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Sources: Apple is assembling its new Mac Pro in China, moving abroad production of what had been its only major device assembled in the US — The $6,000 desktop computer had been the company's only major device assembled in the U.S. — Apple Inc. AAPL -1.09% is manufacturing …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: since the Apple Watch launched in 2015, Jony Ive began to shed responsibilities, with day-to-day oversight reduced to coming to HQ twice a week — - Company's close-knit design team withered in recent years — Future breakthrough products need new tech, not just design
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
As software and services overtook hardware in importance, Apple began preparing for Jony Ive's departure back in 2015, during the run-up to the launch of Watch — This is my first week publishing on the Tuesday-Friday summer schedule and it has paid off in a major way with a significant Thursday announcement …
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| H. Claire Brown / The New Food Economy: |
GrubHub buys domain name variations of restaurant clients and launches shadow pages, some of which outrank clients' websites, inflating GrubHub's commissions — New York City restaurant owner Shivane M. says she was ready to leave GrubHub. She owns two small locations in Brooklyn and Queens …
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
Evernote CEO Ian Small talks about efforts to turn around the once-hot unicorn, which now expects to reach a positive cash flow on ~$100M in revenue this year — Smiling cryptically, Ian Small, the chief executive of Evernote, handed me some socks. Nice ones: black in the calf …
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| David Hambling / MIT Technology Review: |
Jetson, a new prototype developed for the Pentagon, can identify people up to 200 meters away by analyzing their heartbeat using an infrared laser — The Jetson prototype can pick up on a unique cardiac signature from 200 meters away, even through clothes. — Everyone's heart is different.
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| Ainsley Harris / Fast Company: |
AltSchool, which raised ~$175M, says a partner will operate its remaining schools, rebrands as Altitude Learning to focus on its personalized learning platform — When entrepreneur and former Googler Max Ventilla cofounded education startup AltSchool in spring 2013, he had big plans.| Will Oremus / OneZero: |
A deep dive into how Amazon is quietly building surveillance-state infrastructure, and why its stance toward privacy and ethical responsibility should worry us — The Internet giant is wiring homes, neighborhoods, and cities with cameras and microphones, and powering the nation's intelligence services.
Tweets: @willoremus, @nrouillon, @frankpasquale, @went1955, @mariojoze, @medium, @willoremus, @willoremus, and @fightfortheftr
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Review of HTC's $999 Valve Index VR headset that starts shipping today: good resolution, field of view, and great controllers, but expensive and still needs PC — The Index uses the same “Lighthouse” tracking system as the Vive, so it ships with two laser-emitting base stations that you'll need …
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| Reuters: |
Online luxury reseller The RealReal closes up 44.5% on its first day of trading after raising $300M in its IPO, and is now valued at around $2.4B — (Reuters) - Shares of U.S. online luxury reseller The RealReal Inc (REAL.O) closed up more 40% in their debut on Friday …
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| Erica Pandey / Axios: |
Rakuten: around 48% of Amazon packages in the US are now delivered by Amazon itself, up from 15% two years ago, when the Postal Service delivered 60%+ packages — Less than a decade after Amazon broke into the logistics industry, it has become its own biggest shipper.
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Rakuten Intelligence, GeekWire, and TechSpot
Tweets: @sub8u, @retailprophet, @whatthebit, @cristinagberta, @freightalley, @rakeshlobster, and @erica_pandey
| Kate Fazzini / CNBC: |
FDA says Medtronic is recalling some insulin pumps that connect wirelessly to other insulin equipment because they can't be updated to address security flaws — KEY POINTS — “MiniMed 508” Medtronic insulin pumps have cybersecurity problems that can't be updated or patched …
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Tweets: @fdacommissioner, @beauwoods, @leeratliff, @dukla_de, @marynmck, and @xssniper
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Synergy Research: enterprise SaaS revenue will hit $100B annual run rate in Q2, with Microsoft, Salesforce, and Adobe accounting for nearly 40% of the market — In its most recent report, Synergy Research, a company that monitors cloud marketshare, found that enterprise SaaS revenue passed the $100 billion run rate this quarter.| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
After backlash, the creator of DeepNude, which uses AI to remove clothing from images of women, takes it offline, citing server overload and potential harms — An app that algorithmically “undressed” images of women was taken down by its creator, citing server overload and potential harms.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
HP Spectre x360 15 AMOLED review: a 2-in-1 with a bright and pixel-dense 4K screen, but not as fast as other laptops, has average battery life, abysmal trackpad — The Spectre x360 15 AMOLED has an amazing screen, but it isn't without other faults — OLED has been the de facto display technology …
Tweets: @dcseifert and @backlon
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Bumble adds in-app video and audio calls, with the option to start a call appearing only after a match has been made — Bringing video into online dating — Bumble's figured out a new way to bring video to its app: in-app voice or video calling. The feature applies to all of Bumble's use cases …
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