Techlife News
SAFETY LAST: RISKY INVESTMENTS SOARED AT START OF 2021
Who needs safety when the world’s about to get back to normal?
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
MICROSOFT WINS $22 BILLION DEAL MAKING HEADSETS FOR US ARMY
Microsoft won a nearly $22 billion contract to supply U.S. Army combat troops with its augmented reality headsets.
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
LAWYERS CLASH OVER $1B HYDROPOWER TRANSMISSION CORRIDOR
Attorneys for conservation organizations and an electric utility clashed this week before a federal appeals court over the adequacy of environmental reviews of a key portion of a power transmission project in western Maine.
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
CAN I STILL SPREAD THE CORONAVIRUS AFTER I'M VACCINATED?
Can I still spread the coronavirus after I’m vaccinated?
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
BIG TECH, NEVADA REPAIR SHOPS CLASH OVER ‘RIGHT TO REPAIR'
Trade groups representing big tech companies faced off with independent repair shop owners during a committee hearing in the Nevada Legislature over a proposal that would require manufacturers to give repair shops the ability to fix devices like computers, phones, tablets and printers.
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
BIDEN ANNOUNCES HUGE INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN TO ‘WIN THE FUTURE'
President Joe Biden outlined a huge $2.3 trillion plan Wednesday to re-engineer the nation’s infrastructure in what he billed as “a once-in-a-generation investment in America” that would undo his predecessor’s signature legislative achievement — giant tax cuts for corporations — in the process.
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
ANIMATION COMPANY GOT $49M IN EXCESSIVE TAX CREDITS
Blue Sky Studios, the company behind “Ice Age” and other animated films, received $49 million more in Connecticut state tax credits than it should have, state auditors said in a report released this week.
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Techlife News #492
AppleMagazine
VIRGIN GALACTIC ROLLS OUT LATEST GENERATION OF SPACESHIP
Virgin Galactic rolled out its newest spaceship as the company looks to resume test flights in the coming months at its headquarters in the New Mexico desert.
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AppleMagazine #492
AppleMagazine
SCIENCE PANEL: CONSIDER AIR COOLING TECH AS CLIMATE BACK-UP
The U.S. must seriously consider the idea of tinkering with the atmosphere to cool a warming Earth and accelerate research into how and whether humanity should hack the planet, the National Academy of Sciences said.
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AppleMagazine #492
AppleMagazine
NASA GIVES ALL CLEAR: EARTH SAFE FROM ASTEROID FOR 100 YEARS
Whew, now here’s some good cosmic news: NASA has given Earth the all clear for the next century from a particularly menacing asteroid.
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AppleMagazine #492
AppleMagazine
DAPPER LABS, CREATORS OF NBA TOP SHOT, GET $305M IN FUNDING
Canadian blockchain technology company Dapper Labs has secured $305 million in private funding — some of it from current and former NBA players, including Michael Jordan — to scale up its virtual NBA trading card site, the company said this week.
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AppleMagazine #492
AppleMagazine
TWO SPACE FANS GET SEATS ON BILLIONAIRE'S PRIVATE FLIGHT
A billionaire’s private SpaceX flight filled its two remaining seats this week with a scientist-teacher and a data engineer whose college friend actually won a spot but gave him the prize.
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AppleMagazine #492
AppleMagazine
LITTLE THINGS: THE KEY PILLAR IN APPLE DESIGN & INNOVATION
Apple’s design language has changed a great deal in recent years, away from the silvers and rounded edges towards a modern, industrialinspired design, as sported by the iPad Pro and iPhone 12.
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AppleMagazine #492
AppleMagazine
CHINA CUTS TAXES TO SPUR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVELOPMENT
China announced tax breaks this week to spur growth of its semiconductor industry following U.S. sanctions that alarmed the ruling Communist Party by cutting offaccess to American processor chips for tech giant Huawei and some other companies.
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AppleMagazine #492
AppleMagazine
ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH IN ‘GODZILLA VS. KONG'
“Godzilla vs. Kong” begins, fittingly, with the big guy asleep.
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AppleMagazine #492
AppleMagazine
EPIC GAMES COMPLAINS ABOUT APPLE TO UK COMPETITION WATCHDOG
Epic Games submitted a complaint this week about Apple’s alleged “monopolistic practices” to the U.K. competition watchdog, which is investigating the iPhone maker over concerns it has a dominant position in app distribution.
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AppleMagazine #492
AppleMagazine
AUTOMAKERS BMW, VOLVO BACK MORATORIUM ON DEEP SEABED MINING
Automakers BMW and Volvo announced that they support a moratorium on deep seabed mining for minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other products.
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AppleMagazine #492
Sound & Vision
Headphones
Headphones
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February - March 2021
Sound & Vision
Wireless Speakers
Wireless Speakers
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February - March 2021
Sound & Vision
Subwoofers
Subwoofers
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February - March 2021
Sound & Vision
Extras
Extras
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February - March 2021
Techlife News
TWITTER TO ESTABLISH LEGAL ENTITY IN TURKEY, COMPLY WITH LAW
Twitter has announced it will establish a legal entity in Turkey in order to continue operating in the country, which passed a controversial social media law last year.
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Techlife News #491
Techlife News
REGAL CINEMAS, 2ND LARGEST CHAIN IN US, TO REOPEN IN APRIL
Regal Cinemas, the second largest movie theater chain in the U.S., will reopen beginning April 2, its parent company, Cineworld Group, announced this week.
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Techlife News #491
Techlife News
TOOL CREATED TO AID CLEANUP FROM MICROSOFT HACK IN BROAD USE
A tool designed to help businesses protect themselves from further compromises after a global hack of Microsoft email server software has been downloaded more than 25,000 times since it was released last week, the White House’s National Security Council said this week.
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Techlife News #491
Techlife News
TEXTING 911 NOW AN OPTION IN SOUTH DAKOTA
South Dakotans now have the option to text 911 when they’re unable to make a 911 call.
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Techlife News #491
Techlife News
AUTO INDUSTRY BRACES FOR MORE CHIP SHORTAGES AFTER FIRE
A fire at a plant owned by Japanese chipmaker Renesas could deepen the ongoing global semiconductor shortage that has especially hampered automobile production.
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Techlife News #491
Techlife News
‘60 MINUTES' WILL HAVE STREAMING SPINOFF ON PARAMOUNT+
CBS News is launching a streaming version of “60 Minutes” on the new Paramount+ service, hoping to expose the durable brand to a younger and more diverse audience.
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Techlife News #487
Techlife News
FORMER GOOGLE CEO GIVES $150M FOR RESEARCH IN BIOLOGY, AI
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, have given $150 million to a research institute to establish a “new era of biology” aimed at battling diseases with a mix of data and life science studies.
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Techlife News #491
Techlife News
AMAZON BRINGS BACK FORMER EXECUTIVE TO RUN CLOUD BUSINESS
Amazon said that it’s bringing back a former executive to run its cloud-computing unit, which has become the online shopping giant’s most profitable business.
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Techlife News #491
Techlife News
CONGRESS TO PRESS BIG TECH CEOS OVER SPEECH, MISINFORMATION
The CEOs of social media giants Facebook, Twitter and Google face a new grilling by Congress Thursday, one focused on their efforts to prevent their platforms from spreading falsehoods and inciting violence.
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