Techlife News
5 HOME REMODELING TRENDS TO WATCH FOR IN 2021
After a year of spending more time at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many homeowners are looking for ways to make their homes fit their new realities.
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Techlife News #493
Techlife News
LAWMAKERS CALL YOUTUBE KIDS A ‘WASTELAND OF VAPID' CONTENT
A House subcommittee is investigating YouTube Kids, saying the Google-owned video service feeds children inappropriate material in “a wasteland of vapid, consumerist content” so it can serve them ads.
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Techlife News #493
Techlife News
GROUPS: CENSUS PRIVACY TOOL COULD HURT VOTING RIGHTS GOALS
The findings reinforce concerns that differential privacy will lower the quality of the data used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts. They also suggest that the census figures won’t support efforts to protect the power of minority voters and comply with court rulings requiring districts to have equal population numbers.
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Techlife News #493
AppleMagazine
OFFICIAL: EU AGENCY TO CONFIRM ASTRAZENECA BLOOD CLOT LINK
A top official at the European Medicines Agency says there’s a causal link between AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine and rare blood clots, but that it’s unclear what the connection is and that the benefits of taking the shot still outweigh the risks of getting COVID-19.
4 min |
April 09, 2021
AppleMagazine
WHAT BIDEN'S NEW $100B PLAN FOR BROADBAND MEANS
The problems with U.S. broadband networks have been obvious for years. Service costs more than in many other rich nations, it still doesn’t reach tens of millions of Americans and the companies that provide it don’t face much competition.
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April 09, 2021
AppleMagazine
CEO OF GOOGLE'S SELF-DRIVING CAR SPINOFF STEPS DOWN FROM JOB
The executive who steered the transformation of Google’s self-driving car project into a separate company worth billions of dollars is stepping down after more than five years on the job.
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April 09, 2021
AppleMagazine
Will The Oscars Be A ‘Who Cares' Moment As Ratings Dive?
George Bradley used to love watching the Academy Awards. The 28-year-old Brit now living in San Diego would stay up late back home just to tune in.
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April 09, 2021
AppleMagazine
High Court Sides With Google in Copyright Fight With Oracle
Technology companies sighed with relief after the Supreme Court sided with Google in a copyright dispute with Oracle. The high court said Google did nothing wrong in copying code to develop the Android operating system now used on most smartphones.
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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
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
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
Business Traveler
CES 2021: Baby, It's a Wild World!
The biggest tech show on earth sidestepped the pandemic this year to present the long and short view of a hopeful future
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April/May 2021
Techlife News
US, CHINA CONSULTED ON SAFETY AS THEIR CRAFTS HEADED TO MARS
As their respective spacecrafts headed to Mars, China and the U.S. held consultations earlier this year in a somewhat unusual series of exchanges between the rivals.
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
TAIWAN CHIP MAKER TSMC TO INVEST $100B TO GROW CAPACITY
Major Taiwan computer chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to invest $100 billion in the next three years in expanding its manufacturing capacity and supporting research and development, the company said Thursday.
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
STEVEN SPIELBERG'S AMAZING STORIES – WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH APPLE TV+'S NEW SHOW!
Back in 1985, famed director and Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg had his sciencefiction anthology, Amazing Stories, air on NBC from 1985 to 1987.
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
SAFETY LAST: RISKY INVESTMENTS SOARED AT START OF 2021
Who needs safety when the world’s about to get back to normal?
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
MICROSOFT WINS $22 BILLION DEAL MAKING HEADSETS FOR US ARMY
Microsoft won a nearly $22 billion contract to supply U.S. Army combat troops with its augmented reality headsets.
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
LAWYERS CLASH OVER $1B HYDROPOWER TRANSMISSION CORRIDOR
Attorneys for conservation organizations and an electric utility clashed this week before a federal appeals court over the adequacy of environmental reviews of a key portion of a power transmission project in western Maine.
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
CAN I STILL SPREAD THE CORONAVIRUS AFTER I'M VACCINATED?
Can I still spread the coronavirus after I’m vaccinated?
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
BIG TECH, NEVADA REPAIR SHOPS CLASH OVER ‘RIGHT TO REPAIR'
Trade groups representing big tech companies faced off with independent repair shop owners during a committee hearing in the Nevada Legislature over a proposal that would require manufacturers to give repair shops the ability to fix devices like computers, phones, tablets and printers.
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
BIDEN ANNOUNCES HUGE INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN TO ‘WIN THE FUTURE'
President Joe Biden outlined a huge $2.3 trillion plan Wednesday to re-engineer the nation’s infrastructure in what he billed as “a once-in-a-generation investment in America” that would undo his predecessor’s signature legislative achievement — giant tax cuts for corporations — in the process.
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
ANIMATION COMPANY GOT $49M IN EXCESSIVE TAX CREDITS
Blue Sky Studios, the company behind “Ice Age” and other animated films, received $49 million more in Connecticut state tax credits than it should have, state auditors said in a report released this week.
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Techlife News #492
AppleMagazine
VIRGIN GALACTIC ROLLS OUT LATEST GENERATION OF SPACESHIP
Virgin Galactic rolled out its newest spaceship as the company looks to resume test flights in the coming months at its headquarters in the New Mexico desert.
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AppleMagazine #492
AppleMagazine
SCIENCE PANEL: CONSIDER AIR COOLING TECH AS CLIMATE BACK-UP
The U.S. must seriously consider the idea of tinkering with the atmosphere to cool a warming Earth and accelerate research into how and whether humanity should hack the planet, the National Academy of Sciences said.
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AppleMagazine #492
AppleMagazine
NASA GIVES ALL CLEAR: EARTH SAFE FROM ASTEROID FOR 100 YEARS
Whew, now here’s some good cosmic news: NASA has given Earth the all clear for the next century from a particularly menacing asteroid.
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AppleMagazine #492
AppleMagazine
DAPPER LABS, CREATORS OF NBA TOP SHOT, GET $305M IN FUNDING
Canadian blockchain technology company Dapper Labs has secured $305 million in private funding — some of it from current and former NBA players, including Michael Jordan — to scale up its virtual NBA trading card site, the company said this week.
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AppleMagazine #492
AppleMagazine
TWO SPACE FANS GET SEATS ON BILLIONAIRE'S PRIVATE FLIGHT
A billionaire’s private SpaceX flight filled its two remaining seats this week with a scientist-teacher and a data engineer whose college friend actually won a spot but gave him the prize.
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AppleMagazine #492
AppleMagazine
LITTLE THINGS: THE KEY PILLAR IN APPLE DESIGN & INNOVATION
Apple’s design language has changed a great deal in recent years, away from the silvers and rounded edges towards a modern, industrialinspired design, as sported by the iPad Pro and iPhone 12.
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AppleMagazine #492
AppleMagazine
CHINA CUTS TAXES TO SPUR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVELOPMENT
China announced tax breaks this week to spur growth of its semiconductor industry following U.S. sanctions that alarmed the ruling Communist Party by cutting offaccess to American processor chips for tech giant Huawei and some other companies.
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AppleMagazine #492
AppleMagazine
ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH IN ‘GODZILLA VS. KONG'
“Godzilla vs. Kong” begins, fittingly, with the big guy asleep.
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