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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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Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Fast Company, Wareable, and Financial Times
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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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| 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.| Jason Koebler / VICE: |
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| 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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| 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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Tweets: @jeremyhfisher and @shannonmattern
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon launches Counter, its package pickup service, in the US, starting with 100 Rite Aid stores; it will expand to 1,500 locations by the end of the year — Amazon is teaming up with national drugstore Rite Aid as part of a new package pickup service that further expands the tech giant's logistics network.
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Amazon.com, Inc., Engadget, Fortune, Marketing Land, and Droid Life
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers detail a vulnerability in Excel's Power Query that can be abused to link to a webpage that contains malware; the exploit is in all versions of Excel — YOU PROBABLY THINK of Microsoft's classic spreadsheet program Excel as mostly boring. Sure, it can wrangle data, but it's not exactly Apex Legends.| 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, Engadget, CNET, Liliputing, and Android Police
| 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.| Anna Benckert / Facebook: |
Facebook announces updates to its terms of service, adding details on how the company makes money, content removals, and users' IP rights, effective July 31 — People should have clear, simple explanations of how online services work and use personal information.| 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: @kate_okeeffe, @bobdavis187, @lorandlaskai, @danciuriak, and @michaelcbender
| 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: @leighelse, @kdzwinel, @impressthenet, @_tijs, and @thornedu
| Joann Muller / Axios: |
Waymo hired 13 robotics experts from Anki, including co-founder and former CEO Boris Sofman, to lead its nascent trucking initiative — In one fell swoop, Waymo hired 13 robotics experts from defunct consumer robot maker Anki, including co-founder and former CEO Boris Sofman, to lead its nascent trucking initiative.Sponsor Posts
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