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AppleMagazine
MANY PARENTS DON'T KNOW WHEN KIDS ARE BEHIND IN SCHOOL. ARE REPORT CARDS TELLING ENOUGH?
Nearly nine out of 10 parents believe their child is performing at grade level despite standardized tests showing far fewer students are on track, according to a poll released this week by Gallup and the nonprofit Learning Heroes.
2 min |
November 17, 2023
AppleMagazine
ESPN BET, A REBRANDED SPORTS GAMBLING APP FROM PENN ENTERTAINMENT, IS HERE
ESPN Bet, a sports-gambling service rebranded with the name of the Disney-owned sports channel, launched Tuesday in 17 U.S. states.
1 min |
November 17, 2023
AppleMagazine
HOLLYWOOD ACTORS UNION BOARD APPROVES STRIKE-ENDING DEAL AS LEADERS TOUT MONEY GAINS AND AI RIGHTS
Board members from Hollywood's actors union voted to approve the deal with studios that ended their strike after nearly four months, with the union's leadership touting the gains made in weeks of methodical negotiations.
3 min |
November 17, 2023
AppleMagazine
BUFFETT'S FIRM SELLS OFF SEVERAL SMALLER INVESTMENTS, INCLUDING GM AND UPS
Warren Buffett's company unloaded a number of the smaller investments from its portfolio in the third quarter including General Motors, Mondelez and Johnson & Johnson.
1 min |
November 17, 2023
AppleMagazine
GOOGLE CEO SUNDAR PICHAI RETURNS TO COURT TO DEFEND INTERNET COMPANY FOR SECOND TIME IN TWO WEEKS
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday was summoned to federal court for the second time in two weeks to testify in an antitrust trial threatening to topple a pillar of an internet empire that he helped build.
4 min |
November 17, 2023
AppleMagazine
JEZEBEL, AN INCISIVE FEMINIST VOICE SINCE THE HEIGHT OF THE BLOGOSPHERE ERA, IS SHUTTING DOWN
Jezebel, the sharp-edged feminist website that found an impassioned and devoted following at the height of the blogosphere era but ended up struggling with its business model, is shutting down after 16 years, its parent company announced.
3 min |
November 17, 2023
AppleMagazine
'A NOISY ROCK 'N' ROLL': HOW GROWING INTEREST IN FORMULA ONE IS FELT ACROSS THE MUSIC WORLD
Beyond the engineering, the athleticism, the speed, the luxury-fans love the sound of Formula One.
4 min |
November 17, 2023
AppleMagazine
AFTER FIRE KILLS 3, NYC OFFICIALS SAY RETAILERS, DELIVERY APPS MUST DO MORE TO ENSURE E-BIKE SAFETY
New York City officials say retailers and food delivery companies must do more to halt the proliferation of unsafe e-bike and e-scooter batteries, after a fire blamed on an electric scooter's lithium ion battery killed three people over the weekend.
2 min |
November 17, 2023
AppleMagazine
Next Vision
PROJECT ALASKA TO BRING SPATIAL COMPUTING TO THE OPEN WORLD
4 min |
November 17, 2023
AppleMagazine
ENERGY DEPARTMENT TRIES TO BOOST US BATTERY INDUSTRY WITH ANOTHER $3.5 BILLION IN FUNDING
The Energy Department is making a push to strengthen the U.S. battery supply chain, announcing up to $3.5 billion for companies that produce batteries and the critical minerals that go into them.
3 min |
November 17, 2023
AppleMagazine
YOUTUBE CREATORS WILL SOON HAVE TO DISCLOSE USE OF GEN AI IN VIDEOS OR RISK SUSPENSION
YouTube is rolling out new rules for Al content, including a requirement that creators reveal whether they've used generative artificial intelligence to make realistic looking videos.
1 min |
November 17, 2023
AppleMagazine
APPLE TO PAY $25 MILLION TO SETTLE ALLEGATIONS OF DISCRIMINATORY HIRING PRACTICES IN 2018, 2019
Apple has agreed to pay $25 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a pattern of discriminatory hiring practices when filling some of its jobs during 2018 and 2019.
1 min |
November 17, 2023
AppleMagazine
THE HUNGER GAMES RETURN IN 'THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES.' WITH THE ODDS IN ITS FAVOR
Two hours and 37 minutes is pretty long for a \"ballad,\" but you can't call it \"The Hunger Games: The Three-Cycle Opera of Songbirds and Snakes\" now, can you?
4 min |
November 17, 2023
AppleMagazine
CHINA'S XI URGES COUNTRIES UNITE IN TACKLING AI CHALLENGES BUT MAKES NO MENTION OF INTERNET CONTROLS
Chinese President Xi Jinping said this week that potential risks associated with artificial intelligence are challenges that countries should deal with together, remarks that come against the backdrop of China's rigid control of free speech on the internet.
