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Japan resumes commercial whaling, but days could be numbered | News

Tokyo, Japan – As five fishing boats set sail from a port in northern Japan before dawn on Monday, it marked the end of an era. After 31 years, Japan has officially resumed commercial whaling. The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe first announced the country’s withdrawal from the international convention on whaling last December, ending its membership of the International Whaling

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OpenID Foundation Claims ‘Sign In with Apple’ Could Expose Users to Security and Privacy Risks

At WWDC 2019 earlier this month, Apple announced Sign In with Apple, a new privacy-focused login feature that will allow macOS Catalina and iOS 13 users to sign into third-party apps and websites using their Apple ID. The feature has been largely welcomed as a more secure alternative to similar sign-in services offered by Facebook, Google, and Twitter, since it authenticates the user with Face

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Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2 Review

The Wonderboom is one of Ultimate Ears’ most popular speakers due to its small size that doesn’t compromise on sound, and earlier this month, Ultimate Ears launched the Wonderboom 2, an updated version of the Wonderboom with some new functionality. Design wise, the Wonderboom 2 features the same general size and shape as the original Wonderboom, though it’s a bit taller. Ultimate Ears says the

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Google Maps for iOS Gains Live Traffic Info for Buses, Transit Crowdedness Predictions

Google today announced a major update for Google Maps on both Android and iOS, introducing new transit-related features. Google Maps will now provide details on live traffic delays for buses in places where real-time information doesn’t exist from local transit agencies, which will let Maps users see if a bus will be late, how long the delay might be, and how long travel might take. Me during

‘Millions march’: Sudanese renew protests to demand civilian rule | News

Thousands of protesters have poured onto the streets of Khartoum and elsewhere as part of mass rallies aimed at pressuring Sudan‘s ruling generals to hand over power to a civilian-led administration and seeking justice for the scores of victims of a deadly military crackdown. Dubbed the “millions march”, the demonostrations on Sunday are the first since security forces on June 3 killed more than

Auditing a dark age in Apple design – TechCrunch

Hello, weekend readers. This is Week-in-Review where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechCrunch this week to surface my favorites for your reading pleasure. Last week, I talked about how YouTube was letting its commenting system turn from a festering wasted opportunity into a liability.

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Apple Shares New AirPods Ad Highlighting Wireless Charging

Apple today shared a new AirPods ad called “Bounce,” which is meant to highlight the AirPods Wireless Charging Case that launched in March alongside the second-generation AirPods. In the spot, which was shot in black and white, a bored man pulls his AirPods off of their wireless charging pad (an Apple exclusive Belkin model) before he pops outside and begins bouncing over normal street items that

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JCPenney Has Reinstated Apple Pay in All Retail Locations

JCPenney, a popular department store in the United States, this month said that it has reactivated contactless payments options including Apple Pay in all of its retail stores. The information was shared by a JCPenney support employee on Twitter, who also said that Apple Pay would be accepted in stores starting June 19th. Given that it’s now June 27, Apple Pay should be working in JCPenney retail

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Is the G20 a platform for cooperation or division? | Business & Economy

The world’s seven biggest economies, the G7, mushroomed into the G20 in 1999 following the Asian financial crisis. The G20 summit is the world’s largest annual gathering of world leaders, second only to the United Nations General Assembly. This year’s G20 in Japan had a different emphasis. Leaders focussed on cooperation among themselves to solve problems, rather than the summit’s usual themes

Jony Ive’s Involvement at Apple Reportedly Tapered After the Original Apple Watch Launched in 2015

Following Apple’s surprise announcement yesterday that Jony Ive is leaving the company, fresh details have emerged about the design chief’s day-to-day involvement at Apple in recent years that suggest his exit has been a long time in the making. Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reports that after the Apple Watch launched in 2015, Ive had already started relinquishing his responsibilities because of the

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Jony Ive Once Insisted on Apple Car Without a Steering Wheel

Following the big news that Jony Ive will be resigning from Apple later this year after nearly 30 years at the company, new details continue to emerge about the iconic designer and his work over the years. One of many secretive projects that Ive worked on was the so-called Apple Car, according to The Information. The report claims that Ive came up with multiple early prototypes of the autonomous

