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NEBRASKA COULD LET STATE BANKS OFFER CRYPTOCURRENCY SERVICES
Nebraska banks that want to cash in on the cryptocurrency tech craze could start offering services to customers who own Bitcoin and other digital assets under a bill backed by Monday state lawmakers.
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AppleMagazine #498
AppleMagazine
ELON MUSK SHOWS HUMILITY AND HUBRIS AS ‘SNL' HOST
Elon Musk showed a combination of humility and hubris as he opened his highly anticipated hosting gig on “Saturday Night Live.”
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AppleMagazine #498
AppleMagazine
AS CHIP SHORTAGE GOES ON, CARS ARE SCARCE AND PRICES ARE UP
For the next few months, Charlie Gilchrist figures his 11 car dealerships in the DallasFort Worth area will sell just about every new vehicle they can get from the factories — and at increased prices.
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AppleMagazine #498
AppleMagazine
SEYFRIED LENDS GROUNDING PRESENCE TO CAMPY THRILLER
Hollywood thrillers in which sophisticated, attractive city folk move to creaky old country homes and experience scary things are a dime a dozen. Less common is when those Hollywood thrillers are based on the theology of 18thcentury Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg.
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AppleMagazine #498
AppleMagazine
AMAZON BLOCKED 10 BILLION LISTINGS IN COUNTERFEIT CRACKDOWN
Amazon, which has been under pressure from shoppers, brands and lawmakers to crack down on counterfeits on its site, said Monday that it blocked more than 10 billion suspected phony listings last year before any of their offerings could be sold.
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AppleMagazine #498
AppleMagazine
AGS URGE FACEBOOK TO DROP ‘INSTAGRAM FOR KIDS' PROPOSAL
A bipartisan group of 44 attorneys general has written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urging him to drop company plans for a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced Monday.
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AppleMagazine #498
AppleMagazine
BIG TECH STOCKS FLEX MUSCLES AGAIN AFTER A ROUGH WINTER
Big Tech stocks are flexing their enormous strength again, after getting knocked around a bit earlier this year.
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AppleMagazine #497
AppleMagazine
BEFRIEND YOUR MONEY AND REAP THE BENEFITS
What’s your relationship with money? Maybe your personal finances are like a distant cousin you barely think about — or an unsettling stranger you avoid. Or perhaps money feels like your enemy, frustrating you and rarely doing what you want.
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AppleMagazine #497
AppleMagazine
NASCAR'S FUTURE IS HERE: NEXT GEN CAR FINALLY ARRIVES
NASCAR’s next-generation race car is finally here after two years of hype and hope that it will revolutionize the stock car series.
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AppleMagazine #497
AppleMagazine
AIRTAGS: NEXT-GENERATION TRACKING TECHNOLOGY HAS ARRIVED
Two years after they were first rumored, Apple finally lifted the lid on its tracking device AirTag at its Spring Loaded event in April, designed to help consumers keep track of items that matter most.
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AppleMagazine #497
AppleMagazine
VERIZON SELLS INTERNET TRAILBLAZERS YAHOO AND AOL FOR $5B
AOL and Yahoo are being sold again, this time to a private equity firm.
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AppleMagazine #497
AppleMagazine
MEREDITH TO SELL TV STATION DIVISION TO GRAY TELEVISION
Magazine publisher and multimedia company Meredith Corp. said this week it will sell its Local Media Group consisting of 17 television stations to Gray Television Inc. for $2.7 billion in cash and will focus on expanding its print and digital magazines business.
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AppleMagazine #497
AppleMagazine
LATIN AMERICA LOOKS TO SPACE, DESPITE LIMITATIONS ON GROUND
Mars missions, astronauts coming and going at the International Space Station, China’s increasingly ambitious space program. Space-related news is flowing, and not just from the world’s richest, biggest nations. Take Latin America.
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AppleMagazine #497
AppleMagazine
BAIDU ROLLS OUT PAID DRIVERLESS TAXI SERVICE IN BEIJING
Chinese tech giant Baidu rolled out its paid driverless taxi service last Sunday, making it the first company to commercialize autonomous driving operations in China.
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AppleMagazine #497
AppleMagazine
GOOGLE SIGNS DEAL WITH WNBA TO HELP CHAMPION WOMEN'S SPORTS
The WNBA signed a multi-year deal with Google this week to be the presenting partner for the league’s playoffs, part of the technology giant’s efforts to help champion women’s sports.
