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NATO NATIONS READY TO JOINTLY RESPOND TO ATTACKS IN SPACE
NATO leaders expanded the use of their all for one, one for all, mutual defense clause to include a collective response to attacks in space.
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AppleMagazine #503
AppleMagazine
WINNING AUCTION BID TO FLY IN SPACE WITH JEFF BEZOS: $28M
An auction for a ride into space next month alongside Jeff Bezos and his brother ended with a winning $28 million bid last weekend.
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AppleMagazine #503
AppleMagazine
REPORT SAYS TECHNOLOGY KEPT 2020 CENSUS BELOW EXPECTED COST
The 2020 census is expected to cost $14.2 billion, well below a previous estimate of $15.6 billion, reflecting a slowdown in the price tag for the nation’s head count thanks to technological innovations, according to a new watchdog report released this week.
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AppleMagazine #503
AppleMagazine
Monterey macOS - UNLOCKING THE TRUE POWER OF THE M1 PROCESSOR
When it came to software enhancements and breakthrough features, this year’s WWDC was a little more understated than previous iterations, but after a year of coronavirus restrictions, it’s understandable that Apple would focus on refining its existing offering than try to reinvent the wheel.
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AppleMagazine #503
AppleMagazine
BATTERY RECYCLING FIRM TO EXPAND OPERATIONS IN NEVADA
A battery recycling company founded by a former executive at Tesla Inc. broke ground on 100 acres (40 hectares) of land at an industrial park near Reno as part of its expansion plan.
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AppleMagazine #503
AppleMagazine
COMPUTER TROUBLE HITS HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, SCIENCE HALTED
The Hubble Space Telescope has been hit with computer trouble, with all astronomical viewing halted, NASA said.
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AppleMagazine #503
AppleMagazine
BEHIND IN QUANTUM COMPUTER RACE, GERMANY GETS BOOST FROM IBM
IBM unveiled one of Europe’s most powerful quantum computers in Germany, boosting the country’s efforts to stay in the race for what’s considered a key technology of the future.
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AppleMagazine #503
AppleMagazine
AMAZON NOW SAYS REMOTE WORK OK 2 DAYS A WEEK
Corporate and tech employees at Amazon won’t have to work in offices full time after coronavirus restrictions are lifted.
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AppleMagazine #503
AppleMagazine
EU Gives Tiktok A Month To Respond To Consumer Complaints
The European Commission said it has given the Chinese-owned video app TikTok one month to answer complaints from a European consumer group over its commercial practices.
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AppleMagazine #501
AppleMagazine
GUCCI DIGITALLY OUTFITS GEN-Z IN METAVERSE FORAY WITH ROBLOX
Anyone whose virtual alter ego is wandering around the Roblox online game platform these days might run into other avatars sporting Gucci handbags, sunglasses or hats.
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AppleMagazine #502
AppleMagazine
JUST HOW VULNERABLE IS THE INTERNET?
An outage at a little-known firm that speeds up access to websites knocked a lot of top internet destinations offline this week, disrupting business and leisure for untold millions globally. The problem was quickly resolved. The company, Fastly, blamed a configuration error in its technology.
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AppleMagazine #502
AppleMagazine
US DROPS TRUMP ORDER TARGETING TIKTOK, PLANS ITS OWN REVIEW
The White House dropped Trump-era executive orders that attempted to ban the popular apps TikTok and WeChat and will conduct its own review aimed at identifying national security risks with software applications tied to China, officials said this week.
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AppleMagazine #502
AppleMagazine
iOS 15: CONNECT, FOCUS, EXPLORE, AND DO MORE
After making some significant leaps forward with iOS and iPadOS in 2020, it was only right that this year’s updates would be more understated, but it didn’t stop Apple from announcing some exciting new additions to its popular operating systems.
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AppleMagazine #502
AppleMagazine
JEFF BEZOS WILL BLAST INTO SPACE ON ROCKET'S 1ST CREW FLIGHT
Outdoing his fellow billionaires in daredevilry, Jeff Bezos will blast into space next month when his Blue Origin company makes its first flight with a crew.
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AppleMagazine #502
AppleMagazine
EUROPEAN REGULATORS LAUNCH FRESH PROBES OF FACEBOOK, GOOGLE
European Union and British regulators opened dual antitrust investigations into whether Facebook distorts competition in the classified advertising market by using data to compete unfairly against rival services.
