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AppleMagazine
iPHONE 12 PUSHING FURTHER THAN EVER BEFORE
Despite a month-long delay due to COVID-19 supply chain issues, the virtual announcement of this year’s iPhone range did not disappoint.
7 min |
October 16, 2020
AppleMagazine
MALCOLM JENKINS STARTS VENTURE CAPITAL FUND WITH NFL PLAYERS
Malcolm Jenkins has teamed with fellow NFL players to launch a venture capital fund.
2 min |
October 16, 2020
AppleMagazine
WALMART TO SPREAD OUT DEALS TO AVOID BLACK FRIDAY CROWDS
Walmart says it will spread out its traditional one-day Black Friday deals over three weekends in November in an effort to reduce crowds in its stores during a pandemic.
2 min |
October 16, 2020
AppleMagazine
DISNEY REORG TO FURTHER BOLSTER COMPANY'S FOCUS ON STREAMING
Disney said that it is reorganizing its business units to focus even more on streaming.
1 min |
October 16, 2020
AppleMagazine
IBM TO SPIN OFF $19B BUSINESS TO FOCUS ON CLOUD COMPUTING
IBM says it is breaking off a $19 billion chunk of its business to focus on cloud computing.
1 min |
October 16, 2020
AppleMagazine
Boeing Says Pandemic Will Cut Demand For Planes For a Decade
Boeing is lowering its expectations around demand for new planes over the next decade as the coronavirus pandemic continues to undercut air travel.
1 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
Airnbnb Blocking Some Rentals Over Halloween To Halt Parties
Airbnb will prohibit one-night rentals over Halloween weekend as part of its ongoing effort to crack down on party houses.
1 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
MICROSOFT PLANS $1 BILLION DATA CENTER VENTURE IN GREECE
Microsoft has announced plans to build three data center sites in greater Athens, providing a badly needed investment of up to $1 billion to the Greek economy which has been hammered by the pandemic.
2 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
NOBEL PRIZES AND COVID-19: SLOW, BASIC SCIENCE MAY PAY OFF
While the world wants flashy quick fixes for everything, especially massive threats like the coronavirus and global warming, next week’s Nobel Prizes remind us that in science, slow and steady pays off.
4 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
WATCH SE: AN AFFORDABLE PRICE TAG & A NEW DIRECTION FOR APPLE
Alongside the new Apple Watch Series 6 announcement at this year’s September Event, Apple introduced an altogether more interesting concept: the affordable Apple Watch SE.
7 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
LILLY SEEKS EMERGENCY USE OF ITS ANTIBODY DRUG FOR COVID-19
A drug company says it has asked the U.S. government to allow emergency use of an experimental antibody therapy based on early results from a study that suggested the drug reduced symptoms, the amount of virus, hospitalizations and ER visits for patients with mild or moderate COVID-19.
1 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
‘DUNE' DITCHES 2020, WHILE AMC COMMITS TO STAYING OPEN
The 2020 theatrical release calendar is getting even slimmer in the wake of the announcement that Regal cinemas are temporarily closing, although AMC, North America’s largest theater chain, says it will remain open.
2 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
HUNDREDS OF REGAL, CINEWORLD MOVIE THEATERS TO CLOSE
In the latest blow to the beleaguered film industry, the second-largest movie theater chain in the U.S. is temporarily shuttering its locations due to a lack of blockbusters on the calendar and major domestic markets like New York remaining closed.
4 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
JAMES BOND FILM ‘NO TIME TO DIE' PUSHED AGAIN, TO 2021
The release of the James Bond film “No Time To Die” has been delayed again, this time to 2021, because of the effects of COVID-19 on the theatrical business.
1 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
GOOGLE, ORACLE MEET IN COPYRIGHT CLASH AT SUPREME COURT
Tech giants Google and Oracle are clashing at the Supreme Court in a copyright dispute that’s worth billions and important to the future of software development.
