AppleMagazine
FORD TO RAISE PRODUCTION AS US AUTO SALES START TO RECOVER
Ford will increase production of six models this year, half of them electric, as the company and the auto industry start to rebound from sluggish U.S. sales in 2022.
2 min |
March 10, 2023
AppleMagazine
WHEN HOLLYWOOD NEEDS A MOVIE VILLAIN, THE TECH BRO ANSWERS
“A toast to the disruptors,” Edward Norton’s tech billionaire says in Rian Johnson’s Oscar-nominated “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”
5 min |
March 10, 2023
AppleMagazine
MICHAEL B. JORDAN DELIVERS A BRAWLER IN 'CREED III'
It must be a daunting prospect to pick up a franchise on the third movie. Add in the pressure of following filmmakers like Ryan Coogler and Steven Caple Jr. in your directorial debut that you’re also starring in and it’s enough to make you wonder what on earth Michael B. Jordan was thinking.
3 min |
March 10, 2023
AppleMagazine
DUTCH GOVERNMENT TO RESTRICT SALES OF PROCESSOR CHIP TECH
The Dutch government announced that it is planning on imposing additional restrictions on the export of machines that make advanced processor chips, joining a U.S. push that aims at limiting China’s access to materials used to make such chips.
2 min |
March 10, 2023
AppleMagazine
BIDEN EXPECTED TO TIGHTEN RULES ON US INVESTMENT IN CHINA
The Biden administration is close to tightening rules on some overseas investments by U.S. companies in an effort to limit China’s ability to acquire technologies that could improve its military prowess, according to a U.S. official familiar with the deliberations.
2 min |
March 10, 2023
AppleMagazine
WHAT TO DO IF YOU'RE CONCERNED YOU MIGHT BE LAID OFF
The job market in the U.S. remains strong overall, but recent high-profile layoffs at technology and media companies and predictions of a recession later this year may have you thinking about job security.
5 min |
March 10, 2023
AppleMagazine
CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS REACHED A RECORD HIGH IN 2022
Communities around the world emitted more carbon dioxide in 2022 than in any other year on records dating to 1900, a result of air travel rebounding from the pandemic and more cities turning to coal as a low-cost source of power.
2 min |
March 10, 2023
AppleMagazine
TESLA - Master Plan
Elon Musk driving the planet toward renewable energy
5 min |
March 10, 2023
AppleMagazine
2023 BMW IX VS 2023 RIVIAN R1S
Buying an electric vehicle used to mean choosing from battery range, performance, utility or luxury.
3 min |
March 10, 2023
AppleMagazine
FROM MARKETING TO DESIGN, BRANDS ADOPT AI TOOLS DESPITE RISK
Even if you haven’t tried artificial intelligence tools that can write essays and poems or conjure new images on command, chances are the companies that make your household products are already starting to do so.
4 min |
March 10, 2023
AppleMagazine
TESLA PRICE CUTS: FLAGGING DEMAND OR TACTIC TO BOOST SALES?
In explaining why Tesla Inc. keeps cutting prices on its electric vehicles, the auto industry is pretty much divided into two camps.
3 min |
March 10, 2023
AppleMagazine
JAPAN DESTROYS NEW ROCKET AT LAUNCH AFTER IGNITION FAILURE
Japan’s space agency intentionally destroyed a new H3 rocket minutes after its launch Tuesday because the ignition failed for the second stage of the country’s first new rocket series in more than two decades.
2 min |
March 10, 2023
Bloomberg Businessweek US
Google's ChatGPT Response? Stuff Al Into Everything
○ A company widely seen as a leader in the field scrambles to regain the initiative
7 min |
March 13, 2023
Sound & Vision
A Victrola for Your Sonos
If you've wandered by Victrola turntables on the shelves in Walmart, Bed Bath & Beyond, or Crate & Barrel, you wouldn't set high expectations for the sound quality of those suitcase record players.
10 min |
February - March 2023
Stereophile
Klipsch La Scala AL5
There’s a good case to be made that the world’s greatest— and strangest—audiophile culture resides in Japan. Probably the most important notion the Japanese have introduced to our hobby is that home audio isn’t merely a way of heightening the musical art of others but can be an art in itself.
10+ min |
April 2023
Stereophile
Esoteric Grandioso M1X, MONO AMPLIFIER
Of all the brand lines I’ve reviewed, none’s sound has changed as much over time as Esoteric’s top-tier Grandioso series. When I first encountered Grandioso setups at shows, they consistently sounded dark.