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Lidar CEOs put their industry in perspective – TechCrunch

As autonomous cars and robots loom over the landscapes of cities and jobs alike, the technologies that empower them are forming sub-industries of their own. One of those is lidar, which has become an indispensable tool to autonomy, spawning dozens of companies and attracting hundreds of millions in venture funding. But like all industries built on top of fast-moving technologies, lidar and the

Apple Identifies Logic Board Issue With ‘Very Small Number’ of 2018 MacBook Airs, Will Fix Free of Charge

Apple has identified an undisclosed issue with the logic board in “a very small number” of 2018 MacBook Air units, according to an internal document distributed to Apple Stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers on Friday. The document was obtained by MacRumors from a source who has proven reliable. Apple will replace the main logic board in affected MacBook Air units, free of charge. Apple

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Libya: Haftar bans flights, boats from Turkey | Libya News

Libya’s renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar has banned commercial flights from Libya to Turkey and ordered his forces to attack Turkish ships and interests in the country, spokesperson Ahmed al-Mismari has said. Turkey supports Libya’s United Nations-recognised government in Tripoli which retook Gharyan, a strategic town south of the capital, Tripoli, from Haftar’s eastern-based Libyan

Top Stories: Jony Ive Leaving Apple, iOS 13 and macOS Catalina Public Betas, 16″ MacBook Pro

The big news of this week was obviously the announcement that Jony Ive will be leaving Apple to start his own design firm, but there was plenty of other news including a surprise early launch of public betas of iOS 13, macOS Catalina, and tvOS 13. Read on below for a summary of all our top stories from this week. Apple’s Longtime Design Chief Jony Ive Leaving to Start New Design Company With

Huawei can buy from US suppliers again — but things will never be the same – TechCrunch

U.S. President Donald Trump has handed Huawei a lifeline after he said that U.S. companies are permitted to sell goods to the embattled Chinese tech firm following more than a month of uncertainty. It’s been a pretty dismal past month for Huawei since the American government added it and 70 of its affiliates to an “entity list” which forbids U.S. companies from doing business with it. The

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MacRumors Giveaway: Win a HomeKit-Compatible Dual Smart Outlet From Satechi

For this week’s giveaway, we’ve teamed up with Satechi to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win one of the company’s newly launched HomeKit-Compatible Dual Smart Outlets. Available for $60, the Dual Smart Outlet is Satechi’s first HomeKit product, and it offers up two separate HomeKit-compatible outlets that let you connect any standard device or appliance to your HomeKit setup. If you

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Deals Spotlight: Get the HomePod for Just $200 at Target ($100 Off)

Target is heading into the weekend with an all-new sale on Apple’s HomePod smart speaker, now priced at $199.99, down from the original price of $299.99. At $100 off, this sale is the lowest we’ve ever seen on a brand new HomePod, and the best deal on the speaker so far in 2019. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Target. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small

Google finance head joins Postmates board ahead of anticipated IPO – TechCrunch

Google’s vice president of finance, has joined Postmates’ board of directors, the latest sign that the on-demand food delivery startup is prepping to take the company public. Postmates announced Friday that Kristin Reinke, vice president of Finance at Google, will join the San Francisco startup as an independent director. Reinke has been with Google since 2005. Prior to Google, Reinke was at

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G20 summit 2019: All the latest updates | G20 News

The annual summit of the Group of 20 nations has entered its second day in Osaka, Japan. At the top of the agenda is the ongoing trade war between China and the United States, the world’s two biggest economies. The G20 is an international leaders’ forum comprising 19 countries and the European Union. Collectively, the grouping represents more than 80 percent of the world’s economic output and

Photos: What’s New in iOS 13

The Photos app is one of the most important apps on the iPhone and iPad, housing all of the pictures that you’ve taken and offering up editing tools to make those images even better. Over the course of the last few years, Apple has been steadily improving the Photos app with machine learning and other technologies to present your pictures in new and unique ways so you can do more than just view

