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iOS 12 includes new Animoji characters and tongue detection capability, as well as a Bitmoji-like feature called Memoji for designing your own Animoji avatars (Chance Miller/9to5Mac) אסף מגידש

FaceTime and Messages camera to offer new sticker packs, style transfers like a comic book filter, drawn shapes; FaceTime to support group video up to 32 users (Josh Constine/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Apple adds a browse tab and sidebar to Apple News and is integrating a news sidebar into Stocks app (Joan E. Solsman/CNET) אסף מגידש

Apple unveils distraction-reducing features including Do Not Disturb at Bedtime, grouped notifications, Screen Time, and new parental controls (Michael Potuck/9to5Mac) אסף מגידש

Starting with iOS 12 later this year, Apple CarPlay will let you use Google Maps, Waze, and other third-party navigation apps, not just Apple Maps (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Apple, Pixar, and Adobe back a standardized AR file format called the Universal Scene Description file, or USDZ (Andrew Tarantola/Engadget) אסף מגידש

Apple announces a new app, Shortcuts for Siri, now lets iOS users to receive background tips from Siri and create their own shortcuts for apps (Tristan Greene/The Next Web) אסף מגידש

Apple unveils new first-party ARKit Measure app that can auto-detect dimensions of objects alongside the introduction of ARKit 2 (Jeff Benjamin/9to5Mac) אסף מגידש

Apple unveils ARKit 2 with improved face tracking, realistic rendering, 3D object detection, persistent experiences, and shared experiences (Mitchel Broussard/MacRumors) אסף מגידש

Qulian Technology, maker of enterprise-focused blockchain called Hyperchain, announces the completion of $234M Series B, drawing scrutiny from Chinese regulator (Wolfie Zhao/CoinDesk) אסף מגידש

Apple partners with Adobe for AR file format, called USDZ, which will be supported by Adobe's Creative Cloud services (Richard Nieva/CNET) אסף מגידש

Apple's App Store now sees 500M weekly visitors and is about to pass $100B paid out to developers, after crossing the $50B paid threshold in June 2016 (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Apple unveils iOS 12 for iPhone and iPad, says it will focus on performance improvements and support all devices capable of running iOS 11 (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) אסף מגידש

Coinbase opens an office in Japan, announces its aim to roll out the cryptocurrency exchange in the country (Dan Romero/The Coinbase Blog) אסף מגידש

Live stream of Apple's WWDC 2018 keynote (Apple) אסף מגידש

Live blog of Apple's WWDC 2018 keynote in San Jose (The Verge) אסף מגידש

Source: Twitter disbands live video unit, folds it into content partnerships team; ex-Head of News Peter Greenberger and exec Todd Swidler are leaving (Todd Spangler/Variety) אסף מגידש

New G Suite features unveiled, including interoperability between Hangouts Meet and other video conferencing systems like select Skype, Cisco, Polycom products (Stephanie Condon/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

PlayVS, a startup that provides an esports platform and league for high schools, raises $15M Series A led by New Enterprise Associates (Jordan Crook/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Ticketfly's breach exposed 26M+ email addresses of users, along with home and billing addresses as well as phone numbers, analysis of leaked data shows (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/Motherboard) אסף מגידש

TransferWise to partner with BPCE Groupe, France's second largest bank with ~15M customers, to integrate its API within the bank's mobile apps from early 2019 (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Asus announces 6" ROG phone with a 90Hz display, a 2.96GHz Snapdragon 845 chip, and gaming accessories including an attachable fan; price and availability TBD (Vlad Savov/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Some political ads slipped or bypassed Facebook's new restrictions for disclosure and authorization in California's Fourth Congressional District primary (Sheera Frenkel/New York Times) אסף מגידש

Microsoft says it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub for $7.5B (Tom Warren/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Microsoft says it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub for $7.5B (Microsoft) אסף מגידש

Nvidia launches Isaac robot platform with Jetson Xavier robot processor that it says delivers 30 trillion+ operations per second, for $1,300 (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Federal judge approves class action status for Illinois residents that claim Facebook has violated the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act (Timothy Geigner/Techdirt) אסף מגידש

