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Hawaii Or Spain? Telescope Experts Say It May Not Matter
When starlight from billions of years ago zips across the universe and finally comes into focus on Earth, astronomers want their telescopes to be in the best locations possible to see what’s out there.
5 min |
August 30, 2019
AppleMagazine
Employees Of Big Tech Are Speaking Out Like Never Before
When Liz O’Sullivan was hired at the New York City-based artificial intelligence company Clarifai in 2017, she felt lucky to find work at the intersection of two of her main interests: technology and ethics. Two years later, she found herself facing a moral dilemma.
5 min |
August 30, 2019
AppleMagazine
Fall Movie Preview: Hollywood Goes All-In On Original Films
When 20th Century Fox greenlit James Mangold’s “Ford v. Ferrari” — an original movie with a nearly $100 million budget — the director’s agent had some advice.
6 min |
August 30, 2019
AppleMagazine
Apple Health: Dominating With Old And New Tech
Apple has transformed the way we work, communicate, spend, and work out, and now it’s hoping to become your personal doctor.
8 min |
August 30, 2019
AppleMagazine
China Lets Yuan Sink, Trump Says Serious Talks To Start
China allowed its yuan to sink and U.S. President Donald Trump said the two sides will talk “very seriously” about their war over trade and technology following tit-for-tat tariff hikes and Trump’s threat to order American companies to stop doing business with China.
3 min |
August 30, 2019
AppleMagazine
Facebook Tightens Political Ad Rules, But Leaves Loopholes
Facebook is tightening its rules around political advertising ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential elections, an acknowledgment of the previous misuse.
2 min |
August 30, 2019
AppleMagazine
Frustrated With Event Ticketing? New Ventures Try To Help
Event organizers hoping to eliminate ticket scams and huge markups in the secondary market are increasingly turning to companies that use technology to allow fans to buy and resell their tickets while putting caps on prices.
3 min |
August 30, 2019
AppleMagazine
British Airports To Introduce 3D Screening For Carry-on Bags
Putting small containers of liquids in plastic bags could soon be a thing of the past for airline passengers in Britain after the government announced plans to introduce 3D screening equipment for carry-on luggage at all major airports.
1 min |
August 30, 2019
AppleMagazine
Apple Apologizes For Use Of Contractors To Eavesdrop On Siri
Apple is apologizing for allowing outsiders to listen to snippets of people’s recorded conversations with its digital assistant Siri, a practice that undermined its attempts to position itself as a trusted steward of privacy.
1 min |
August 30, 2019
AppleMagazine
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August 30, 2019
AppleMagazine
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1 min |
August 30, 2019
AppleMagazine
Trump Attacks On Google Recycle Baseless Claims
President Donald Trump has been on a tear about Google that traces back to a series of unfounded claims about the technology giant circulating among conservatives.
4 min |
August 23, 2019
AppleMagazine
Cuban State To Absorb Underground Video-Gamers' Network
After weeks of resistance from Cuban video gamers, the island’s state-run computer organization will absorb the services of an offline underground network that for more than a decade extended privately in Havana.
2 min |
August 23, 2019
AppleMagazine
Facebook Rolls Out Tool To Block Off-Facebook Data Gathering
Soon, you could get fewer familiar ads following you around the internet — or at least on Facebook.
3 min |
August 23, 2019
AppleMagazine
Amazon: Facial Recognition Program For Cops Detects Emotion
Amazon has announced its facial recognition program used by one Washington state police agency can now detect emotion, generating concerns from privacy advocates.
1 min |
August 23, 2019
AppleMagazine
‘Angry Birds' Can't Fly, But This Sequel Stays Aloft
It’s hard to have huge expectations for a movie called “The Angry Birds Movie 2.” After all, it’s not even a movie based on a smartphone game. It’s a SEQUEL to a movie based on a smartphone game.
3 min |
August 23, 2019
AppleMagazine
Work For Apple: 2.4 Million US Jobs And Counting
As Apple reveals its US jobs footprint has grown to 2.4 million, we pull back the curtain on one of America’s biggest employers, explore how the firm has transformed the technology industry, and explain how anyone can make a living from Apple and its ecosystems...
7 min |
August 23, 2019
AppleMagazine
Google Employees Call For Pledge Not To Work With Ice
Hundreds of Google employees are calling on the company to pledge it won’t work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection or Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It’s the latest in a year full of political and social pushback from the tech giant’s workforce.
2 min |
August 23, 2019
AppleMagazine
Spacewalking Astronauts Add Parking Spot To Space Station
Spacewalking astronauts added another parking spot to the International Space Station on Wednesday.
1 min |
August 23, 2019
AppleMagazine
Millennial Money: Make Renting Work For Your Financial Goals
“Renting is just throwing money away.” “Renting is like paying someone else instead of paying yourself.”
3 min |
August 23, 2019
AppleMagazine
How Tech Titans Listen In On Voice Recordings
How Tech Titans Listen In On Voice Recordings
6 min |
August 23, 2019
AppleMagazine
Canadian Radarsat Satellites Launched Aboard SpaceX Rocket
Three satellites for the Canadian Space Agency’s Earth-monitoring Radarsat program were launched into orbit from California on Wednesday aboard a reused SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
1 min |
June 14, 2019
AppleMagazine
Uber, Volvo Cars Launching New Self-Driving Vehicle
Uber is teaming with Volvo Cars to launch its newest self-driving vehicle.
1 min |
June 14, 2019
AppleMagazine
Everything Is Pretty Good In ‘The Lego Movie 2'
“The LEGO Movie” is a hard act to follow.
3 min |
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AppleMagazine
Researchers Say Amazon Face-Detection Technology Shows Bias
Facial-detection technology that Amazon is marketing to law enforcement often misidentifies women, particularly those with darker skin, according to researchers from MIT and the University of Toronto.
2 min |
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AppleMagazine
Antarctica Is Losing Ice 6 Times Faster Today Than In 1980s
Antarctica is melting more than six times faster than it did in the 1980s, a new study shows.
1 min |
January 18, 2019
AppleMagazine
Grocery Robots Detect Spills - With Some Far-Off Human Help
A wheeled robot named Marty is rolling into nearly 500 grocery stores to alert employees if it encounters spilled granola, squashed tomatoes or a broken jar of mayonnaise.
1 min |
January 18, 2019
AppleMagazine
Facebook Merging Instagram and Whatsapp
With Facebook announcing plans to merge its Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram messaging services, we take a closer look at the giant’s stronghold on the ways in which we communicate, and explore whether the new changes will bring us closer together, or give Facebook access to more data to sell advertising and increase its dominance in the market.
6 min |
AppleMagazine #379
AppleMagazine
Jason Momoa Swims But ‘Aquaman' Sinks
Superheroes who travel by sea horse never get any respect.
4 min |
December 14, 2018
AppleMagazine
Follow Your Heart: Apple Watch ECG Changing Lives
THE BEATING HEART OF APPLEDespite being announced back in June, it wasn’t until the launch of watch OS 5.1.2 earlier this month that the long-awaited ECG app finally dropped.
6 min |