Jony Ive to leave Apple later this year after more than two decades at the company, to start LoveFrom, a creative business, 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 …
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.
It's not worrying that Jony Ive is leaving Apple, but it is worrying that he's not being replaced, and the design team reporting to operations makes no sense
Apple Newsroom: … First: Wow. There've been rumors for years that Ive had one foot out the door, that his last real interest …
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
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.
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 …
A look at Jony Ive's impact at Apple since joining in 1996, and how Apple may change as Ive leaves with no successor taking his title of chief design officer
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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.
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 …
Sources: senior Trump officials have discussed whether to seek legislation prohibiting tech companies from using encryption that law enforcement can't break
Senior Trump administration officials met on Wednesday to discuss whether to seek legislation prohibiting tech companies from using forms …
Jony Ive leaves a legacy of pushing Apple's products toward disposability and unrepairability, a choice that has reverberated across the consumer tech industry
but when he assumed control over the entire Apple experience, their products left the realm of the practical professional & became toys for people like him who get driven around in Bentleys. https://t...
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.
Degreed raises $35M in equity and $40M in debt in a Series C2 round, bringing the total raised to ~$140M, to expand its corporate learning platform
During a recent trip to Bangalore to visit a prospective corporate client, Chris McCarthy didn't know how many people to expect for a talk he was to give on the future of learning.
Sources: hackers likely belonging to Five Eyes governments used Regin malware in late 2018 to infiltrate Russian search giant Yandex and spy on users
- Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex (YNDX.O) in late 2018 deploying …
Livongo, which sells connected devices to monitor diabetes, files for an IPO, says it had $32.06M in revenue in Q1 2019 with a net loss of $14.96M
KEY POINTS — The company provide tools for people with chronic disease, and works with some 600 employers and health plans.
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 …
Restaurant365, a cloud-based accounting, back office, and reporting platform for restaurants, raises $88M Series C led by Iconiq Capital
Restaurant365 announced today that it has closed an $88 million minority investment led by ICONIQ Capital, a Silicon Valley growth equity firm.
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. Tweets: @sub8u , @rakeshlobster , @cristinagberta , @retailprophet , @whatthebit , and @erica_...
Researchers detail a vulnerability in Excel's Power Query that can be abused to link to a webpage that contains malware; the exploit is in all versions of Excel
YOU PROBABLY THINK of Microsoft's classic spreadsheet program Excel as mostly boring. Sure, it can wrangle data, but it's not exactly Apex Legends.
Inside Amazon's first-ever public re:Mars conference, focused on both the future of the company and technology, both of which increasingly look similar
There's a certain oversized quality to a Las Vegas conference center that makes you feel like a child monarch: simultaneously powerful and helpless.
Researchers: Google's reCAPTCHA v3 raises privacy concerns with its cookie-based data collection and Google's suggestion to embed reCAPTCHA everywhere on a site
The latest version of the bot detector reCaptcha is invisible to users and has spread to more than 650,000 websites. Tweets: @othermaciej , @leighelse , @kdzwinel , @impressthenet , @_tijs , @johnwila...
Investigation finds that Amazon's Rekognition frequently misgenders trans, queer, and nonbinary individuals by design, further alienating a marginalized group
In 2017, the Washington County Sheriff's Office, just outside Portland, Oregon, wanted to find a man covered in dollar bills. Tweets: @jezebel , @annamerlan , @esjayxx , @fittsofalexis , @jezebel , @j...
Somerville, MA becomes the second US city after San Francisco, to ban the use of facial recognition software by local police and city government agencies
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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
DoorDash is much shadier than Uber when it comes to food delivery tips https://twitter.com/... Jamie Shelton / @cupidtoo1 : So instead of making pay fairer, your company will continue to only pay a Da...
Google rolls out live traffic delays for buses and predictions of transit crowdedness in nearly 200 cities globally for Google Maps on iOS and Android
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The dissent of SCOTUS' ruling to give gerrymandering a pass from federal judicial review says tech makes it “far more effective and durable than before”
and it turned out parties were already using algorithms to create *unfair* districts.
NowSecure, which offers an automated mobile app security testing suite, raises $15M Series B led by ForgePoint Capital, bringing its total funding to over $27M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Kakao's blockchain subsidiary Ground X launches its blockchain platform Klaytn, with support from companies including LG, and nine initial decentralized apps
Yeo Jun-suk / The Korea Herald :
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
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Sources: a breach at cloud solution provider PCM, discovered in May, allowed hackers to access email and file sharing systems for some of the company's clients
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
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
the worst offender being Sony Music — have asked for an excessive amount of permissions, when it only requires a single permission to pre-save an album. Why haven't you noticed? Spotify hides the actu...
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
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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
Welcome to Facebook! — Facebook builds … Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Facebook Clarifies Terms of Service Wording Around IP Rights and Data Usage
Volkswagen launches WeShare, an on-demand rental car service with only electric cars, initially in Berlin, says it will expand to Prague and Hamburg in 2020
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ozmarshall Tweets: Marshall Hughes / @ozmarshall : Next step, autonomous cars. The end of regular car ownership is nigh. https://twitter.com/...
Inside AMD's battle with the US government over a deal with the supercomputer developer Sugon, which saved AMD but helped China get advanced chip technology
NCSC Director Bill Evanina. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ @econgeopoltech : Trump administration has ended AMD's joint venture with China. This JV helped AMD avoid bankruptcy five years ago. But no...
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
Charlie Warzel / New York Times :
Alphabet to merge its cybersecurity startup Chronicle, which released its first product Backstory in March, into Google Cloud later this year
Jennifer Elias / CNBC :
Waymo hired 13 robotics experts from Anki, including co-founder and former CEO Boris Sofman, to lead its nascent trucking initiative
Joann Muller / Axios :
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