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Bloomberg: Apple hires BMW veteran who led i3 development to join its electric car team

June 11, 2021
Apple has hired a former BMW executive to help lead the team working on the rumored Apple Car “Project Titan.” According to Bloomberg, Apple hired Ulrich Kranz within “recent weeks” to work alongside Doug Field leading the Apple Car development. Kranz spent 30 years at BMW, serving as the senior vice president of the team that developed the BMW i3 and i8 electric and hybrid cars. After…
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Horse Photobombs Maternity Shoot, Smiles for the Camera

June 10, 2021
An Ohio wedding photographer recently found herself working the “best maternity session ever” when one of the couple’s horses decided to join in on the shoot, smile for the camera, and crack everyone up. Cincinnati photographer Kristen Zaffiro was conducting the photo shoot for Phil and Amanda (Zaffiro’s cousin) on the couple’s pasture. “We tried the photo shoot two other times and got…
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Police Accused of Illegally Seizing Journalist’s Phone to Access Photos

June 10, 2021
A reporter from a Univision affiliate in Arizona has accused police of illegally seizing his phone and threatening to access its contents by “brute force” during an incident in April. In a 28-page motion filed in Gilbert Arizona’s Municipal court, journalist León Felipe González Cortés of Univision Arizona says that police violated his First Amendment rights as a reporter by unlawfully…
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Then There Were 3: NASA to Collaborate on ESA’s New Venus Mission

June 10, 2021
. Then There Were 3: NASA to Collaborate on ESA’s New Venus Mission As a key partner in the mission, NASA provides the synthetic aperture radar, called VenSAR, to make high-resolution measurements of the planet’s surface features. On June 10, 2021, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced the selection of EnVision as its newest medium-class science…
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