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June 27, 2019, 7:05 PM

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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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
James Vincent / The Verge:
EU expert panel recommends that EU should ban AI-based social credit scoring and limit mass surveillance  —  New recommendations have also been criticized as lacking enforceability  —  A group of policy experts assembled by the EU has recommended that it ban the use of AI for mass surveillance and mass …
Polina Marinova / Fortune:
A profile of Jeff Jordan, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, who became a VC in his fifties and invested early in Airbnb, Instacart, and Pinterest  —  How Jeff Jordan is applying what he learned during his time at Disney, eBay, and OpenTable to help founders at Airbnb, Pinterest, and Instacart.
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic:
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is trying a new approach to limit the distribution of deepfakes, argues that the definition is too broad and needs to be scoped  —  Mark Zuckerberg signaled today that Facebook might be taking a different approach to so-called deepfakes, synthetic videos created through …

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