June 19, 2020
Fri. 06/19 – It’s Gonna Be An Interesting WWDC…
Apple officially says no to HEY and people are pissed, kind of just about the WAY they said it. A look at the internal divisions inside Apple over those rumored Apple Glasses. Twitch is growing as a platform for live music. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Links:
- Interview: Apple's Schiller says position on Hey App is unchanged and no rules changes are imminent (TechCrunch)
- Apple’s Secretive AR and VR Headset Plans Altered by Internal Differences (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Exclusive: Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness (Reuters)
- Facebook Removes Trump Ads With Symbol Used By Nazis. Campaign Calls It An 'Emoji' (NPR)
- Wirecard chief quits as crisis deepens (Financial Times)
- Japanese insurer Sompo investing $500 million in data analytics firm Palantir (Reuters)
- Twitch’s Streaming Boom Is Jolting the Music Industry (Bloomberg)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Why venture capital doesn’t build the things we really need (MIT Technology Review)
- Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump (Craigmod.com)
- The Grandmaster Who Got Twitch Hooked on Chess (Wired)
- healthOS (Divinations newsletter)
- The Segway’s Inventor Has a New Project: Manufacturing Human Organs (OneZero)
- We spent a fortune on police body cams. Why haven’t they fixed policing? (Fast Company)
- What to expect from Apple's WWDC 2020 (TechCrunch)
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