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Peppa Pig blocked on popular Chinese video app for association with counterculture

Thousands of videos featuring beloved British cartoon character Peppa Pig have been removed from the Chinese popular short-video app Douyin, according to state media tabloid The Global Times. Douyin is an app that enables users to upload, edit, and share short videos with different effects and stickers. The videos of Peppa Pig reportedly started disappearing over the weekend, and around 30,000 videos have now been removed from the platform.

The British cartoon pig is seen as a subversive “gangster” icon associated with “shehuiren” culture, which refers to people who are poorly educated and unemployed. The Global Times notes shehuiren culture is the “antithesis of the young generation the Party tries to cultivate.” Original cartoons of...

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All of the news from Facebook’s F8 developer conference

Despite the backlash over the Cambridge Analytica data abuse over the past few weeks, Facebook is marching forward with its F8, its annual developer conference. How will Facebook continue to push developers to build on its platform while maintaining strict control over how data is shared with app makers? For all the updates regarding data privacy, new tools, Oculus, and more, follow along here.

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Lumos bike helmet adds Apple Watch gestures to control turn signals

It's been almost three years since we first came across the Lumos smart cycling helmet, which got our attention with its cunning automatic brake lights and wirelessly-controlled turn signal indicators. The helmet has since been shipping as of late 2016, but the Hong Kong startup didn't stop there. Today -- which happens to be the first day of Bike Month -- Lumos is releasing an update that adds gesture control for the helmet's blinkers via Apple Watch, along with Apple HealthKit integration for automatic cycling tracking.

Source: Apple

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Social networks have trained us to think in follower counts

I’m calling this week’s episode of Why’d You Push That Button the “politics of unfollowing.” What makes someone click that unfollow button, and why does it hurt our feelings when they do?

Kaitlyn and I talk to two of our Verge colleagues: Managing Editor T.C. Sottek and Senior Features Editor Michael Zelenko about why they unfollow people. T.C. only follows six people on Twitter! And he only started following me and Kaitlyn after we produced this episode. We appreciate that kind gesture. Michael, on the other hand, used to care about his follower versus following ratio and has now reached a point of zen. Who cares!

After all that, Kaitlyn and I take our questions to Jenn Herman, who calls herself “the world’s forefront Instagram...

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Apple faces camera patent lawsuit over iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X

Back in November, the Israel-based startup Corephotonics filed a lawsuit against Apple for infringing on its patents. Their case stated that the company approached Apple about joining forces on dual lens technology, which Apple rebuffed. Corephotonics alleges that Apple then infringed on its patents with the dual-camera system on the iPhone 7 Plus. Now, Corephotonics has filed a second patent infringement claim to cover the iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X.

Via: 9to5 Mac

Source: Patently Apple

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How to watch Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote at Facebook’s F8 developer conference

Facebook’s annual F8 developer conference kicks off this morning, just roughly a month and a half since the Cambridge Analytica scandal completely redefined the conversation around data privacy and social networking platforms.

That means F8’s keynote address, which in years past has focused on the frontiers of new technology like virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligence, will also have to reckon with the hard conversations on responsibility and accountability that have made up Facebook’s biggest existential crisis to date. The whole controversy may have even postponed the company’s plans to reveal its rumored smart speaker, known internally as Portal, at F8 amid fears of Facebook’s overreach and concerns over having the...

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Don't expect Apple to merge iOS and Mac apps this year

Back in December, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported on the existence of Marzipan, said to be an internal project at Apple that would allow for single apps to be designed for both Mac and iOS user interfaces. In January, Gurman followed up to note that the project was on track for inclusion in this year's iOS 12 and macOS 10.14. But according to longtime Apple watcher John Gruber, of Daring Fireball, the initative is unlikely to surface this year — and may be less ambitious than previously assumed.

From his sources, Gruber says the project is no longer codenamed Marzipan and “sounds like a declarative control API,” which doesn't necessarily relate to cross-platform development but would theoretically allow apps to be built for multiple...

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Tuesday, 1 May 2018