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AppleMagazine #502
AppleMagazine
GLOBAL STING BEGAN BY CREATING MESSAGE SERVICE FOR CROOKS
When the FBI dismantled an encrypted messaging service based in Canada in 2018, agents noticed users moving to other networks. Instead of following their tracks to rivals, investigators decided on a new tactic: creating their own service.
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AppleMagazine #502
AppleMagazine
ENERGY CHIEF CITES RISK OF CYBERATTACKS CRIPPLING POWER GRID
ENERGY CHIEF CITES RISK OF CYBERATTACKS CRIPPLING POWER GRID
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AppleMagazine #502
AppleMagazine
GLOBAL GLITCH: SWATHS OF INTERNET GO DOWN AFTER CLOUD OUTAGE
Dozens of websites went down briefly around the globe Tuesday, including CNN, The New York Times and Britain’s government home page, after an outage at the cloud computing service Fastly, illustrating how vital a small number of behind-the-scenes companies have become to running the internet.
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AppleMagazine #502
AppleMagazine
CARBON DIOXIDE LEVELS HIT 50% HIGHER THAN PREINDUSTRIAL TIME
The annual peak of global heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air has reached another dangerous milestone: 50% higher than when the industrial age began.
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AppleMagazine #502
AppleMagazine
China to Send 3 Male Astronauts to Its Space Station in June
A three-man crew of astronauts will blast off in June for a three-month mission on China’s new space station, according to a space official who was the country’s first astronaut in orbit.
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AppleMagazine #501
AppleMagazine
HARVARD RESEARCHERS RECOMMEND CENSUS NOT USE PRIVACY TOOL
A group of Harvard researchers has come out against the U.S. Census Bureau’s use of a controversial method to protect privacy with the numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts, saying it doesn’t produce data good enough for redistricting.
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AppleMagazine #501
AppleMagazine
CHINESE CARGO SPACECRAFT DOCKS WITH ORBITAL STATION
An automated spacecraft docked with China’s new space station last Sunday carrying fuel and supplies for its future crew, the Chinese space agency announced.
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AppleMagazine #501
AppleMagazine
YOU'RE INVITED: A NEW LANDSCAPE WITH A CUTTING-EDGE APP
For almost ten years, AppleMagazine has kept you abreast of the latest in the technology world. Today marks a new chapter. Introducing the AppleMagazine app for iOS, transforming the landscape, and offering exciting new ways to stay updated on the latest consumer-tech news. Elegantly designed and highly interactive, it’s now available on the Apple App Store.
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AppleMagazine #501
AppleMagazine
MISSING THE MOMENT: VIRTUAL REALITY'S BREAKOUT STILL ELUSIVE
Virtual reality — computer-generated 3D environments that can range from startlingly realistic to abstract wonderlands — has been on the cusp of wide acceptance for years without ever really taking off.
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AppleMagazine #501
AppleMagazine
SAFETY RATINGS YANKED AFTER TESLA PULLS RADAR FROM 2 MODELS
Two key groups that offer automobile safety ratings are yanking their top endorsements from some Tesla vehicles because the company has stopped using radar on its safety systems.
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AppleMagazine #501
AppleMagazine
HUAWEI ROLLS OUT ITS OWN OPERATING SYSTEM TO SMARTPHONES
Huawei launched its own HarmonyOS mobile operating system on its handsets on Wednesday as it adapts to having lost access to Google mobile services two years ago after the U.S. put the Chinese telecommunications company on a trade blacklist.
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AppleMagazine #501
AppleMagazine
CAN VIRTUAL REALITY HELP SENIORS? STUDY HOPES TO FIND OUT
Terry Colli and three other residents of the John Knox Village senior community got a trip via computer to the International Space Station, a kickoff to a Stanford University study on whether virtual reality can improve the emotional wellbeing of older people.
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AppleMagazine #501
AppleMagazine
AUTOMOTIVE CHIP MAKER SAYS IT'S NEARLY RECOVERED FROM BLAZE
A fire-damaged Japanese factory that supplies many of the auto industry’s computer chips is producing about 88% of what it was making before the March blaze, its owner says.
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AppleMagazine #501
AppleMagazine
REVOLUTION: THE POST-COVID DIGITAL WORLD IS COMING
COVID-19 era been a story of dramatic digital transformation for all of us, or just some of us? And what’s next?
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AppleMagazine #500
AppleMagazine
WHO'S AN ASTRONAUT AS PRIVATE SPACEFLIGHT PICKS UP SPEED?
As more companies start selling tickets to space, a question looms: Who gets to call themselves an astronaut?
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