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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Apple announces iOS 13 with Dark Mode, Quick Path swipe keyboard, and performance improvements with up to twice as fast app launches and 30% faster Face ID — iOS 13 is here and it has dark mode — As expected, Apple has announced iOS 13 onstage at WWDC 2019, giving a first look at the company's latest software for the iPhone.
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9to5Mac, ZDNet, Engadget, Apple, CNET, The Verge, BetaNews, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Macworld, VentureBeat, Inquirer, Axios, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Gotta Be Mobile, and Mashable
Tweets: @andrewwrites, @alexstamos, @kerrymflynn, @kfury, @chris_ciaccia, @film_girl, @panzer, @thecultureofme, @geoffreyfowler, @bdsams, and @lanceulanoff
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple debuts “Sign in with Apple” button for apps, masking personal info like email addresses, while still letting apps' developers communicate with users — Apple announced a new Sign in with Apple button as part of its iOS 13 announcements. The button offers Apple ID single-sign …
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Gizmodo, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, and Engadget
| Matthew Miller / ZDNet: |
watchOS 6 to include a new Dose app for reminders to take medication, activity trends, Cycles app for tracking women's health, and more — Apple revealed details on the upcoming WatchOS 6 update for Apple Watch wearers. New health tools, complications, and more are included in this significant release.
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The Verge, CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and Apple
Tweets: @willoremus, @techledes, @richdemuro, @film_girl, @mollywood, and @gartenberg
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: FTC secured the rights to begin an anti-trust probe of Facebook as part of an agreement that let DOJ lead a Google probe; Facebook stock drops 7%+ — Federal Trade Commission secures right to examine how Facebook's practices affect digital competition — This is a developing story and will be updated shortly.
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Reuters, Telegraph, The Verge, Engadget, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, FutureSin, Slashdot, and Seeking Alpha
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
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| New York Times: |
Researchers find YouTube's recommendation algorithm is curating home movies of unwitting families into a catalog sexualizing children — Christiane C. didn't think anything of it when her 10-year-old daughter and a friend uploaded a video of themselves playing in a backyard pool.
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces tvOS 13 for Apple TV, bringing multi-user support, lyrics synced with music, support for Xbox One S and PlayStation DualShock 4 game controllers — Apple has today unveiled tvOS 13, the newest Apple TV operating system, on stage at its WWDC 2019 keynote.
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The Verge, VentureBeat, Apple, MacRumors, Macworld, CNET, Ars Technica, iMore, Gizmodo, Thurrott, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Inquirer, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Gamasutra
Tweets: @asymco, @reneritchie, @mkbhd, and @siracusa
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Apple unveils Mac Pro with a tower design, 8 internal PCI Express slots, up to 1.5TB system memory, and a 28-core Intel Xeon chip; coming in the Fall from $6K — The most powerful Mac is staging a comeback this fall — Having admitted that its glossy “trash can” Mac Pro of 2013 was a mistake …
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Engadget, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, MacRumors, Apple, iMore, Ars Technica, IGN, and Slashdot
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says 10M+ items are now available for one-day shipping; while Walmart has also recently launched next-day shipping, only ~200K items are available for it — Amazon on its latest earnings call announced it was working towards making one-day shipping the new standard for Prime members.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Twitter acquires Fabula AI, which uses ML to help detect the spread of misinformation online, to join Twitter's in-house team of AI researchers called Cortex — Twitter has acquired Fabula AI, a London-based startup that uses machine learning (ML) to help detect the spread of misinformation online.
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Twitter, Telegraph, SiliconANGLE, Marketing Land, Adweek, ZDNet, TechCrunch, and Neowin. Tweets: @twittereng
| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Samsung and AMD announce a strategic partnership where Samsung will license custom graphics IP based on AMD's Radeon GPU tech for use in its mobile GPUs — Today Samsung and AMD announced a new multi-year strategic partnership between the two companies, where Samsung SLSI will license graphics IP from AMD for use in mobile GPUs.
