AppleMagazine
A COMPELLINGLY CRUEL ROSAMUND PIKE IN ‘I CARE A LOT'
An air of mystery surrounded Rosamund Pike in “Gone Girl” but there’s no mistaking her in “I Care a Lot.” Sporting designer suits and a bob cut so sharp that you tremble for her stylist, Pike’s Marla Grayson is ruthlessly imperious from head to toe.
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Bloomberg Businessweek
Youyang Gu – Covid's Data Superstar
It was global public-health institutions vs. a guy living with his parents in California
6 min |
March 01, 2021
Techlife News
WALMART SALES STILL SURGING, BUT A CHILL MAY BE ON THE WAY
Walmart is raising wages for 425,000 of its 1.5 million U.S. workers and is investing $14 billion this year to speed up its distribution network as the nation’s largest retailer navigates vast industry changes that were accelerated by the pandemic.
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Techlife News
US CHARGES NORTH KOREAN COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS IN GLOBAL HACKS
The Justice Department has charged three North Korean computer programmers in a broad range of global hacks, including a destructive attack targeting an American movie studio, and in the attempted theft and extortion of more than $1.3 billion from banks and companies, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Techlife News
US STILL UNRAVELING ‘SOPHISTICATED' HACK OF 9 GOV'T AGENCIES
U.S. authorities are still working to unravel the full scope of the likely Russian hack that gave the “sophisticated” actor behind the breach complete access to files and email from at least nine government agencies and about 100 private companies, the top White House cybersecurity official said Wednesday.
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Techlife News
MAJOR AUSTRALIAN MEDIA COMPANY STRIKES GOOGLE NEWS PAY DEAL
Seven West Media has become the largest Australian news media business to strike a deal with Google to pay for journalism in a partnership announced this week before the nation’s Parliament considers draft laws to force digital giants to pay for news.
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Techlife News
APPLE TV+ TO PRODUCE RIDLEY SCOTT'S NAPOLEON EPIC STARRING JOAQUIN PHOENIX
Ever since Stanley Kubrick’s unrealized dream biopic, Napoleon Bonaparte, the famous French conqueror and rules, has been a very elusive character for directors. The life of Napoleon Bonaparte is an amazing story of revolutionary ideals crushed by the seductiveness of power and his ultimate demise is a story that is one of the best known in history. Kubrick would have been able to make an epic but he never got to it during his lifetime and now, legendary director Sir Ridley Scott has signed a deal with Apple to direct and produce Kitbag, a biopic based on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Techlife News
TURN YOUR QUARANTINE CLUTTER INTO MONEY
I placed more online orders than I can count in 2020. And I justified all of them.
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Techlife News
IN SURPRISE MOVE, FACEBOOK BLOCKS NEWS ACCESS IN AUSTRALIA
In a surprise retaliatory move Thursday, Facebook blocked Australians from sharing news stories, escalating a fight with the government over whether powerful tech companies should have to pay news organizations for content.
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Techlife News
COST OF A SINGLE BITCOIN EXCEEDS $50,000 FOR FIRST TIME
The seemingly unstoppable rise of Bitcoin continued with the cost of a single unit of the digital currency rising above $50,000 for the first time.
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Techlife News
AUTOWORKERS FACE UNCERTAIN FUTURE IN AN ERA OF ELECTRIC CARS
When General Motors boldly announced its goal last month to make only battery-powered vehicles by 2035, it didn’t just mark a break with more than a century of making internal combustion engines. It also clouded the future for 50,000 GM workers whose skills — and jobs — could become obsolete far sooner than they knew.
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Techlife News
LUXURY CAR BRAND JAGUAR TO GO ALL-ELECTRIC BY 2025
Struggling luxury car brand Jaguar will be fully electric by 2025, the British company said this week as it outlined a plan to phase out internal combustion engines.
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AppleMagazine
GM'S CHEVY BOLT SUV JOINS PARADE OF NEW US ELECTRIC VEHICLES
Whether people want them or not, automakers are rolling out new electric vehicle models as the industry responds to stricter pollution regulations and calls to reduce emissions to fight climate change.
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AppleMagazine
EPIC GAMES FILES EU ANTITRUST COMPLAINT AGAINST APPLE
Epic Games said it filed an antitrust complaint against Apple with European Union regulators, opening a new front in its war with the tech giant over app store payments.
