AppleMagazine
US FIRST-QUARTER AUTO SALES GREW NEARLY 5% DESPITE HIGH INTEREST RATES.BUT EV GROWTH SLOWS FURTHER
New vehicle sales in the U.S. rose nearly 5% from January through March, as buyers stayed in the market despite high-interest rates.
5 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
AT&T SAYS A DATA BREACH LEAKED MILLIONS OF CUSTOMERS' INFORMATION ONLINE.WERE YOU AFFECTED?
The theft of sensitive information belonging to millions of AT&T’s current and former customers has been recently discovered online, the telecommunications giant said this weekend.
2 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
COURT APPROVES 3M SETTLEMENT OVER 'FOREVER CHEMICALS' IN PUBLIC DRINKING WATER SYSTEMS
Chemical manufacturer 3M will begin payments starting in the third quarter to many U.S. public drinking water systems as part of a multibillion-dollar settlement over contamination with potentially harmful compounds used in firefighting foam and several consumer products, the company said.
2 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT NEXT WEEK'S TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE IN THE US, MEXICO AND CANADA
North America is on the verge of another masking of the sun.
2 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION APPROVES THE NATION'S EIGHTH LARGE OFFSHORE WIND PROJECT
The Biden administration approved a new wind project off the Massachusetts coast Tuesday that is large enough it will provide more electricity than the state’s former coal-fired generating station.
2 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
SCATHING FEDERAL REPORT RIPS MICROSOFT FOR SHODDY SECURITY.INSINCERITY IN RESPONSE TO CHINESE HACK
In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report this week saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
2 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
HERE'S HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM COMMON SCAMS THIS TAX SEASON
Tax season can come with several headaches, from gathering documents to finding the time to sit down and file. But one pain that you want to avoid is falling for a tax scam.
4 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
GOOGLE TO PURGE BILLIONS OF FILES CONTAINING PERSONAL DATA IN SETTLEMENT OF CHROME PRIVACY CASE
Google has agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people in the U.S. surfing the internet through its Chrome web browser.
3 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
AMAZON IS REMOVING JUST WALK OUT TECHNOLOGY FROM ITS FRESH GROCERY STORES IN THE US
Amazon is removing Just Walk Out technology from its Amazon Fresh stores as part of an effort to revamp the grocery chain.
1 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
AS INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL GROWS.SO DOES US USE OF TECHNOLOGY. A LOOK AT HOW IT'S USED AT AIRPORTS
The Belgian family of four was on their fourth trip to the United States.
4 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
Robotics
AI TECHNOLOGY NOW TURNING SCI-FI INTO INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
3 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
ELON MUSK'S X HAS A NEW SAFETY LEADER, NINE MONTHS AFTER PREDECESSOR LEFT THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM
Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has named a new head of safety nine months after the last executive to hold the position departed from the social media company.
1 min |
April 05, 2024
AppleMagazine
GMAIL REVOLUTIONIZED EMAIL 20 YEARS AGO. PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS GOOGLE'S APRIL FOOLS' DAY JOKE
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fools’ Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago.
4 min |
April 05, 2024
Techlife News
MASSACHUSETTS, RHODE ISLAND AND CONNECTICUT RECEIVE PROPOSALS FOR OFFSHORE WIND PROJECTS
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut received proposals Wednesday for offshore wind projects as the three East Coast states hope to boost their reliance on the renewable energy source.
2 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
TIKTOK IS UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE FTC OVER DATA PRACTICES AND COULD FACE A LAWSUIT
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating TikTok over its data and security practices, a probe that could lead to a settlement or a lawsuit against the company, according to a person familiar with the matter.
2 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
DEBATE EMERGES OVER WHETHER MODERN PROTECTIONS COULD HAVE SAVED BALTIMORE BRIDGE
When a 900-foot container ship struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in 2007, the span stood firm and no one died, either on the ship or the highway above.
3 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
DUTCH HYPERLOOP CENTER AIMS TO ADVANCE FUTURISTIC TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY
A 420-meter (quarter-mile) white steel tube running alongside a railway line in the windswept northern Netherlands could usher in a new era in the transportation of people and freight.
