AppleMagazine
VIDEO APP TIKTOK LEANS INTO E-COMMERCE WITH SHOPIFY DEAL
The popular short-form video app TikTok, still under U.S. government scrutiny for its Chinese ownership, is moving closer to becoming a marketplace for buying stuff.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
T-MOBILE OFFERS UP YET ANOTHER TV STREAMING SERVICE
Yet another service provider is jumping into the TV streaming wars. This time it’s T-Mobile and its TVision service with live news, entertainment and sports channels, starting at $10 a month.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
STRESSED FRESHMEN MISSING QUINTESSENTIAL COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
It’s a major life milestone, the first time many U.S. teens have ever been on their own. Even in normal times, freshman year in college can be a jumbled mix of anticipation, uncertainty and emotional highs and lows.
6 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
SOME BALLOT REQUESTS MAY BE AFFECTED BY COUNTY CYBER ATTACK
A hacker attack against an upstate New York county’s computer system raised concern that some emailed absentee ballot applications may not be processed, but the state Board of Elections said voting won’t be affected overall.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
MUSIC TV: TAKING SHOTS AT MTV WITH NEW DIGITAL TV STATION
In an unexpected move, Apple announced in late October that it would launch Apple Music TV, a new 24-hour curated live stream of chart-topping music videos, designed to encourage more consumers to subscribe to its Apple TV+ streaming service.
6 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
SOCIAL MEDIA CEOS GET EARFUL ON BIAS, WARNING OF NEW LIMITS
With next week’s election looming, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google were scolded by Republicans at a Senate hearing for alleged anticonservative bias in the companies’ social media platforms and received a warning of coming restrictions from Congress.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
MEDIA ELECTION PLANNERS PREPARE FOR A NIGHT OF MYSTERY
This coming weekend, CNN’s Sam Feist will distribute to his staff copies of the testimony news executives gave to Congress when they tried to explain how television networks got 2000’s disputed election so spectacularly wrong.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
HALLOWEEN IN 2020: SOME FUN WITH DEATH AND FEAR, ANYONE?
The setting: a rolling patch of Pennsylvania farmland, about 15 miles from the little town where “Night of the Living Dead” was filmed. The moment: Halloween season 2020, a moonlit Friday night.
7 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
BORAT IS BACK, AND THIS TIME HE FITS RIGHT IN
Since Sacha Baron Cohen first appeared as his Kazakh journalist on “Da Ali G Show,” Borat Sagdiyev has been remarkably consistent. The accent is the same. The gray suit is still rumpled. “Nahce” and “Mah Wahfe” regularly exude from him with a mangled melody. Borat hasn’t changed in the last 20 years. But America has.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #470
AppleMagazine
ASTEROID SAMPLES ESCAPING FROM JAMMED NASA SPACECRAFT
A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week’s grab that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space, scientists said.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #470
Sound & Vision
PRODUCTS OF THE YEAR
2020-2021 HOME THEATER VIDEO+AUDIO
10 min |
October - November 2020
Stereophile
Rotel Michi P5
PREAMPLIFIER
10+ min |
November 2020
Stereophile
THE WIND CRIES MARTY
Composer Sasha Matson talks to veteran reedist Marty Krystall about film music, studio work, recording, and working with musicians from Serkin to Zappa.
10+ min |
November 2020
Stereophile
Marten Oscar Duo
LOUDSPEAKER
10+ min |
November 2020
Stereophile
Grandinote Shinai
INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
10+ min |
November 2020
Stereophile
GRAMOPHONE DREAMS
Valley of the Sun
10+ min |
November 2020
Stereophile
Audio Research Reference 6SE - LINE PREAMPLIFIER
Line Preamplifier
10+ min |
November 2020
Stereophile
Alta Audio Alyssa LOUDSPEAKER
It was a “Wow!” audio moment I’ll never forget.
10+ min |
November 2020
Stereophile
A gift at war (for Veterans Day)
In March 2003, as news networks broadcast images of American tanks racing north toward Baghdad, my infantry platoon dug shallow foxholes in south-ern Iraq. We were part of a defensive perimeter guarding FARP Exxon, a helicopter refueling point for the Army’s 101st Airborne Division.
4 min |
November 2020
Techlife News
NEW HUAWEI PHONE COMES AT CRUCIAL TIME FOR CHINESE COMPANY
Huawei’s new smartphone has an upgraded camera, its latest advanced chipset and a better battery. What it may not have outside the Chinese tech giant’s home market is very many buyers.
3 min |
October 24, 2020
Techlife News
INTEL TO SELL NAND BUSINESS TO SKOREAN RIVAL FOR $9 BILLION
Intel has agreed to a $9 billion deal to sell most of its memory business to South Korea’s SK Hynix as it moves toward more diverse technologies while shedding a major Chinese factory at a time of deepening trade friction between Washington and Beijing.
1 min |
October 24, 2020
Techlife News
NONPROFIT APP AIMS TO HELP UNBLOCK GLOBAL AIR TRAVEL
A nonprofit foundation is testing a smartphone app that could make it easier for international airline passengers to securely show they’ve complied with COVID-19 testing requirements. It’s an attempt to help get people back to flying after the pandemic sent global air travel down by 92%.
2 min |
October 24, 2020
Techlife News
TESLA POSTS NET PROFIT FOR FIFTH STRAIGHT QUARTER
Tesla charged through a summertime auto industry sales slump in the U.S. to post stronger-than-expected net earnings for the third quarter.
3 min |
October 24, 2020
Techlife News
SHORT-VIDEO APP QUIBI SHUTTING DOWN JUST MONTHS AFTER LAUNCH
Short-video app Quibi said it is shutting down just six months after its early April launch, having struggled to find customers.
2 min |
October 24, 2020
Techlife News
DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SUSSEX CONVENE SESSION ON DIGITAL WORLD
Creating online communities free of danger and misinformation is crucial in building a better world, the Duchess of Sussex told an online audience during a special Time100 Talks episode she curated with her husband, Prince Harry.
2 min |
October 24, 2020
Techlife News
ERICSSON EARNINGS BOOSTED BY 5G NETWORK ROLLOUTS
Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson has reported upbeat third-quarter earnings, helped mainly by the rollout of 5G wireless networks in China and a strong U.S. market.
1 min |
October 24, 2020
Techlife News
DC Debuts Smartphone-Based Covid-19 Exposure Alert System
The nation’s capital has become one of the first jurisdictions in the country to employ a new COVID-19 notification system, a joint Google-Apple venture that delivers alerts to people’s phones, notifying them that they may have been exposed to the coronavirus.
2 min |
October 24, 2020
AppleMagazine
US SPACECRAFT TOUCHES ASTEROID SURFACE FOR RARE RUBBLE GRAB
A NASA spacecraft descended to an asteroid Tuesday and, dodging boulders the size of buildings, momentarily touched the surface to collect a handful of cosmic rubble for return to Earth.
3 min |
October 23, 2020
AppleMagazine
AN ELECTRIC HUMMER? BATTERY POWERED TRUCKS HEAD TO SHOWROOMS
General Motors is among them, and this week its GMC brand introduced a new electric Hummer pickup, with a high-end version due in showrooms sometime in the fall of next year.
3 min |
October 23, 2020
AppleMagazine
DC DEBUTS SMARTPHONE-BASED COVID-19 EXPOSURE ALERT SYSTEM
The nation’s capital has become one of the first jurisdictions in the country to employ a new COVID-19 notification system, a joint GoogleApple venture that delivers alerts to people’s phones, notifying them that they may have been exposed to the coronavirus.
2 min |