AppleMagazine
SPOTIFY AXES 17% OF WORKFORCE IN THIRD ROUND OF LAYOFFS THIS YEAR
Spotify says it’s axing 17% of its global workforce, the music streaming service’s third round of layoffs this year as it moves to slash costs while focusing on becoming profitable.
1 min |
December 08, 2023
AppleMagazine
TESLA'S DISRUPTIVE BREAKTHROUGH FOR THE PICKUP INDUSTRY
HYPE AND COMMOTION SURROUND THE MARQUE’S POTENTIAL GAMECHANGER
7 min |
December 08, 2023
AppleMagazine
Bitcoin Has Surpassed $41,000 for the First Time Since April 2022. What's Behind the Price Surge?
Bitcoin is once again having a moment. This week, the world’s largest cryptocurrency soared past $41,000 for the first time in over a year and a half — and marking a 150% rise so far this year.
3 min |
December 08, 2023
Sound & Vision
Sony Steps Up
FOR SEVERAL years now OLED has been king of the HDTV hill, offering the best available HDTV performance.
10 min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Sound & Vision
Metallic Spheres of Atmos
Youth on recasting The Orb and David Gilmour's 2010 collaboration Metallic Spheres into an adventurous new Atmos mix now redubbed as Metallic Spheres in Colour.
3 min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Sound & Vision
Forte et Clair
FOCAL HAS long been a high-end French loudspeaker manufacturer with a significant investment in research and development to outpace its competition.
9 min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Sound & Vision
The Yamaha CR-2020: A True '70s Blockbuster
There's something magical about the majestic stereo receivers of yesteryear. Apart from being magnificent examples of industrial design, they're dead simple to operate while offering a full complement of features to ensure a great, though decidedly old-school, music listening experience, complete with analog power meters. And then there's nostalgia... I still own (and recently refurbished) my first receiver - an Onkyo TX-2500 I bought for $200 in the mid-70s. It looks and sounds as good as it did back in the day.
3 min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Sound & Vision
Perfectly Portable
SONOS MOVE 2
5 min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Sound & Vision
Aural Excellence
DYNAUDIO EMIT 50 LOUDSPEAKER
10 min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Sound & Vision
THE SOUND OF SPEED
MotoGP Racing and Audio-Technica Mics
10 min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Sound & Vision
The Six Billion Dollar Earplugs
We are equipped with five senses: Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch. The thought of losing any of them is frightening. Setting aside the question of aging, even the thought of only diminishing any of our senses is unsettling. So, the question is, if a faulty product caused you to suffer an impairment of one of your senses, what kind of compensation would be appropriate?
3 min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Sound & Vision
Retro Fidelity Reimagined
KLIPSCH THE NINES HERITAGE INSPIRED SPEAKERS
8 min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Sound & Vision
Practically Perfect
KEF LS60 WIRELESS POWERED LOUDSPEAKERS
10 min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Sound & Vision
Desktop Dynamo
MONOPRICE MONOLITH MTM-100 AND THX CERTIFIED 8-INCH, 150-WATT POWERED SUBWOOFER
9 min |
December 2023 - January 2024
Techlife News
THOUSANDS OF FAKE FACEBOOK ACCOUNTS SHUT DOWN BY META WERE PRIMED TO POLARIZE VOTERS AHEAD OF 2024
Someone in China created thousands of fake social media accounts designed to appear to be from Americans and used them to spread polarizing political content in an apparent effort to divide the U.S. ahead of next year’s elections, Meta said Thursday.
3 min |
December 02, 2023
Techlife News
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED IS THE LATEST MEDIA COMPANY DAMAGED BY AN AI EXPERIMENT GONE WRONG
Computer-generated writers ... writing computer-generated stories?
3 min |
December 02, 2023
Techlife News
AMAZON LAUNCHES Q, A BUSINESS CHATBOT POWERED BY GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Amazon finally has its answer to ChatGPT.
