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We saw tons of Apple software updates at WWDC 2021, but some features have yet to be unveiled. 

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The latest versions of Apple's operating systems, iOS 15, iPadOS 15 and WatchOS 8, have arrived and are available for download. The operating systems were unveiled at Apple's WWDC event earlier this year alongside MacOS Monterey, which doesn't have an official release date yet. While these updates include some much-anticipated new features -- like the ability for Android users to join FaceTime calls, enhanced privacy options and dual-screen controls for working across Macs and iPads -- some notable rumored features didn't come to fruition.

Here are some of the software features that we thought might make an appearance, but did not. 

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Extended display support for iPads with monitors

While universal control will let you work across your Mac and iPad, we were hoping for more iPad external display support.

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While Apple did introduce "universal control," allowing you to turn your Mac keyboard and trackpad or mouse into a way to also control your iPad, this isn't the same as extending your iPad to your desktop or another connected display, which would be a more impressive productivity move. But perhaps it signals that a bigger change in that direction could be on the horizon.

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Improved battery life or low power innovations for Apple Watch

Though WatchOS 8 adds a bunch of new health features and app updates, still missing is any improvement to battery life or low power mode -- something the wearable sorely needs, especially if you wear it overnight for tracking your sleep. 

New iPadOS features for M1 iPad Pros

Apple's M1-powered iPad Pros dramatically improved the tablet's performance and battery life. But the iPad is still running the same OS -- and largely the same apps -- as every other iPad. We thought we might see some interesting new upgrades in iPadOS 15 for iPad Pros taking advantage of the M1 chip, but that was not the case.

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CarKey updates

At last year's WWDC, Apple unveiled CarKey, the ability to add virtual car keys to your Apple Wallet that allow you to open and unlock your car just by using your iPhone's NFC chip. While iOS 15 adds the ability to store your driver's license and ID in your Apple Wallet, there was no mention of any CarKey updates. 

Game-changing FaceTime features to help it compete with Zoom

During a FaceTime video call, you can now play a song or a video, and everyone on the call can listen or watch it together. 

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iOS 15 includes some major updates for Apple's FaceTime video chat service, including spatial audio, a grid view, portrait mode, and the ability to schedule calls in advance and invite those with Android and Windows devices to join FaceTime calls from their browsers. A new feature called SharePlay also lets you watch shows and listen to music with others through FaceTime. While these are great upgrades, they come more than a year after they would have been most useful during the pandemic, and fail to add anything game-changing that will make FaceTime a true competitor for industry mammoth Zoom, like better cross-platform options (and, of course, backgrounds). 

More tapback options in iMessage

While iMessage did get several upgrades in iOS 15, including better sharing features, we didn't see any new tapback options, leaving us with the same message reactions we already have (heart, thumbs up, thumbs down, ha ha, exclamation point or question mark). 

Revamped iPhone widgets

Apple added iPhone widgets in iOS 14 last year.

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While the iPhone's widgets finally made their way to the iPad as well in iPadOS 15, iOS 15 didn't get any new widget options, like more customization and interactivity. 

More exercises in the Breathe app

The popular Breathe app is getting an update, with a new animation to help you focus and a "reflect" mode that prompts you to think about something specific and improve mindfulness. But it will not include different kinds of breathing exercises. 

For more, check out how to use Apple's new Hide My Email feature to keep spammers out of your inbox, and how to download iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. 

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As Bikers Throng the Streets, ‘It’s Like Paris Is in Anarchy’ - The New York Times

An ecologically minded experiment to make Paris a cycling capital of Europe has led to a million people now pedaling daily — and to rising tensions with pedestrians.

PARIS — On a recent afternoon, the Rue de Rivoli looked like this: Cyclists blowing through red lights in two directions. Delivery bike riders fixating on their cellphones. Electric scooters careening across lanes. Jaywalkers and nervous pedestrians scrambling as if in a video game.

Sarah Famery, a 20-year resident of the Marais neighborhood, braced for the tumult. She looked left, then right, then left and right again before venturing into a crosswalk, only to break into a rant-laden sprint as two cyclists came within inches of grazing her.

“It’s chaos!” exclaimed Ms. Famery, shaking a fist at the swarm of bikes that have displaced cars on the Rue de Rivoli ever since it was remade into a multilane highway for cyclists last year. “Politicians want to make Paris a cycling city, but no one is following any rules,” she said. “It’s becoming risky just to cross the street!”

At the intersection of Rue de Rivoli and Boulevard Sebastopol during the evening rush hour, last month.Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

The mayhem on Rue de Rivoli — a major traffic artery stretching from the Bastille past the Louvre to the Place de la Concorde — is playing out on streets across Paris as the authorities pursue an ambitious goal of making the city a European cycling capital by 2024.

Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who is campaigning for the French presidency, has been burnishing her credentials as an ecologically minded Socialist candidate. She has earned admirers and enemies alike with a bold program to transform greater Paris into the world’s leading environmentally sustainable metropolis, reclaiming vast swaths of the city from cars for parks, pedestrians and a Copenhagen-style cycling revolution.

She has made highways along the Seine car-free and last year, during coronavirus lockdowns, oversaw the creation of over 100 miles of new bike paths. She plans to limit cars in 2022 in the heart of the city, along half of the Right Bank and through the Boulevard Saint Germain.

At the tunnel at the Seine River embankment. The  embankment became a pedestrian and cycling area a few years ago.Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

Parisians have heeded the call: A million people in a metropolis of 10 million are now pedaling daily. And Paris now ranks among the world’s top 10 cycling cities,

But with success has come major growing pains.

“It’s like Paris is in anarchy,” said Jean-Conrad LeMaitre, a former banker who was out for a stroll recently along the Rue de Rivoli. “We need to reduce pollution and improve the environment,” he said. “But everyone is just doing as they please. There are no police, no fines, no training and no respect.”

An information stand with the numbers of cyclists who passed the Hôtel de Ville during one day last month (9,466 at 7:53 pm).Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

At City Hall, the people in charge of the transformation acknowledged the need for solutions to the flaring tensions, and to the accidents and even deaths that have resulted from the free-for-all on the streets. Anger over reckless electric scooter use in particular boiled over after a 31-year-old woman was killed this summer in a hit-and-run along the Seine.

“We are in the midst of a new era where bikes and pedestrians are at the heart of a policy to fight climate change,” said David Belliard, Paris’s deputy mayor for transportation and the point person overseeing the metamorphosis. “But it’s only recently that people started using bikes en masse, and it will take time to adapt.”

Mr. Belliard hopes Parisians can be coaxed into complying with laws, in part by adding more police to hand out 135 euro fines ($158) to unruly cyclists and by teaching school children about bike safety. Electric scooters have been restricted to a speed of 10 kilometers an hour (just over 6 m.p.h.) in crowded areas, and could be banned by the end of 2022 if dangerous use doesn’t stop.

The city also plans talks with delivery companies like Uber Eats, whose couriers are paid per delivery and are some of the biggest offenders when it comes to breaking traffic rules. “Their economic model is part of the problem,” Mr. Belliard said.

Probably the biggest challenge, though, is that Paris doesn’t yet have an ingrained cycling culture.

Mikael Colville-Andersen, an urban designer who advises cities on integrating cycling into urban transport, in central Paris.Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

The abiding French sense of “liberté” is on display in the streets at all hours, where Parisians young and old jaywalk at nearly every opportunity. They appear to have carried that freewheeling spirit to their bikes.

“In Denmark, which has a decades-long cycling culture, the mentality is, ‘Don’t go if the light is red,’” said Christine Melchoir, a Dane who has lived in Paris for 30 years and commutes daily by bike. “But for a Parisian, the mentality is, ‘Do it!’”

Urban planners say better cycling infrastructure could help tame bad behavior.

Copenhagen — the model that Paris aspires to — has efficient layouts for cycling paths that allow bikes, pedestrians and cars to coexist within a hierarchy of space. Citizens are taught from a young age to follow rules of the road.

In Paris, parts of the 1,000-kilometer citywide cycling network (about 620 miles) can steer bikers into hazardous interactions with cars, pedestrians and other cyclists. At the Bastille, a once-enormous traffic circle that was partly appropriated from cars, a tangle of bike lanes weave through traffic. Cyclists who respect signals can take up to four minutes to cross.

“Paris has the right ideas and they’re absolutely the main city to watch on the planet, because no one is near them for their general urban transformation visions,” said Mikael Colville-Andersen, a Copenhagen-based urban designer who advises cities on integrating cycling into urban transport.

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“But the infrastructure is like spaghetti,” he continued. “It’s chaotic, it doesn’t connect up and there’s no cohesive network. If you can get that right, it will eliminate a lot of confusion.”

Mr. Belliard, the deputy mayor, said Paris would soon unveil a blueprint to improve infrastructure. But for now, the tumult continues. On a recent afternoon, eight cyclists ran a red light en masse on the Boulevard de Sébastopol, a major north-south artery. Wary pedestrians cowered until one dared to try crossing, causing a near pileup.

Back on the Rue de Rivoli, cyclists swerved to avoid pedestrians playing a game of chicken with oncoming bikes. “Pay attention!” a cyclist in a red safety vest and goggles shouted at three women crossing against a red light, as he nearly crashed in the rain.

