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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Apple unveils Mac Pro with a tower design, 8 PCIe slots, up to 1.5TB of system memory, up to 28-core Intel Xeon CPU, up to 4 AMD GPUs; coming this Fall from $6K — The most powerful Mac is staging a comeback this fall — Having admitted that its glossy “trash can” Mac Pro of 2013 was a mistake …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple debuts macOS Catalina, which includes the ability to use an iPad as an external display, and will let devs target iPad apps at Mac via Project Catalyst — The next version of macOS will be called Catalina. Apple officially unveiled the new update onstage at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) today.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Apple breaks up iTunes, creates separate Podcasts, TV, and Music apps for macOS — Three dedicated apps — The iTunes era is over. During its annual developers conference today, Apple announced that it's breaking iTunes up into three separate macOS apps: Podcasts, TV, and Music.
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Apple announces $4,999 Pro Display XDR, a 32-inch 6K Retina LCD display; a Pro stand, sold separately for $999, has tilt, height, and rotation adjustment — At WWDC 2019 today, Apple announced its Pro Display XDR display, along with the redesigned Mac Pro. The 32-inch LCD display has a 6016 x 3384 Retina 6K display.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Apple announces iOS 13 with Dark Mode, Quick Path swipe keyboard, and a redesigned Reminders app, with up to 2x faster app launches and 30% faster Face ID — iOS 13 is here and it has dark mode — As expected, Apple has announced iOS 13 onstage at WWDC 2019, giving a first look at the company's latest software for the iPhone.
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| Andrew O'Hara / AppleInsider: |
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: FTC secured the rights to begin an anti-trust probe of Facebook as part of an agreement that let DOJ lead a Google probe; Facebook stock drops 7%+ — Federal Trade Commission secures right to examine how Facebook's practices affect digital competition — This is a developing story and will be updated shortly.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple's updated App Store guidelines say that apps in the kids category cannot include third-party advertising or analytics — Apple has told developers to stop including third-party trackers in apps designed for kids — or they face having their apps pulled from the app store.
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Researchers find YouTube's recommendation algorithm is curating home movies of unwitting families into a catalog sexualizing children — Christiane C. didn't think anything of it when her 10-year-old daughter and a friend uploaded a video of themselves playing in a backyard pool.
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces tvOS 13 for Apple TV, bringing multi-user support, lyrics synced with music, support for Xbox One S and PlayStation DualShock 4 game controllers — Apple has today unveiled tvOS 13, the newest Apple TV operating system, on stage at its WWDC 2019 keynote.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says 10M+ items are now available for one-day shipping; while Walmart has also recently launched next-day shipping, only ~200K items are available for it — Amazon on its latest earnings call announced it was working towards making one-day shipping the new standard for Prime members.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple reveals iPadOS with new home screen widgets, an improved Files app with a Finder-like column view and thumb drive support, more multitasking gestures — Another step toward laptop-like tasks — “We have some big changes coming to iPad,” says Craig Federighi, Apple's software chief.
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Samsung and AMD announce a strategic partnership where Samsung will license custom graphics IP based on AMD's Radeon GPU tech for use in its mobile GPUs — Today Samsung and AMD announced a new multi-year strategic partnership between the two companies, where Samsung SLSI will license graphics IP from AMD for use in mobile GPUs.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook introduces Avatars, its Bitmoji competitor, launching the look-alike stickers feature today in Australia for use in Messenger and News Feed comments — Stickers that look like you — Ditch those generic emoji. Facebook's new Avatars feature lets you customize a virtual lookalike …
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Android Police, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Verge, MSPoweruser, and Mashable
Tweets: @joshconstine, @mattnavarra, and @joshconstine
| Matthew Miller / ZDNet: |
watchOS 6 to include a new Dose app for reminders to take medication, activity trends, Cycles app for tracking women's health, and more — Apple revealed details on the upcoming WatchOS 6 update for Apple Watch wearers. New health tools, complications, and more are included in this significant release.
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The Verge, CNET, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Apple, TmoNews, Gotta Be Mobile, and Mashable
Tweets: @willoremus, @techledes, @richdemuro, @film_girl, @mollywood, and @gartenberg
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Twitter acquires Fabula AI, which uses ML to help detect the spread of misinformation online, to join Twitter's in-house team of AI researchers called Cortex — Twitter has acquired Fabula AI, a London-based startup that uses machine learning (ML) to help detect the spread of misinformation online.
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Twitter, Telegraph, SiliconANGLE, Marketing Land, Adweek, TechCrunch, ZDNet, and Neowin. Tweets: @twittereng
| AJ Dellinger / Engadget: |
Apple redesigns CarPlay to let multiple apps be put side-by-side and the ability for Siri to provide on-screen app suggestions — Apple CarPlay is getting a redesign. Apple announced at its annual Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) that it is overhauling the in-car entertainment system's dashboard …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Justin Osofsky, a senior executive at Facebook who has been at the company for 11 years, joins Instagram as COO — - Longtime Facebook exec Justin Osofsky is joining as COO — Instagram also adds a marketing head, analytics chief — After nearly nine months of searching …
Tweets: @kurtwagner8 and @kurtwagner8
| The Verge: |
Apple enables HomeKit support for home security cameras, with 10 days of free encrypted footage storage in iCloud; Logitech and Arlo among launch partners — Store footage in iCloud for 10 days at no charge — Apple's smart home system, HomeKit, is adding support for several new types …
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Tweets: @dcseifert, @chockenberry, @chrisdancy, @harrymccracken, @raywongy, @jgamet, @wjrothman, @reneritchie, and @ow
| PYMNTS.com: |
Stripe launches Chargeback Protection, based on its fraud prevention tool Radar, which automatically reimburses businesses for the cost of a disputed charge — Stripe, the payments company, announced Monday (June 2) the launch of Chargeback Protection, a new service that provides customers with machine learning-based fraud protection.
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