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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: |
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
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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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9to5Mac, New York Times, The Hill, CNN, The Verge, CNET, AppleInsider, iMore, Engadget, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Axios, Inquirer, InvestorPlace, Reuters, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, Mashable, CNBC, The Mac Observer, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @markgurman
| 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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| 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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VICE, BBC, Synced, MIT Technology Review, CNN, Ars Technica, Memeburn, Silicon Republic, KnowTechie, Firstpost Tech, Naked Security, and The Verge
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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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| 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.
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GeekWire, Rakuten Intelligence, and TechSpot
Tweets: @sub8u, @retailprophet, @rakeshlobster, @whatthebit, @cristinagberta, and @erica_pandey
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Synergy Research: enterprise SaaS revenue will hit $100B annual run rate in Q2, with Microsoft, Salesforce, and Adobe accounting for nearly 40% of the market — In its most recent report, Synergy Research, a company that monitors cloud marketshare, found that enterprise SaaS revenue passed the $100 billion run rate this quarter.
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srgresearch.com, Computer Business Review, and SiliconANGLE
| 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 …
Tweets: @anildash, @eringriffith, @eringriffith, @puiwingtam, and @newsycombinator
| Ainsley Harris / Fast Company: |
AltSchool, which raised ~$175M, says a partner will operate its remaining schools, rebrands as Altitude Learning to focus on its personalized learning platform — When entrepreneur and former Googler Max Ventilla cofounded education startup AltSchool in spring 2013, he had big plans.
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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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Twitter, Wired, BuzzFeed News, Fox News, KnowTechie, Tubefilter, Tech.co, Washington Post, Politico, Social Media Today, MediaNama, Digital Trends, and help.twitter.com
Tweets: @jack, @twittersafety, @darth, and @jimprosser
| 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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Threatpost, CNN, US Food and Drug …, and Nextgov
Tweets: @fdacommissioner, @beauwoods, and @xssniper
| 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, and @impressthenet
| 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
| 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, @kmesch1, @konductorcomms, @karaswisher, and @jjvincent
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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