Apple vet Sabih Khan named SVP of Operations — Apple's longtime head of design, Jony Ive, is leaving the company to start his own design firm, Apple announced today.
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Apple, The Information, iMore, 9to5Mac, BetaNews, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Business Insider, The Verge, Macworld, and Cult of Mac
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| Jason Koebler / VICE: |
Jony Ive leaves a legacy of pushing Apple's products toward disposability and unrepairability, a choice that has reverberated across the consumer tech industry — Ive, Apple's Chief Design Officer, is leaving the company. He leaves a legacy that made its products hard to repair and impossible to upgrade.
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Financial Times, Mercury News, and Business Insider
Tweets: @vice, @katemitchellwa, @gregotto, @geoffreyfowler, @mcwm, @leojtravis10, and @yusuf_habu
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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iPhone Hacks, Fast Company, Financial Times, and Business Insider
Tweets: @technology, @ryanlawler, @markgurman, @sdw, and @markgurman
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Following criticism, Twitter rolls out a notice for tweets from political figures, verified users, and accounts with 100K+ followers that break its guidelines — The platform has been criticized for letting politicians break the rules without consequence — Today, Twitter is rolling …
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Twitter, BuzzFeed News, Wired, CNBC, Axios, help.twitter.com, Mashable, VentureBeat, The Next Web, and VICE
Tweets: @jack, @twittersafety, @darth, @jimprosser, @mollyjongfast, @kt_so_it_goes, @lizzadwoskin, @parismartineau, @johnpaczkowski, @ericboehlert, @wehpudicabok, @chuckrossdc, @parismartineau, @donie, @kantrowitz, @stevekovach, @rmac18, @howarda_esq, @rachsyme, @ashastral, @miseryhighlight, and @bborrman
| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
After backlash, the creator of DeepNude, which uses AI to remove clothing from images of women, takes it offline, citing server overload and potential harms — An app that algorithmically “undressed” images of women was taken down by its creator, citing server overload and potential harms.
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VICE, The Register, The Verge, Vox, CNN, The Next Web, The Daily Dot, CNET, Business Insider, and The Verge
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| Eric Geller / Politico: |
Sources: senior Trump officials have discussed whether to seek legislation prohibiting tech companies from using encryption that law enforcement can't break — Senior Trump administration officials met on Wednesday to discuss whether to seek legislation prohibiting tech companies from using forms …
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Gizmodo. Tweets: @matthew_d_green, @ericgeller, @zackwhittaker, @nakashimae, @weldpond, @legind, @ericgeller, @bkingdc, @ericgeller, @nakashimae, @ericgeller, @ericgeller, @neerajka, @ericgeller, and @ericgeller
| The Keyword: |
Google rolls out live traffic delays for buses and predictions of transit crowdedness in nearly 200 cities globally for Google Maps on iOS and Android — On days when everything runs smoothly, taking public transit is one of the best ways to get around town.
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The Keyword, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Google AI Blog, Neowin, The Next Web, Droid Life, Digital Trends, TechSpot, VentureBeat, Android Police, SlashGear, Thurrott, Gizmodo, iPhone Hacks, CNET, Phandroid, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, and CNBC
Tweets: @jeremyhfisher and @shannonmattern
| Katharine Schwab / Fast Company: |
Researchers: Google's reCAPTCHA v3 raises privacy concerns with its cookie-based data collection and Google's suggestion to embed reCAPTCHA everywhere on a site — The latest version of the bot detector reCaptcha is invisible to users and has spread to more than 650,000 websites.
Tweets: @_tijs, @johnwilander, @leighelse, @thornedu, @othermaciej, @kdzwinel, and @impressthenet
| Reuters: |
Sources: hackers likely belonging to Five Eyes governments used Regin malware in late 2018 to infiltrate Russian search giant Yandex and spy on users — - Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex (YNDX.O) in late 2018 deploying … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Superhuman, a $30/month email service designed for speed that has less than 15,000 users, raises $33M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $260M valuation — One of Silicon Valley's buzziest start-ups, Superhuman, is betting its app's shiny features are worth a premium price.
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Andreessen Horowitz and TechCrunch
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Alphabet to merge its cybersecurity startup Chronicle, which released its first product Backstory in March, into Google Cloud later this year — KEY POINTS — Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud and formerly president of product development at Oracle, speaks at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Oct. 3, 2017.
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Google Cloud Blog, Business Insider, and Engadget
Tweets: @daiwaka, @businessinsider, @rickhholland, @stevekovach, and @alexcpsec
| CNBC: |
In a first, Apple will begin selling One Drop, a glucose monitor for those with diabetes that works with iPhone and Watch, in select US stores — KEY POINTS — Select Apple Stores now sell One Drop, a blood glucose monitor that closely integrates with the iPhone and the Apple Watch.
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hitconsultant.net, CNET, and MacDailyNews
| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
Axon, formerly Taser, a supplier of body cams and software for 47 out of the 69 largest US police agencies, to ban the use of facial recognition on its devices — Its ethics board says the technology is not reliable enough to justify using. — Mr. Warzel is an Opinion writer at large.
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Axon, TechCrunch, NBC News, Government Technology News, CNET, The Seattle Times, and Quartz
Tweets: @hadip, @harlanyu, @cwarzel, @lauramoy, @anncavoukian, and @shiraovide
| Micah Singleton / Billboard: |
Spotify users who pre-save albums are granting record labels like Sony Music broad access to their accounts and data, the extent of which is often obscured — Users who “pre-save” an upcoming release to their Spotify accounts may be sharing more personal data with the act's label than they realize.
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TechCrunch and Engadget
Tweets: @micahsingleton, @micahsingleton, @neilcybart, and @privacydigest
| Wall Street Journal: |
Inside AMD's battle with the US government over a deal with the supercomputer developer Sugon, which saved AMD but helped China get advanced chip technology — Advanced Micro Devices revived its fortunes through the deal, and sparked a national-security battle
Tweets: @ncscgov, @kate_okeeffe, @bobdavis187, @econgeopoltech, @evadou, @lorandlaskai, @danciuriak, and @michaelcbender
| Yeo Jun-suk / The Korea Herald: |
Kakao's blockchain subsidiary Ground X launches its blockchain platform Klaytn, with support from companies including LG, and nine initial decentralized apps — Kakao's blockchain subsidiary Ground X on Thursday launched a public network platform for companies and developers …
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BusinessKorea, BitcoinExchangeGuide, and The Block
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla launches Firefox Preview, a pilot of its new Android browser powered by its GeckoView engine, to replace the current Firefox for Android app this fall — Mozilla today announced Firefox Preview, a pilot of its new Android browser. Firefox Preview, which is powered …
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Future Releases, Mozilla Hacks, The Next Web, and BrianMadden.com
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Inside Amazon's first-ever public re:Mars conference, focused on both the future of the company and technology, both of which increasingly look similar — There's a certain oversized quality to a Las Vegas conference center that makes you feel like a child monarch: simultaneously powerful and helpless.
Tweets: @konductorcomms, @sokane1, @kait_tiffany, @kmesch1, and @jjvincent
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