2 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
APPLE ANNOUNCES WORLDWIDE DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE DATES, IN-PERSON EVENT 7
Apple has announced their annual developers conference ‘WWDC 2024’ will take place June 10 through June 14.
1 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
APRIL'S TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE PROMISES TO BE THE BEST YET FOR EXPERIMENTS
April's total solar eclipse promises to be a scientific bonanza, thanks to new spacecraft and telescopes and cosmic chance.
3 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
AI Race - APPLE, NVIDIA, AND MPETT RS BATTLING FOR INDUSTRY DOMINANCE
With Apple unveiling a new method for training large language models (LLMs), rumors circulating about new acquisitions at the Cupertino company, and chip announcements from NVIDIA, the AI race is heating up in what could be the biggest year ever for technology.
4 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
TRUMP'S SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY GAINS IN ITS FIRST DAY OF TRADING ON NASDAQ
Shares of Donald Trump’s social media company rose about 16% in the first day of trading on the Nasdaq, boosting the value of Trump’s large stake in the company as well as the smaller holdings of fans who purchased shares as a show of support for the former president.
3 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT LETS RULING STAND THAT DECLARED AMAZON DRIVERS TO BE EMPLOYEES
The Wisconsin Supreme Court this week let stand a lower court ruling that declared some delivery drivers for Amazon were employees as the state argued, not independent contractors as the online retail giant contended.
3 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
CHINA'S LATEST EV IS A 'CONNECTED' CAR FROM SMART PHONE AND ELECTRONICS MAKER XIAOMI
Xiaomi, a well-known maker of smart consumer electronics in China, is joining the country's booming but crowded market for electric cars.
2 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
NEW BIPARTISAN BILL WOULD REQUIRE ONLINE IDENTIFICATION.LABELING OF AI-GENERATED VIDEOS AND AUDIO 7
Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House would require the identification and labeling of online images, videos and audio generated using artificial intelligence, the latest effort to rein in rapidly developing technologies that, if misused, could easily deceive and mislead.
2 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
TIKTOK BILL FACES UNCERTAIN FATE IN THE SENATE AS LEGISLATION TO REGULATE TECH INDUSTRY HAS STALLED
The young voices in the messages left for North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis were laughing, but the words were ominous.
4 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
TIRED OF AI DOOMSDAY TROPES, COHERE CEO SAYS HIS GOAL IS TECHNOLOGY THAT'S 'ADDITIVE TO HUMANITY'
Aidan Gomez can take some credit for the 'T'at the end of ChatGPT. He was part of a group of Google engineers who first introduced a new artificial intelligence model called a transformer.
4 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
US PROSECUTORS TRY TO SEND WARNING TO CRYPTOCURRENCY WORLD WITH KUCOIN PROSECUTION
A top U.S. prosecutor announced criminal charges Tuesday against a once-ascending company in the cryptocurrency world and two of its founders in a bid to send a message to other players in the industry to follow U.S. laws.
2 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
READY OR NOT.AI CHATBOTS ARE HERE TO HELP WITH GEN Z'S MENTAL HEALTH STRUGGLES
Download the mental health chatbot Earkick and you’re greeted by a bandana-wearing panda who could easily fit into a kids’ cartoon.
4 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
ROBOTS REPLICATE REALITY: HIGH-TECH PITCHING MACHINE MIMICS EVERY PITCHER
Nestor Cortes got behind the plate in a batting cage and watched an 8-foot-high, 1,200-pound robot spit out fastballs, cutters and sweepers just like the ones spinning off the fingertips of his left hand.
4 min |
March 30, 2024
Techlife News
'GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE' CLEARS A LOW BAR
Forty years after “Ghostbusters” and following a string of sequels that never measured up to the 1984 original — beginning all the way back with 1989’s “Ghostbusters II” — it’s fair to wonder, well, who else ought we to call? It may be time to, if not give up the ghost entirely, at least give a flip through the ol’ rolodex.
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