Technology
AppleMagazine
MICROSOFT INVESTS $1.5 BILLION IN AI FIRM G42, OVERSEEN BY UAE'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER
Microsoft is investing $1.5 billion in a technology firm based in the United Arab Emirates and overseen by the country's powerful national security adviser.
1 min |
April 19, 2024
AppleMagazine
CHARACTERS ENTER THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.WINNIE THE POOH BECOMES A KILLER.WHERE IS REMIX CULTURE GOING?
The giant stuffed bear, its face a twisted smile, lumbers across the screen. Menacing music swells. Shadows mask unknown threats.
6 min |
April 19, 2024
AppleMagazine
CONTENT CREATION HOLDS APPEAL FOR LAID-OFF WORKERS SEEKING FLEXIBILITY
With a compact mirror in one hand and an eyelash curler in the other, Grace Xu told her roughly 300,000 TikTok followers she was likely about to be laid off.
4 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
INTERNET PROVIDERS MUST NOW BE MORE TRANSPARENT ABOUT FEES, PRICING, FCC SAYS
Much like nutritional labels on food products, “broadband labels” for internet packages will soon tell you just what is going into the pricing of your service, thanks to new rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission this week.
2 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
WARNER BROS. TEASES 'JOKER' SEQUEL, 'BEETLEJUICE 2 AND MORE AT CINEMACON
Warner Bros. isn’t resting on its “ Barbie “ laurels: The 100-year studio has its sights on a recordbreaking 2024 as well, with a release slate that includes a new Mad Max film, “ Furiosa,” Kevin Costner’s two-part Western epic, “ Horizon: An American Saga, “ the “ Beetlejuice “ sequel, and “Joker: Folie à Deux,” which brings Lady Gaga to Gotham City.
3 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
IN ALEX GARLAND'S POTENT 'CIVIL WAR.' JOURNALISTS ARE AMERICA'S LAST HOPE
The United States is crumbling in Alex Garland’s sharp new film “ Civil War, “ a bellowing and haunting big-screen experience.
3 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SETS FIRST-EVER LIMITS ON SO-CALLED 'FOREVER CHEMICALS' IN DRINKING WATER
The Biden administration finalized strict limits on certain so-called “forever chemicals” in drinking water that will require utilities to reduce them to the lowest level they can be reliably measured.
4 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
SOME STATES ARE SEEKING TO RESTRICT TIKTOK. THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEIR GOVERNORS AREN'T USING IT
POV: You’re on TikTok, and so is your governor — even as your Legislature considers banning the app from state-owned devices and networks.
3 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT UBER AND LYFT'S PLANNED EXIT FROM MINNEAPOLIS IN MAY
The future of Uber and Lyft in Minneapolis has garnered concern and debate in recent weeks after the City Council voted last month to require that ride-hailing companies pay drivers a higher rate while they are within city limits.
4 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
COURT UPHOLDS CALIFORNIA'S AUTHORITY TO SET NATION-LEADING VEHICLE EMISSION RULES
California can continue to set its own nation-leading vehicle emissions standards, a federal court ruled this week — two years after the Biden administration restored the state’s authority to do so as part of its efforts to reverse Trump-era environmental rollbacks.
2 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
APPLE INITIATES OVER 600 JOB CUTS IN CALIFORNIA
In a significant move within the technology sector, Apple has announced the layoff of over 600 employees across multiple offices in California, marking the company’s first considerable reduction in workforce since the pandemic.
1 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
WARREN BUFFETT HAS LEFT THE TABLE. HOMELESS CHARITY ASKS INVESTORS TO BID ON MEAL WITH SOFTWARE CEO
The Glide Foundation said that it will hold an auction on eBay next month for a private lunch with Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff.
2 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
MARGOT ROBBIE MAKING 'MONOPOLY' MOVIE AND BLUMHOUSE REVIVING 'BLAIR WITCH'
Margot Robbie has her sights on another toy.
3 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES $6.6 BILLION TO ENSURE LEADING-EDGE MICROCHIPS ARE BUILT IN THE US
The Biden administration pledged this week to provide up to $6.6 billion so that a Taiwanese semiconductor giant can expand the facilities it is already building in Arizona and better ensure that the most advanced microchips are produced domestically for the first time.
