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REVIEW: WILL SMITH-LED 'EMANCIPATION' IS AN ACTION THRILLER
It comes as some relief that Antoine Fuqua's \"Emancipation,\" starring Will Smith as a runaway slave in Civil War-era Louisiana, is not, at least traditionally speaking, an Oscar movie.
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AppleMagazine #580
AppleMagazine
FDA CHANGE USHERS IN CHEAPER, EASIER-TO-GET HEARING AIDS
It's now a lot easier and cheaper - for many hard-of-hearing Americans to get help.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #580
AppleMagazine
TESLA LAUNCHES IN THAILAND, VYING TO COMPETE WITH CHINA EVS
Tesla has launched sales in Thailand, offering its popular Model 3 and Model Y at prices aimed at competing with rivals like China's BYD.
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AppleMagazine #580
AppleMagazine
CHINA EASES ANTI-COVID MEASURES FOLLOWING PROTESTS
China rolled back rules on isolating people with COVID-19 and dropped virus test requirements for some public places Wednesday in a dramatic change to a strategy that confined millions of people to their homes and sparked protests and demands for President Xi Jinping to resign.
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AppleMagazine #580
AppleMagazine
MICROSOFT STRIKES 10-YEAR DEAL WITH NINTENDO ON CALL OF DUTY
Microsoft agreed this week to make the hit video game Call of Duty available on Nintendo for 10 years should its $69 billion purchase of game maker Activision Blizzard go through an apparent attempt to fend off objections from rival Sony.
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AppleMagazine #580
AppleMagazine
MAN GOES TO TRIAL ON CHARGES HE RAN UNLICENSED BITCOIN BIZ
A New Hampshire man accused of running an unlicensed bitcoin exchange business catered to romance and imposter scammers who conned their victims into wiring him money that he shared as virtual currency with the criminals after taking his cut, a prosecutor alleged during opening statements in his trial Tuesday.
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AppleMagazine #580
AppleMagazine
BIDEN VISITS ARIZONA COMPUTER CHIP SITE, HIGHLIGHTS JOBS
President Joe Biden on Tuesday visited the site for a new computer chip plant in Arizona, using it as a chance to emphasize how his policies are fostering job growth in what could be a challenge to the incoming Republican House majority.
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AppleMagazine #580
AppleMagazine
US POLICE RARELY DEPLOY DEADLY ROBOTS TO CONFRONT SUSPECTS
The unabashedly liberal city of San Francisco became the unlikely proponent of weaponized police robots last week after supervisors approved limited use of the remote-controlled devices, addressing head-on an evolving technology that has become more widely available even if it is rarely deployed to confront suspects.
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AppleMagazine #580
AppleMagazine
APPLE MUSIC OFFERS A CHANCE TO SING WITH YOUR FAVORITES
Apple Music Sing gives the user the ability to adjust a song's vocals and an enhanced beat-by-beat lyric display, which both draw on the platform's massive song library. The result is what Apple hopes will be an effortless invitation to karaoke.
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AppleMagazine #580
AppleMagazine
THE MIND BEHIND THE RUBIK'S CUBE CELEBRATES A LASTING PUZZLE
If you've ever had trouble solving a Rubik's Cube, a good piece of advice is to break it down into steps. It's worth a shot: That advice is from the man who invented it.
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AppleMagazine #580
AppleMagazine
Oceanic+
Dive in on the most amazing app made for Watch Ultra
5 min |
AppleMagazine #580
AppleMagazine
CUBA'S INFORMAL MARKET FINDS NEW SPACE ON GROWING INTERNET
In the Telegram group chat, the messages roll in like waves.
5 min |
AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
UK WATERS DOWN ONLINE RESTRICTIONS AFTER FREE SPEECH OUTCRY
The British government abandoned a plan to force tech firms to remove internet content that is harmful but legal, after the proposal drew strong criticism from lawmakers and civil liberties groups.
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AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
4 REASONS FOR THRIFT STORE GIFTS THIS YEAR
Thrifting is hot, and Goodwill finds are cool again. But while we’re thrilled to find the perfect throwback tee for our own closet, gifting used goods still carries a stigma for some.