A broken bike attached to the pole near Gare du Nord.Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

Cyclists say Paris hasn’t done enough to make bike commuting safe. Bike accidents jumped 35 percent last year, from 2019. Paris en Selle, a cycling organization, has held protests calling for road security after several cyclists were killed in collisions with motorists, including, recently, a 2-year-old boy riding with his father who was killed near the Louvre when a truck turned into them.

A small but growing number of cyclists say they’re too nervous to ride anymore.

“I’m afraid of being crushed,” said Paul Michel Casabelle, 44, a superintendent at the Maison de Danmark, a Danish cultural institute.

On a recent Sunday, Ingrid Juratowitch had to talk her daughter Saskia safely across bike lanes near the Saint Paul metro station while she held her two other young daughters at a safe distance from the street.

“Be careful, there are bikes coming from the left and right,” said Ms. Juratowitch, who has lived in Paris for 14 years. She is increasingly reluctant to let her children walk to school for fear of reckless riders. “There’s another one coming. OK, now you can go!”

Delivery persons waiting for orders at Rue de Rivoli.Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

“From an environmental point of view, we don’t want to see the city go back to cars,” Ms. Juratowitch said. “But it’s not safe. It’s as if bikes and pedestrians don’t know how to coexist.”

Saskia, 12, chimed in. “It’s not the bikes, it’s the bikers,” she said. “They think the rules apply to everyone except them.”

A nighttime ride.Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

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The Light Load: With ‘wake-up calls’ like this, who needs Ambien? - FreightWaves

Maybe a reader smarter than I (one whose attempts at math aren’t a path-smoother to mental health counseling) can point out anything in the following debacle that makes it less dumb-as-a-sack-of-ostriches than it appears.

To wit:

A customs warehouse in San Diego employed 16 Mexican nationals as merchandise checkers. It paid them as little as $3.38 an hour and no overtime even when they worked up to 51 hours per week, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California ordered the warehouse and its Tijuana, Mexico, partner to remunerate said workers to the tune of $230,000 in back wages.

Great.

But then things went full Edvard Munch.

The court approved a microscopic $5,000 civil penalty against the warehouse for “reckless disregard” of certain labor requirements.

Something’s reckless, all right, but the irony is lost on the legal system.

Circling back to our original thesis that math is hard, I outsourced the number crunching on this. My overworked percentage calculator’s conclusion: $5,000 is only about 2% of $230,000.

Soooo, the warehouse got … what exactly? “Slapped” is way too strong a verb for a 2% penalty on $230,000 in wages that should have been paid IN THE FIRST DANG PLACE.

Tsk-tsked maybe? Pooh-poohed? Sent to bed before the Tonys crowned the winner for Best Costume Design in a Musical No One Past Hackensack Ever Heard Of?

Take your pick, but even those seem like generously stern descriptions of the actual legal response in light of the petty-cash-drawer pickins the warehouse company has to cough up like so many disagreeable cabbage rolls.

I asked the feds if 5,000 smackers was the enchilada, the whole enchilada and nothing but the enchilada of the penalty levied. Of course, that’s besides the $230,000 that the company ALREADY OWED ITS WORKERS, payment of which is no more a punishment than returning a misappropriated Talky Tina doll from little Gabby’s to little Gertrude’s toy chest.

A helpful gentleman in DOL PR who is responsible for none of this farce shared thus: The company “must also train its supervisors and employees on the Fair Labor Standards Act, provide employees with a notice about how to calculate pay under the FLSA, and participate in outreach to help change the industry.”

Well.

If that doesn’t fix their little red forklift, nothing will.

I mean, am I wrong (don’t answer that) or is this sanction, which is not even in the same ZIP code as harsh, remarkably timid? Benign? Milquetoast? Other applicable synonym courtesy of the thesaurus?

Even a mathematical dolt such as yours truly can see that such a paltry/lenient/bush-league penalty is a bald-faced/unambiguous/patent invitation to other companies to roll the dice on not paying a legal wage. “Guys, we can risk shelling out some chump change, doing a little training and sitting in timeout for the chance to save a couple hundred thou. You in?”

Not to worry, though. DOL is confident it’s taught ’em a lesson good and hard.

Quoth an administrator from the Wage and Hour Division:

— “This case is a wake-up call to the customs warehouse industry.” (True. Just not in the way DOL believes.)

— “Paying a workforce as little as $3 an hour will not be tolerated.” (Glad the lucky workers in this case got at least $3.38 so they didn’t cross DOL’s Threshold Into the Intolerable.)

— “The U.S. Department of Labor will use every legal vehicle in our authority to ensure people working on U.S. soil are paid fairly and that employers who underpay workers do not gain an unfair competitive advantage over employers who comply with the law.” (But it won’t sting much if those vehicular legal eagles catch the miscreants, so heck, carpe pecuniam!)

The Light Load is an occasional, wry look at the world of transportation and logistics through the eyes of an industry greenhorn.

