NEWSWORTHY
A million little pieces. Do we all miss the cable bundle? In a world of too-many-streaming options, bundling may be making a comeback. Apple has approached the major record labels about bundling its Apple Music service with its upcoming Apple TV+ video service, the Financial Times reports. Apple declined to comment.
Do the right thing. Without comment, the Supreme Court left in place a lower court ruling that held the pizza chain Domino's accountable under the Americans With Disabilities Act to make its website and apps accessible to blind people. Guillermo Robles, a blind pizza lover, sued the company in 2016 when he discovered that he couldn't use his screen reader software to make an online order with Domino's.
Do the right thing, part two. After zillions of media sites geared up to profit from Facebook's video aspirations, only to shutter and cut staff like crazy when the effort sputtered, Facebook is paying for its excessive hype–sort of. The social network agreed on Monday to pay $40 million to settle a class action lawsuit that it inflated its video viewership stats to advertisers.
Working for the clampdown. The Trump administration on Monday added more Chinese tech companies to its blacklist, prohibiting them from buying products from U.S. companies, among other restrictions. The just-banned include China's top facial recognition startups, Hangzhou Hikvision and Zhejiang Dahua, plus A.I. specialists SenseTime and Megvii. On Tuesday, China was threatening to retaliate in yet unknown ways.
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ON THE MOVE
Software developer BMC nabbed Ayman Sayed as CEO from CA Technologies, where he was Chief Product Officer. Interim BMC CEO Bob Beauchamp will continue as chairman of the board...Former Google VP and Barclays tech guy Sunil Chandra is hopping to the fintech sector, joining European lending startup OakNorth as CEO as the company looks to crack the U.S. market...Rachel Potvin, head of data insights at Google Cloud, joins Microsoft's GitHub as vice president of engineering...Massachusetts startup Vecna Robotics CEO Dan Patt resigned after less than two years on the job and was replaced by Vecna co-founder Daniel Theobald...Former Securities and Exchange Commission member Dan Gallagher is joining free stock trading app Robinhood as its first independent board member. He's currently law firm WilmerHale's deputy chair of securities.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Some of the conventions around software user interface design are a bit of a puzzle. We still use the floppy disk icon to mean "save" in many programs, for example. Susanna Zaraysky, who works on design at Google, has some advice for the field (cited on Twitter yesterday by former Microsoft exec Steven Sinofsky). In her piece titled "The Obvious UI is Often the Best UI," Zaraysky recommends a few simple practices to improve software design. And some conventions need to be broken, she says:
Obvious design isn't only about location of components, but also how easy it is for a user to understand the actions and options in a UI. For example, not all users will immediately understand icons and symbols. The $ symbol means dollars or money in the U.S., Canada and some other countries, but is not the symbol for currency worldwide. Someone who grew up using computers with floppy disks will most likely automatically know what a floppy disk is and recognize that a floppy disk icon means "save." However, for those who began to use computers in the 21st century and who never saw a floppy disk, the floppy disk save icon may look like a mobile phone SIM card with a rectangular and circular hole and a missing corner. Those users may not understand the meaning of the floppy disk save icon.
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BEFORE YOU GO
Is there a more winning combination that dogs and frisbee? I don't think so. Italian photographer Claudio Piccoli has posted a stunning collection of pooches in action chasing after the spinning plastic discs. Unbeatable.
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