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Netflix’s ‘One Day at a Time’ gets saved from cancellation by Pop TV

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The fourth season of the rebooted series will run on Pop for 13 episodes next year, with the whole core cast returning. The first three seasons will stay on Netflix for the foreseeable future, though Pop will be able to air them too, as Vulture reported. As part of the deal, Pop’s sibling network CBS will air repeats of the fourth season.

Previous indications suggested Netflix’s rival streaming platform, CBS All Access, tried to pick up One Day At A Time, but it seems Netflix blocked that notion. Sony Pictures Television, which produces the show, was prohibited from taking it to another streaming service for several years under its Netflix deal, though there was no such clause preventing it from selling the series to a broadcast network. Pop, meanwhile, was looking to bolster its lineup with one of its most successful shows, Schitt’s Creek, wrapping up after its next season.



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Famed Apple designer Jony Ive is leaving to start his own firm

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In an interview with the Financial Times, Jony Ive announced that after more than two decades of making Apple products look and feel the way they do, he’s leaving the company. His new venture is called LoveFrom, and it will have Apple as its first client. His role with Apple has shifted slightly over the last few years, although as recently as 2017 Apple stated that his focus remained “purely on design.”

In a statement, Apple said that “While he pursues personal projects, Ive in his new company will continue to work closely and on a range of projects with Apple.” Once his transition is complete later this year, then VP of industrial design Evans Hankey and VP of Human Interface design Alan Dye will report directly to Apple COO Jeff Williams.

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Waymo hires former Anki staff to lead its self-driving trucks

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It sounds like an odd move to jump from tiny bots like Vector to big rigs, but it’s a logical extension for at least some Anki workers. Sofman, for instance, worked alongside Waymo staff in Carnegie Mellon’s autonomous vehicle labs. And many of the team’s core skills can translate. After all, navigation is a challenge whether it’s a palm-sized robot car or a driverless semi.

This also suggests that Anki has become a source of talent for more than one major company — Axios noted that Sonos hired a large portion of Anki’s engineers back in May. You might notice the effects of Anki’s work for a long time to come, even if it’s tucked into products where it’s not always obvious.

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Spotify’s album pre-saves share personal data you might not be aware of

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This is legal, but there are concerns that Spotify is not only tolerating excessive data collection with pre-saves, but isn’t completely transparent. The permission request section requires that you tap a “learn more” link to see exactly what a label wants, and there’s a good chance listeners will simply skip that so they can listen to the latest Drake single. A rival like Apple Music is clearer on permissions, doesn’t share personally identifying info and doesn’t offer account control beyond creating playlists (again with permission).

Spotify declined to comment.

Labels aren’t necessarily going to abuse this data to pepper you with ads or construct profiles. You don’t know for sure that they’ll be respectful, though, and that’s assuming you know what they’re gathering in the first place. If there’s any consolation, it’s that the increasing attention to privacy may push Spotify and labels into collecting only the data they actually need to track demand.

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Alphabet’s cybersecurity company Chronicle will join Google Cloud

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Chronicle got its start as a project inside X, Alphabet’s “moonshot factory,” and it quickly spun into a standalone company. When Chronicle introduced Backstory this spring, the company compared it to Google Photos for cybersecurity. Users dump in data from various security products, and Backstory organizes the alerts and scans for legitimate threats.

It’s not unusual for Alphabet to fold its “Other Bets” into Google, as we saw when it integrated Nest’s hardware team last year. But Alphabet usually does so when companies are more mature and have proven their ability to make money. Alphabet’s decision to move Chronicle to Google Cloud could be taken as a vote of confidence in the platform. It could also speak to Google Cloud’s need for additional cybersecurity tools. Chronicle expects the integration to be completed sometime this fall, and it’s getting started on “accelerated product integrations” immediately.

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Seagate’s 5TB Backup Plus Portable drops to $100

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Plantronics BackBeat FIT 3100 (Black)

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Street price: $130; deal price: $100

Back down to $100 in black, this matches the low we saw for these headphones a few months ago. The Plantronics BackBeat Fit 3100 is a truly wireless option with ear hooks that keep each earbud securely in place as you run. They’re praised in our guide for being sweat resistant, comfortable, and easy to use. If you’re looking for a new pair of running headphones, the 3100 may be worth your consideration.

The Plantronics BackBeat Fit 3100 is the truly wireless pick in our guide to the best headphones for running. Wirecutter Senior Staff Writer Lauren Dragan wrote, “The Plantronics BackBeat Fit 3100 is hands down the most enjoyable set of earbuds we’ve tested for runners. These earbuds keep all the best aspects of our top pick, the BackBeat Fit 2100—including sound quality, water resistance, and fit—but get rid of the cable that runs behind your head. Fully customizable controls and a five-hour battery life round out an excellent running and listening experience. However, this is Plantronics’s first attempt at true wireless earbuds, and the company’s inexperience shows in the 3100’s charging-case design. The case adds another 10 hours of battery life, but docking the earbuds properly and getting a full charge can be tricky. Although we didn’t experience problems ourselves, early owner reviews report issues with battery life and Bluetooth. That was enough to keep us from recommending this pair as our top pick.”

