AppleMagazine
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES $6.6 BILLION TO ENSURE LEADING-EDGE MICROCHIPS ARE BUILT IN THE US
The Biden administration pledged this week to provide up to $6.6 billion so that a Taiwanese semiconductor giant can expand the facilities it is already building in Arizona and better ensure that the most advanced microchips are produced domestically for the first time.
2 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
AI'S FUTURE COULD 'OPEN-SOURCE' BE OR CLOSED.TECH GIANTS ARE DIVIDED AS THEY LOBBY REGULATORS
There’s a race underway to build artificial general intelligence, a futuristic vision of machines that are as broadly smart as humans or at least can do many things as well as people can.
5 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
Forward APPLE VENTURING INTO NEW REALMS OF PERSONAL & HOME ROBOT TECH
Apple is renowned for its innovation and unparalleled quality of its products.
5 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
AT MOVIE INDUSTRY CONVENTION, LEADERS SAY BLOCKBUSTERS ALONE AREN'T ENOUGH
Movie theater owners are still feeling the high from “ Barbenheimer.” The counterprogramming of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” brought audiences to cinemas around with the world, ultimately earning nearly $2.5 billion in combined ticket sales.
3 min |
April 12, 2024
Techlife News
HUAWEI'S PROFIT MORE THAN DOUBLES IN 2023, SALES UP 9.6% AS CLOUD AND DIGITAL BUSINESSES GROW
Chinese telecoms gear company Huawei Technologies has reported its profit more than doubled last year as its cloud and digital businesses thrived in spite of U.S. sanctions.
2 min |
April 06, 2024
Techlife News
FORD TO DELAY PRODUCTION OF NEW ELECTRIC PICKUP AND LARGE SUV AS US EV SALES GROWTH SLOWS
With U.S. electric vehicle sales starting to slow, Ford Motor Co. says it will delay rolling out new electric pickup trucks and a new large electric SUV as it adds gas-electric hybrids to its model lineup.
1 min |
April 06, 2024
Techlife News
NYC'S AI CHATBOT WAS CAUGHT TELLING BUSINESSES TO BREAK THE LAW.THE CITY ISN'T TAKING IT DOWN
An artificial intelligence-powered chatbot created by New York City to help small business owners is under criticism for dispensing bizarre advice that misstates local policies and advises companies to violate the law.
3 min |
April 06, 2024
Techlife News
SHHH, I'M ON VACATION.TRAVELERS ARE ON A QUEST FOR THE QUIET
At home in the New York City suburbs, Oscar Sandoval has lots of friends and an active social life. But when it’s time for vacation, he prefers to keep it quiet. Like, literally.
3 min |
April 06, 2024
Techlife News
Amazon is Removing Just Walk Out Technology From Its Fresh Grocery Stores in the US
Amazon is removing Just Walk Out technology from its Amazon Fresh stores as part of an effort to revamp the grocery chain.
1 min |
April 06, 2024
AppleMagazine
Browsing in Incognito Mode Doesn't Protect You as Much as You Might Think
Although a private browsing mode known as “Incognito” in Google’s widely used Chrome browser has been available for nearly a decade, a legal settlement involving the way it works has cast new attention on this commonly available setting.
3 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
US FIRST-QUARTER AUTO SALES GREW NEARLY 5% DESPITE HIGH INTEREST RATES.BUT EV GROWTH SLOWS FURTHER
New vehicle sales in the U.S. rose nearly 5% from January through March, as buyers stayed in the market despite high-interest rates.
5 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
AT&T SAYS A DATA BREACH LEAKED MILLIONS OF CUSTOMERS' INFORMATION ONLINE.WERE YOU AFFECTED?
The theft of sensitive information belonging to millions of AT&T’s current and former customers has been recently discovered online, the telecommunications giant said this weekend.
2 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
COURT APPROVES 3M SETTLEMENT OVER 'FOREVER CHEMICALS' IN PUBLIC DRINKING WATER SYSTEMS
Chemical manufacturer 3M will begin payments starting in the third quarter to many U.S. public drinking water systems as part of a multibillion-dollar settlement over contamination with potentially harmful compounds used in firefighting foam and several consumer products, the company said.