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Natasha and Mary Ann and Alex were all aboard this week under the guidance of Chris and Grace, meaning that we were running full-strength for our roundup of this super busy week.

Before we hop into the topics, you can follow the show on Twitter — all the cool kids do! — and keep in mind that on Mondays Equity provides a short kickoff to the week, we chat a single topic on Wednesdays and Fridays are when we go through the full week. Make sense? Hell yeah:

• Fiveable landed a $10 million Series A to become the digital hallways of the educational internet. It’s their words, not ours, and Mary Ann had some fair questions on how they’ll differentiate from other competitors.
• Cobalt raised $2.8 million to help creators build and sell more stuff. As part of our continuing focus on creators more broadly, we had a few questions!
• Found came out of stealth with $32 million in total funding from GV, Atomic and Define Ventures. The startup is focused on “weight care management” and it’s notable that the co-founder of Atomic, which incubated this company, also co-founded hims and hers — which also has a telehealth component. Found’s new CEO is the former COO of Bumble, who drafted its S-1 while getting chemo treatment for stage 3 breast cancer.
• From there we dug into trends! First up was the trend of startups going full-stack, which we kicked off with a look at AngelList’s new Stack — har har — product. The suite screams Carta and Stripe, but then again, doesn’t everything compete with each other these days?
• Next up was consolidation, which echoed our first conversation. Discussing a recent deal in the RPA space, the Equity team made predictions about which sectors in the startup world are the most likely to see consolidation in the coming quarters.
• And we closed with climate tech, a startup niche that could bring a small sliver of hope to our heating planet.

All this, and we still managed to sneak a Froyo metaphor into the running for best Official Equity comment of all time.

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Ozy Media Hit by Revelations and Departures. Here's the Latest. - The New York Times

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Ozy hired a team to make a talk show for A&E — “The Carlos Watson Show,” hosted by Ozy’s co-founder and chief executive. Guests were told the show would air on A&E, and the show’s executive producer was told it would premiere in August 2020 in prime time.

The problem: A&E said there was no such deal. The executive producer resigned after finding out, writing to Ozy’s leaders: “You are playing a dangerous game with the truth. The consequences of offering an A&E show to guests when we don’t have one to offer are catastrophic for Ozy and for me.”

That’s the latest revelation about the embattled media company from The New York Times media columnist Ben Smith. It followed his report on Sunday that raised questions about Ozy’s business practices, including an incident in which an executive apparently impersonated a YouTube executive as Ozy was trying to raise money.

Here’s what we know.

Mr. Watson said the show was being produced for A&E, then YouTube Originals. Neither happened.

When the executive producer, Brad Bessey, resigned, he told the show’s staff that the program was not, in fact, going to be shown on A&E. Mr. Watson then told the people on the Zoom call that “The Carlos Watson Show” would eventually wind up on A&E, according to Mr. Bessey and one other person on the call. Until that time, Mr. Watson added, the show would appear on YouTube as part of its YouTube Originals, a slate of programming made by professional studios and paid for by YouTube.

“The Carlos Watson Show” ended up appearing on Ozy.com and on YouTube, although not as a YouTube Original. A YouTube official confirmed that the show was not a YouTube Original. Mr. Watson and an Ozy spokesperson did not reply to requests for comment.

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The chairman of Ozy’s board stepped down.

Marc Lasry, the chairman of Ozy’s board and a hedge fund manager who is also a co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, resigned on Thursday, four days after The Times reported that someone from Ozy appeared to have impersonated a YouTube executive during a conference call with Goldman Sachs bankers while the company was trying to raise $40 million.

“I believe that going forward Ozy requires experience in areas like crisis management and investigations, where I do not have particular expertise,” Mr. Lasry said in an emailed statement. “For that reason, I have stepped down from the company’s board. I remain an investor in the company and wish it the best going forward.”

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Ozy lost a star anchor.

Katty Kay, who left her job as a BBC anchor and correspondent to join Ozy in June, said on Wednesday that she had resigned. “The allegations in The New York Times, which caught me by surprise, are serious and deeply troubling, and I had no choice but to end my relationship with the company.”

Read more about the resignation of Ms. Kay →

It also lost a key investor.

SV Angel, led by the venture capitalist Ron Conway, informed Ozy on Tuesday that it was giving up the shares it had acquired in the company in 2012, according to an adviser to SV Angel. (Axios first reported that SV Angel was giving up its shares.)

The board is investigating.

The board said on Tuesday that it had hired Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, a large international firm with headquarters in New York, to conduct a review of Ozy’s business activities. The board also said it had asked Samir Rao, the chief operating officer of Ozy and the person who apparently impersonated the YouTube executive, “to take a leave of absence pending the results of the investigation.”

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