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AppleMagazine
GUNN'S NEW DC SLATE FEATURES SUPERMAN, SUPERGIRL AND BATMAN
New DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran debuted their plans for a revamped and newly unified DC Universe of films and television series, including a new Superman film in 2025, a Wonder Woman prequel and a Batman movie that won’t star Robert Pattinson.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #588
AppleMagazine
CHEATERS BEWARE: CHATGPT MAKER RELEASES AI DETECTION TOOL
The maker of ChatGPT is trying to curb its reputation as a freewheeling cheating machine with a new tool that can help teachers detect if a student or artificial intelligence wrote that homework.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #588
AppleMagazine
Search The efforts to replace and surpass the Google service
As Apple increasingly looks to find ways to boost its services revenue and encourage customers to move away from exploitative ad-backed platforms like Facebook, the firm is reportedly on the verge of announcing its own supercharged search engine to rival Google.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #588
AppleMagazine
AMAZON AXES FREE GROCERY DELIVERY ON PRIME ORDERS UNDER $150
Amazon is axing free grocery delivery for Prime members on orders less than $150.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #588
AppleMagazine
APPLE AND GOOGLE APP STORES GET THUMBS DOWN FROM WHITE HOUSE
The Biden administration is taking aim at Apple and Google for operating mobile app stores that it says stifle competition.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #588
AppleMagazine
AFTER TESLA PRICE CUT, FORD FOLLOWS SUIT WITH MUSTANG MACH-E
Ford is cutting prices on its Mustang Mach-E electric SUV by as much as $6,000 just weeks after market leader Tesla took similar steps.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #588
AppleMagazine
IMSA TAKES NORTH AMERICAN SPORTS CARS INTO HYBRID ERA
The Cadillac growls, while the Porsche and BMW scream. The Acura sounds like an Indy car, and for fun, turn your back to the track and listen carefully as the cars roar around Daytona International Speedway in a new era of IMSA sports car racing.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #588
AppleMagazine
SENATORS GRILL TICKETMASTER AFTER TAYLOR SWIFT FIASCO
Senators grilled Ticketmaster this week, questioning whether the company’s dominance in the ticketing industry led to its spectacular breakdown last year during a sale of Taylor Swift concert tickets.
4 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
CHINA KEEPING 1 HOUR DAILY LIMIT ON KIDS' ONLINE GAMES
As the week-long Lunar New Year holidays in China draw near with promises of feasts and red envelopes stuffed with cash, children have another thing to look forward to –- one extra hour of online games each day.
3 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
TWITTER FACES LAWSUITS OVER UNPAID RENT FOR US HQ UK OFFICE
More landlords are taking Twitter to court over unpaid rent, this time at the social media company’s headquarters in San Francisco and its British offices — the latest sign that owner Elon Musk’s extreme cost-cutting strategy includes simply not paying the bills.
2 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
MONEY: REKINDLE FIZZLING FINANCIAL RESOLUTIONS
Save more, spend less and pay off debt are popular New Year’s resolutions — and perhaps the ones most likely to fall by the wayside a few weeks into the year when reality sets in and expenses derail plans.
3 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
OBNOXIOUSLY LOUD CAR? A TRAFFIC CAMERA MIGHT BE LISTENING
After the relative quiet of the pandemic, New York City has come roaring back. Just listen: Jackhammers. Honking cars and trucks. Rumbling subway trains. Sirens. Shouting.
4 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
ANNA KENDRICK IN THE CHILLING 'ALICE, DARLING'
Emotional abuse rarely gets the subtle, sensitive treatment on screen as it does in Mary Nighy’s thoughtful if uneven drama “Alice, Darling,” starring Anna Kendrick.
2 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
PROMISING GENE THERAPY DELIVERS TREATMENT DIRECTLY TO BRAIN
When Rylae-Ann Poulin was a year old, she didn’t crawl or babble like other kids her age. A rare genetic disorder kept her from even lifting her head. Her parents took turns holding her upright at night just so she could breathe comfortably and sleep.
