NEWSWORTHY
Take a picture, it'll last longer. With antitrust regulators breathing down its neck, Facebook is testing a new tool that will allow users to transfer their photos and videos to Google Photos. The feature anticipates what some proposed legislation is calling data portability. The media giant is running an initial pilot in Ireland and said it plans to expand access worldwide in the first half of 2020.
Tell me what you want to hear. Just before Thanksgiving, Facebook released a chatbot called "Liam bot" that provides workers with answers to difficult questions about their employer. Fed with scripts from Facebook's public relations department, the tool was designed to address thorny issues from friends and family, such as accusations that Facebook disrupted American democracy or breaches people's privacy.
The everything cloud. Amazon is finally getting in on quantum computing after rivals IBM and Google claimed an early lead. The retail giant's cloud division, Amazon Web Services, will let customers remotely access quantum computers through partnerships with three companies, D-Wave Systems, IonQ, and Rigetti Computing. Microsoft announced a similar service based on tech provided by Honeywell, IonQ, and startup QCI last month.
An Apple a day. Two JPMorgan analysts predict that Apple will shake up its iPhone debut schedule starting in 2021. Apple typically releases three iPhone models from September to October. Based on supply chain checks, the analysts expect Apple to start introducing two models in the first half of the year and two models in the second half of the year, smoothing sales seasonality and helping the company compete with rival releases.
We'll always have Paris. While the United States pulls out of the Paris Accords, more than 70 chief executives have reaffirmed their commitment to the international agreement designed to tackle the climate crisis. Signers include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
At the advisement of a friend, I recently picked up the video game The Last of Us, a nail-biting zombie romp. (If you can stomach the horror genre, I recommend it.) Evan Wells, the president of Naughty Dog, a Sony-owned studio that developed the game and produced other hits such as Crash Bandicoot and Uncharted, recently spoke to the Verge about how 3D graphics changed his industry.
There's an old commercial from the 1990s that always stuck with Evan Wells. In it, a bottle of Listerine swings through a jungle on a vine, Tarzan-style, signifying the arrival of an exciting new flavor of mouthwash. The entire thing was built using computer-generated visuals that, today, look simple and dated. But it was a huge moment for Wells.
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ON THE MOVE
Apple has officially removed the bio for Jony Ive, its longtime chief designer, from its executive team webpage...Carolina Dybeck Happe, currently chief financial officer of Danish shipping giant A.P. Moeller-Maersk, is joining General Electric as its finance chief...New York City is looking to hire an "algorithms management and policy officer" in the Mayor's office...Jonathan Biller, the former chief legal officer of biotech firm Celgene, recently acquired by Bristol-Meyers Squibb for $74 billion, has a new gig as legal chief for biopharmaceutical firm Agios Pharmaceutical...Christina Miller, president of WarnerMedia's Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and Turner Classic Movies, is set to depart at year-end...On January 1st, Finnish telecom giant Nokia is eliminating the role of chief operating officer, currently held by Joerg Erlemeier...Lee Se-dol, grandmaster of the South Korean game Go, has announced his retirement a few years after losing to Google's DeepMind A.I.
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BEFORE YOU GO
How can you get someone with an opposing political view to hear your side? One tactic: Appeal to their particular set of values, social scientists say. Whereas liberals tend to prize fairness, equality, and protecting the vulnerable, many conservatives favor loyalty, morality, and respect for authority, Vox writes. Reframe your argument to suit the other person's perspective.
(Perhaps we should have shared this before the Thanksgiving holiday.)
Robert Hackett
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Email: robert.hackett@fortune.com
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