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AMAZON GETS FAA APPROVAL ALLOWING IT TO EXPAND DRONE DELIVERIES FOR ONLINE ORDERS
Federal regulators have given Amazon key permission that will allow it to expand its drone delivery program, the company announced Thursday.
1 min |
June 01, 2024
AppleMagazine
OPENAI SIGNS CONTENT DEALS WITH THE ATLANTIC AND VOX MEDIA
Sam Altman-led OpenAl said this week it has signed content and product partnerships with The Atlantic and Vox Media, helping the artificial intelligence firm to boost and train its products.
1 min |
May 31, 2024
AppleMagazine
NORTH KOREAN ROCKET CARRYING ITS 2ND SPY SATELLITE EXPLODES SHORTLY AFTER LAUNCH
A rocket launched by North Korea to deploy the country's second spy satellite exploded shortly after liftoff Monday, state media reported, in a setback for leader Kim Jong Un's hopes to operate multiple satellites to better monitor the U.S. and South Korea.
3 min |
May 31, 2024
AppleMagazine
NOT A GYM RAT? HERE'S HOW TO GET STARTED ON AN OUTDOOR EXERCISE ROUTINE
Between the sweat smell, fluorescent lights and omnipresent television screens, April Herring has never connected with going to the gym.
3 min |
May 31, 2024
AppleMagazine
THE 'MAD MAX' SAGA TREADS (HARD-TO-FIND) WATER WITH FRUSTRATING 'FURIOSA'
At the beginning of \"Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,\" we are introduced to a kick-ass woman who rides a horse, then a motorbike, nails a few bad guys with sharpshooting finesse and fights off a mob. But it's not Furiosa — it's her mom.
3 min |
May 31, 2024
AppleMagazine
JUDGE WEIGHS PROPOSED CHANGES TO GOOGLE'S ANDROID APP STORE TO PREVENT ANTICOMPETITIVE TACTICS
Google is tried to confront the latest in a succession of legal attacks on its digital empire as federal judge began to address anticompetitive practices in the app market for smartphones powered by its Android software.
3 min |
May 31, 2024
AppleMagazine
T-MOBILE TO BUY ALMOST ALL OF U.S CELLULAR IN DEAL WORTH $4.4 BILLION WITH DEBT
T-Mobile is buying U.S. Cellular's wireless operations and certain spectrum assets in a deal valued at $4.4 billion, and further consolidating the industry.
2 min |
May 31, 2024
AppleMagazine
ARM OFFERS NEW DESIGNS, SOFTWARE FOR AI ON SMARTPHONES
Arm Holdings this week unveiled new chip blueprints and software tools to help smartphones handle artificial intelligence tasks, along with changes to how it delivers those blueprints that could help speed their adoption.
1 min |
May 31, 2024
AppleMagazine
EUROPE'S CYBERSECURITY CHIEF SAYS DISRUPTIVE ATTACKS HAVE DOUBLED IN 2024, SEES RUSSIA BEHIND MANY
Disruptive digital attacks, many linked to Russian-backed groups, have doubled in the European Union in recent months and are also targeting election-related services, according to the EU's top cybersecurity official.
2 min |
May 31, 2024
AppleMagazine
AI Music
THE PITCH FOR THE NEXT FRONTIER IN ENHANCED DIGITAL AUDIO
5 min |
May 31, 2024
AppleMagazine
NVIDIA'S STOCK MARKET VALUE IS NEARLY $3 TRILLION. HOW IT ROSE TO AI PROMINENCE, BY THE NUMBERS
Nvidia's stock price has more than doubled this year as of the close of trading this week, increasing the company's market value by more than $1.3 trillion. Those numbers are headed higher again this week after the company reported better-than-expected quarterly results.
2 min |
May 31, 2024
AppleMagazine
OPENAI FORMS SAFETY COMMITTEE AS IT STARTS TRAINING LATEST ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELO
OpenAl says it's setting up a safety and security committee and has begun training a new AI model to supplant the GPT-4 system that underpins its ChatGPT chatbot.
2 min |
May 31, 2024
AppleMagazine
MORE PEOPLE MAKE 'NO-BUY YEAR' PLEDGES AS OVERSPENDING OR CLIMATE WORRIES CATCH UP WITH THEM
A 35-year-old Brooklyn resident gave up buying new clothes. A 22-year old in San Diego swore off retail therapy at Target. A 26-year old in England banned carbonated drinks from her shopping list.
5 min |
May 31, 2024
AppleMagazine
AUTHORITIES ARREST MAN ALLEGEDLY RUNNING “LIKELY WORLD'S LARGEST EVER" CYBERCRIME BOTNET
An international law enforcement team has arrested a Chinese national and disrupted a major botnet that officials said he ran for nearly a decade, amassing at least $99 million in profits by reselling access to criminals who used it for identity theft, child exploitation and financial fraud including pandemic relief scams.