Publishers Not Making Much Money From Apple News+

Apple News+ seems to be floundering just months after its launch, according to new details from participating magazine publishers shared by Business Insider. Multiple publishers have been unimpressed with the revenue generated from Apple News+. One told Business Insider that revenue was one twentieth of what Apple promised, while another said that it was on par with what was earned from Texture,

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Apple is reportedly moving Mac Pro assembly to China – TechCrunch

Back in 2013, Apple announced that it would it would be assembling its high-end desktop in the U.S. After manufacturing had mostly moved out the country, the company made a point of touting its use of its Texas plant to help produce the Mac Pro. When the long-awaited followup was announced earlier this month at WWDC, many wondered whether the company would return to Austin. Apple didn’t comment

Shuttl is winning over office workers in India with safer bus commute option – TechCrunch

The Amazon-backed startup is growing slow and getting customers that Uber and Ola don’t have Miles away from the fancy parts of Gurgaon, where a cohort of Uber and Ola cars race all day to dot the surrounding, hundreds of people are working on a different solution to contribute to India’s push for improved mobility. When Uber entered India six years ago, and its local rival Ola began to

Lowest-Ever Deals: Save on the New 15-Inch MacBook Pro, 11-Inch iPad Pro, and Get the Apple Pencil 1 for $60 ($40 Off)

Amazon and Best Buy are closing out the week with a variety of sales on the 15-inch MacBook Pro, 11-inch iPad Pro, and the Apple Pencil. In most cases, the prices listed below offer the lowest prices ever seen on each model, and reach up to $300 off the MacBook Pro and up to $250 off the iPad Pro. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with these vendors. When you click a link and make a

Smartphone users are upgrading less frequently — will 5G help? – TechCrunch

A new study out of NPD confirms what we already know about the state of the smartphone in 2019. People just aren’t upgrading as frequently. You can see the ramifications of this as companies like Apple and Google scramble to right the ship. Still, it’s nice to put some numbers to the abstract trend. The analyst firm conducted a study of 3,650 U.S, based cellphone users earlier this year and

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Apple’s New Mac Pro Won’t Be ‘Made in USA’ as Production Reportedly Moving to China

While the current Mac Pro has been manufactured in Texas since it was released in 2013, The Wall Street Journal reports that the new Mac Pro unveiled earlier this month will be assembled by Quanta Computer in China. Quanta is said to be ramping up production of the new Mac Pro at a factory near Shanghai, and given lower wages and closer proximity to other Apple suppliers in Asia, the Chinese

Apple’s Sidecar just really *gets* me, you know? – TechCrunch

With the rollout of Apple’s public beta software previews of macOS and the new iPadOS, I’ve finally been able to experience first-hand Sidecar, the feature that lets you use an iPad as an external display for your Mac. This is something I’ve been looking to make work since the day the iPad was released, and it’s finally here – and just about everything you could ask for. These are beta software

Trump tells Putin ‘don’t meddle’ in US elections | Russia News

President Donald Trump has asked Russia’s Vladimir Putin not to meddle in US elections after allegations that Moscow interfered in the 2016 campaign. The leaders traded brief remarks on Friday before a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, when a reporter shouted to Trump about warning Putin “not to meddle” in the 2020 election. Trump replied: “Yes, of course, I will”,

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Apple to Open Second Singapore Store at Jewel Changi Airport on July 13

Apple has announced that its second Singapore store is set to open at Jewel Changi Airport on Saturday, July 13 at 10.00 a.m. Photo: Apple The store has a prime location in Jewel, a new nature-themed entertainment and retail complex on the landside of Changi Airport, which is Singapore’s main airport. Linked to three of its passenger terminals, Jewel features more than 280 shops across five

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Apple’s Longtime Design Chief Jony Ive Leaving to Start New Design Company With Apple as a Primary Client

Apple’s longtime head of design, Jony Ive, is leaving the company to start his own design firm, Apple announced today. Though Ive is leaving, Apple will be one of Ive’s “primary clients,” which means Ive will continue to do design work for the Cupertino company. In a statement, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that he is looking forward to working with Ive “long into the future.” “Jony is a singular