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App Store guidelines and policies were created for the world as it was a decade ago, and Apple should rewrite them for a very different world today — It's time for Apple to re-write and re-think the App Store rules. Because it's 2020, not 2010. … Given Apple's recent statements … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
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Apple is temporarily closing 11 stores across Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, and South Carolina amid COVID-19 spikes — Apple Inc. is temporarily shutting some of its U.S. retail stores again after cases of Covid-19 spiked in some areas across the country, Bloomberg News reports.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Oracle owned BlueKai had an unprotected server leaking identifiable user data and sensitive browsing info, exposing billions of records for anyone to find — Billions of records exposed. — Have you ever wondered why online ads appear for things that you were just thinking about?| Patrick Kulp / Adweek: |
Pandora will offer more stats to podcast hosts like where listeners live, how long they tune in to each episode, and the number of thumbs up/down they receive — Move makes the streaming service more competitive with Apple and Spotify — Key insight: — Podcasting has long suffered … | Bobbie Johnson / MIT Technology Review: |
The UK government's efforts to build a centralized contract tracing app from scratch were plagued by poor technical execution and chaotic personnel management — The failed rollout of Britain's covid-19 app will damage digital contact tracing efforts worldwide—but its troubles were the result of clear, specific errors.| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
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The IRS says it bought access to a marketing database of location data for millions of US cellphones to try to identify and track potential criminal suspects — The unsuccessful effort shows how anonymized information sold by marketers is increasingly being used by law enforcement to identify suspects| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Snap apologizes and disables its Juneteenth filter that allowed users to “smile and break the chains”, saying it didn't go through its usual review process — It's the latest example of a controversial Snapchat filter — Snapchat is apologizing for a controversial Juneteenth filter … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at the internal divisions at Apple over its plans for an AR/VR headset, which may be released in 2022; AR glasses to be released by 2023 at the earliest — In late 2018, Apple Inc. was a few years into its plan to build a powerful headset with both virtual- and augmented-reality capabilities when things shifted dramatically.| Sophie Alexander / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood says it's changing its options offerings after a young customer committed suicide when his account temporarily showed a negative balance of over $700K — Robinhood is changing its options offerings, including increased education, in the wake of a young customer's suicide.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
BMW and Mercedes-Benz end their partnership, which was announced in July 2019 for the development of autonomous driving technology — BMW Group and Mercedes-Benz AG have punted on what was meant to be a long term collaboration to develop next-generation automated driving technology together … | Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Google removes 106 malicious Chrome extensions with 32M downloads that collected browsing history and sensitive credentials, after being alerted by researchers — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions … | Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Profile of Neeva, founded by former head of Google's advertising arm, which has raised $37.5M for a search engine to be funded via subscriptions instead of ads — Sridhar Ramaswamy once ran Google's $115 billion advertising arm. But he grew disillusioned and worried that growth was too much of a priority.
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