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AppleMagazine #628
AppleMagazine
THERE'S TOO MUCH GUESSWORK IN RENTING AN AIRBNB. THE SHORT-TERM RENTAL GIANT IS TRYING TO FIX THAT
Airbnb will highlight rental listings that have received top scores from guests, information that the company's CEO says will help bring hotel-like reliability to booking a house or room on the site.
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AppleMagazine #628
AppleMagazine
WEWORK SEEKS BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION IN STUNNING FALL FOR A FIRM ONCE VALUED AT CLOSE TO $50 BILLION
WeWork has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, marking a stunning fall for the office sharing company once seen as a Wall Street darling that promised to upend the way people went to work around the world.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #628
AppleMagazine
IN DAVID FINCHER'S 'THE KILLER,' AN ASSASSIN HIDES IN PLAIN SIGHT
It's a noir staple to open with a bit of narration, but once the nameless hit-man protagonist of David Fincher's \"The Killer\" starts gabbing, he doesn't stop.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #628
AppleMagazine
OLDEST BLACK HOLE DISCOVERED DATING BACK TO 470 MILLION YEARS AFTER THE BIG BANG
Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, a cosmic beast formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #628
AppleMagazine
GALLAUDET HAS A HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION WITH WIDE APPLICATIONS. THE LATEST IS A HELMET
Shelby Bean could not help but feel a bit jealous.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #628
AppleMagazine
MIND-ALTERING KETAMINE BECOMES NEW PAIN TREATMENT, DESPITE LITTLE RESEARCH OR REGULATION
As U.S. doctors scale back their use of opioid painkillers, a new option for hard-to-treat pain is taking root: ketamine, the decades-old surgical drug that is now a trendy psychedelic therapy.
5 min |
AppleMagazine #628
AppleMagazine
A META ENGINEER SAW HIS OWN CHILD FACE HARASSMENT ON INSTAGRAM. NOW, HE'S TESTIFYING BEFORE CONGRESS
On the same day whistleblower Frances Haugen was testifying before Congress about the harms of Facebook and Instagram to children in the fall of 2021, a former engineering director at the social media giant who had rejoined the company as a consultant sent an alarming email to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the same topic.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #628
AppleMagazine
HUMANOID ROBOTS ARE HERE, BUT THEY'RE A LITTLE AWKWARD. DO WE REALLY NEED THEM?
Building a robot that's both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineering dream inspired by popular science fiction.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #628
AppleMagazine
BANKMAN-FRIED'S TRIAL EXPOSED CRYPTO FRAUD BUT CONGRESS HAS NOT BEEN EAGER TO REGULATE THE INDUSTRY
The conviction of former cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried for stealing at least $10 billion from customers and investors is the latest black mark for the cryptocurrency industry, but in Washington, there seems to be little to no interest in pushing through regulation.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #628
AppleMagazine
iPad Overhaul
2024 SET TO BE A GREAT YEAR FOR THE ENTIRE TABLET RANGE
4 min |
AppleMagazine #628
AppleMagazine
TO HELP 2024 VOTERS, META SAYS IT WILL BEGIN LABELING POLITICAL ADS THAT USE AI-GENERATED IMAGERY
Facebook and Instagram will require political ads running on their platforms to disclose if they were created using artificial intelligence, their parent company announced on Wednesday.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #628
AppleMagazine
RIVIAN TO END EXCLUSIVITY WITH AMAZON, ALLOW OTHER COMPANIES TO BUY ITS ELECTRIC VANS
Electric vehicle maker Rivian said this week that it will allow other companies to purchase its fleet of delivery vans, ending an exclusive agreement with Amazon.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #628
AppleMagazine
CHATGPT-MAKER OPENAI HOSTS ITS FIRST BIG TECH SHOWCASE AS THE AI STARTUP FACES GROWING COMPETITION
Less than a year into its meteoric rise, the company behind ChatGPT unveiled the future it has in mind for its artificial intelligence technology on Monday, launching a new line of chatbot products that can be customized to a variety of tasks.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #628
AppleMagazine
NINTENDO IS DEVELOPING A LIVE-ACTION FILM BASED ON ITS HIT VIDEO GAME 'THE LEGEND OF ZELDA'
Nintendo is developing a live-action film based on its hit video game \"The Legend of Zelda,\" the Japanese company behind the Super Mario franchise said this week.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #628
AppleMagazine
'Pain Hustlers' Tells a Sadly Familiar Story With a Kitchen-Sink Style
The wife of a man who nearly died of an opioid overdose comes bursting into the office of the sleazy doctor who prescribed it, wrongly, in exchange for personal gain. She slugs the doctor, in her agony.
4 min |
November 03, 2023
AppleMagazine
MASSIVE WINDFARM PROJECT TO BE BUILT OFF VIRGINIA COAST GAINS KEY FEDERAL APPROVAL
A power company’s plans for an enormous offshore wind farm off Virginia’s coast gained key federal approval this week after the Biden Administration evaluated the project’s potential impact on the environment.
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