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Jony Ive has left Apple

Photo by Stephen Lam/ Getty Images Famed designer Jony Ive has disappeared from Apple’s Leadership page, signaling an end to his time in Cupertino. Ive joined Apple in 1992 and led the design team from 1996. Jony Ive’s last day at Apple was always a bit of a mystery. The press release announcing his departure

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Google Photos starts rolling out manual face tagging, lets users tag faces that Google's algorithm detects but doesn't recognize (Rita El Khoury/Android Police)

Rita El Khoury / Android Police: Google Photos starts rolling out manual face tagging, lets users tag faces that Google’s algorithm detects but doesn’t recognize  —  A few months ago, Google Photos product lead, David Lieb, told us that manually tagging faces was on the app’s update roadmap. Google Photos starts rolling out manual face

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Picnic, an online supermarket that delivers groceries in 125 Dutch and German cities, raises €250M, plans to build a new automated distribution center (DutchNews.nl)

DutchNews.nl: Picnic, an online supermarket that delivers groceries in 125 Dutch and German cities, raises €250M, plans to build a new automated distribution center  —  Online supermarket Picnic has raised €250m in funding to develop a new, largely automated distribution centre which it hopes will come on stream within two years. Picnic, an online supermarket

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Korean crypto exchange Upbit confirms it has lost 342K of ether worth ~$49M, suspends deposits/withdrawals, says losses will be covered with its own assets (Wolfie Zhao/CoinDesk)

Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: Korean crypto exchange Upbit confirms it has lost 342K of ether worth ~$49M, suspends deposits/withdrawals, says losses will be covered with its own assets  —  South Korean crypto exchange Upbit has lost cryptocurrency worth $49 million, the exchange has confirmed. Korean crypto exchange Upbit confirms it has lost 342K of ether

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Lithuania-based Vinted, an online marketplace for used clothes, raises $141M at a $1B+ valuation, led by Lightspeed with Burda, Accel, and others participating (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Lithuania-based Vinted, an online marketplace for used clothes, raises $141M at a $1B+ valuation, led by Lightspeed with Burda, Accel, and others participating  —  The market for second-hand clothes — the “circular economy” as it’s sometimes called — has been on the rise in the last several years … Lithuania-based Vinted,

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A Single-Digit-Micrometer Thickness Wood Speaker

Researchers have created an audio speaker using ultra-thin wood film. The new material demonstrates high tensile strength and increased Young’s modulus, as well as acoustic properties contributing to higher resonance frequency and greater displacement amplitude compared to a commercial polypropylene diaphragm in an audio speaker. Typically, acoustic membranes have to remain very thin (on the

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TikTok says it didn't block US teen's account with Uighur persecution video, but did block device associated with her other account banned for bin Laden pic (Newsroom | TikTok)

Newsroom | TikTok: TikTok says it didn’t block US teen’s account with Uighur persecution video, but did block device associated with her other account banned for bin Laden pic  —  There has been significant interest and confusion regarding a user’s two TikTok accounts and her viral video talking about the Uighur community in China. TikTok

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