Thu. 08/27 – Halo, Amazon’s New Fitness Wearable

Amazon announces Halo, a weird and ambitious new fitness wearable. Facebook warns of an ad-apocalypse. TikTok’s CEO abruptly resigns, for: reasons. The reMarkable 2 e-ink tablet. Intel is causing the US to fall behind in supercomputing. And the first big podcaster to sign exclusively with Spotify is leaving the platform and burning his bridges.

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Links:

• AMAZON ANNOUNCES HALO, A FITNESS BAND AND APP THAT SCANS YOUR BODY AND VOICE (The Verge)
• Facebook Says Apple’s Changes to iOS Will Dramatically Hurt Ads (Bloomberg)
• Kevin Mayer calls it quits (Source Code Newsletter)
• Intel Slips, and a High-Profile Supercomputer Is Delayed (NYTimes)
• Opensignal: U.S. 5G speeds slump as other countries leap ahead (VentureBeat)
• The reMarkable 2 is the latest attempt to turn your paper notepad digital (The Verge)
• Joe Budden is taking his podcast off Spotify because the company ‘is pillaging’ his audience (The Verge)

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