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Volvo Is First Major Carmaker To Forgo Traditional Engines
Volvo will begin producing electric motors on all its cars from 2019, becoming the first traditional automaker to forgo the combustion engine altogether.
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July 7,2017
AppleMagazine
Spacex Craft Returns To Earth After 2nd Space Station Trip
A SpaceX Dragon capsule that brought supplies to the International Space Station has splashed down as planned in the Pacific Ocean.
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July 7,2017
AppleMagazine
The iPhone Of Cars? Apple Enters Self-driving Car Race
Apple is joining the fiercely competitive race to design self-driving cars, raising the possibility that a company that has already re-shaped culture with its iPhone may try to transform transportation, too.
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April 21, 2017
AppleMagazine
Microsoft Says Users Are Protected From Alleged NSA Malware
Up-to-date Microsoft customers are safe from the purported National Security Agency spying tools dumped online, the software company said last weekend, tamping down fears that the digital arsenal was poised to wreak havoc across the internet .
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April 21, 2017
AppleMagazine
Vinyl Music Gives Record Stores A Boost In A Digital World
Record stores have not only survived the onslaught of pirated music, digital downloads and online streaming services. They’re now growing in numbers.
3 min |
April 21, 2017
AppleMagazine
Star Wars Celebration: The Phenoenon Renewed
Star Wars: The Last Jedi on The Way
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April 21, 2017
AppleMagazine
Dakota Wesleyan Announces Initiative, Partnership With Apple
Dakota Wesleyan University has unveiled an initiative and a partnership with international technology company Apple.
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February 23, 2018
AppleMagazine
Facebook Forges Ahead With Kids App Despite Expert Criticism
Facebook is forging ahead with its messaging app for kids, despite child experts who have pressed the company to shut it down and others who question Facebook’s financial support of some advisers who approved of the app.
3 min |
February 23, 2018
AppleMagazine
Apple's Fiscal 2Q Revenue, Profit Sag Amid Iphone Slump
Apple’s sales are still shrinking amid weakening iPhone demand, despite the company’s increasing emphasis on services designed to bring in a steady flow of money from the 1.4 billion of its devices still in use.
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May 3, 2019
AppleMagazine
Autonomous Vehicles Could Soon Drive On, Empty, In Florida
Self-driving vehicles could be operated in Florida without a human on board under a bill going to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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May 3, 2019
AppleMagazine
Amazon Opens First Go Store That Accepts Cash
Amazon launched its high-tech Go convenience store a year ago, where shoppers can pull items off the shelf and walk out. Now it’s adding a decidedly low-tech feature: accepting cash.
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May 10, 2019
AppleMagazine
Amazon Offers To Help Employees Start Delivery Business
Amazon, which is racing to deliver packages faster, is turning to its own employees with a proposition: Quit your job and we’ll help you start a business delivering Amazon packages.
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May 17, 2019
AppleMagazine
Networks Sue Locast, A Service That Streams TV For Free
The country’s biggest TV networks — ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox — have sued Locast, a streaming service that transmits their broadcasts for free, in federal court in New York.
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AppleMagazine #405
AppleMagazine
Bad Bunny, Khalid To Perform On Apple Music's ‘Up Next' Tour
Apple Music is taking its “Up Next” program and playlist on the road.
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July 05, 2019
AppleMagazine
No, There's Still No Link Between Video Games And Violence
Do video games trigger violent behavior? Scientific studies have found no link. But the persistent theory is back in the headlines following Saturday’s mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.
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AppleMagazine #406
AppleMagazine
Gatehouse, Gannett To Merge For $1.4B, Build Newspaper Giant
Two of the largest U.S. newspaper companies have agreed to combine for roughly $1.4 billion, creating a new industry giant that hopes to manage the crisis of print’s decline through sheer size.
3 min |
August 09, 2019
AppleMagazine
Ios 13: On A Whole New Level
In one of the iPhone’s biggest updates to date, iOS 13 revolutionizes the smartphone once again.
10 min |
AppleMagazine #406
AppleMagazine
The Apple Card Is Here
When Apple announced Apple Payback in 2014, it heralded the company’s first foray into the payments business.
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AppleMagazine #406
AppleMagazine
UN Report: North Korea Cyber Experts Raised Up To $2 Billion
A panel monitoring U.N. sanctions says North Korean cyber experts have illegally raised money for the country’s weapons of mass destruction programs “with total proceeds to date estimated at up to $2 billion.”
2 min |
August 09, 2019
AppleMagazine
US Says New Round Of Talks With China Were ‘Constructive'
U.S. and Chinese envoys held “constructive” trade talks on Wednesday, the White House said, after President Donald Trump rattled financial markets by accusing Beijing of trying to stall in hopes he will fail to win reelection in 2020.
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August 02, 2019
AppleMagazine
2019 iPads: The Best Lineup Yet
The world’s most advanced tablet range took a major leap forward earlier this year when Apple introduced an all-new iPad mini and iPad Air - but Tim Cook and Co. aren’t done there.
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August 16, 2019
AppleMagazine
Fast, Not So Furious? Europe Wrestles With Electric Scooters
Ban them outright. Issue speeding tickets. Make users take a driving test. From Paris to Berlin, European cities are searching for solutions to the two-wheeled phenomenon that’s fast transforming cityscapes worldwide: Electric scooters.
4 min |
August 16, 2019
AppleMagazine
Facebook Offering ‘Millions' To Publishers For News
Facebook is reportedly in talks with news publishers to offer “millions of dollars” for the right to publish their material on its site. The move follows years of criticism over its growing monopolization of online advertising to the detriment of the struggling news industry.
1 min |
August 16, 2019
AppleMagazine
Lil Nas X's Viral Song Sets More Records On Billboard Charts
Lil Nas X is galloping his way to two new records on the Billboard charts thanks to the massive success of “Old Town Road.”
1 min |
August 16, 2019
AppleMagazine
In ‘Blinded By The Light,' Growing Up With The Boss
After starring roles for Freddie Mercury (“Bohemian Rhapsody”), Elton John (“Rocketman”) and the Beatles (“Yesterday”), it’s Bruce Springsteen’s turn to join the mixtape that the movies have lately become.
3 min |
August 16, 2019
AppleMagazine
Privacy Questions As Humans Reviewed User Audio At Facebook
Facebook has paid contractors to transcribe audio clips from users of its Messenger service, raising privacy concerns for a company with a history of privacy lapses.
3 min |
August 16, 2019
AppleMagazine
Senators Look To Help Rural Businesses Be Energy Efficient
Maine’s U.S. senators are offering a proposal to help businesses that want to invest in energy-efficient technology.
1 min |
August 16, 2019
AppleMagazine
How Computers See Faces And Other Objects
Computers started to be able to recognize human faces in images decades ago, but now artificial intelligence systems are rivaling people’s ability to classify objects in photos and videos.
2 min |
July 06, 2018
AppleMagazine
Facebook: 800K Users May Have Had Bug Unblock Blocked People
Facebook says more than 800,000 users may have been affected by a bug that unblocked people they previously had blocked.
1 min |
July 06, 2018
AppleMagazine
Federal Facebook Probe Now Includes FBI, Sec
A federal probe into Facebook’s sharing of user data with Cambridge Analytica now involves the FBI, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department, the Washington Post reported.
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