Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, July 5th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, a superhuman Mea Culpa. No Mea Calpa, but Apple might be ready to tacitly admit the butterfly keyboards were a mistake. Inside Walmart's turf battles over e-commerce, HQ triviacou trivia lays off staff,

and of course the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Let it never be said that this podcast traffics only in controversy in the

scandalous headline but never bothers to follow up and cover the apology or

at least the de-Noumont to a previously mentioned controversy. the On Wednesday, Superhuman CEO Rahu Vora reacted to the controversy.

Vora wrote on medium that Superhuman will remove location tracking, will delete

collected location data, is turning read statuses off on emails by default,

and will build a new option to disable remote images, which allowed the sort of privacy issues people were complaining about.

Quoting Vora and note that I'm pulling from several sections of his medium post but

maintaining the chronological order of what I'm about to quote,

quote,

when we built superhuman, we focused only on the needs of our customers.

We did not consider potential bad actors.

I wholeheartedly apologize for not thinking through this more fully.

It made sense for Reed Statuses to be on by default when our user base was early adopters.

They knew exactly what they were buying and were excited to buy it.

However, over the last few days I have heard from some recent users that they felt

enabled to track people by accident. I am very sorry for this. Also, our goal

has only ever been to create joyful, magical, and delightful experiences.

We should have realized that the expectations of our software would change as our audience changed.

...