AppleMagazine
TIME FLIES:SERIES 6 AND SE TAKE APPLE WATCH TO NEW HEIGHTS
Apple’s annual Fall Event felt a little different this year. For starters, it was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with no cheers or applause to be heard. But the biggie? No new iPhones. The company already confirmed that the iPhone 12 will launch in October, but in the meantime, Tim Cook and Co used the keynote to show off the all-new Apple Watch Series 6, a low-cost Apple Watch SE, and a bunch of family-focused Watch improvements.
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AppleMagazine #464
AppleMagazine
REPORT FINDS GLOBAL ECONOMIC OUTLOOK NOT AS BAD AS EXPECTED
The global economy is not doing as bad as previously expected, especially in the United States and China, but has still suffered an unprecedented drop due to the coronavirus pandemic, an international watchdog said this week.
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AppleMagazine #464
AppleMagazine
VIACOMCBS TO REBRAND CBS ALL ACCESS AS PARAMOUNT PLUS
ViacomCBS will rebrand its CBS All Access streaming service as Paramount Plus, set to debut early next year with new, original shows.
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AppleMagazine #464
AppleMagazine
‘WALKING DEAD' TO BE LAID TO REST IN 2022, SPIN-OFFS TO RISE
The end is coming for “The Walking Dead,” but not until 2022.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #464
AppleMagazine
ORACLE AND TIKTOK STRUCK A DEAL. WHAT IT IS, NONE WILL SAY
The short-video app TikTok has chosen Oracle as its corporate savior to avoid a U.S. ban ordered by President Donald Trump. The U.S. government will review the prospective deal.
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AppleMagazine #464
AppleMagazine
GOOGLE EXEC ON HOT SEAT IN CONGRESS OVER ADVERTISING POWER
GOOGLE EXEC ON HOT SEAT IN CONGRESS OVER ADVERTISING POWER
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AppleMagazine #464
AppleMagazine
EU HEAVYWEIGHTS SEEK STRICT RULES FOR DIGITAL CURRENCIES
Finance ministers from five of Europe’s biggest economies called for the European Union to produce strict rules for new, private digital currencies such as Facebook-backed Libra and ban those that don’t comply.
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AppleMagazine #464
AppleMagazine
DRONE MAKER HURT BY US-CHINA RIFT, OPENING DOOR TO US RIVALS
Skateboarders, surfers and mountain bikers used to be the target customers for California startup Skydio, a maker of high-end drones that can home in on people and capture their movements on video all by themselves. Now police officers, firefighters and soldiers are interested in the self-flying machines.
5 min |
AppleMagazine #464
AppleMagazine
AMAZON TO HIRE 100,000 TO KEEP UP WITH ONLINE SHOPPING SURGE
Amazon will hire another 100,000 people to keep up with a surge of online orders.
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AppleMagazine #464
Stereophile
Musical Fidelity M8xi
INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
10+ min |
October 2020
Stereophile
Polk Audio Legend L100
LOUDSPEAKER
10+ min |
October 2020
Stereophile
NAD Masters Series M33
STREAMING INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
10+ min |
October 2020
Stereophile
Göbel High End Divin Marquis
LOUDSPEAKER
10+ min |
October 2020
Stereophile
REVINYLIZATION
Bill Evans’s best late album
4 min |
October 2020
Stereophile
RE-TALES
George Vatchnadze’s newest gig
4 min |
October 2020
Stereophile
IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?
WITH DATA LORDS, MARIA SCHNEIDER MAKES A STATEMENT ABOUT THE STATE OF THE WORLD AND SOCIETY.
10+ min |
October 2020
Stereophile
Naim Mu-so 2nd Generation
ALL-IN-ONE MUSIC SYSTEM
10+ min |
October 2020
Stereophile
GRAMOPHONE DREAMS
Communing with immortals “Future generations will be able to condense into the brief space of twenty minutes the tone pictures of a lifetime—five minutes of childish prattle, five moments embalming the last feeble utterances from the death-bed. Will this not seem like holding veritable communion with immortality?” —BERLINER GRAMOPHONE COMPANY CA. 18771
10+ min |
October 2020
Stereophile
ANALOG CORNER
25 years and counting
10+ min |
October 2020
Techlife News
SAMSUNG WINS $6.6 BILLION CONTRACT FROM VERIZON TO CREATE 5G
Samsung Electronics Co. will develop 5G network infrastructure for Verizon Communications under a $6.65 billion deal announced this week.
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Techlife News #463
Techlife News
CHINA'S FIRST REUSABLE SPACECRAFT LANDS AFTER 2-DAY FLIGHT
China’s first reusable spacecraft landed last Sunday after two days in orbit, a possible step toward lower-cost space flight, the government announced.
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Techlife News #463
Techlife News
MICROSOFT TO LAUNCH NEW $500 XBOX CONSOLE NOV. 10
The holiday video game console battle is heating up. Microsoft says its Xbox Series X will cost $500 and debut Nov. 10, just ahead of the holidays.
1 min |
Techlife News #463
Techlife News
UN REPORT: INCREASED WARMING CLOSING IN ON AGREED UPON LIMIT
The world is getting closer to passing a temperature limit set by global leaders five years ago and may exceed it in the next decade or so, according to a new United Nations report.
3 min |
Techlife News #463
Techlife News
US SANCTIONS ON HUAWEI HIT CHIP SUPPLY AND GROWTH, EXEC SAYS
A Huawei executive says that recent U.S. sanctions against the company have caused a shortage of computer chips for the company, hurting the growth of its smartphone business.
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Techlife News #463
Techlife News
US LONG-TERM MORTGAGE RATES FALL; 30-YEAR AT 2.86%
U.S. average rates on long-term mortgages fell this week amid signs that the halting economic recovery slowed over the summer. The key 30year mortgage again marked an all-time low.
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Techlife News #463
Techlife News
FACEBOOK MAY HAVE TO STOP MOVING EU USER DATA TO US
Facebook may be forced to stop sending data about its European users to the U.S., in the first major fallout from a recent court ruling that found some trans-Atlantic data transfers don’t protect users from American government snooping.
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Techlife News #463
Techlife News
DOES MY EMPLOYER HAVE TO SAY IF A COWORKER HAS THE VIRUS?
Does my employer have to say if a coworker has the virus?
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Techlife News #463
Techlife News
CHINA'S EXPORT GROWTH QUICKENS IN AUGUST, IMPORTS EDGE LOWER
China’s export growth accelerated in August while imports edged lower as the world’s second-largest economy extended its recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
2 min |
Techlife News #463
AppleMagazine
UN REPORT: INCREASED WARMING CLOSING IN ON AGREED UPON LIMIT
The world is getting closer to passing a temperature limit set by global leaders five years ago and may exceed it in the next decade or so, according to a new United Nations report.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #463
AppleMagazine
MICROSOFT TO LAUNCH NEW $500 XBOX CONSOLE NOV. 10
The holiday video game console battle is heating up. Microsoft says its Xbox Series X will cost $500 and debut Nov. 10, just ahead of the holidays.
1 min |