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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...
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OpenID Foundation Claims ‘Sign In with Apple’ Could Expose Users to Security and Privacy Risks
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Jony Ive’s Involvement at Apple Reportedly Tapered After the Original Apple Watch Launched in 2015
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Apple Identifies Logic Board Issue With ‘Very Small Number’ of 2018 MacBook Airs, Will Fix Free of Charge
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
