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| Christina Passariello / Wall Street Journal: |
Interviews with Apple executives reveal how Jony Ive, Apple's chief designer, brought Steve Jobs's exacting design vision for Apple Park to life — With Apple Park, the company's chief designer has once again brought Steve Jobs's exacting design vision to life
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Tweets: @neilcybart and @wsjmag
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google says it has removed Google Instant search results, which showed results as users typed, citing the shift from desktop to mobile searches — After launching Google Instant — Google's method of showing search results as you type them — several years ago, Google has removed the feature from search effective today.
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber could appoint a new CEO within six weeks, says head of HR; shortlist has fewer than six candidates, including HPE's Meg Whitman — Uber Technologies Inc. hopes to name a new leader by early September to replace its ousted chief executive officer and steer the ride-hailing business out of a turbulent period.
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Apple and Cochlear partner to introduce the Nucleus 7 Sound Processor hearing implant, which works directly with iOS devices rather than via an app — Apple has teamed up with Australian-based Cochlearto bring iPhone users the first made for iPhone Cochlear implant.
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| Roberto Baldwin / Engadget: |
Waze mapping software is now a part of Android Auto, joining Google Maps — Google Maps has become the de facto way to get from point A to point B. But for commuters and Uber/Lyft drivers, Waze — with Google's transit information overlaid and crowdsourced data — has become invaluable.
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| David Lumb / Engadget: |
Google brings its Trusted Contacts location sharing app to iOS and updates the Android app with new features — Google released Trusted Contacts for Android at the end of last year as an app version of Facebook's Safety Check that automatically shares your phone's status to close friends and family.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Adobe says it will stop updating and distributing Flash at the end of 2020 — Adobe today announced that Flash, the once-ubiquitous plugin that allowed you to play your first Justin Bieber video on YouTube and Dolphin Olympics 2 on Kongregate, will be phased out by the end of 2020.
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Wisconsin judge orders Apple pay $506M to University of Wisconsin-Madison for patent infringement of A7, A8, A8X system-on-chip CPU designs; Apple to appeal — A U.S. district court judge on Monday ruled Apple must pay $506 million in damages for infringing on a microprocessor technology IP owned …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
eBay debuts AI-powered Image Search tool, which scans photos to find items online, and Find it on eBay, which uses photos from the web, coming to mobile in fall — With artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning seemingly permeating just about every facet of the online world …
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eBay Newsroom, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, eBay Newsroom, BetaNews, MacRumors, Android Police, and Engadget
| Reuters: |
Greek police arrest Russia's Alexander Vinnik on suspicion of laundering $4B+ via bitcoin; sources say Vinnik was key person behind the BTC-e currency exchange — Karolina Tagaris , Jack Stubbs and Anna Irrera — ATHENS/MOSCOW/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Russian man suspected …
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WizSec, Associated Press, The Verge, The Merkle, CoinDesk, and Ars Technica. Tweets: @coindesk
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi unveils Mi AI smart speaker, available in China for ~$45, to control Xiaomi hardware and other smart products, play media, more — Hot on the heels of reports that Facebook is developing its own take on Amazon Echo, China's Xiaomi has joined the tech company masses by jumping into the increasingly crowded smart speaker space.| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Microsoft debuts Azure Container Instances, which make it easier to deploy and bill containers on Azure, and joins foundation that oversees Kubernetes — Microsoft's cloud business is making two notable moves involving containers Wednesday — unveiling a new service that aims to make it much easier …
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Microsoft Azure, ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Fire Hose, MSPoweruser, and MSPoweruser. Thanks:@toddbishop
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook to debut a series of original, short-form videos from partners in mid-Aug., after a number of false starts; longer-form content to come later — Facebook's video tab start has been delayed several times — Company is asking partners to turn in first episodes now
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Fox News, AppleInsider, The Verge, CNET, FierceCable, Consumerist, Engadget, MacRumors, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @shahrzadrafati and @sarahfrier
| Sean O'Neill / Skift: |
Google is testing vacation rental search in its hotel price-comparison tool using ~7,000 property listings in Europe — This apartment, based in Paris's 15th arrondissement (or neighborhood), is available on Booking.com and was listed yesterday for a booking of 8 to 14 people via Google's “hotel search.”
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Nintendo Q1 beats expectations as revenue rose nearly 150% YoY to $1.37B on strong demand for the Switch console, which sold 1.97M units in Q1, 4.71M in total — - The company sold 1.97 million Switch consoles and maintained its forecast of selling 10 million units this financial year.| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Canalys report: Apple iPhone's market share in China fell to fifth place last quarter, behind Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi — - It's an area where Apple has struggled in recent years, with sales down 14 percent year over year last quarter. — Apple's share of the Chinese smartphone market fell …
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Canalys, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends, PYMNTS.com, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, Seeking Alpha, and Gizmochina. Tweets: @canalys
| Eugene Kaspersky / Nota Bene: |
Kaspersky announces free version of its antivirus software in US, Canada, and some Asia Pacific countries, with global rollout expected over four months — Hi folks! — I've some fantastic, earth-shattering-saving news: we're announcing the global launch of Kaspersky Free, which …
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