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AppleMagazine
UNITED: SMALL ELECTRIC AIR TAXIS WILL ZIP PEOPLE TO AIRPORTS
United Airlines said it will buy up to 200 small electric air taxis to help customers in urban areas get to the airport.
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AppleMagazine
RIGHT-WING FRIENDLY PARLER ANNOUNCES RE-LAUNCH
The right-wing friendly social network Parler, which was forced offline following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of thenPresident Donald Trump, says it is re-launching.
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AppleMagazine
DELIVERY-ONLY RESTAURANT BRANDS SEE PANDEMIC-FUELED GROWTH
Do you know which restaurant cooked the meal you just had delivered? Increasingly, it can be hard to tell.
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AppleMagazine
IN NEVADA DESERT, A TECHNOLOGY FIRM AIMS TO BE A GOVERNMENT
In the Nevada desert, a cryptocurrency magnate hopes to turn dreams of a futuristic “smart city” into reality. To do that, he’s asking the state to let companies like his form local governments on land they own, which would grant them power over everything from schools to law enforcement.
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AppleMagazine
GAMESTOP'S SAGA MAY BE OVER; ITS EFFECT ON WALL STREET ISN'T
The frenzy around GameStop’s stock may have quieted down, but the outsized influence small investors had in the saga is likely to stick around.
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AppleMagazine
APPLE MAPS: A NEW DIRECTION WITH CROWD COLLABORATION
Apple is taking a leaf out of Waze’s book with its iOS 14.5 update, bringing a plethora of new features to its Maps software including accident reporting, speed checks, and hazards.
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AppleMagazine
FORD TO GO ALL ELECTRIC IN EUROPE BY 2030
Ford announced a major push into electric vehicles in Europe, vowing to convert its entire passenger car lineup on the continent to electrics by 2030.
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AppleMagazine
AIRLINES PUSH WHITE HOUSE TO REJECT TESTING FOR US FLIGHTS
Leaders of several major U.S. airlines met online with White House officials to press their case against requiring coronavirus tests for passengers on domestic flights, saying it would undermine the already fragile industry.
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Sound & Vision
Class-D-elightful
Whether you fall into the “all well-designed amps sound the same when used within their limits” camp or the “amp selection is critical” army of true believers, it’s arguable that prior to the turn of the millennium amps designed for high-performance audio had fallen into a rut.
9 min |
February - March 2021
Sound & Vision
The Next Generation
The big car companies refresh their lineups on a pretty regular schedule. Honda, for example, brings out all-new versions of its models every four to five years, and it makes smaller upgrades and improvements in the years between the big changes.
9 min |
February - March 2021
Sound & Vision
Supersized TV
Remember the rear-projection TV (RPTV)? RPTVs were big, boxy contraptions housing a projector that beamed an image at the rear of a screen mounted on the set’s front surface.
10+ min |
February - March 2021
Techlife News
A SPECIAL VALENTINES MEAL CAN TAKE MANY FORMS THIS YEAR
As we come to the end of a collective year of pandemic firsts, Valentine’s Day is next up. And showing love and gratitude can feel more important than ever.
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Techlife News
UN CHIEF: POLLUTERS MUST JOIN ‘NET ZERO' CLUB FOR CLIMATE
Polluters must step up their commitments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions before a crucial climate summit in November, U.N. SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres said this week.
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Techlife News
DIGITAL SIEGE: INTERNET CUTS BECOME FAVORED TOOL OF REGIMES
When army generals in Myanmar staged a coup last week, they briefly cut internet access in an apparent attempt to stymie protests. In Uganda, residents couldn’t use Facebook, Twitter and other social media for weeks after a recent election. And in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, the internet has been down for months amid a wider conflict.
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Techlife News
TAXING TIME: HOW THE PANDEMIC WILL AFFECT FILING YOUR TAXES
The pandemic has made everything a bit trickier — tax filing season is no exception.
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Techlife News
STATE POLICE DROPS PHONE APP THAT MAKES TEXTS DISAPPEAR
The Michigan State Police told officers to remove a phone app that keeps no record of outgoing text messages, a newspaper reported this week.
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