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Tim Cook emails a reporter to say the WSJ report about Jony Ive's departure—and his frustration with Cook's alleged lack of interest in design—is “absurd” — In a rare, scathing statement sent exclusively to NBC News, Cook took issue with a report published Sunday night by The Wall Street Journal.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Report: Jony Ive was dispirited by Tim Cook's lack of interest in the product development process and frustrated inside a more operations-focused company — Shortly after Apple's announcement last week that Jony Ive was leaving the company, Bloomberg published a report that suggested …
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft says its next Windows 10 feature update, expected in September, will focus on performance improvements and quality enhancements — Microsoft has finally announced Windows 10 19H2, and it's just as we expected. There's not much to see here, folks.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung launches Bixby Marketplace, where third-party developers can offer their own Bixby-compatible services, called capsules, in the US and South Korea — Samsung has launched its Bixby Marketplace, a dedicated app store where third-party developers can offer their own Bixby-compatible services, similar to Amazon's Alexa skills.
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| Caroline Haskins / VICE: |
FOIA docs: Amazon worked with police in Aurora, Colorado to set up a package sting operation as part of a PR stunt for Ring, which resulted in no arrests — Emails and documents obtained by Motherboard via a public records request reveal how Amazon, Ring, and GPS company 7P Solutions helped set …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google open-sources its robots.txt parser and submits a proposal to IETF to make the Robots Exclusion Protocol an official standard — Google wants to turn the decades-old Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) into an official internet standard — and it's making its own robots.txt parser open source as part of the push.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify ends its direct music upload beta program for artists after debuting it last year, saying it would rather focus on features unique to the platform — Spotify is shutting down a program that allowed indie artists to upload their own music to the streaming service, the company announced today.
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| Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire: |
ICANN ignores community input and agrees to lift price caps on .org domain names, letting the Public Interest Registry charge as much as it wants for them — ICANN ignores community input and agrees to lift price restrictions on .org domains. — As many feared, the comment period was just a formality.
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| Kate Cox / Ars Technica: |
Virginia becomes one of the first states in the US to impose criminal penalties for the distribution of non-consensual deepfake images and video — New text effective today adds “falsely created images” to state law. — As of today, Virginia is one of the first states in the country …
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
China ordered suspension or termination of 26 audio-focused apps on Friday; Apple restricted access to podcasts not hosted by Chinese partners in June — Audio apps are flying high in China. In 2018, online listeners in the country grew 22.1% to surpass 400 million, at a rate far exceeding … | Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Ahead of Prime Day, HBO's Last Week Tonight does a segment on workers' conditions at warehouses; Amazon's SVP of operations tweets that the show is “insulting” — Working conditions in Amazon's fulfillment centers got a blistering critique at the hands of the HBO series “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” on Sunday.
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Hong Kong protesters are organizing massive, effective demonstrations in a somewhat leaderless way, using likes and upvotes on Telegram and online forum LIHKG — HONG KONG — For weeks, protesters in Hong Kong have organized demonstrations that are not only larger but also arguably … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Epidemic Sound, a search engine for video producers looking to license music for soundtracks, raises $20M at a reported $370M valuation — The rise of streamed video has seen the market for licensing streamed music boom in the last few years, with not only consumers using video as a medium …
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber's main app now shows JUMP bikes and scooters alongside Lime scooters in Atlanta and San Diego, the first time it's so prominently shown 3rd-party services — Uber is taking another step to more fully integrate micromobility into its core services. Today, Uber is now showing JUMP bikes …
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