1 min |
May 31, 2024
AppleMagazine
TOP APPLE EXEC ACKNOWLEDGES SHORTCOMINGS IN EFFORT TO BRING COMPETITION IN IPHONE APP PAYMENTS
Longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller last week acknowledged a court-ordered makeover of the U.S. payment system in its iPhone app store hasn't done much to increase competition - a shortcoming that could result in a federal judge demanding more changes.
2 min |
May 31, 2024
AppleMagazine
CATS ON THE MOON? GOOGLE'S AI TOOL IS PRODUCING MISLEADING RESPONSES THAT HAVE EXPERTS WORRIED
Ask Google if cats have been on the moon and it used to spit out a ranked list of websites so you could discover the answer for yourself.
3 min |
May 31, 2024
Techlife News
Q&A: CIA'S CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST'S CAUTIOUS EMBRACE OF GENERATIVE AI
Knowledge advantage can save lives, win wars and avert disaster.
4 min |
May 25, 2024
Techlife News
Mac + iPad
THE VERY BEST FEATURES OF BOTH PLATFORMS WORKING TOGETHER
4 min |
May 25, 2024
Techlife News
NVIDIA'S PROFIT SOARS.UNDERSCORING ITS DOMINANCE IN CHIPS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Nvidia on Wednesday overshot Wall Street estimates as its profit skyrocketed, bolstered by the chipmaking dominance that has made the company an icon of the artificial intelligence boom.
2 min |
May 25, 2024
Techlife News
SONY SAYS FOCUS IS ON CREATIVITY, WITH GAMES, MOVIES, MUSIC, SENSORS, IP, AND NOT GADGETS
Japanese electronics and entertainment company Sony says it’s focusing on creativity in movies, animation and video games, rather than old-fashioned gadgetry.
1 min |
May 25, 2024
Techlife News
EV MAKER TESLA BREAKS GROUND ON MEGAPACK ENERGY STORAGE BATTERY FACTORY IN SHANGHAI
Electric vehicle maker Tesla has begun construction of a factory in Shanghai to make its Megapack energy storage batteries, Chinese state media reported Thursday.
1 min |
May 25, 2024
Techlife News
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS ILLEGAL MONOPOLY BY TICKETMASTER AND LIVE NATION DRIVES UP PRICES FOR FANS
The Justice Department filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment on Thursday, accusing them of running an illegal monopoly over live events in America — squelching competition and driving up prices for fans.
2 min |
May 25, 2024
Techlife News
USING AI, MASTERCARD EXPECTS TO FIND COMPROMISED CARDS QUICKER, BEFORE THEY GET USED BY CRIMINALS
Mastercard said this week that it expects to be able to discover that your credit or debit card number has been compromised well before it ends up in the hands of a cybercriminal.
2 min |
May 25, 2024
AppleMagazine
'IF,' IMPERFECT BUT CHARMING, MAY HAVE US ALL CHECKING UNDER BEDS FOR OUR OLD FRIENDS
How do you make a kid’s movie that appeals not only to the kids, but the adults sitting next to them? Most movies try to achieve this by throwing in a layer of wink-wink pop culture references that’ll earn a few knowing laughs from parents but fly nicely over the heads of the young ones.
3 min |
May 24, 2024
AppleMagazine
FCC TO CONSIDER RULES FOR AI-GENERATED POLITICAL ADS ON TV AND RADIO, BUT CAN'T TOUCH STREAMING
The head of the Federal Communications Commission introduced on Wednesday a proposal to require political advertisers to disclose when they use content generated by artificial intelligence in broadcast television and radio ads.
3 min |
May 24, 2024
AppleMagazine
LAURYN HILL'S CLASSIC 'MISEDUCATION' ALBUM TOPS APPLE MUSIC'S LIST OF BEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME
Let the debate begin. Who has the best music albums ever? Apple Music certainly has an idea.
4 min |
May 24, 2024
AppleMagazine
FOR SOME DIGITAL DETOX, LOOK TO THE LATEST IN CRAFT KITS
Digital diversions may have us tethered to tech, but screen fatigue is real.
3 min |
May 24, 2024
AppleMagazine
CORN, MILLET AND ... ROOFTOP SOLAR? FARM FAMILY'S NEWEST CROP SHOWS CHINA'S SOLAR ASCENDANCY
Shi Mei and her husband earn a decent enough living by growing corn and millet on their small farm in eastern China’s Shandong province. In 2021, they diversified by investing in solar energy — signing a contract to mount some 40 panels on their roof to feed energy to the grid.
5 min |
May 24, 2024
AppleMagazine
Q&A: CIA'S CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST'S CAUTIOUS EMBRACE OF GENERATIVE AI
Knowledge advantage can save lives, win wars and avert disaster.
4 min |
May 24, 2024
AppleMagazine
Mac + iPad
THE VERY BEST FEATURES OF BOTH PLATFORMS WORKING TOGETHER
5 min |