AppleMagazine
SEC LAWSUITS AGAINST CRYPTOCURRENCY COMPANIES RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT INDUSTRY'S FUTURE
First came the crypto winter, then the alleged fraud wrought by FTX founder Sam Bankman Fried, and now the lawsuits. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed lawsuits last week against the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance and Coinbase, deepening tensions between the government and a volatile industry that has been marred by scandals and market meltdowns.
3 min |
June 16, 2023
AppleMagazine
IT'S ALMOST TIME TO RESUME STUDENT LOAN PAYMENTS. NOT DOING SO COULD COST YOU
After three years, the pandemic-era freeze on student loan payments will end in late August.
4 min |
June 16, 2023
AppleMagazine
'AVATAR 3' PUSHED TO 2025 AND DISNEY SETS TWO 'STAR WARS' FILMS FOR 2026
\"Avatar: The Way of Water\" may have finally arrived in theaters in 2022, but that long parade of \"Avatar\" delays isn't done, yet.
1 min |
June 16, 2023
AppleMagazine
GOOGLE SHOULD BREAK UP DIGITAL AD BUSINESS OVER COMPETITION CONCERNS, EUROPEAN REGULATORS SAY
European Union regulators hit Google with fresh antitrust charges, saying the only way to satisfy competition concerns about its lucrative digital ad business is by selling off parts of the tech giant's main moneymaker.
2 min |
June 16, 2023
AppleMagazine
MICROSOFT STAKES XBOX VIDEO GAME SALES ON LONG-AWAITED SPACE ADVENTURE STARFIELD
One small step for an intrepid crew of 24th century space explorers could be a giant leap or flop - for Microsoft when the Xbox-maker launches its long-awaited video game Starfield.
2 min |
June 16, 2023
AppleMagazine
MORE COMPANIES SETTING 'NET-ZERO' CLIMATE TARGETS, BUT FEW HAVE CREDIBLE PLANS REPORT SAYS
A growing number of companies are pledging to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to\" net zero\" as part of global efforts to tackle climate change, but that goal is rarely supported by a credible plan, according to a report published this week.
2 min |
June 16, 2023
AppleMagazine
THOUSANDS OF REDDIT COMMUNITIES GO DARK TO BOYCOTT THIRD-PARTY APP CHARGES
Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have gone dark this week to protest a new policy that will charge some third-party apps to access data on the site, leading to worries about content moderation and accessibility.
3 min |
June 16, 2023
AppleMagazine
MacBook Air 15
THE NEW STANDARD FOR POWER & PORTABILITY
4 min |
June 16, 2023
Reason magazine
Be Like Pixar, Not NASA
Artificial intelligence poses the most risk when it is embedded in a centralized, tightly coupled organization. But it can facilitate decentralization too
10+ min |
August/September 2023
Techlife News
OHIO SENATE MOVES TO CRIMINALIZE SECRETLY TRACKING PEOPLE WITH AIR TAGS, SIMILAR APPS, DEVICES
Tracking someone through apps and devices like the popular Apple AirTag without their consent could soon be deemed a criminal offense in Ohio, after the state's Republican-led Senate advanced the measure Wednesday with a unanimous bipartisan vote.
1 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
IS IT A 'SKIP' OR A 'PAUSE'? FEDERAL RESERVE WON'T LIKELY RAISE RATES NEXT WEEK BUT MAYBE NEXT MONTH
Don't call it a \"pause.\"
5 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
MONEY STORED IN VENMO AND OTHER PAYMENT APPS COULD BE VULNERABLE, FINANCIAL WATCHDOG WARNS
Customers of Venmo, PayPal and CashApp should not store their money with those apps for the long term because the funds might not be safe during a crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned.
2 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
FORMER BYTEDANCE EXECUTIVE SAYS CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY TRACKED HONG KONG PROTESTERS VIA DATA
A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese company which owns the popular short-video app TikTok, says in a legal filing that some members of the ruling Communist Party used data held by the company to identify and locate protesters in Hong Kong.
3 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
Vision Pro
THE DAWN OF SPATIAL COMPUTING
6 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
THE GIDDY SPLENDOR OF 'SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE'
Let's get this upfront: \"Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\" was the best comic-book film of the last decade.
3 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
DNA SUCKED INTO AIR FILTERS CAN REVEAL WHAT PLANTS AND ANIMALS ARE NEARBY
DNA is all around us even in the air we breathe. Now scientists have found that air quality monitoring stations - which pull in air to test for pollution — also pick up lots of DNA that can reveal what plants and animals have been in the area.
