AppleMagazine
BALLY'S, CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT ADD DAILY FANTASY SPORT DEALS
Two major casino companies announced deals with daily fantasy sports providers as they seek to expand their reach and integrate different forms of fan engagement with professional sports into their gambling operations.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #483
AppleMagazine
NFL's 1st & Future to Award $150,000 on Television Show
The NFL is bringing its awards for novel advancements in athletes’ safety and performance to television.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #483
PC Gamer US Edition
SCOOBY GANG
LITTLE HOPE is a ghost tour that's better with friends.
4 min |
February 2021
Techlife News
MORGAN STANLEY PROFITS RISE 48%, HELPED BY STRONG MARKETS
Morgan Stanley saw its fourth-quarter profits surge 48% from a year earlier, as the Wall Street bank benefited from the market’s upward swing and investors jubilation for tech stocks and IPOs late last year.
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Techlife News #482
Techlife News
BURIED TREASURE, IMPENDING WAR AND LOSS IN ‘THE DIG'
Just before the outbreak of the World War II, a small-time archeologist was hired by a local woman to excavate her land. The thought was that it possibly contained some Viking remnants. But what was unearthed in the mounds out in the fields was far more significant than they could have imagined: Buried in the grounds of Sutton Hoo was actually a ship that would end up providing a deeper understanding of the sophistication of the early Anglo-Saxon period.
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Techlife News #482
Techlife News
ELON MUSK: DIG TUNNELS AS SOLUTION FOR MIAMI'S TRAFFIC JAMS
As a solution to Miami’s notoriously congested traffic, Tesla Inc. founder Elon Musk is proposing to dig tunnels with The Boring Company, one of his many business ventures. Experts say the idea would be costly and is fraught with engineering obstacles, but it’s not outright crazy.
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Techlife News #482
Techlife News
NETFLIX'S BIG 4Q LIFTS VIDEO SERVICE ABOVE 200M SUBSCRIBERS
Netflix’s video streaming service has surpassed 200 million subscribers for the first time as its expanding line-up of TV series and movies continues to captivate people stuck at home during the ongoing battle against the pandemic.
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Techlife News #482
Techlife News
NHL PULLED MICROCHIPS ‘TRACKING' PUCKS 6 DAYS INTO SEASON
The NHL is temporarily ditching microchipped pucks six days into the season after concerns were raised about their performance.
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Techlife News #482
Techlife News
UNITED AIRLINES POSTS $1.9 BILLION LOSS IN PANDEMIC-LADEN 4Q
United Airlines said that it finished one of the worst years in its history by losing $1.9 billion in the last three months of 2020, and it predicted more of the same in the first quarter of this year.
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Techlife News #482
Techlife News
CYBERSECURITY FIRM: BOOTING HACKERS A COMPLEX CHORE
Efforts to assess the impact of a more than seven-month-old cyberespionage campaign blamed on Russia — and boot the intruders — remain in their early stages, says the cybersecurity firm that discovered the attack.
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Techlife News #482
Techlife News
‘LOCKED DOWN' MIRRORS OUR QUARANTINE EXPERIENCES
Doug Liman’s “Locked Down,” one of the first and most ambitious films to be conceived and shot during the pandemic, is, like our own quarantine experiences, erratic, a little absurd and sporadically delightful.
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Techlife News #482
Techlife News
BEHIND THOSE DANCING ROBOTS, SCIENTISTS HAD TO BUST A MOVE
The man who designed some of the world’s most advanced dynamic robots was on a daunting mission: programming his creations to dance to the beat with a mix of fluid, explosive and expressive motions that are almost human.
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Techlife News #482
Techlife News
Amazon Offers Assist With Us COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
Amazon is offering its colossal operations network and advanced technologies to assist President Joe Biden in his vow to get 100 million COVID-19 vaccinations to Americans in his first 100 days in office.
