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What to expect from WWDC 2019: new Mac Pro, iOS 13 with Dark Mode and updates to core apps, macOS 10.15 with Marzipan apps, and 31.6-inch 6K pro display — Apple's big Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote is happening on Monday, June 3rd, and this year looks to be more consequential than most.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple has removed all content from its iTunes pages on Facebook and Instagram — More evidence has emerged to suggest that Apple is beginning to move away from its iTunes brand after over 18 years of use. — As noted on Reddit, Apple has abruptly removed all social media content … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DOJ is preparing an antitrust investigation into Google's practices related to search and other businesses — The Justice Department is preparing an antitrust investigation into Google's practices related to search and other business, sources say.
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| Saagar Enjeti / The Hill: |
On Friday, US began requiring most visa applicants to provide information on their use of social media; the policy was announced in March 2018 — The Trump administration will implement a new policy Friday asking most applicants for U.S. visas to provide information on their use of social media …
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Sources: Foxconn has stopped several production lines for Huawei phones in recent days as the Chinese device maker reduced orders for new phones — Huawei is now closely observing and evaluating the situation, Honor president Zhao Ming said at Shanghai event 'Too early to say whether … | Jeffrey Mervis / Science: |
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
DeepMind researchers detail how they designed autonomous agents that exhibited humanlike behavior when playing a first-person multiplayer game mode in Quake III — Chess and Go were child's play. Now A.I. is winning at capture the flag. Will such skills translate to the real world?
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| Brian Burlage / VICE: |
A self-described Reddit “karma whore” shares how he learned to make Reddit posts go viral and reflects on his years-long unfulfilling journey to 8M+ karma — My years-long journey to the top of Reddit's karma leaderboards has only made me feel more alone.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out its first AR in Search tab, which shows users a 3D model of the animal they searched for on an AR-enabled smartphone — At I/O 2019, Google announced a slew of AR features, including Dining and Translation filters for Google Lens. The ability to preview animals via augmented reality … | Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Sony's new IoT chip can transmit up to ~60 miles via Sony's low-power wide area ELTRES network, launching this fall, and work on objects moving at high speeds — Sony is quietly launching a chip that could change how e-bikes, cars, street lamps and all kinds of other connected devices can relay information.| Benedict Evans: |
As an estimated 4B of world's 5.3B adults now have smartphones, tech industry analysis shifts from tracking adoption to analyzing use trends and emerging tech — I've been making charts of internet use, mobile phones and smartphones since the early 2000s. At one point, they were confounding …
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| John Herrman / New York Times: |
Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube are rethinking the display of metrics such as likes, follower and view counts, because they are no longer the drivers of growth — Social networks built on public status markers are now starting to hide them. — In late April, at F8, Facebook's annual event for developers … | Shannon Hall / New York Times: |
Astronomers fear the reflections from the thousands of internet satellites launched by companies like SpaceX and Amazon can threaten their research — Images of the Starlink constellation in orbit have rattled astronomers around the world. — Last month, SpaceX successfully launched 60 500-pound satellites into space.
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