2 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
IS IT REAL OR MADE BY AI? EUROPE WANTS A LABEL FOR THAT AS IT FIGHTS DISINFORMATION
The European Union is pushing online platforms like Google and Meta to step up the fight against false information by adding labels to text, photos and other content generated by artificial intelligence, a top official said this week.
2 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
BLUESKY, CHAMPIONED BY JACK DORSEY, WAS SUPPOSED TO BE TWITTER 2.0. CAN IT SUCCEED?
Bluesky, the internet's hottest members-only spot at the moment, feels a bit like an exclusive club, populated by some Very Online folks, popular Twitter characters, and fed up ex-users of the Elon Musk-owned platform.
4 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
SEE APPLE'S PIVOTAL PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENTS THROUGH HISTORY
Apple has a long history of designing products that aren't the first to be introduced in a particular category but still redefine the market.
2 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
DELAWARE SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS JUDGE'S FINDING THAT TESLA ACQUISITION OF SOLAR CITY WAS FAIR
Delaware's Supreme Court has upheld a judge's decision in favor of Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a lawsuit challenging the electric car maker's $2.4 billion acquisition of a solar panel company founded by two of his cousins.
2 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
GAMESTOP SLUMPS AFTER IT FIRES FORMER AMAZON EXECUTIVE BROUGHT IN TO MODERNIZE THE GAMING RETAILER
Shares of GameStop are plunging before the opening bell after the company fired CEO Matthew Furlong, the former Amazon executive that was brought in two years ago to turn the struggling video game retailer around.
2 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
TOYOTA TO BUILD $50 MILLION LAB IN MICHIGAN TO TEST BATTERIES FOR ELECTRIC AND HYBRID VEHICLES
Toyota says it will spend nearly $50 million to build a vehicle battery testing laboratory at its North American research center in Michigan.
1 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
OPENAI CEO SUGGESTS INTERNATIONAL AGENCY LIKE UN'S NUCLEAR WATCHDOG COULD OVERSEE AI
Artificial intelligence poses an \"existential risk\" to humanity, a key innovator warned during a visit to the United Arab Emirates this week, suggesting an international agency like the International Atomic Energy Agency oversee the ground-breaking technology.
2 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
BANKS' GROWING RELIANCE ON CHATBOTS TO HANDLE CUSTOMER SERVICE TASKS WORRIES CONSUMER WATCHDOG
Can you trust Erica, or Sandi or Amy to increasingly control parts of your financial life without giving you inaccurate information or sending money to the wrong place?
2 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
APPLE UNVEILS SLEEK, $3,500 'VISION PRO' GOGGLES.WILL THEY BE WHAT VR HAS BEEN LOOKING FOR?
Apple on Monday unveiled a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world, while also testing the technology trendsetter's ability to popularize new-fangled devices after others failed to capture the public's imagination.
4 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
BINANCE MISHANDLED FUNDS AND VIOLATED SECURITIES LAWS ACCORDING TO SEC LAWSUIT
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance and its founder Changpeng Zhao are accused of misusing investor funds, operating as an unregistered exchange and violating a slew of U.S. securities laws in a lawsuit filed by the SEC.
2 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
NEW YORK CITY GOES AFTER HYUNDAI, KIA AFTER SECURITY FLAW LEADS TO WAVE OF MODE SOCIAL MEDIA FUELED THEFT
New York City has filed a lawsuit against Hyundai and Kia, joining a host of other cities beset by a social media-fueled wave of car thefts due to a flaw that made some car models highly susceptible to theft.
2 min |
Techlife News #606
Techlife News
NEW JERSEY UTILITIES FLOAT SOLAR PANELS ON RESERVOIR, POWERING WATER TREATMENT PLANT
New Jersey's Canoe Brook Water Treatment plant produces 14 millions gallons of drinking water a day.
2 min |
Techlife News #606
AppleMagazine
THE GIDDY SPLENDOR OF 'SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE'
Let's get this upfront: \"Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\" was the best comic-book film of the last decade.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #606
AppleMagazine
APPLE UNVEILS SLEEK, $3,500 'VISION PRO' GOGGLES.WILL THEY BE WHAT VR HAS BEEN LOOKING FOR?
Apple on Monday unveiled a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world, while also testing the technology trendsetter's ability to popularize new-fangled devices after others failed to capture the public's imagination.
4 min |