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SEC filing: Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger has resigned from Apple's board — LOS ANGELES — Robert A. Iger, Disney's chief executive and chairman, has resigned from the board of Apple, whose growing Hollywood operation would have made it harder for him to fully engage as one of its directors.
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
A look at Ultra Wideband-based U1 chip in iPhone 11 models, which is being used for AirDrop and could have many other potential applications like tracking tags — Apple likes talking about the awesome chips it designs for its iPhones, but it hates even hinting at products it hasn't yet announced.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
MoviePass says it is shutting down and ending service for all subscribers on Saturday, September 14 — KEY POINTS — The company informed subscribers that it was ending the service because its “efforts to recapitalize MoviePass have not been successful to date.”
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will reportedly launch a 15-inch version of the Surface Laptop 3 during its October 2 event — Surface Book 3 probably won't appear next month — Microsoft is planning to refresh its Surface lineup next month, and there could be a bigger version of the Surface Laptop 3 in the cards.| Jason Parham / Wired: |
A profile of Urban Dictionary, which started as a fun way to find meanings for slang but has done little to moderate submissions, letting hate speech flourish — The crowdsourced dictionary once felt like a pioneering tool of the early internet era. Now in its 20th year, it has become something much more inhospitable.
Tweets: @megreenwell, @wired, @wired, and @wired
| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Interview with Björk about her album Vulnicura VR, which is arguably the world's first full “VR pop album”, now available on Windows PC via Steam — On VR's doubters: “It's a boring question. Can there be soul in technology? Yes!" — “I often feel like some sort of … | Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: |
After selling AppNexus to AT&T for $1.6B, Brian O'Kelley raises $10M for his new startup, CMDTY, to apply his adtech expertise to supply chain logistics — What does physical commodities trading have in common with programmatic advertising? Quite a lot.
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Spotify acquires SoundBetter, a music production marketplace for artists, producers, and musicians to connect on specific projects, for an undisclosed sum — Spotify today took another step in its efforts to build out services for artists to help diversify itself away from a business model predicated …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
US Treasury sanctions three North Korean state-sponsored hacking groups, Lazarus, Bluenoroff, and Andarial; Lazarus was responsible for WannaCry ransomware — US wants to seize financial assets associated with the Lazarus Group, Bluenoroff, and Andarial. — The US Department …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Bipartisan House lawmakers ask Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple for detailed information about internal operations and execs' emails in antitrust probe — A congressional antitrust investigation into Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google entered a new phase Friday, after lawmakers called …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple says developers now have the option to offer a grace period for auto-renewable subscriptions when they lapse due to factors like expired credit cards — Apple is changing how subscriptions work on its App Store. Before, any lapse in payment could cut off the customer from being able …
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YouTube says it will no longer allow paid views and advertising to influence its YouTube Music Charts, instead calculating rankings based only on organic plays — YouTube will no longer allow paid views and advertising to influence its YouTube Music Charts, the company announced this morning.
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