2 min |
December 02, 2023
Techlife News
NASCAR TO INCLUDE STREAMING IN NEW 7-YEAR MEDIA RIGHTS DEAL THAT WELCOMES AMAZON, TNT, AND MAX
NASCAR has added two new partners and streaming elements to a seven-year media rights deal announced Wednesday that will run from 2025 through the 2031 season.
3 min |
December 02, 2023
Techlife News
NEW TECHNOLOGY INSTALLED BENEATH DETROIT STREET CAN CHARGE ELECTRIC VEHICLES AS THEY DRIVE
Crews have installed what’s billed as the nation’s first wireless-charging public roadway for electric vehicles beneath a street just west of downtown Detroit.
2 min |
December 02, 2023
Techlife News
PENTAGON'S AI INITIATIVES ACCELERATE HARD DECISIONS ON LETHAL AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS
Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones in special operations forces’ missions and helped Ukraine in its war against Russia. It tracks soldiers’ fitness, predicts when Air Force planes need maintenance and helps keep tabs on rivals in space.
6 min |
December 02, 2023
AppleMagazine
'Get ready with me': Video genre that focuses on everyday life is everywhere - and not slowing down'get ready with me': Video genre that focuses on everyday life is everywhere - and not slowing down
“Get Ready with Me” — to go on a date, go to work or ... get fired?
5 min |
December 01, 2023
AppleMagazine
Christmas Gifts
The perfect present ideas for the whole family & friends
5 min |
December 01, 2023
AppleMagazine
NISSAN WILL INVEST $1.4 BILLION TO MAKE EV VERSIONS OF ITS BEST-SELLING CARS AT ITS UK FACTORY
Nissan will invest $1.4 billion to update its factory in northeast England to make electric versions of its two best-selling cars, a boost for the British government as it tries to revive the country’s ailing economy.
2 min |
December 01, 2023
AppleMagazine
HOW DID HUMANS GET TO THE BRINK OF CRASHING CLIMATE?
Amidst record-high temperatures, deluges, droughts and wildfires, leaders are convening for another round of United Nations climate talks later this month that seek to curb the centuries-long trend of humans spewing ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
9 min |
December 01, 2023
AppleMagazine
CONNECTICUT LAWMAKERS SEEK COMPROMISE ON SWITCH TO ALL-ELECTRIC CARS, AFTER AMBITIOUS PLAN SCRAPPED
A compromise plan to eventually end the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles in Connecticut could be worked out as early as next year’s legislative session, state lawmakers said.
2 min |
December 01, 2023
AppleMagazine
COURT DOCUMENT CLAIMS META KNOWINGLY DESIGNED ITS PLATFORMS TO HOOK KIDS, REPORTS SAY
Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids and knew — but never disclosed — it had received millions of complaints about underage users on Instagram but only disabled a fraction of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint described in reports from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
1 min |
December 01, 2023
AppleMagazine
AMAZON LAUNCHES Q, A BUSINESS CHATBOT POWERED BY GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Amazon finally has its answer to ChatGPT.
2 min |
December 01, 2023
AppleMagazine
PENTAGON'S AI INITIATIVES ACCELERATE HARD DECISIONS ON LETHAL AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS
Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones in special operations forces’ missions and helped Ukraine in its war against Russia. It tracks soldiers’ fitness, predicts when Air Force planes need maintenance and helps keep tabs on rivals in space.
6 min |
December 01, 2023
AppleMagazine
GOOGLE WILL START DELETING 'INACTIVE' ACCOUNTS IN DECEMBER.HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Have a Google account you haven’t used in a while? If you want to keep it from disappearing, you should sign in before the end of the week.
2 min |
December 01, 2023
AppleMagazine
APPLE TO END CREDIT CARD PARTNERSHIP WITH GOLDMAN SACHS
Apple is pulling the plug on its credit card partnership with Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street Journal reported this week.
1 min |