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Health The growing influence of Apple on healthcare
In a 2019 interview with Mad Money’s Jim Cramer, Apple CEO Tim Cook said: “If you zoomed out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, ‘What was Apple’s greatest contribution to mankind?’” After a short pause, he answered his own question: “It will be about health.” Two years on, his vision is already becoming a reality for the company.
5 min |
December 03, 2021
AppleMagazine
COLLINS DICTIONARY PICKS NFT AS WORD OF THE YEAR 2021
Collins Dictionary has chosen the term NFT as its word of the year after surging interest in the digital tokens that can sell for millions of dollars brought it into the mainstream.
1 min |
December 03, 2021
AppleMagazine
NEW TWITTER CEO STEPS FROM BEHIND THE SCENES TO HIGH PROFILE
Newly named Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has emerged from behind the scenes to take over one of Silicon Valley’s highest-profile and politically volatile jobs.
2 min |
December 03, 2021
AppleMagazine
NISSAN INVESTING IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES, BATTERY DEVELOPMENT
Nissan said this week it is investing 2 trillion yen ($17.6 billion) over the next five years and developing a cheaper, more powerful battery to boost its electric vehicle lineup.
2 min |
December 03, 2021
AppleMagazine
MISSISSIPPI UNVEILS MOBILE ID PROGRAM: AN APP FOR PHONES
Mississippi is unveiling a new app that’s designed to store someone’s driver license on their phone.
2 min |
December 03, 2021
AppleMagazine
OUTDOOR DECORATING TRENDS: NATURAL, COZY, SUSTAINABLE
Home, as we know, has become more central to many of us during the pandemic, and that means outdoors as well as in. This holiday season, designers and retailers have suggestions for updating window, door and yard decorations.
4 min |
December 03, 2021
AppleMagazine
OMICRON UNRAVELS TRAVEL INDUSTRY'S PLANS FOR A COMEBACK
Tourism businesses that were just finding their footing after nearly two years of devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are being rattled again as countries throw up new barriers to travel in an effort to contain the omicron variant.
5 min |
December 03, 2021
AppleMagazine
SPACE JUNK FORCES SPACEWALK DELAY, TOO RISKY FOR ASTRONAUTS
NASA called off a spacewalk Tuesday because of menacing space junk that could puncture an astronaut’s suit or damage the International Space Station.
1 min |
December 03, 2021
AppleMagazine
3 Times You Need Money Advice from a Human
You can now manage most aspects of your money without ever consulting another human being. You can budget, borrow, save, invest, buy insurance, prepare your tax return and create a will — among many other tasks — by using apps, websites and software.
4 min |
November 26, 2021
AppleMagazine
MANY SCIENTISTS BACK BIDEN'S MOVE TO TAP OIL RESERVE
Democrats and climate activists generally supported President Joe Biden’s decision to release a record 50 million barrels of oil from America’s strategic reserve, even as the move appeared to contradict his long-term vision of combating climate change.
4 min |
November 26, 2021
AppleMagazine
APPLE SUING ISRAELI HACKER-FOR-HIRE COMPANY NSO GROUP
Apple announced it is suing Israel’s NSO Group, seeking to block the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company from breaking into Apple’s products, like the iPhone.
2 min |
November 26, 2021
AppleMagazine
DISNEY'S ANIMATED ‘ENCANTO' EFFORTLESSLY ENCHANTS
Mirabel is extraordinary, in that when it comes to her family, she is totally normal.
3 min |
November 26, 2021
AppleMagazine
DOORDASH'S TECHNOLOGICAL KNOW-HOW OFFERS HELP TO FOOD BANKS
Susan Goodell needed help. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Goodell, CEO of the El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank, would look out the window at the long line of clients picking up the food available that day, while she and others answered calls from others who couldn’t travel to a distribution point.
4 min |
November 26, 2021
AppleMagazine
EL SALVADOR TO BUILD CRYPTO-FUELED ‘BITCOIN CITY'
In a rock concert-like atmosphere, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced that his government will build an oceanside “Bitcoin City” at the base of a volcano.