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Engadget, ZDNet, Forbes, Android Police, 9to5Google, PCWorld, Android Authority, SiliconANGLE, AMD, Neowin, FierceWireless, and Slashdot
Tweets: @smetaldave64 and @patrickmoorhead
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple debuts macOS Catalina, which includes ability to use iPad as external display, and this Fall will let devs target iPad apps at Mac via Project Catalyst — The next version of macOS will be called Catalina. Apple officially unveiled the new update onstage at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) today.
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The Verge, VentureBeat, iMore, MacRumors, and CNET
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook introduces Avatars, its Bitmoji competitor, launching the look-alike stickers feature today in Australia for use in Messenger and News Feed comments — Stickers that look like you — Ditch those generic emoji. Facebook's new Avatars feature lets you customize a virtual lookalike …
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Digital Trends, The Verge, and Engadget
Tweets: @mattnavarra, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Justin Osofsky, a senior executive at Facebook who has been at the company for 11 years, joins Instagram as COO — - Longtime Facebook exec Justin Osofsky is joining as COO — Instagram also adds a marketing head, analytics chief — After nearly nine months of searching …
Tweets: @kurtwagner8 and @kurtwagner8
| The Verge: |
Apple enables HomeKit support for home security cameras, with 10 days of free encrypted footage storage in iCloud; Logitech and Arlo among launch partners — Store footage in iCloud for 10 days at no charge — Apple's smart home system, HomeKit, is adding support for several new types …
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Engadget and VentureBeat
Tweets: @dcseifert, @harrymccracken, @chockenberry, @chrisdancy, @raywongy, @jgamet, @wjrothman, @reneritchie, and @ow
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Apple announces watchOS 6 with its own App Store, independent apps, new watch faces, a streaming audio API support, and new voice memo, calculator apps — Apple has announced the latest version of its smartwatch software platform, watchOS 6. The new Apple Watch software doesn't drastically change things …
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TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, New York Times, and InvestorPlace
Tweets: @benbajarin, @techcrunch, @reneritchie, @mkbhd, @viticci, and @panzer
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Apple is adding a Street View-style feature to Apple Maps in iOS 13, letting users tap into a spot on a map and look at a 360-degree photo of that location — Apple is adding a Street View style feature to Apple Maps, letting you tap in to a spot on the map and look around at a 360-degree photo of what's actually in that location.
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CNET, TechCrunch, and Engadget
Tweets: @ingridlunden, @lanceulanoff, @alexhern, @lanceulanoff, @benbajarin, and @caseynewton
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple reveals iPadOS with new home screen widgets, an improved Files app with a Finder-like column view and thumb drive support, more multitasking gestures — Another step toward laptop-like tasks — “We have some big changes coming to iPad,” says Craig Federighi, Apple's software chief.
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Apple, Apple, Digital Trends, Business Insider, and Forbes
Tweets: @techledes, @bdsams, @benbajarin, and @benbajarin
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple's updated App Store guidelines say that apps in the kids category cannot include third-party advertising or analytics — Apple has told developers to stop including third-party trackers in apps designed for kids — or they face having their apps pulled from the app store.
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| PYMNTS.com: |
Stripe launches Chargeback Protection, based on its fraud prevention tool Radar, which automatically reimburses businesses for the cost of a disputed charge — Stripe, the payments company, announced Monday (June 2) the launch of Chargeback Protection, a new service that provides customers with machine learning-based fraud protection.
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Stripe, ZDNet, Irish Tech News, and SiliconANGLE
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In iOS 13, iMessage supports profile photos, including new Memoji personalized with makeup and accessories; Memoji can also be turned into stickers — Apple is giving iMessage a big upgrade with iOS 13, the company announced today at its Worldwide Developer Conference.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Apple says iOS 13 will give Siri a more natural-sounding voice, enable multi-step custom voice commands in Shortcuts, allow quick responses to SMS with AirPods — Apple's AI assistant Siri is getting a more natural sounding voice, help with multi-step custom voice commands in the Shortcuts app …
Tweets: @benwood, @shahidkamal, @willoremus, @rhysmorgan, @suka_hiroaki, @ow, @bdsams, and @anshelsag
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