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AppleMagazine
INSTAGRAM ADDS FUNDRAISING TO REELS TO HELP NONPROFITS
Meta Platforms Inc., the social media giant formerly known as Facebook, plans to celebrate Earth Day by expanding its offering of fundraising tools and making them more easily available to 1.5 million nonprofits on its Facebook and Instagram platforms, including those involved in fighting climate change.
3 min |
April 22, 2022
AppleMagazine
Predictions
Enhancements & improvements expected for the new-gen OS
5 min |
April 22, 2022
AppleMagazine
RARE OVERHAUL OF POWERFUL US NUCLEAR TEST REACTOR COMPLETED
Scientists at the Idaho National Laboratory have completed a rare overhaul of one of the world’s most powerful nuclear test reactors and normal operations are expected to resume later this spring, officials said this week.
2 min |
April 22, 2022
AppleMagazine
LATEST APPS PROMISE FAST SERVICE BUT CAN THEY DELIVER?
When Mahlet Berhanemeskel gets back to her New York City home from her 90-minute commute, she doesn’t feel like cooking. So instead she orders food like BLTs, Cheez-Its and cookies from an app called Gorillas.
4 min |
April 22, 2022
AppleMagazine
MUSK LAWYER: GAG ORDER WOULD TRAMPLE ON FREE SPEECH RIGHTS
Elon Musk’s lawyer says a federal judge would trample on the Tesla CEO’s free speech rights if he ordered Musk to stop talking about 2018 tweets saying he had the funding to make Tesla a private company.
2 min |
April 22, 2022
AppleMagazine
FUEL LEAK THWARTS NASA'S DRESS REHEARSAL FOR MOON ROCKET
NASA’s latest attempt to fuel its huge moon rocket for a countdown test was thwarted last week by a hazardous hydrogen leak, the latest in a series of vexing equipment trouble.
1 min |
April 22, 2022
AppleMagazine
FIND OUT AND FIX WHAT BIG DATA SAYS ABOUT YOU
I thought I knew all about the information that consumer reporting agencies were collecting on me.
4 min |
April 22, 2022
AppleMagazine
What Elon Musk's Dance With Twitter Really Means
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s great Twitter turnabout — in which he disclosed his massive stake in the social media company, got a seat on its board, publicly floated drastic changes and then turned down the board role — all happened in a week.
5 min |
April 15, 2022
AppleMagazine
WWDC22
What to expect at Apple’s June conference
6 min |
April 15, 2022
AppleMagazine
JAPAN'S NISSAN PLANS ‘GAME CHANGING' ELECTRIC CAR BATTERIES
Nissan is working with NASA on a new type of battery for electric vehicles that promises to charge quicker and be lighter yet safe, the Japanese automaker said.
2 min |
April 15, 2022
AppleMagazine
HOW TO MAKE SUMMER 2022 TRAVEL PLANS THAT ACTUALLY HAPPEN
After two years of cancellations, deferments and marathon sessions with airline customer service, many travelers are hoping to book summer trips that actually pan out this year.
3 min |
April 15, 2022
AppleMagazine
ETSY SELLERS PROTEST FEES BY HALTING THEIR SALES FOR A WEEK
Some vendors on Etsy say they are halting sales of their items on the site for a week to protest a hike in the fees the crafts e-commerce marketplace charges them.
2 min |
April 15, 2022
AppleMagazine
MUSK SAYS TESLA WILL BUILD VEHICLE DESIGNED TO BE A ROBOTAXI
Tesla will build a vehicle dedicated for use as a robotaxi, and it will start making three new vehicles next year, CEO Elon Musk told fans at a party celebrating the opening of a Texas factory.
1 min |
April 15, 2022
AppleMagazine
TOYOTA UNVEILS FIRST ELECTRIC VEHICLE SINCE RAV4 EV IN 2014
Toyota, the top-selling automaker in the U.S., is rolling out its first fully electric vehicle in eight years.
2 min |
April 15, 2022
AppleMagazine
GLOBAL OPERATION TAKES DOWN HACKERS' LEAKED DATA MARKET
Western law enforcement agencies have dismantled an online marketplace used to buy and sell hacked and stolen personal data belonging to millions of people, and have brought criminal charges against the platform’s founder and chief administrator, officials announced this week.