2 min |
October 09, 2020
AppleMagazine
US JUDGE DISMISSES NEW MEXICO PRIVACY CLAIMS AGAINST GOOGLE
A U.S. district judge has dismissed New Mexico’s privacy claims against Google over privacy concerns, but New Mexico’s top prosecutor vowed to continue the legal fight to protect child privacy rights.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
UBER GETS 18-MONTH LONDON LICENSE AFTER WINNING COURT APPEAL
Uber can keep operating in London for another year and a half after winning its appeal of a decision by the British capital’s transit regulator not to renew its license.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
Q&A: HOW TO HANDLE TECHNOLOGY ISSUES WITH ONLINE SCHOOL
Across the U.S., the pandemic has forced students to attend virtual schools to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But the more we rely on technology, the bigger the consequences when gadgets or internet service let us down.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
Fitness +
Apple has made no secret of the fact it wants to expand its services division.
7 min |
AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
TRY TOUCHLESS PAYMENT TO AVOID DIRTY MONEY
If you’re looking for a self-improvement task in this pandemic era, try teaching yourself to use contactless payments with your phone or “tapto-pay” credit and debit cards.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
SECRETIVE, NEVER PROFITABLE PALANTIR MAKES ITS MARKET DEBUT
Seventeen years after it was born with the help of CIA seed money, the data-mining outfit Palantir Technologies is finally going public in the biggest Wall Street tech offering since last year’s debut of Slack and Uber.
5 min |
AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
NEW MEASUREMENTS SHOW MOON HAS HAZARDOUS RADIATION LEVELS
Future moon explorers will be bombarded with two to three times more radiation than astronauts aboard the International Space Station, a health hazard that will require thick-walled shelters for protection, scientists reported.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
FEDERAL JUDGE POSTPONES TRUMP BAN ON POPULAR APP TIKTOK
A federal judge postponed a Trump administration order that would have banned the popular video-sharing app TikTok from U.S. smartphone app stores around midnight.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
INFLUENCERS BEHAVING ADLY: MEXICO KICKS THEM OUT OF RUINS
Archaeological authorities in Mexico said they kicked cast members of a popular local “Jersey Shore”-style reality shows out of the Mayan ruins of Uxmal after they behaved “immaturely” and refused to wear masks or follow social distancing rules.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
EU COMMISSION APPEALS AFTER LOSING APPLE $15B TAX CASE
The European Commission said it is appealing a court decision that Apple doesn’t have to repay 13 billion euros ($15 billion) in back taxes to Ireland.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #466
AppleMagazine
For Most NYC Students, Back To School But Not The Classroom
Monday’s return to New York City schools wasn’t the one anyone planned for. For most, it wasn’t a return at all.
4 min |
September 25,2020
AppleMagazine
Cybersecurity Experts: Requesting Ballots By Email Is Safe
A group of leading cybersecurity experts told an Ohio court that absentee ballot applications can be safely transmitted using email, countering the secretary of state’s assertions that the practice would open up voting in the presidential battleground to outside interference.
2 min |
September 25,2020
AppleMagazine
As Trump Holds Back, Tech Firms Step In On Election Security
Adam Schiff was in the audience at the 2018 Aspen Security Forum when a Microsoft executive mentioned an attempted hacking of three politicians up for reelection. It was the first that Schiff, then the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, had ever heard of it.
5 min |
September 25,2020
AppleMagazine
Facebook: Apple Privacy Changes Will Muck Up Online Ads
Facebook is pushing back on new Apple privacy rules for its mobile devices — and putting app developers in the middle.
3 min |
September 04,2020
AppleMagazine
MILLIE BOBBY BROWN HAS FUN WITH ‘ENOLA HOLMES'
There is a long, questionable and occasionally successful tradition of spinning off iconic literary and film characters through relatives distant and not from James Bond Jr. to John Shaft II and III. In other words, it’s not out of bounds that someone would come along and invent a little sister for Sherlock Holmes and eventually make a movie out of it.
3 min |