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AppleMagazine #497
AppleMagazine
60 YEARS SINCE 1ST AMERICAN IN SPACE: TOURISTS LINING UP
Sixty years after Alan Shepard became the first American in space, everyday people are on the verge of following in his cosmic footsteps.
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AppleMagazine #497
AppleMagazine
FALSE ALARM: NO SPACE JUNK THREAT AFTER ALL TO SPACEX CREW
SpaceX’s four astronauts had barely settled into orbit last Friday when they were ordered back into their spacesuits because of a potential collision with orbiting junk.
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AppleMagazine #496
AppleMagazine
THE BIG PENTAGON INTERNET MYSTERY NOW PARTIALLY SOLVED
A very strange thing happened on the internet the day President Joe Biden was sworn in. A shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank announced to the world’s computer networks that it was now managing a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet owned by the U.S. Department of Defense.
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AppleMagazine #496
AppleMagazine
BIGGEST SPACE STATION CROWD IN DECADE AFTER SPACEX ARRIVAL
The International Space Station’s population swelled to 11 on Saturday with the jubilant arrival of SpaceX’s third crew capsule in less than a year.
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AppleMagazine #496
AppleMagazine
TESLA POSTS $438M 1Q PROFIT ON STRONG ELECTRIC VEHICLE SALES
Charged up by strong sales of its electric cars and SUVs, Tesla posted its seventh-straight profitable quarter.
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AppleMagazine #496
AppleMagazine
YOU WANTED LOTS OF BLOOD? ‘MORTAL KOMBAT' LISTENED
The first death in the “Mortal Kombat” reboot occurs less than three minutes in, which is actually pretty coy. This is a movie, after all, based on a video game where the point is bloody violence.
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AppleMagazine #496
AppleMagazine
FIVE NEW EVS TO WAIT FOR IN 2021
Electric vehicle shoppers have an increasing number of models to choose from.
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AppleMagazine #496
AppleMagazine
MICROSOFT PROFITS SOAR AS CLOUD DEMAND CONTINUES IN PANDEMIC
Microsoft’s profits soared during the first three months of 2021, thanks to ongoing demand for its software and cloud computing services during the pandemic.
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AppleMagazine #496
AppleMagazine
DRONE OPERATORS CHALLENGE SURVEYORS' TURF IN MAPPING DISPUTE
When Michael Jones started a side hustle shooting drone photos and videos for realtors, his clients wanted more: Images with property lines on them, to better understand where their fences should be.
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AppleMagazine #496
AppleMagazine
AUTO GROUP BACKS GUIDELINES FOR PARTIALLY AUTOMATED VEHICLES
The trade association representing most major automakers is offering guidelines for manufacturers to advertise partially automated driving systems and to make sure drivers are paying attention while using them.
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AppleMagazine #496
AppleMagazine
APPLE ANNOUNCES 1ST EAST COAST CAMPUS IN NORTH CAROLINA
Apple is expanding spending in the U.S. and announced plans to build its first East Coast campus, in North Carolina.
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AppleMagazine #496
AppleMagazine
Facebook Data On More Than 500m Accounts Found Online
Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers.
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April 09, 2021
AppleMagazine
Robot Artist Sells Art For $688,888, Now Eyeing Music Career
Sophia is a robot of many talents — she speaks, jokes, sings and even makes art. In March, she caused a stir in the art world when a digital work she created as part of a collaboration was sold at an auction for $688,888 in the form of a nonfungible token (NFT).
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April 09, 2021
AppleMagazine
You: Interface Deeper Integration is Coming, Just For You
According to a new study from WhistleOut, the average consumer spends an eye-watering nine years of their lives looking at their smartphones, and that’s without mentioning the use of computers, televisions, and other devices that increasingly control our lives.
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April 09, 2021
AppleMagazine
THE NEW iMAC 24”: A NEW ERA FOR DESKTOP COMPUTING BEGINS
It was perhaps one of Apple’s most anticipated product refreshes of all time, and at its Spring Loaded event, the Cupertino company did not disappoint. Apple’s iconic all-in-one desktop computer has been overhauled from the ground up, sparking a new era for the Mac.
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