2 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT NEXT WEEK'S TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE IN THE US, MEXICO AND CANADA
North America is on the verge of another masking of the sun.
2 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION APPROVES THE NATION'S EIGHTH LARGE OFFSHORE WIND PROJECT
The Biden administration approved a new wind project off the Massachusetts coast Tuesday that is large enough it will provide more electricity than the state’s former coal-fired generating station.
2 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
SCATHING FEDERAL REPORT RIPS MICROSOFT FOR SHODDY SECURITY.INSINCERITY IN RESPONSE TO CHINESE HACK
In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report this week saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
2 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
HERE'S HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM COMMON SCAMS THIS TAX SEASON
Tax season can come with several headaches, from gathering documents to finding the time to sit down and file. But one pain that you want to avoid is falling for a tax scam.
4 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
GOOGLE TO PURGE BILLIONS OF FILES CONTAINING PERSONAL DATA IN SETTLEMENT OF CHROME PRIVACY CASE
Google has agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people in the U.S. surfing the internet through its Chrome web browser.
3 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
AMAZON IS REMOVING JUST WALK OUT TECHNOLOGY FROM ITS FRESH GROCERY STORES IN THE US
Amazon is removing Just Walk Out technology from its Amazon Fresh stores as part of an effort to revamp the grocery chain.
1 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
AS INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL GROWS.SO DOES US USE OF TECHNOLOGY. A LOOK AT HOW IT'S USED AT AIRPORTS
The Belgian family of four was on their fourth trip to the United States.
4 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
Robotics
AI TECHNOLOGY NOW TURNING SCI-FI INTO INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
3 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
ELON MUSK'S X HAS A NEW SAFETY LEADER, NINE MONTHS AFTER PREDECESSOR LEFT THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM
Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has named a new head of safety nine months after the last executive to hold the position departed from the social media company.
1 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
GMAIL REVOLUTIONIZED EMAIL 20 YEARS AGO. PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS GOOGLE'S APRIL FOOLS' DAY JOKE
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fools’ Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago.
4 min |
April 05, 2024
Techlife News
MASSACHUSETTS, RHODE ISLAND AND CONNECTICUT RECEIVE PROPOSALS FOR OFFSHORE WIND PROJECTS
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut received proposals Wednesday for offshore wind projects as the three East Coast states hope to boost their reliance on the renewable energy source.
2 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
TIKTOK IS UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE FTC OVER DATA PRACTICES AND COULD FACE A LAWSUIT
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating TikTok over its data and security practices, a probe that could lead to a settlement or a lawsuit against the company, according to a person familiar with the matter.
2 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
DEBATE EMERGES OVER WHETHER MODERN PROTECTIONS COULD HAVE SAVED BALTIMORE BRIDGE
When a 900-foot container ship struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in 2007, the span stood firm and no one died, either on the ship or the highway above.
3 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
DUTCH HYPERLOOP CENTER AIMS TO ADVANCE FUTURISTIC TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY
A 420-meter (quarter-mile) white steel tube running alongside a railway line in the windswept northern Netherlands could usher in a new era in the transportation of people and freight.
2 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
APPLE ANNOUNCES WORLDWIDE DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE DATES, IN-PERSON EVENT 7
Apple has announced their annual developers conference ‘WWDC 2024’ will take place June 10 through June 14.
1 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
APRIL'S TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE PROMISES TO BE THE BEST YET FOR EXPERIMENTS
April's total solar eclipse promises to be a scientific bonanza, thanks to new spacecraft and telescopes and cosmic chance.
3 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
AI Race - APPLE, NVIDIA, AND MPETT RS BATTLING FOR INDUSTRY DOMINANCE
With Apple unveiling a new method for training large language models (LLMs), rumors circulating about new acquisitions at the Cupertino company, and chip announcements from NVIDIA, the AI race is heating up in what could be the biggest year ever for technology.
4 min |