ThermoWorks Thermapen Mk4 (Red, White, or Blue)

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Street price: $103; deal price: $83

At $83 shipped ($79 + $4 shipping) for a brand new model, this is a great drop on the Red, White, or Blue colors of this recommended thermometer. This is about as low as new models tend to go since the sitewide price increases, so if you like one of the colors on sale (or just don’t care), it’s a nice chance to save. This sale is part of a Fourth of July promotion and, like all Thermoworks sales, is only available for a very limited amount of time.

The ThermoWorks Thermapen Mk4 is the upgrade pick in our guide to the best instant read thermometer. Kevin Purdy and Wirecutter Staff Writer Michael Sullivan wrote, “What makes the Thermapen Mk4 worth a $100 (plus shipping) price tag? The Thermapen is faster—faster at displaying its final temperature, but also faster at getting close to that final temperature. It is 1 second faster than the Javelin Pro Duo at reading 130-degree water at an average of 1.8 seconds, and a full second is hard to come by in that short time range. The Thermapen’s long and thin probe can go deep into the thinnest of fish filets or pounded chicken breasts. The Thermapen’s display, which rotates in four directions, has a strong backlight, and it automatically turns on when you pick it back up and is the best overall in adaptability and visibility. The Thermapen is by no means necessary for most cooks, but it’s an indispensable tool for those who love the science of cooking or the pursuit of kitchen perfection.”

5TB Seagate Backup Plus Portable

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Street price: $120; deal price: $100

Down to $100 in black, red, and blue, while this isn’t a particularly dramatic drop, it’s the lowest price we’ve seen for this model, a more storage variant of our pick. The 5TB Seagate has the same weight and dimensions of the 4TB version, but was about 5% faster during our testing. If you’re looking for more space and faster speeds in your portable drive, this is a nice option.

The 5TB Seagate Backup Plus Portable is a larger variant of the more storage pick in our guide to the best portable hard drive. Wirecutter Staff Writer Justin Krajeski wrote, “Seagate sells a 5TB model that’s the same dimensions and weight as the 4TB version, and we found the larger capacity to be about five percent faster in our 2016 tests. It’s about the same price per terabyte right now, so you should buy it if you need the extra space in a portable drive. But if you want the fastest, most cost-effective drive and don’t care about portability, take a look at our desktop hard drive pick instead. It’s cheaper per terabyte and faster than the Backup Plus Portable, though it requires an AC adapter.”

Chamberlain MyQ Smart Garage-Door Controller Cloud Cam Bundle

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Street price: $185; deal price: $100

Available for just $100, this is a great discount on a Chamberlain MyQ bundle that includes an Amazon Cloud Cam. While the bundled camera isn’t one of our picks, we like the functionality it offers at this price. This opener and security camera also work with Amazon Key, allowing you to watch packages get dropped off inside your garage if desired.

The Chamberlain MyQ Smart Garage-Door Controller is the top pick in our guide to the best smart garage-door controller. Jennifer Pattison Tuohy wrote, “The Chamberlain MyQ Garage (MYQ-G0301) is the leading smart garage-door controller available, largely due to the huge popularity of Chamberlain garage-door openers (and those sold by its professional install brand, LiftMaster). The MyQ was the first smart garage-door controller to be manufactured, and it’s one of the simplest smart-home devices to install and set up. If you are looking for a way to control your garage door remotely and check on its status, and would like integration with major smart-home systems such as HomeKit, Wink, IFTTT, and Google, the MyQ Garage is the best option.”

Because great deals don’t just happen on Thursday, sign up for our daily deals email and we’ll send you the best deals we find every weekday. Also, deals change all the time, and some of these may have expired. To see an updated list of current deals, please go here.

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Lyft wants to be your ride to and from concerts

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Lyft will offer scooter and bike rideshare options to help festival attendees get to their show on time. There will also be dedicated “Lyft Zones” where concertgoers can be dropped off and picked up before and after a show. According to Lyft and AEG, the services will be available at the following venues and events:

1STBANK Center, Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, the Mission Ballroom and Global Dance Festival (Denver, CO), EXPRESS LIVE! and the Basement (Columbus, OH), Forest Hills Stadium (Queens, NY), The Joy Theater (New Orleans, LA), Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall and Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival (Los Angeles, CA). The Theatre at Grand Prairie (Dallas-Fort Worth, TX), Stage AE (Pittsburgh, PA), Marymoor Park Concerts, The Showbox, The Showbox SoDo and Bumbershoot, an AEG Presents festival (Seattle, WA).

This isn’t the first time Lyft has gotten involved in getting people to major events. Last year, the company partnered with SeatGeek to drop people off at the venue entrance closest to their ticket. The deal with AEG mirrors a similar agreement Uber had with Live Nation in 2015.

