AppleMagazine
NASA CRAFT ‘TOUCHES' SUN FOR 1ST TIME, DIVES INTO ATMOSPHERE
A NASA spacecraft has officially “touched” the sun, plunging through the unexplored solar atmosphere known as the corona.
1 min |
December 17, 2021
AppleMagazine
TIME MAGAZINE'S “PERSON OF THE YEAR” IS ELON MUSK
Calling him a “clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman,” Time magazine has named Tesla CEO Elon Musk as its Person of the Year for 2021.
2 min |
December 17, 2021
AppleMagazine
PROPOSED NEBRASKA MINE MIGHT PRODUCE MORE RARE ELEMENTS
The company working to build a mine in southeast Nebraska to extract a rare element used to make steel lighter and stronger said that it may also be able to produce some of the key ingredients needed to make the powerful magnets used in electric vehicles and other high-tech products.
3 min |
December 17, 2021
AppleMagazine
UK ANTITRUST WATCHDOG INVESTIGATES MICROSOFT'S NUANCE DEAL
British antitrust regulators are opening an investigation into Microsoft’s $16 billion acquisition of speech recognition company Nuance in the latest sign they’re tightening scrutiny of big technology deals.
1 min |
December 17, 2021
AppleMagazine
Voice Plan
Putting Siri at the heart of Apple Music
6 min |
December 17, 2021
AppleMagazine
‘The Internet's On Fire' As Techs Race To Fix Software Flaw
A critical vulnerability in a widely used software tool — one quickly exploited in the online game Minecraft — is rapidly emerging as a major threat to organizations around the world.
3 min |
December 17, 2021
Techlife News
BIDEN ORDER WOULD MAKE US GOVERNMENT CARBON NEUTRAL BY 2050
President Joe Biden signed an executive order to make the federal government carbon-neutral by 2050, aiming for a 65% reduction in planetwarming greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and an all-electric fleet of car and trucks five years later.
2 min |
11, December 2021
AppleMagazine
JAPANESE TOURISTS DOCK AT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
A Japanese billionaire and his producer rocketed to space on Wednesday and reached the International Space Station several hours later, the first visit by self-paying space tourists to the orbiting outpost in more than a decade.
1 min |
December 10, 2021
AppleMagazine
MAJOR OUTAGE AT AMAZON DISRUPTS BUSINESSES ACROSS THE US
A major outage in Amazon’s cloud computing network Tuesday severely disrupted services at a wide range of U.S. companies for more than five hours, the latest sign of just how concentrated the business of keeping the internet running has become.
3 min |
December 10, 2021
AppleMagazine
STELLANTIS WANTS TO OUTFIT CARS WITH AI TO DRIVE UP REVENUE
Carmaker Stellantis announced a strategy this week to embed AI-enabled software in 34 million vehicles across its 14 brands, hoping the tech upgrade will help it bring in 20 billion euros ($22.6 billion) in annual revenue by 2030.
2 min |
December 10, 2021
AppleMagazine
TRUMP MEDIA PARTNER SAYS IT HAS LINED UP $1B IN CAPITAL
Donald Trump’s new social media company and its special purpose acquisition company partner say the partner has agreements for $1 billion in capital from institutional investors.
1 min |
December 10, 2021
AppleMagazine
EUROPEAN ACTIVISTS FIGHT FOR RIGHT TO REPAIR ELECTRONICS
At a table scattered with tools and wires, volunteer repairers sit across from the owners of an assortment of inoperable electronics.
4 min |
December 10, 2021
AppleMagazine
INSTAGRAM LAUNCHES TOOL URGING TEENS TO TAKE A BREAK
Instagram launched a feature that urges teenagers to take breaks from the photo-sharing platform and announced other tools aimed at protecting young users from harmful content on the Facebook-owned service.
2 min |
December 10, 2021
AppleMagazine
Q&A: EXPLAINING THE FAST GROWTH OF STABLECOINS
Among the fastest-growing forms of cryptocurrency are stablecoins, which use blockchain technology like Bitcoin and ethereum.
3 min |
December 10, 2021
AppleMagazine
ROHINGYA SUE FACEBOOK FOR $150B, ALLEGING ROLE IN VIOLENCE
Rohingya refugees sued Facebook parent Meta Platforms for more than $150 billion over what they say was the company’s failure to stop hateful posts that incited violence against the Muslim ethnic group by Myanmar’s military rulers and their supporters.
2 min |
December 10, 2021
AppleMagazine
STEVEN SPIELBERG'S ROUSING ‘WEST SIDE STORY' REVIVAL
We’re so rife with reboots and remakes today that it can take a moment to gauge just what Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” is.
6 min |
December 10, 2021
Techlife News
European Activists Fight for Right to Repair Electronics
At a table scattered with tools and wires, volunteer repairers sit across from the owners of an assortment of inoperable electronics. The volunteers at a free “repair cafe” in Copenhagen disassemble and diagnose gadgets while the customers watch, each doing their part for the environment - one broken blender, radio or laptop at a time.
4 min |
11, December 2021
Techlife News
Group: Pandemic Tech Tools Raise Risk Of Everyday Tracking
Tech tools like digital contact tracing apps and artificial intelligence that European governments rolled out to combat COVID-19 failed to play a key role in solving the pandemic and now threaten to make such monitoring widely accepted, a new report shows.
3 min |
11, December 2021
Sound & Vision
Qobuz Redux
Three years ago, French upstarts Qobuz made quite a splash upon entering the U.S. streaming market. What has happened with the high-res service in the interim?
3 min |
December 2021 - January 2022
Sound & Vision
Beethoven, Regolith, and You
The year is 1969. I am sitting in front of my family's TV watching live black-and-white video from the moon. High-definition TV is still science fiction, but in the blurry picture I can see Neil Armstrong descend the ladder and step onto the lunar surface.
3 min |
December 2021 - January 2022
Sound & Vision
Just Add Music
Q ACOUSTICS Q ACTIVE 200 LOUDSPEAKER
10 min |
December 2021 - January 2022
Sound & Vision
The Green Knight
The Green Knight, director David Lowery's film adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an anonymous 14th century poem, is a fantastical, visually intoxicating take on Arthurian legend.
3 min |
December 2021 - January 2022
Sound & Vision
Blue Heaven
BLUESOUND NODE STREAMING DAC
6 min |
December 2021 - January 2022
AppleMagazine
5 Must-Have Features on New Cars
One of the perks of buying a new vehicle is that it offers features that promise a safer and more convenient driving experience.
4 min |
December 10, 2021
AppleMagazine
2021 Gift Guide
Ideas for the tech lovers in your life
7 min |
December 10, 2021
Mac Life
Shiftscreen 4X
Bring multi–monitor support to iOS
3 min |
January 2022
Mac Life
Mini Motorways
Who’d be a city planner?
2 min |
January 2022
Mac Life
How iPad mini grew into itself
Sometimes overshadowed, Charlotte Henry explores how the iPad mini has matured into a very powerful little device
2 min |
January 2022
Mac Life
Snap 2–in–1
Easy multi–device charging
1 min |
January 2022
Mac Life
StayGo Mini
A compact hub for your travels
1 min |