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AppleMagazine
Apple's News Subscription Service A Mixed Bag For Publishers
On Monday, Apple launched what some have called a “Netflix for news” — a $10-a-month subscription service that offers access to hundreds of magazines and a handful of newspapers. But most major U.S. news publishers aren’t participating.
4 min |
March 29, 2019
AppleMagazine
Facebook Extends Ban On Hate Speech To ‘White Nationalists'
Facebook is extending its ban on hate speech to prohibit the promotion and support of white nationalism and white separatism.
1 min |
March 29, 2019
AppleMagazine
What My DNA Told Me: Avoid Fast Food, Eat Vegetables
Avoid fast food, eat vegetables and exercise. It sounds like generic health advice, but they’re tips supposedly tailored to my DNA profile.
4 min |
March 29, 2019
AppleMagazine
Apple Throws The Cover Off Apple TV+... Well, Sort Of
Apple’s latest big media event on Monday was exciting for more than a few reasons.
6 min |
March 29, 2019
AppleMagazine
Asus Computers Infected By Auto-update Virus
In a sophisticated targeted espionage operation, hackers infected tens of thousands of computers from the Taiwanese vendor ASUS with malicious software using the company’s online automatic update service, security researchers reported this week.
1 min |
March 29, 2019
AppleMagazine
Uber Acquires Mideast Competitor Careem For $3.1 Billion
Ride-hailing service Uber announced it has acquired Mideast competitor Careem for $3.1 billion, giving the San Francisco-based firm the commanding edge in a region with a large, young, tech-savvy population.
2 min |
March 29, 2019
AppleMagazine
To Imagine The ‘5G' Future, Revisit Our Recent Wireless Past
The mobile industry is cranking up its hype machine for sleek new “5G” networks that it says will make your phone and everything else faster and wonderful. If you believe the marketing.
3 min |
April 5, 2019
AppleMagazine
Card: The Future Of Digital Money
With Apple announcing its new credit card, powered by Goldman Sachs and MasterCard, we delve deeper into the company’s fintech division, explore the implications of the new venture, examine Apple’s financial services competition, and ask whether the Cupertino firm is spreading itself too thin as it expands its services arm and enters into unmarked territory…
8 min |
April 5, 2019
AppleMagazine
Google To Require Benefits, Minimum Wage For Contractors
Google says it will require staffing companies it works with to pay workers at least $15 an hour and give them health benefits.
1 min |
April 5, 2019
AppleMagazine
Swedish Superstars Abba: New Song Later This Year
ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus says fans can expect a new song “in September or October” from the four-member Swedish pop group that broke up 37 years ago.
1 min |
April 5, 2019
AppleMagazine
German Minister Meets Zuckerberg, Wary Of Messaging Plans
Germany’s justice minister is criticizing plans for Facebook to combine its instant-messaging services after a meeting with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, but is offering a wary welcome to his call for more encrypted messaging.
1 min |
April 5, 2019
AppleMagazine
Sweeping UK Spy Bill Dubbed ‘snoopers' Charter' Becomes Law
In Britain, Big Brother just got bigger.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #266
AppleMagazine
Homepod: Apple Leaks Its Own Products
Leaked: Everything You Need to Know About Iphone 8 and Apple Watch 3
5 min |
August 11 2017
AppleMagazine
Life-Saving Drones Used To Rescue Swimmers Off French Coast
Life-Saving Drones Used To Rescue Swimmers Off French Coast
1 min |
August 11 2017
AppleMagazine
Netflix Makes 1st Acquisition: Comic Book Maker Millarworld
Netflix Makes 1st Acquisition: Comic Book Maker Millarworld
1 min |
August 11 2017
AppleMagazine
3-D Version Of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' Set For Debut
3-D Version Of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' Set For Debut
1 min |
August 11 2017
AppleMagazine
Google Expands Paid Carpooling Across California
Google is expanding its paid carpool service throughout California, building on an effort to get more traffic-weary drivers to share their rides to work - and to collect data that could be useful for future transportation services.
3 min |
June 02, 2017
AppleMagazine
How 'Wonder Woman' Built A World Of Women, Onscreen And Off
In a world of only women, there are no phallic structures.
4 min |
June 02, 2017
AppleMagazine
Sirius XM Buys Stake In Music Streaming Site Pandora
Pandora is raising cash to help it take on Spotify and other streaming music services.
1 min |
June 16,2017
AppleMagazine
Review: Interstellar Virus Makes Trouble In New Sci-fi Novel
“The Space Between the Stars” (Berkley), by Anne Corlett.
2 min |
June 16,2017
AppleMagazine
Facebook Deploys Ai To Fight Terrorism On Its Network
Facebook has started deploying its artificial intelligence capabilities to help combat terrorists’ use of its service.
2 min |
June 23, 2017
AppleMagazine
Harvard Freshmen's Ouster Over Posts Draws Broad Response
Few college-bound kids lose their shot, and their slot, at their dream school once they get in, but it happened at one of the world’s most elite institutions and for a reason that has, until recently, hardly registered in the university admissions process: social media.
3 min |
June 23, 2017
AppleMagazine
Tech CEOs Visit White House To Talk Modernizing Government
The White House on Monday urged technology CEOs to pitch in on President Donald Trump’s effort to modernize government.
2 min |
June 23, 2017
AppleMagazine
Augmented Reality:A New Goal For Apple
Arkit:Apple Headed In A New Direction.
5 min |
June 23, 2017
AppleMagazine
Elon Musk Talks Cars And Humanity's Fate With Governors
Tesla CEO Elon Musk warned a bipartisan gathering of U.S. governors on Saturday (15) that government regulation of artificial intelligence is needed because it’s a “fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization.”
1 min |
July 21, 2017
AppleMagazine
Tesla Driver Recants, Says Autopilot Not To Blame for Crash
A Tesla driver says his car’s partially self-driving Autopilot system wasn’t responsible for a crash in Minnesota, despite what he initially told investigators.
1 min |
July 21, 2017
AppleMagazine
Dispute Could Mean Financial Panic In Bitcoin
Got some bitcoin? An internal dispute over the digital currency could soon mean financial losses, whipsawing prices and delays in processing payments.
3 min |
July 21, 2017
AppleMagazine
Netflix Still Piling Up Viewers And Big Programming Bills
Netflix is pulling in new viewers and award nominations in droves.
1 min |
July 21, 2017
AppleMagazine
US To Create Independent Military Cyber Command
After months of delay, the Trump administration is finalizing plans to revamp the nation’s military command for defensive and offensive cyber operations in hopes of intensifying America’s ability to wage cyberwar against the Islamic State group and other foes, according to U.S. officials.
4 min |
July 21, 2017
AppleMagazine
Besson Hopes 'Valerian' Is A Remedy For Your Sequel Fatigue
“I’m Valerian and she’s Laureline,” Luc Besson says with a smile, and gesturing to his producer and wife Virginie Besson-Silla. “She’s the clever one.”
4 min |