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Techlife News #482
PC Gamer US Edition
STUCK IN THE MUD
DIRT 5 ventures down a well-travelled track.
4 min |
February 2021
PC Gamer US Edition
MIND READING
Brain-computer interfaces could revolutionize the way we live
5 min |
February 2021
PC Gamer US Edition
SECOND EXTINCTION
For anyone who thought Muldoon was the hero of Jurassic Park
3 min |
February 2021
PC Gamer US Edition
PRESSING X TO COMFORT MY UNBORN CHILD IN AMNESIA: REBIRTH
We’ve come a long way from pressing F to pay respects.
4 min |
February 2021
PC Gamer US Edition
FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS
Mods to remaster the Mojave in 2021.
8 min |
February 2021
PC Gamer US Edition
FAR OUT
How THE SIMS shaped the career of Far Cry director Alex Hutchinson
3 min |
February 2021
PC Gamer US Edition
GOODBYE VOLCANO HIGH
It’s time to play triceratops trumps
3 min |
February 2021
PC Gamer US Edition
DRAGON QUEST
YAKUZA: LIKE A DRAGON doubles down on the series’ RPG elements with a brave new turn-based battle system.
4 min |
February 2021
AppleMagazine
RIP: MARS DIGGER BITES THE DUST AFTER 2 YEARS ON RED PLANET
NASA declared the Mars digger dead after failing to burrow deep into the red planet to take its temperature.
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AppleMagazine #482
AppleMagazine
TEENS TUTOR PEERS ONLINE TO FILL NEED DURING PANDEMIC
When her suburban Dallas high school was forced to move online last spring because of the coronavirus pandemic, Charvi Goyal realized that the schoolmates she’d been informally tutoring between classes would still need extra help but wouldn’t necessarily be able to get it. So she took her tutoring online, as well.
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AppleMagazine #482
AppleMagazine
HIGH-TECH INDOOR FARMER APPHARVEST STARTS SHIPPING TOMATOES
AppHarvest — an indoor farming company backed by Martha Stewart — thinks the agriculture sector is ripe for disruption. And now, its tomatoes are ripe for eating.
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AppleMagazine #482
AppleMagazine
US BLACKLISTS XIAOMI, CNOOC, SKYRIZON, RAISING HEAT ON CHINA
The U.S. government has blacklisted Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. and China’s third-largest national oil company for alleged military links, heaping pressure on Beijing in President Donald Trump’s last week in office.
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AppleMagazine #482
AppleMagazine
TALK SAFER: APPS TAKE PRIVACY FIGHT TO FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE
As messaging giant WhatsApp prepares to hand over more data to Facebook, users are flocking to rival services in protest, with Signal jumping from 250,000 downloads on the App Store a week to almost 10 million.
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AppleMagazine #482
AppleMagazine
JACK'S BACK: CHINESE E-TYCOON ENDS SILENCE WITH ONLINE VIDEO
China’s highest-profile entrepreneur, Jack Ma, appeared this week in an online video, ending a 2 1/2-month absence from public view that prompted speculation about the future of the e-commerce billionaire and his Alibaba Group.
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AppleMagazine #482
AppleMagazine
GOOGLE MUSCLES UP WITH FITBIT DEAL AMID ANTITRUST CONCERNS
Google has completed its $2.1 billion acquisition of fitness-gadget maker Fitbit, a deal that could help the internet company grow even stronger while U.S. government regulators pursue an antitrust case aimed at undermining its power.
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AppleMagazine #482
AppleMagazine
GM TEAMS UP WITH MICROSOFT ON DRIVERLESS CARS
General Motors is teaming up with Microsoft to accelerate its rollout of electric, self-driving cars.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #482
AppleMagazine
EU FINES VIDEO GAME FIRMS FOR BLOCKING CROSS-BORDER SALES
The European Union has issued fines to a U.S. video game platform and five game makers after they blocked players from buying cheaper copies of the games in other countries in the bloc.
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