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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Jony Ive to leave Apple later this year after two decades at the company, will start a creative business called LoveFrom, with Apple as its first client — Jony Ive is leaving Apple after more than two decades in which his iconic designs for the Mac, iPod and iPhone turned …
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Interview with Jony Ive on why he is leaving Apple, continuing to work with the company with his new firm LoveFrom, whose name was inspired by Steve Jobs, more — It is the end of an era at Apple. Jony Ive will leave the company later this year to start a new venture of his own, called LoveFrom — with Apple as his first client.
Tweets: @smartenlight, @panzer, @flyosity, @panzer, @financialtimes, and @tim
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple design team leaders Evans Hankey and Alan Dye will now report to COO Jeff Williams; 24-year Apple vet Sabih Khan named SVP of Operations — Apple's longtime head of design, Jony Ive, is leaving the company to start his own design firm, Apple announced today.| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Following criticism, Twitter rolls out a notice for tweets from political figures, verified users, and accounts with 100K+ followers that break its guidelines — The platform has been criticized for letting politicians break the rules without consequence — Today, Twitter is rolling …
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| The Keyword: |
Google rolls out live traffic delays for buses and predictions of transit crowdedness in nearly 200 cities globally on iOS and Android — On days when everything runs smoothly, taking public transit is one of the best ways to get around town. Not only is it cost-effective and efficient …
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In a first, Apple will begin selling One Drop, a glucose monitor for those with diabetes that works with iPhone and Watch, in select US stores — KEY POINTS — Select Apple Stores now sell One Drop, a blood glucose monitor that closely integrates with the iPhone and the Apple Watch.| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Alphabet to merge its cybersecurity startup Chronicle, which released its first product Backstory in March, into Google Cloud later this year — KEY POINTS — Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud and formerly president of product development at Oracle, speaks at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Oct. 3, 2017.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: hackers likely belonging to Five Eyes governments used Regin malware in late 2018 to infiltrate Russian search giant Yandex and spy on users — WASHINGTON/LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon launches Counter, its package pickup service, in the US, starting with 100 Rite Aid stores; it will expand to 1,500 locations by the end of the year — Amazon is teaming up with national drugstore Rite Aid as part of a new package pickup service that further expands the tech giant's logistics network.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Superhuman, a $30/month email service designed for speed that has less than 15,000 users, raises $33M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $260M valuation — One of Silicon Valley's buzziest start-ups, Superhuman, is betting its app's shiny features are worth a premium price.
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| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
Axon, formerly Taser, a supplier of body cams and software for 47 out of the 69 largest US police agencies, to ban the use of facial recognition on its devices — Its ethics board says the technology is not reliable enough to justify using. — Mr. Warzel is an Opinion writer at large.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla launches Firefox Preview, a pilot of its new Android browser powered by its GeckoView engine, to replace the current Firefox for Android app this fall — Mozilla today announced Firefox Preview, a pilot of its new Android browser. Firefox Preview, which is powered …
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| Joann Muller / Axios: |
Waymo hired 13 robotics experts from Anki, including co-founder and former CEO Boris Sofman, to lead its nascent trucking initiative — In one fell swoop, Waymo hired 13 robotics experts from defunct consumer robot maker Anki, including co-founder and former CEO Boris Sofman, to lead its nascent trucking initiative.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
EU expert panel recommends that EU should ban AI-based social credit scoring and limit mass surveillance — New recommendations have also been criticized as lacking enforceability — A group of policy experts assembled by the EU has recommended that it ban the use of AI for mass surveillance and mass …
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| Bloomberg: |
Author credits on research papers reveal that several Huawei employees have collaborated on research projects with Chinese armed forces personnel — - Huawei says research was not authorized by the company — Employees collaborated on AI and communications with military
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| Micah Singleton / Billboard: |
Spotify users who pre-save albums are granting record labels like Sony Music broad access to their accounts and data, the extent of which is often obscured — Users who “pre-save” an upcoming release to their Spotify accounts may be sharing more personal data with the act's label than they realize.| Anna Benckert / Facebook: |
Facebook announces updates to its terms of service, adding details on how the company makes money, content removals, and users' IP rights, effective July 31 — People should have clear, simple explanations of how online services work and use personal information.| Polina Marinova / Fortune: |
A profile of Jeff Jordan, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, who became a VC in his fifties and invested early in Airbnb, Instacart, and Pinterest — How Jeff Jordan is applying what he learned during his time at Disney, eBay, and OpenTable to help founders at Airbnb, Pinterest, and Instacart.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Some Philips Hue smart bulbs now come with Bluetooth built in, allowing them to be set up and used without the $60 hub; prices start from $15 — Philips Hue smart bulbs are getting what may be their biggest upgrade ever: many bulbs will now ship with Bluetooth built in …
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Philips, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, ITworld.com, Android Authority, Gotta Be Mobile, TechHive, AppleInsider, CNET, MacRumors, Android Police, TechSpot, and Engadget. Tweets: @dcseifert
| Karl Bode / VICE: |
Researchers demonstrate how the US Wireless Emergency Alert system, which uses LTE networks, can be easily spoofed with “pirate” cell towers to cause mass panic — With a pirate cell tower, it's easy to send fake emergency alerts warning of a terrorist attack, nuclear bomb, or other disaster.| Biz Carson / Forbes: |
DoorDash says it reviewed its pay policy, will now pay more for longer distances but will stick to paying $1/trip and making up the guaranteed pay after tips — Delivery giant DoorDash's pay model has been under scrutiny since February when the delivery company and other services like Amazon Flex … | Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is trying a new approach to limit the distribution of deepfakes, argues that the definition is too broad and needs to be scoped — Mark Zuckerberg signaled today that Facebook might be taking a different approach to so-called deepfakes, synthetic videos created through … | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
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