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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is relaxing rules that restrict when food companies can claim their products have no artificial colors.
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Yesterday, Bloomberg broke the surprise news that Alan Dye, Apple’s vice president of Human Interface Design since 2015, is departing the company to lead a new design studio at Meta. Apple confirmed ...