2 min |
November 26, 2021
AppleMagazine
Do It Yourself
Apple opens a new era for device repairs
6 min |
November 26, 2021
AppleMagazine
SAMSUNG EXPECTED TO BUILD $17B CHIP FACTORY IN TEXAS
Samsung is planning to build a $17 billion semiconductor factory outside of Austin, Texas, amid a global shortage of chips used in phones, cars and other electronic devices.
4 min |
November 26, 2021
AppleMagazine
NYC AIMS TO BE FIRST TO REIN IN AI HIRING TOOLS
Job candidates rarely know when hidden artificial intelligence tools are rejecting their resumes or analyzing their video interviews. But New York City residents could soon get more say over the computers making behind-the-scenes decisions about their careers.
4 min |
November 26, 2021
AppleMagazine
TOO MANY OLD GHOSTS MAR ‘GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE'
“Ghostbusters: Afterlife” — the direct cinematic follow-up to 1984 classic — is haunted, of course. But not in a good way.
3 min |
November 26, 2021
AppleMagazine
Biden Pushes Electric Vehicle Chargers as Energy Costs Spike
President Joe Biden is highlighting billions of dollars in his giant bipartisan infrastructure deal to pay for the installation of electric vehicle chargers across the country, an investment he says will go a long way to curbing planet-warming carbon emissions while creating good-paying jobs.
4 min |
November 19, 2021
AppleMagazine
TWITTER ROLLS OUT REDESIGNED MISINFORMATION WARNING LABELS
Twitter users will soon see new warning labels on false and misleading tweets, redesigned to make them more effective and less confusing.
1 min |
November 19, 2021
AppleMagazine
‘RED NOTICE,' ‘SQUID GAME' TOP NETFLIX HOURS-WATCHED METRIC
Netflix rolled out a new website that measures its most-viewed films and series by the amount of hours users spend watching them.
2 min |
November 19, 2021
AppleMagazine
JAPAN'S TOSHIBA SPINS OFF ENERGY, COMPUTER DEVICE UNITS
Embattled Japanese technology conglomerate Toshiba said it is restructuring to improve its competitiveness, spinning off its energy infrastructure and computer devices businesses.
2 min |
November 19, 2021
AppleMagazine
STRONG SALES, PROFIT FOR WALMART ON CUSP OF HOLIDAY SEASON
Walmart raised its outlook for the year after another surprisingly strong quarter as the largest retailer in the world flexed its scale to deal with rising costs and a snarled global supply chain.
2 min |
November 19, 2021
AppleMagazine
ROADS, TRANSIT, INTERNET: WHAT'S IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL
The $1 trillion infrastructure plan that President Joe Biden plans to sign into law has money for roads, bridges, ports, rail transit, safe water, the power grid, broadband internet and more.
3 min |
November 19, 2021
AppleMagazine
CALIFORNIA ELECTRICIAN ORDERED TO PAY $481 MILLION FOR SCAM
A California electrician was ordered to pay $481.3 million in restitution as part of his sentence for participating in a $1 billion Ponzi schemed that suckered Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., among many others.
2 min |
November 19, 2021
AppleMagazine
SPACEX LAUNCHES 53 STARLINK SATELLITES INTO ORBIT
SpaceX expanded its constellation of low Earth orbit satellites last Saturday (13) with the launch of 53 Starlink satellites from Florida.
1 min |
November 19, 2021
AppleMagazine
RUSSIAN TEST BLAMED FOR SPACE JUNK THREATENING SPACE STATION
A Russian weapons test created more than 1,500 pieces of space junk that is now threatening the seven astronauts aboard the International Space Station, U.S. officials said this week.
3 min |
November 19, 2021
AppleMagazine
e-Wallet
How cryptocurrency could come to apple pay
7 min |
November 19, 2021
AppleMagazine
E-Wallets: What Happens to Your Crypto If You Die?
If you’re merely dipping your toe in cryptocurrency, it can be hard to imagine your crypto as something worth talking to an estate attorney about.
4 min |
November 05, 2021
AppleMagazine
Air-Scrubbing Machines Gain Momentum, But Long Way to Go
On a field ringed by rolling green hills in Iceland, fans attached to metal structures that look like an industrial-sized Lego project are spinning. Their mission is to scrub the atmosphere by sucking carbon dioxide from the air and storing it safely underground.
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