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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Jony Ive to leave Apple later this year after more than two decades at the company, to start LoveFrom, a creative business, 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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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: since the Apple Watch launched in 2015, Jony Ive began to shed responsibilities, with day-to-day oversight reduced to coming to HQ twice a week — - Company's close-knit design team withered in recent years — Future breakthrough products need new tech, not just design
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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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| 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.
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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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BuzzFeed News, AppleInsider, Business Insider, KnowTechie, Cult of Mac, Fast Company, O'Grady's PowerPage, Bloomberg, Softpedia News, and Inquirer
Tweets: @panzer, @chandrarsrikant, @eli_schiff, @eli_schiff, @mattmiesnieks, @smartenlight, @flyosity, @panzer, @financialtimes, and @tim
| Jason Koebler / VICE: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is assembling its new Mac Pro in China, moving abroad production of what had been its only major device assembled in the US — The $6,000 desktop computer had been the company's only major device assembled in the U.S. — Apple Inc. AAPL -1.09% is manufacturing …
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| 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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| David Hambling / MIT Technology Review: |
Jetson, a new prototype developed for the Pentagon, can identify people up to 200 meters away by analyzing their heartbeat using an infrared laser — The Jetson prototype can pick up on a unique cardiac signature from 200 meters away, even through clothes. — Everyone's heart is different.
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| 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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| 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: @othermaciej, @leighelse, @kdzwinel, @impressthenet, @_tijs, and @johnwilander
| Erica Pandey / Axios: |
Rakuten: around 48% of Amazon packages in the US are now delivered by Amazon itself, up from 15% two years ago, when the Postal Service delivered 60%+ packages — Less than a decade after Amazon broke into the logistics industry, it has become its own biggest shipper.
Tweets: @sub8u, @rakeshlobster, @cristinagberta, @retailprophet, @whatthebit, and @erica_pandey
| Kate Fazzini / CNBC: |
FDA says Medtronic is recalling some insulin pumps that connect wirelessly to other insulin equipment because they can't be updated to address security flaws — KEY POINTS — “MiniMed 508” Medtronic insulin pumps have cybersecurity problems that can't be updated or patched …
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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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| Jezebel: |
Investigation finds that Amazon's Rekognition frequently misgenders trans, queer, and nonbinary individuals by design, further alienating a marginalized group — In 2017, the Washington County Sheriff's Office, just outside Portland, Oregon, wanted to find a man covered in dollar bills.
Tweets: @jezebel, @annamerlan, @esjayxx, @fittsofalexis, @jezebel, @jawnita, and @mercedes_allen
| Alisha Goldberg / Restaurant Technology News: |
Restaurant365, a cloud-based accounting, back office, and reporting platform for restaurants, raises $88M Series C led by Iconiq Capital — Restaurant365 announced today that it has closed an $88 million minority investment led by ICONIQ Capital, a Silicon Valley growth equity firm.| Wade Tyler Millward / EdSurge: |
Degreed raises $35M in equity and $40M in debt in a Series C2 round, bringing the total raised to ~$140M, to expand its corporate learning platform — During a recent trip to Bangalore to visit a prospective corporate client, Chris McCarthy didn't know how many people to expect for a talk he was to give on the future of learning.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Inside Amazon's first-ever public re:Mars conference, focused on both the future of the company and technology, both of which increasingly look similar — There's a certain oversized quality to a Las Vegas conference center that makes you feel like a child monarch: simultaneously powerful and helpless.
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CNET. Tweets: @sokane1, @kait_tiffany, @jjvincent, @kmesch1, @konductorcomms, and @karaswisher
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
Evernote CEO Ian Small talks about efforts to turn around the once hot unicorn, which now expects to reach a positive cash flow on ~$100M in revenue this year — Smiling cryptically, Ian Small, the chief executive of Evernote, handed me some socks. Nice ones: black in the calf … | Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Livongo, which sells connected devices to monitor diabetes, files for an IPO, says it had $32.06M in revenue in Q1 2019 with a net loss of $14.96M — KEY POINTS — The company provide tools for people with chronic disease, and works with some 600 employers and health plans.| 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 …
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Tweets: @ivladdalvi, @agnotology42, @ericgeller, and @lorenzofb
| Caroline Haskins / VICE: |
Somerville, MA becomes the second US city after San Francisco, to ban the use of facial recognition software by local police and city government agencies — Somerville, which neighbors Cambridge, Massachusetts, just joined San Francisco in banning the use of facial recognition.| 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.
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