2 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
AI'S FUTURE COULD 'OPEN-SOURCE' BE OR CLOSED.TECH GIANTS ARE DIVIDED AS THEY LOBBY REGULATORS
There’s a race underway to build artificial general intelligence, a futuristic vision of machines that are as broadly smart as humans or at least can do many things as well as people can.
5 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
AT MOVIE INDUSTRY CONVENTION, LEADERS SAY BLOCKBUSTERS ALONE AREN'T ENOUGH
Movie theater owners are still feeling the high from “ Barbenheimer.” The counterprogramming of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” brought audiences to cinemas around with the world, ultimately earning nearly $2.5 billion in combined ticket sales.
3 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
Forward APPLE VENTURING INTO NEW REALMS OF PERSONAL & HOME ROBOT TECH
Apple is renowned for its innovation and unparalleled quality of its products.
5 min |
April 12, 2024
AppleMagazine
'Godzilla x Kong' Has Scales and Scale but Not Much Else
As the old saying goes, there are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who like their movies with a giant evil ape swinging a vertebrae like a lasso while riding a kaiju controlled by a crystal, and those who don’t.
3 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION APPROVES THE NATION'S EIGHTH LARGE OFFSHORE WIND PROJECT
The Biden administration approved a new wind project off the Massachusetts coast Tuesday that is large enough it will provide more electricity than the state’s former coal-fired generating station.
2 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
AS INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL GROWS.SO DOES US USE OF TECHNOLOGY. A LOOK AT HOW IT'S USED AT AIRPORTS
The Belgian family of four was on their fourth trip to the United States.
4 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
COURT APPROVES 3M SETTLEMENT OVER 'FOREVER CHEMICALS' IN PUBLIC DRINKING WATER SYSTEMS
Chemical manufacturer 3M will begin payments starting in the third quarter to many U.S. public drinking water systems as part of a multibillion-dollar settlement over contamination with potentially harmful compounds used in firefighting foam and several consumer products, the company said.
2 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT NEXT WEEK'S TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE IN THE US, MEXICO AND CANADA
North America is on the verge of another masking of the sun.
2 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
AT&T SAYS A DATA BREACH LEAKED MILLIONS OF CUSTOMERS' INFORMATION ONLINE.WERE YOU AFFECTED?
The theft of sensitive information belonging to millions of AT&T’s current and former customers has been recently discovered online, the telecommunications giant said this weekend.
2 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
US FIRST-QUARTER AUTO SALES GREW NEARLY 5% DESPITE HIGH INTEREST RATES.BUT EV GROWTH SLOWS FURTHER
New vehicle sales in the U.S. rose nearly 5% from January through March, as buyers stayed in the market despite high-interest rates.
5 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
AMAZON IS REMOVING JUST WALK OUT TECHNOLOGY FROM ITS FRESH GROCERY STORES IN THE US
Amazon is removing Just Walk Out technology from its Amazon Fresh stores as part of an effort to revamp the grocery chain.
1 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
GOOGLE TO PURGE BILLIONS OF FILES CONTAINING PERSONAL DATA IN SETTLEMENT OF CHROME PRIVACY CASE
Google has agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people in the U.S. surfing the internet through its Chrome web browser.
3 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
Robotics
AI TECHNOLOGY NOW TURNING SCI-FI INTO INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
3 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
ELON MUSK'S X HAS A NEW SAFETY LEADER, NINE MONTHS AFTER PREDECESSOR LEFT THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM
Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has named a new head of safety nine months after the last executive to hold the position departed from the social media company.
1 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
GMAIL REVOLUTIONIZED EMAIL 20 YEARS AGO. PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS GOOGLE'S APRIL FOOLS' DAY JOKE
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fools’ Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago.
4 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
SCATHING FEDERAL REPORT RIPS MICROSOFT FOR SHODDY SECURITY.INSINCERITY IN RESPONSE TO CHINESE HACK
In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report this week saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
2 min |