Techlife News
NAVY DITCHES FUTURISTIC RAILGUN, EYES HYPERSONIC MISSILES
The U.S. Navy pulled the plug, for now, on a futuristic weapon that fires projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound using electricity.
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Techlife News #505
Techlife News
HOW IS TECHNOLOGY AIDING MIAMI RESCUERS' SEARCH?
Search teams have been using drones, sonar, highly sensitive microphones and a range of other new and established technologies to help search for people in the oceanside condominium building near Miami that collapsed into a smoldering pile of rubble.
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Techlife News #505
Techlife News
DIGITAL TRAVEL PASS KICKS OFF EU-WIDE AS VACATIONS GAIN PACE
As the European summer vacation season hit its stride Thursday with a new EU-wide travel pass in place, the bloc’s medical office and a top airline chief issued reassuring messages on traveling, despite the threat of the surging delta coronavirus variant.
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Techlife News #505
Techlife News
BRANSON'S VIRGIN ORBIT LAUNCHES 7 SATELLITES FROM 747 PLANE
Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit delivered satellites from three countries into space Wednesday, its second successful rocket launch from a plane.
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Techlife News #505
Techlife News
CALIFORNIA TESTS OFF-THE-GRID SOLUTIONS TO POWER OUTAGES
When a wildfire tore through Briceburg nearly two years ago, the tiny community on the edge of Yosemite National Park lost the only power line connecting it to the electrical grid.
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Techlife News #505
Techlife News
ROBINHOOD PAYS $70 MILLION TO SETTLE RANGE OF ALLEGATIONS
Robinhood Financial will pay nearly $70 million to settle a wide range of allegations, including that it gave customers misleading information and improperly allowed some users to make riskier trades after they lied about their trading experience.
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Techlife News #505
Techlife News
MAINE LAW RESTRICTS FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY STATEWIDE
A bill touted as the country’s strictest statewide regulation on the use of facial recognition technology has become law in Maine.
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Techlife News #505
Techlife News
NO ET, NO ANSWERS: INTEL REPORT IS INCONCLUSIVE ABOUT UFOS
A long-awaited U.S. government report on UFOs released makes at least one thing clear: The truth is still out there.
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Techlife News #505
AppleMagazine
HONDA CHANGING COURSE, WILL BUILD ITS OWN ELECTRIC VEHICLES
Although General Motors will build Honda’s first two fully electric vehicles for North America, the Japanese automaker plans to change course and manufacture its own later this decade.
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AppleMagazine #505
AppleMagazine
BOEING'S NEXT AIRPLANE LIKELY TO BE DELAYED BY FAA CONCERNS
Federal regulators have indicated they likely won’t certify Boeing’s next airliner until 2023 because of questions about changes the aircraft manufacturer is making in software and hardware on a new version of the two-aisle 777 jet.
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AppleMagazine #505
AppleMagazine
BREAK THEM UP? 5 WAYS CONGRESS IS TRYING TO REIN IN BIG TECH
Groundbreaking legislation is advancing in Congress that would curb the market power of tech giants Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple and could force them to untie their dominant platforms from their other lines of business.
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AppleMagazine #505
AppleMagazine
CHINA'S DIDI TOUTS TECH SPENDING AHEAD OF WALL ST DEBUT
Chinese ride-hailing service Didi says it lost $5.5 billion over the past three years ahead of its U.S. stock market debut Wednesday but it’s highlighting its global reach and investments in developing electric and self-driving cars.
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AppleMagazine #505
AppleMagazine
COSMIC GULP: ASTRONOMERS SEE BLACK HOLE SWALLOW NEUTRON STAR
Talk about a heavy snack. For the first time, astronomers have witnessed a black hole swallowing a neutron star, the most dense object in the universe — all in a split-second gulp.
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AppleMagazine #505
AppleMagazine
JAPAN'S SOFTBANK SAYS PEPPER ROBOT REMAINS ‘ALIVE' AND WELL
Japanese technology company SoftBank denies it’s pulling the plug on its friendly, talking, bubble-headed Pepper robot.
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AppleMagazine #505
AppleMagazine
PANDEMIC-ERA MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS TECH FAIR KICKS OFF
A major wireless technology trade fair kicked off in Barcelona this week with scaled-back attendance and beefed-up health and safety measures, changes that reflect the new reality for industry conventions in the pandemic era.
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AppleMagazine #505
AppleMagazine
MICROSOFT EXEC: TARGETING OF AMERICANS' RECORDS ‘ROUTINE'
Federal law enforcement agencies secretly seek the data of Microsoft customers thousands of times a year, according to congressional testimony Wednesday by a senior executive at the technology company.
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AppleMagazine #505
AppleMagazine
LIAM NEESON'S BACK, FIGHTING ON THIN ICE (LITERALLY)
It’s intriguing to imagine Liam Neeson’s management team, contemplating his next film. Perhaps “Uber Express”? Maybe “Lyfted Up”?
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AppleMagazine #505
AppleMagazine
UK WATCHDOG PROBES AMAZON, GOOGLE FOR FAKE REVIEWS OF GOODS
U.K. regulators said that they’re investigating Google and Amazon over concerns the online giants aren’t doing enough to stop fake reviews of products and services on their platforms.
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AppleMagazine #505
Mac Life
CRAVE
THE GEAR WE’RE LUSTING AFTER
3 min |
July 2021
PC Magazine
Amazon Echo Show 8 (2nd Gen): Just the Right Balance
Reviews/Consumer Electronics
8 min |
July 2021
Mac Life
Mechanicus
A tactics game of metal against metal
2 min |
July 2021
Mac Life
MacKeeper 5.0
Security, privacy, and clean–up rolled into one
2 min |
July 2021
Mac Life
The best USB–C docks for MacBooks
Expand the capabilities of your machine with these docks
3 min |
July 2021
Mac Life
Genius Scan 6.0
Fast scans and excellent OCR
2 min |
July 2021
Mac Life
Text Sniper
An image OCR that’s faster than a bullet
2 min |
July 2021
Mac Life
Narita Boy
Can you wield the Techno–Sword?
2 min |
July 2021
Mac Life
Touch Retouch
One–touch object removal for photos
2 min |
July 2021
Mac Life
5G Network Standard
The clever but controversial communications tech explained
6 min |
July 2021
Mac Life
Apple AirTag
Find lost things — with some caveats
5 min |
July 2021
Techlife News
MICROSOFT DEBUTS WINDOWS 11; FIRST MAJOR UPDATE IN 6 YEARS
Microsoft has unveiled the next generation of its Windows software, called Windows 11, that has a new Start Menu and other features.
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