4 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LATEST TO BAN TIKTOK
The University of Wisconsin System has joined a number of universities across the nation that have banned the popular socail media app TikTok on school-owned devices.
2 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
ELON MUSK: TWEETS ABOUT TAKING TESLA PRIVATE WEREN'T FRAUD
Elon Musk returned to federal court Monday in San Francisco, testifying that he believed he had locked up financial backing to take Tesla private during 2018 meetings with representatives from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund — although no specific funding amount or price was discussed.
2 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
AMAZON LAUNCHES A SUBSCRIPTION PRESCRIPTION DRUG SERVICE
Amazon is adding a prescription drug discount program to its growing healthcare business.
2 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
MICROSOFT INVESTS BILLIONS IN CHATGPT-MAKER OPENAL
Microsoft says it is making a “multiyear, multibillion dollar investment” in the artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and other tools that can write readable text and generate new images.
2 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
LEARNING TO LIE: AI TOOLS ADEPT AT CREATING DISINFORMATION
Artificial intelligence is writing fiction, making images inspired by Van Gogh and fighting wildfires. Now it’s competing in another endeavor once limited to humans — creating propaganda and disinformation.
2 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
JUSTICE DEPT.SUES GOOGLE OVER DIGITAL ADVERTISING DOMINANCE
The Justice Department and eight states filed an antitrust suit against Google, seeking to shatter its alleged monopoly on the entire ecosystem of online advertising as a hurtful burden to advertisers, consumers and even the U.S. government.
4 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
GOOGLE AXES 12.000 JOBS AS LAYOFFS SPREAD ACROSS TECH SECTOR
Google is laying off 12,000 workers, or about 6% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff as the economic boom that the industry rode during the COVID-19 pandemic ebbs.
3 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
Netflix
Digital entertainment: The ever-evolving streaming wars
6 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
CRYPTO FIRMS ACTED LIKE BANKS, THEN COLLAPSED LIKE DOMINOES
Over the past few years, a number of companies have attempted to act as the cryptocurrency equivalent of a bank, promising lucrative returns to customers who deposited their bitcoin or other digital assets.
3 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
SPOTIFY LATEST TECH NAME TO CUT JOBS, AXES 6% OF WORKFORCE
Music streaming service Spotify said it’s cutting 6% of its global workforce, or about 600 jobs, becoming yet another tech company forced to rethink its pandemic-era expansion as the economic outlook weakens.
2 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
AI TOOLS CAN CREATE NEW IMAGES, BUT WHO IS THE REAL ARTIST?
Countless artists have taken inspiration from “The Starry Night” since Vincent Van Gogh painted the swirling scene in 1889.
5 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
HOW (AND WHERE) TO WATCH OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS ONLINE
Replete with spellbinding multiverses, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” topped the 95th Academy Awards nominations with 11 nods.
8 min |
January 27, 2023
AppleMagazine
Apple CEO Tim Cook to Take More Than 40% Pay Cut
Apple CEO Tim Cook will take a more than 40% pay cut this year from a year earlier as the company adjusts how it calculates his compensation partly based on a recommendation from Cook himself.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #586
AppleMagazine
EU OUTLINES PLAN FOR CLEAN TECH FUTURE BOOSTED BY SUBSIDIES
The European Union pushed forward with a major cleantech industrial plan which not only should keep the continent in the vanguard of plotting a greener future but also guarantee its economic survival as it faces challenges from China and the United States.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #586
AppleMagazine
NEVADA LITHIUM MINE GETS CONDITIONAL $700M GOVERNMENT LOAN
The U.S. Department of Energy announced a conditional loan of $700 million to an Australian mining company to pursue a lithium project still facing environmental hurdles in Nevada as the U.S. seeks domestic supplies for a key component in electric vehicle batteries.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #586
AppleMagazine
TOYOTA PUSHES ZERO-EMISSION GOALS BY CONVERTING OLD MODELS
To accelerate the global move toward sustainable vehicles, Toyota is suggesting simply replacing the inner workings of vehicles already on the roads with cleaner technology like fuel cells and electric motors.
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