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San Francisco’s grand plan to ban online e-cigarette sales

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The board passed the legislation on Tuesday, and San Francisco Mayor London Breed has 10 days to sign it. She’s already said she will. When that happens, San Francisco will be the first US city to ban the sale of e-cigarettes.

But, in a digital-first world, what does vaping prohibition actually look like?

San Francisco E Cigarette Ban

The ordinance will go into effect seven months after the mayor signs it, so likely in early 2020. When that happens, San Francisco plans to lodge a fine of $1,000 and penalties of up to $1,000 per violation at any retailer that sells e-cigarettes or flavored tobacco products to a city resident.

First, the city will reach out to tobacco distributors and inform them of the new rules, according to the office of the bill’s co-author, Supervisor Shamann Walton.

“But every company is responsible for knowing and complying with the law,” his Chief of Staff Natalie Gee said. “The Department of Public Health will respond to complaints about violations, and will work with the City Attorney to determine steps to investigate and monitor compliance.”

The San Francisco Department of Public Health and City Attorney will work in tandem under the new law. The DPH will determine whether a retailer has sold e-cigarettes to someone in San Francisco, with the option to impose a maximum $1,000 penalty. The department can then report the infraction to the City Attorney’s office for further injunctive measures and fines. There are no repercussions for San Francisco residents who purchase e-cigarettes online — it’s all on retailers.

This is similar to the system in place to block online sales of large-capacity gun magazines in California. In 2017, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera sued five online gun equipment distributors for violating state and local law by selling “repair kits” that were, in fact, deconstructed large-capacity magazines. He won that suit, forcing the companies to update their websites with clear language about California law and remove the state as a shipping option. The companies collectively paid $22,500 to cover the city’s investigation costs.

That was as statewide measure, while the online e-cigarette ban is a citywide ordinance, potentially complicating the process for suing non-local businesses. Other California cities are considering similar updates to their laws, including the Bay Area’s Richmond and Livermore. Alex Knox, Chief of Staff for Richmond mayor Tom Butt, said the city was still considering ways to approach a ban on online sales of e-cigarettes, using San Francisco as an example.

In most US states, the legal age to buy tobacco products and e-cigarettes is 18, but in California, it’s 21. It’s already illegal for teenagers to buy e-cigarettes, but by the San Francisco board’s own accounting, Bay Area high schoolers are vaping in record numbers. Online sales are a critical component of this market.

Of course, the ban also affects adult e-cigarette users, many of whom begin vaping to help quit smoking traditional cigarettes. Cigarette sales remain legal in San Francisco.

It’s already illegal for teenagers to buy e-cigarettes.

Juul, the most prominent e-cigarette brand around, is headquartered on Pier 70 in San Francisco and it’s launched a campaign against the new law. The company is trying to get an initiative on the November ballot that would supercede this week’s ordinance and allow companies to sell e-cigarettes in stores and online once again. Juul has until July 8th to collect at least 9,485 signatures and make it on the ballot this fall.

Under San Francisco’s new rules, it will be up to consumers and watchdogs to report websites willing to ship e-cigarettes to the city. There’s no tracking mechanism to ensure vaporizers don’t make it to San Francisco; there’s no algorithm blocking websites from adding the city to its shipments. Just a threat of penalties if someone complains.

The ban on online e-cigarette sales is a roadblock, not a guaranteed braking mechanism. It’s unclear if that matters either way, especially since most of the people targeted by the ban can’t drive yet.

Image: AP Photo/Samantha Maldonado (Juul)



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Apple Music now has 60 million paid subscribers

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Apple Music now has 60 million paying subscribers. The company’s Eddy Cue, a senior vice president of services, confirmed the milestone with French business publication Numerama today. According to Music Business Worldwide, Apple also noted that Beats 1 has “tens of millions of listeners.”

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Google researchers trained AI with your Mannequin Challenge videos

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While human depth perception isn’t duped by object motion, AI isn’t quite there yet. But generating enough clips to train AI would be difficult, and gathering enough people of different ages and genders creates an added challenge. That’s why the team turned to YouTube. If you participated in the Mannequin Challenge, there’s a chance your video is one of the 2,000 the researchers scraped together to build their dataset. They plan to share that data with the larger scientific community.

To train the neural network, the researchers converted the clips into 2D images, estimated the camera pose and created depth maps. The AI was then able to predict the depth of moving objects in videos with higher accuracy than previously possible. With this enhanced ability, neural networks could help self-driving cars and robots better navigate unfamiliar areas.

The fact that the researchers used videos without notifying the people in them could raise some privacy concerns. As Technology Review points out, it’s not uncommon for researchers to glean publicly available data from sources like Twitter and Flickr, and as neural networks grow dependent on larger data sets, the practice will likely continue. That might make you think twice about which YouTube fads you join.

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