Profile of Verificado 2018, a fact checking service for Mexico's elections, where WhatsApp users send in information to verify and receive individual replies (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab) אסף מגידש

Facebook says device-integrated APIs allowed vendors to recreate Facebook-like experiences, were governed by strict contracts, and are being faded out (Ime Archibong/Facebook Newsroom) אסף מגידש

A look at the mechanics of Bigo Live, a live streaming app from China, which is popular in South East Asia and claims 40M+ downloads in India, 200M+ worldwide (Akash Senapaty/FactorDaily) אסף מגידש

CEO of Ground X, Kakao's blockchain subsidiary, talks about dapps, ICOs, and how he plans to bring decentralization to Korea's dominant mobile messaging service (CoinDesk) אסף מגידש

Sources: Microsoft has agreed to acquire GitHub; the deal could be announced as soon as Monday (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

German court throws out ICANN's lawsuit against EPAG, a Tucows-owned registrar that stopped collecting WHOIS data because of GDPR (Glyn Moody/Techdirt) אסף מגידש

Fiat Chrysler's five year plan: level 3 autonomy coming to most models by 2021, car sharing and in-car purchases for movie tickets, parking, and more in 2019 (Ronan Glon/Digital Trends) אסף מגידש

German court rules that country's intelligence service BND can spy on the traffic flowing through Frankfurt's De-Cix, world's largest internet exchange point (David Meyer/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

Sprint CFO Michel Combes becomes the CEO, as Marcelo Claure becomes executive chairman to mostly focus on the approval of the merger with T-Mobile (Mark Davis/Kansas City Star) אסף מגידש

CEO of Kik, which had an $100M ICO, talks about the limits of blockchain tech and why Kik is building own blockchain, a hybrid of Ethereum and Stellar, for Kin (James McLeod/Financial Post) אסף מגידש

How Right Media, a New York-based adtech company, built the first internet ad exchange in 2005 and gave birth to programmatic advertising (Adrianne Jeffries/New York Magazine) אסף מגידש

Filing reveals Alibaba's financial affiliate Ant Financial has invested $321M in Chinese bike-sharing firm HelloBike at a $1.47B valuation (Yimian Wu/China Money Network) אסף מגידש

Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that Uber's business in the country is "over" and that authorities will take necessary action against the firm (Cagan Koc/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Facebook's plans to manage promoted political content: a machine learning classifier begins June 6 and will scan text and images for terms related to politics (Ned Berke/Center for Cooperative Media) אסף מגידש

Leaked 30-second video of macOS 10.14 shows Apple News app for Mac, a dark mode, and Xcode 10 (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac) אסף מגידש

Research: Hotstar has 69.4% of the Indian on-demand video streaming market, Amazon has 5% and Netflix has 1.4%; James Murdoch says Hotstar has 145MAUs (Manish Singh/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Sources: Microsoft has recently held talks to buy GitHub, which was valued at $2B in the latest financing round in 2015 (Business Insider) אסף מגידש

Facebook's new promoted content rules block some ads from Vice, Newsmax, others, classifying ads as political and requiring advertiser verification via mail (Russell Brandom/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Data analytics startup Domo files for an IPO, says it lost $176.6M in 2017, has $72M left in the bank, and needs access to more money by August (Matt Weinberger/Business Insider) אסף מגידש

Sources: Apple is working on a new ad network for app promotion, in talks with Snap, Pinterest, others to distribute its search ads for apps (Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Spotify updates its hateful content and conduct policy, says it will no longer use the provision that led to removal of R. Kelly and XXXTentacion from playlists (Dan Rys/Billboard) אסף מגידש

Sources: Lyft has agreed to acquire the bike-sharing startup Motivate, likely for $250M or more (The Information) אסף מגידש

Visa says it is experiencing a service disruption preventing some Visa transactions in Europe from being processed (Patrick Collinson/The Guardian) אסף מגידש