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AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
NETFLIX NIGHTS STILL COME WRAPPED IN RED-AND-WHITE ENVELOPES
Netflix’s trailblazing DVD-by-mail rental service has been relegated as a relic in the age of video streaming, but there is still a steady — albeit shrinking — audience of diehards like Amanda Konkle who are happily paying to receive those discs in the iconic red-and-white envelopes.
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AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
DRUG SLOWS ALZHEIMER'S BUT CAN IT MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE?
An experimental Alzheimer's drug modestly slowed the brain disease's inevitable worsening, researchers reported this week -- but it remains unclear how much difference that might make in people's lives.
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AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
'STRANGE WORLD' EXPLORES BIG THEMES IN BOLD COLORS
Is Searcher Clade the most millennial dad in all of animated moviedom? He has that telltale hipster beard. A sensitive voice sorta like Jake Gyllenhaal. And he feeds his kid avocado toast, with an egg on top.
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AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
MLB SELLS SHARE OF BAMTECH TO WALT DISNEY CO. FOR $900M
Major League Baseball has sold its remaining share of a streaming service technology company to the Walt Disney Co. for $900 million.
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AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
US FCC BANS SALES, IMPORT OF CHINESE TECH FROM HUAWEI, ZTE
The U.S. is banning the sale of communications equipment made by Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE and restricting the use of some China-made video surveillance systems, citing an \"unacceptable risk\" to national security.
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AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
COMPETITORS CHIP AWAY AT TESLA'S US ELECTRIC VEHICLE SHARE
New electric vehicle models from multiple automakers are starting to chip away at Tesla's dominance of the U.S. EV market, according to national vehicle registration data.
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AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
TOYOTA RAV4 PRIME VS. HYUNDAI TUCSON PLUG-IN
Since its debut for the 2021 model year, the Toyota RAV4 Prime has served as a benchmark for what a small SUV with a plug-in hybrid powertrain can be. It's efficient, fast and nearly as practical as a regular RAV4. But now SUV shoppers have another choice to consider: the Hyundai Tucson PHEV. It too offers improved performance and efficiency over the standard gas-only Tucson.
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AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
BLOCKFI FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY, LATEST CRYPTO COMPANY TO FAIL
Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the latest casualty of the collapse of crypto exchange FTX.
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AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
CENSUS BUREAU CHIEF DEFENDS NEW PRIVACY TOOL AGAINST CRITICS
The U.S. Census Bureau's chief is defending a new tool meant to protect the privacy of people participating in the statistical agency's questionnaires against calls to abandon it by prominent researchers who claim it jeopardizes the usefulness of numbers that are the foundation of the nation's data infrastructure.
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AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
CHINA LAUNCHES 3 ASTRONAUTS TO COMPLETE SPACE STATION
China launched a rocket Tuesday carrying three astronauts to complete construction of the country’s permanent orbiting space station, during which they will expand the facility to its maximum capacity of six crew aboard.
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AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
WHY ARE MAN UNITED AND LIVERPOOL SUDDENLY ON THE MARKET?
English soccer’s two most storied teams are suddenly in play.
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AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
Fitness+
All you need to have your body & mind in the best shape
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AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
SOUTH DAKOTA GOV. NOEM BANS TIKTOK FROM STATE-OWNED DEVICES
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem issued an executive order banning state employees and contractors from accessing the video platform TikTok on state-owned devices, citing its ties to China.
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AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
STATES SETTLE WITH GOOGLE.IHEARTMEDIA OVER MISLEADING ADS
The Federal Trade Commission and a handful of states announced settlements with Google and iHeartMedia related to misleading radio advertisements about a Google cellphone.
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AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
SAN FRANCISCO WILL ALLOW POLICE T0 DEPLOY ROBOTS THAT KILL
Supervisors in San Francisco voted to give city police the ability to use potentially lethal, remote-controlled robots in emergency situations -- following an emotionally charged debate that reflected divisions on the politically liberal board over support for law enforcement.
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AppleMagazine #579
AppleMagazine
APPLE MUSIC REVEALS TOP MUSIC IN 2022 AND LISTENER CHARTS
\"Stay\" the smash hit by The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber topped Apple Music's global song chart in 2022 as the giant music streamer released its endof-year lists and provided listeners with data on their own most listened-to tunes.
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