Techlife News
Apple Eases App Store Rules Again, to Allow Outside Signups
Apple is relaxing rules to allow some app developers such as Spotify, Netflix and digital publishers to include an outside link so users can sign up for paid subscription accounts.
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WITH SALES STILL SURGING, BEST BUY RAISES PROSPECTS FOR 2021
Best Buy raised its sales outlook for the year after breezing past Wall Street expectations in the second quarter.
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WAYMO EXPANDING AUTONOMOUS RIDE SERVICE TO SAN FRANCISCO
Waymo, the Google self-driving vehicle spinoff, is expanding its autonomous ride-hailing service to San Francisco.
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Techlife News
WHY IT TAKES MONTHS TO SUBDUE SOME WILDFIRES
At nearly every community meeting on firefighting efforts in the U.S. West, residents want to know why crews don’t simply put out the flames to save their homes and the valuable forests surrounding them.
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Techlife News
WHAT IS A COVID-19 VACCINE PASSPORT, AND DO I NEED ONE?
What is a COVID-19 vaccine passport, and do I need one?
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Techlife News
FOSSIL LEAVES MAY REVEAL CLIMATE IN LAST ERA OF DINOSAURS
Richard Barclay opens a metal drawer in archives of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum containing fossils that are nearly 100 million years old. Despite their age, these rocks aren’t fragile. The geologist and botanist handles them with casual ease, placing one in his palm for closer examination.
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TECH COMPANIES PLEDGE BILLIONS IN CYBERSECURITY INVESTMENTS
Some of the country’s leading technology companies have committed to investing billions of dollars to strengthen cybersecurity defenses and to train skilled workers, the White House announced Wednesday following President Joe Biden’s private meeting with top executives.
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US AUTHORITIES WARN AGAINST FLYING DRONES OVER NATIONAL LAB
Drone pilots beware.
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COVID-19 RESURGENCE CRIMPS SPENDING, TRAVEL RECOVERY
A COVID-19 resurgence this summer has caused consumers to turn cautious, while investors trim their investments in a travel sector still struggling to recover.
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Techlife News
SPAIN JUDGE NIXES BACKUP SITE FOR DISPUTED HAWAII TELESCOPE
A Spanish judge in a decision cheered by environmentalists has put a halt to backup plans for the construction of a giant telescope in the Canary Islands — eliminating at least for now the primary alternative location to the preferred spot in Hawaii, where there have been protests against the telescope.
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GIG APPS FOR A PANDEMIC ECONOMY: PART-TIME, NO COMMITMENT
For months, Gabrielle Walker had been looking for a part-time job. She applied to restaurant chains and retailers like Nando’s and Primark, and she scoured the job search site Indeed.
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AppleMagazine
FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR WATER TO BE RELEASED VIA UNDERSEA TUNNEL
The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant said this week it plans to build an undersea tunnel so that massive amounts of treated but still radioactive water can be released into the ocean about 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) away from the plant to avoid interference with local fishing.
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August 27, 2021
AppleMagazine
SENATORS QUESTION DOJ FUNDING FOR AI-POWERED POLICING TECH
A Democratic senator said the U.S. Justice Department needs to look into whether the algorithm-powered police technologies it funds contribute to racial bias in law enforcement and lead to wrongful arrests.
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August 27, 2021
AppleMagazine
SCIENTISTS LAUNCH EFFORT TO COLLECT WATER DATA IN US WEST
The U.S. Department of Energy announced a new kind of climate observatory near the headwaters of the Colorado River that will help scientists better predict rain and snowfall in the U.S. West and determine how much of it will flow through the region.
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August 27, 2021
AppleMagazine
TIKTOK TO LET USERS SHOP THROUGH APP WITH SHOPIFY DEAL
TikTok users will soon be able to buy stuff directly through the short videos on the app — something they had only been able to do through ads until now.