2 min |
April 15, 2022
AppleMagazine
FIFA RIVALS STREAMING COMPANIES WITH OWN SOCCER PLATFORM
FIFA is getting into the streaming platform business with a soccer version of Netflix and Amazon Prime.
1 min |
April 15, 2022
AppleMagazine
ACCOUNTS DECEIVABLE: EMAIL SCAM COSTLIEST TYPE OF CYBERCRIME
A shopping spree in Beverly Hills, a luxury vacation in Mexico, a bank account that jumped from $299.77 to $1.4 million overnight.
9 min |
April 15, 2022
AppleMagazine
Suddenly, Twitter's Biggest Stakeholder Is Tesla's Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has acquired a 9% stake in Twitter to become its largest shareholder while joining other critics in questioning the social media platform’s dedication to free speech and the First Amendment.
5 min |
April 08, 2022
AppleMagazine
With War Next Door, EU is Warned on Cybersecurity Gaps
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine accelerates European Union defense cooperation, a watchdog said that EU institutions face vulnerabilities on another front: cybersecurity.
2 min |
April 01, 2022
AppleMagazine
US Astronaut Ends Record-long Spaceflight in Russian Capsule
A NASA astronaut caught a Russian ride back to Earth on Wednesday after a U.S. record 355 days at the International Space Station, returning with two cosmonauts to a world torn apart by war.
3 min |
April 01, 2022
AppleMagazine
ANGRY BIRDS
Iconic franchise returning to the mainstream
6 min |
April 08, 2022
AppleMagazine
TWITTER SAYS IT'S TESTING AN ‘EDIT' BUTTON
Twitter tweeted that it is indeed working on a way for users to edit their 280-character messages, although it says the project has nothing to do with the fact that edit-function fan Elon Musk was just revealed as the company’s largest shareholder and now sits on its board.
3 min |
April 08, 2022
AppleMagazine
AMAZON'S FIRST US UNION OVERCOMES HURDLES, FACES NEW ONES
When a scrappy group of former and current warehouse workers on Staten Island, New York went head-to-head with Amazon in a union election, many compared it to a David and Goliath battle.
5 min |
April 08, 2022
AppleMagazine
ELON MUSK JOINS TWITTER BOARD AFTER AMASSING MASSIVE STAKE
Elon Musk is joining Twitter’s board of directors a day after revealing that he’d become the social media platform’s largest shareholder with a 9% stake.
2 min |
April 08, 2022
AppleMagazine
FACE SCANNER CLEARVIEW AI AIMS TO BRANCH OUT BEYOND POLICE
A controversial face recognition company that’s built a massive photographic dossier of the world’s people for use by police, national governments and — most recently — the Ukrainian military is now planning to offer its technology to banks and other private businesses.
4 min |
April 08, 2022
AppleMagazine
GM, HONDA PLAN TO CO-DEVELOP AFFORDABLE ELECTRIC VEHICLES
General Motors and Honda are planning to co-develop some affordable electric vehicles that will use GM’s next-generation Ultium battery technology.
2 min |
April 08, 2022
AppleMagazine
AMAZON BROADBAND PROJECT READY TO BLAST OFF
Amazon has deals with three rocket companies to help launch communications satellites that the online retail giant says will help provide fast, affordable broadband to millions of underserved people around the world.
1 min |
April 08, 2022
AppleMagazine
5 SUVS TO HELP YOU SAVE AT THE PUMP
As of this writing, the national average fuel price is $4.24 per gallon, according to the American Automobile Association. Up 20% from a month ago, gas prices aren’t likely to taper or deflate unless crude oil supply improves or consumer demand softens. Until that happens, costly fill-ups are hitting Americans who are already grappling with inflation.
3 min |
April 08, 2022
AppleMagazine
Accused Stalker of Apple Ceo Tim Cook Agrees to Stay Away
A woman accused of harassing Apple CEO Tim Cook with pleas for sex and other crude suggestions before showing up at his Silicon Valley home in a threatening manner last October agreed to stay away from him for the next three years under an agreement approved Tuesday.
2 min |
April 01, 2022
AppleMagazine
Without Russia, Science Going Solo on World's Woes, Dreams
Without Russian help, climate scientists worry how they’ll keep up their important work of documenting warming in the Arctic.
5 min |