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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