Apple has apologized for this Crush! an ad that sparked outrage among artists, musicians and other creatives. AdAge reports that Apple said the video “missed the mark” and canceled plans to air the ad on television. The video shows a range of musical instruments and other instruments for human expression, including guitars, drums, trumpets, amplifiers, record players, televisions and more. The breaker pulls up to reveal the iPad. Tonally, you can see how this could be misunderstood.
Apple is rumored to be planning more AI tricks for the next WWDC, and this new iPad Pro has a chip with plenty of AI power.
But – and imagine I’m using my inner voice here – it’s just an advertisement. However, Apple is such a large company that it has enormous influence. And everyone is watching.
– Matt Smith
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Bluesky was a Twitter spinoff.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey claimed in an interview that Bluesky “literally repeated all the mistakes” he made while running Twitter. Dorsey’s complaints boil down to two issues. First, he never intended for Bluesky to be an independent company with its own board and shares and other vestiges of a corporate entity. Instead, his plan was for Twitter to be the first customer to benefit from the open-source protocol Bluesky created.
Dorsey also disliked Bluesky’s form of content moderation and the way it periodically banned users for things like using racial slurs in their usernames. Most of these are not particularly surprising. If you’ve followed Dorsey’s public comments over the past few years, he’s repeatedly said that Twitter’s “real sin” is that it’s an advertiser-owned company.
The FDA has announced the highest recall level for the app.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Class I recall for the t:connect mobile app on iOS that people with diabetes use to monitor and control their insulin pump. The FDA received 224 injury reports as of April 15. Insulin pumps like the t:slim X2 automatically deliver insulin under the user’s skin at set intervals and when needed. The fault drains too much power from the pump, meaning it can shut off without warning and before the user expects it, causing an underdelivery of insulin.
“Mom, I want more corporate synergy!”
That just sounds awful.
