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| Rochelle Toplensky / Financial Times: |
Sources: after considering Spotify's complaint about App Store fees, the EU has decided to launch an antitrust probe into Apple's conduct — The EU will launch a formal antitrust investigation into Apple in the next few weeks after Spotify accused the iPhone maker of “tilting the playing field to disadvantage competitors”.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: at WWDC, Apple will unveil iOS 13 with updated Maps, Reminders, and Messages apps, watchOS 6 with Calculator, Voice Memos, App Store, and more — Apple Inc. is planning to unleash a slew of new apps, features and development tools at its annual software conference next month.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: 2019 iPhones will feature new antenna technology which will improve iPhones' indoor navigation performance — TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out today with a new report on Apple's supply chain as it pertains to the 2019 and 2020 iPhones.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
What to expect from Microsoft Build 2019: a primary focus on Azure and AI, plus announcements related to Windows 10, Microsoft 365, HoloLens, and GitHub — Microsoft's Build developer conference returns to Seattle, rather than in San Francisco, for the third year in a row next week.
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| Oliver Burkeman / The Guardian: |
A critical examination of social media's role in driving the online news economy and how that is harming democratic politics as well as people's well-being — Is engagement with current affairs key to being a good citizen? Or could an endless torrent of notifications be harming democracy as well as our wellbeing?| Kev Needham / Mozilla Add-ons Blog: |
Expired certificate caused Firefox add-ons to stop working on Friday; Mozilla has issued a fix for most issues, advises others not to try any workarounds — Updates: — Some users are reporting that they do not have the “hotfix-update-xpi-signing-intermediate - bug-1548973” study active in “about:studies”.
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Tweets: @firefox, @artemr, @kiranpal, @torproject, @stshank, @firefox, @fugueish, @mozamo, @textfiles, and @rvstaveren
| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Research: Amazon could already offer next-day delivery to 72% of the US population, after growing its US logistics infrastructure ~3X in the past four years — KEY POINTS — Amazon is already capable of offering same-day and one-day delivery to 72% of the total U.S. population, according to RBC Capital Markets.
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| Los Angeles Times: |
How Bird is trying to make its unit economics work, experimenting with its business model, developing own scooters better suited for sharing, and more — A year ago, Bird Rides Inc. was flying high — and Silicon Valley was betting that it would keep on climbing.
Tweets: @latimes, @gerberkawasaki, @pinboard, @latrilife, @mdudas, @teddyschleifer, @melissakchan, @disruptepreneur, @martinsfp, @alexisohanian, @latimes, @kyoshino, @expolineledger, @alexisohanian, @aaschapiro, @charliearchy, @dmitry140, @jason, and @gaufre. Thanks:@dmitry140
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Israel responds to an alleged Hamas cyberattack with an airstrike, marking the first time a country has reacted with immediate military force to a cyberattack — Israel military said it bombed building housing Hamas cyber forces. — For the first time, Israel has used brute military force …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
An unprotected database offers a look at a surveillance system in Beijing, which matches faces to police records, monitors Wi-Fi-enabled devices, and more — Thousands of facial recognition scans were matched against Chinese police records — Smart cities are designed to make life easier …
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TechNode, New York Times, and Fortune
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @davidpaulk, @rj_gallagher, @grosetimothy, and @4ngl3rf1sh. Thanks:@campuscodi
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
What to expect at Google I/O 2019: midrange Pixel 3a and 3a XL, Nest Hub Max, a 10-inch smart display with a Nest Camera, Android Q updates, and more — Google's annual developer conference, Google I/O, is nearly upon us. In a few days' time, a keynote address headlined by CEO Sundar Pichai …
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| John Herrman / New York Times: |
UK will outsource porn site age verification to private industry, potentially handing porn streaming giant MindGeek a monopoly on the system and private data — Complying with a new law, the largest online porn company has set itself up to be the youth gatekeeper of British smut. What could go wrong?
Tweets: @finck_m and @naomiohreally
| Jack Shafer / Politico: |
Facebook could have limited the reach of Alex Jones and other “dangerous” figures without outright bans, which erode the US' strong free speech traditions — Jack Shafer is Politico's senior media writer. — Free speech took a whacking Thursday as Facebook cited its policies against …
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