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June 25, 2018, 9:55 AM

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple to unveil high-end AirPods with noise-cancellation, studio-quality over-ear headphones, and a new HomePod as early as next year  —  - High-end AirPods and over-ear headphones coming next year  — Foxconn to build AirPods; Inventec may lose some HomePod work
The Verge:
As Trump admin prepares for $200B in new tariffs on Chinese goods, small US gadget makers fear that price increases on key parts may put them out of business  —  Trump's tariffs could spell doom for small hardware startups  —  As the White House barrels toward $250 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports …
Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
Experts say domestic abusers increasingly use connected home devices like smart locks, security cameras, and lighting to scare or spy on victims  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The people who called into the help hotlines and domestic violence shelters said they felt as if they were going crazy.
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Details of Qualcomm SDM1000, likely Snapdragon 1000, leak showing bigger, 20×15mm sized chip for Windows 10 on ARM PCs to compete with Intel Core Y and U CPUs  —  Design goes head to head with Intel's Y and U series Core-branded processors.  —  Details of the SDM1000 …
Benedict Evans:
Machine learning may become a ubiquitous and fundamental enabling layer, similar to how relational databases impacted society in the eighties  —  We're now four or five years into the current explosion of machine learning, and pretty much everyone has heard of it.
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Recently-restructured robotic toy maker Sphero acquires Specdrums, which on Kickstarter sold $175K worth of rings that make music by tapping on colored surfaces  —  Sphero, the maker of connected toys like BB-8, announced this week that it's acquired Specdrums, a company that makes rings …

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