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August 27, 2021
AppleMagazine
WHITMER PROPOSES SPENDING $1.5B TO BOOST BUSINESS CLIMATE
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proposed spending more than $1.5 billion in federal pandemic rescue funding to help boost the business climate, redevelop polluted sites and take steps such as accelerating the development of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
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August 27, 2021
AppleMagazine
REBECCA HALL SHINES IN EERIE ‘THE NIGHT HOUSE'
Rebecca Hall occupies nearly every fame of the elegant psychological thriller “ The Night House ” and you still leave wanting more of her and her character, Beth.
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August 27, 2021
AppleMagazine
VEGAS-AREA COUNTY JOINS ROOM TAX FIGHT AGAINST ONLINE FIRMS
The county with jurisdiction over the Las Vegas Strip has joined a legal fight to try to collect what attorneys maintain could be hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid hotel room taxes owed by more than 20 online travel companies.
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August 27, 2021
AppleMagazine
TESLA ROBOT
THE NEXT BREAKTHROUGH FOR AI HAS BECOME REAL
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August 27, 2021
AppleMagazine
CHINA'S MARS ROVER SOLDIERS ON AFTER COMPLETING PROGRAM
China’s Zhurong Mars rover is soldiering on after completing its initial program to explore the red planet and search for frozen water that could provide clues as to whether it once supported life.
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August 27, 2021
AppleMagazine
Data Breach Exposes Student Requests For Vaccine Exemptions
Personal information from students at a California college who requested a religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine has been posted online after an apparent data breach.
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August 27, 2021
Techlife News
GADGET SHOW JOINS RAIDERS IN VEGAS VACCINE VERIFICATION PLAN
Vaccine verification at major venues emerged Tuesday as a coronavirus fighting front in Nevada, with Las Vegas’ biggest trade conference following the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders in announcing they’ll require attendees to prove they’re inoculated.
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E-MONEY: 3 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU BUY CRYPTO
Investing in cryptocurrency can be as easy as a few taps on your phone, and with crypto all over the news and coming up in conversations with friends, it’s tempting to dive right in. However, depending on your financial situation and appetite for investment risk, crypto might not be an appropriate investment for you right now — or ever.
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ARMY: FULL ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF $9.4B PLASTICS COMPLEX
A civilian Pentagon official ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a full environmental assessment of a $9.4 billion Formosa Plastics complex planned in Louisiana, drawing praise from environmentalists.
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CLIMATE IMPACT OF COAL SALES FROM US LANDS SCRUTINIZED
U.S. officials launched a review Thursday of climate damage caused by coal mining on public lands as the Biden administration expands its scrutiny of government fossil fuel sales that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions.
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ROBINHOOD'S CRYPTO TRADING SURGES, AS OVERALL GROWTH SLOWS
After helping a new generation of investors get into stocks, Robinhood is increasingly doing the same for cryptocurrencies.
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UNDER DELTA, SUPPLY CHAIN STRAINS, TOYOTA SLASHES PRODUCTION
Toyota is scaling back production in North America and Japan as the surging coronavirus pandemic in Southeast Asia and elsewhere crimps supplies.
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JAPAN AIMS TO BRING BACK SOIL SAMPLES FROM MARS MOON BY 2029
Japanese space agency scientists said they plan to bring soil samples back from the Mars region ahead of the United States and China, which started Mars missions last year, in hopes of finding clues to the planet’s origin and traces of possible life.
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INDIANA NOTIFYING 750K AFTER COVID-19 TRACING DATA ACCESSED
Indiana health officials said they are notifying nearly 750,000 state residents that a cybersecurity company “improperly accessed” their personal data from the state’s online COVID-19 contact tracing survey — a description the company disputed as a “falsehood.”
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TEENAGER SEEKS TO BREAK WOMEN'S SOLO FLIGHT RECORD
A Belgian-British teenager took to the skies Wednesday in her quest to become the youngest woman to fly around the world solo.
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