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June 22, 2020, 11:45 AM

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Apple approves HEY's email app, updated with small tweaks in line with Apple's guidelines; HEY still has no in-app purchases or signups  —  What does it mean for an app to ‘work’ at launch?  —  After rejecting an update last week, Apple has approved a new version of the subscription email app Hey.
Steven Sinofsky / Learning By Shipping:
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Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Kuo: Apple will launch AirPods 3 in the first half of 2021, with a design similar to the AirPods Pro  —  Yesterday, Kuo released his roadmap for Apple's ARM Mac transition, which is set to be officially announced in just a few hours.  And today, the TF Securities analyst continues his reporting with an update on AirPods.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Microsoft confirms it acquired Israel-based IoT and industrial security startup CyberX, sources say for about $165M  —  Another big acquisition out of Israel this week points to how bigger tech companies are using the economic slowdown to focus on their longer-term strategies and shore up assets to support that.
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Kuo: first ARM-based Macs will be a 13" MacBook Pro and a revamped 24" iMac, coming in Q4 or Q1 2021; all new Mac models will have ARM CPUs starting in 2021  —  Apple plans to introduce its Arm-based custom designed chips for Macs at WWDC, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a note to investors today …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Liam Tung / ZDNet:
Microsoft previews GPU support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux to boost ML apps run with the tool; AMD, Nvidia, Intel have announced support for the effort  —  Windows 10's subsystem for Linux, WSL, gains GPU access for machine learning.  —  Nvidia, Intel and AMD have announced …
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Nintendo is reconsidering developing smartphone games, focusing instead on its own platforms, following the success of Animal Crossing on Switch  —  - Company has been underwhelmed by return on its mobile efforts  — Betting that it can best capture gaming growth on own platform
Joseph Cox / VICE:
In 2019, just days after NSO Group unveiled a human rights policy for the use of its malware, Amnesty International says an activist was hacked with NSO tools  —  Just three days after controversial surveillance vendor NSO Group announced its new human rights policy, saying that clients …

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