10 min |
April 2023
Stereophile
Primare PRE35 Prisma STREAMING PREAMPLIFIER
Hygge might not be the first word that comes to mind when contemplating the Primare PRE35 Prisma preamplifier, but in Limhamn, Sweden, that is how Primare likes to describe their products.
10 min |
April 2023
Stereophile
Nessie Vinylcleaner ProPlus+, RECORD CLEANING MACHINE
I ’m a music lover first, not the most Type A of audiophiles. Sure, I clean my records, but I’m not obsessive about keeping them immaculate like my audiophile father is;1 he cleans each record ultrasonically before it lands on his turntable platter, writing the date of each record’s last bath and which cleaning machine he used on the outside of a fresh plastic inner sleeve before sliding the LP back inside.
9 min |
April 2023
Stereophile
NAD C 3050 LE, BLUOS STREAMING INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
Although NAD was founded in England in 1972 as New Acoustic Dimension, my introduction to the brand was in 1980. I bought an NAD 3020 integrated amplifier after hearing it successfully drive Acoustic Research’s current-hungry AR9 loudspeakers.
9 min |
April 2023
Stereophile
THE BEATLES, REANIMATED
GILES MARTIN TALKS ABOUT THE BEATLES’ REMIXED, REINVENTED REVOLVER: SPECIAL EDITION
10+ min |
April 2023
Techlife News
BORN AFTER 9/11. HOMELAND SECURITY TURNS 20 FACING NEW TASKS
A federal agency born in the aftermath of Sept. 11 when the primary concern was stopping terrorists from entering the U.S. is changing to meet new challenges, said the secretary of homeland security as he marked its 20-year anniversary during a ceremony Wednesday.
2 min |
March 04, 2023
Techlife News
GOP SENATORS: COMPUTER CHIP MONEY UNDERWRITING 'WOKE' AGENDA
Republican senators are accusing the Biden administration of using $39 billion meant to build computer chip factories to further “woke” ideas such as requiring some recipients to offer child care and encouraging the use of union labor.
4 min |
March 04, 2023
Techlife News
TESLA SAYS IT WILL CUT COSTS OF NEXT GENERATION CARS IN HALF
Tesla says it will cut the cost of its next generation of vehicles in half, largely by using innovative manufacturing techniques and smaller factories.
3 min |
March 04, 2023
Techlife News
Why TikTok is Being Banned on Gov't Phones in US and Beyond
The United States is ratcheting up national security concerns about TikTok, mandating that all federal employees delete the Chinese-owned social media app from government-issued mobile phones. Other Western governments are pursuing similar bans, citing espionage fears.
5 min |
March 04, 2023
Techlife News
Biden Administration Releases New Cybersecurity Strategy
The U.S. government plans to expand minimum cybersecurity requirements for critical sectors and to be faster and more aggressive in preventing cyberattacks before they can occur, including by using military, law enforcement and diplomatic tools, according to a Biden administration strategy document released Thursday.
2 min |
March 04, 2023
Reason magazine
A.I. Is Here
ChatGPT can create everything from novel dad jokes to fairly well-written computer code. At my prompting, it wrote a serviceable sonnet describing Gilgamesh’s failed quest for immortality.
3 min |
April 2023
AppleMagazine
OUTSMARTING HUMANS JUST ONE STEP FOR AI VIDEO GAME PLAYERS
Speed around a French village in the video game Grand Turismo and you might spot a Corvette behind you trying to catch your slipstream.
4 min |
March 03, 2023
AppleMagazine
FATHER OF CELLPHONE SEES DARK SIDE BUT ALSO HOPE IN NEW TECH
The man credited with inventing the cellphone 50 years ago had only one concern then about the brick-sized device with a long antenna: Would it work?
2 min |
March 03, 2023
AppleMagazine
NETFLIX CUTS PRICES IN SOME MARKETS TO LURE MORE SUBSCRIBERS
Netflix is cutting its prices in several of its smaller markets in the latest twist on the video streaming service’s efforts to keep its recently revived subscriber growth rolling amid stiffer competition and inflation pressures that are pushing more households to curb their discretionary spending.
2 min |
March 03, 2023
AppleMagazine
HOW CREDIT SCORES ARE EVOLVING TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO CREDIT
A lowcredit score can hurt your ability to take out a loan, secure a good interest rate, or increase the spending limit on your credit card.
5 min |