AppleMagazine
CALIFORNIA RELEASES SMARTPHONE VIRUS TOOL AS CASES SOAR
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a voluntary smartphone tool to alert people of possible coronavirus exposure as cases soar higher, new restrictions are imposed and many people still say they won’t heed the pleas to stay home.
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AppleMagazine #476
AppleMagazine
AURORA TO BUY UBER'S SELF-DRIVING VEHICLES ARM
Uber is selling off its autonomous vehicles development arm to Aurora as the ride-hailing company slims down after its revenues were pummeled by the coronavirus pandemic.
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AppleMagazine #476
AppleMagazine
APPLE TO TIGHTEN APP PRIVACY, REMOVE APPS THAT DON'T COMPLY
Apple is stepping up privacy for app users, forcing developers to be more transparent about data collection and warning they could be removed if they don’t comply with a new anti-tracking measure, a company executive and regulators said this week.
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AppleMagazine #476
AppleMagazine
AIRPODS MAX: ALL THE SOUND TECH YOU CAN GET
Apple may not have hosted an all-bells, all whistles event to show off its new headphones, but it didn’t need to: the company’s letting the sound speak for itself.
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AppleMagazine #476
AppleMagazine
ANOTHER JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP'S TIKTOK BAN; APP STILL IN LIMBO
A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s attempts to ban TikTok, the latest legal defeat for the administration as it tries to wrest the popular app from its Chinese owners.
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AppleMagazine #476
AppleMagazine
AMERICANS CAN PAY THEIR CREDIT CARD BILLS, BUT FOR HOW LONG?
The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t stopped Americans from keeping up with their credit card payments, thanks in large part to government relief programs passed by Congress earlier this year.
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AppleMagazine #476
Techlife News
HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE TO MOVE HEADQUARTERS TO TEXAS
Tech giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise said it is moving its global headquarters to the Houston area from California, where the company’s roots go back to the founding of Silicon Valley decades ago.
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Techlife News #475
Techlife News
DISCOVERY'S REALITY-HEAVY STREAMING SERVICE LAUNCHES IN JAN.
Discovery is joining the increasingly crowded streaming fray with its own reality-focused service Discovery Plus that will include shows from the Food Network, HGTV, TLC and its other networks. It launches Jan 4.
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Techlife News #475
Techlife News
WAITING FOR PASSENGERS, AMERICAN PUTS BOEING MAX IN THE AIR
American Airlines is taking its long-grounded Boeing 737 Max jets out of storage, updating key flight-control software, and flying the planes in preparation for the first flights with paying passengers later this month.
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Techlife News #475
Techlife News
SEAN PARKER OK'D TO BUY STAKE IN PETER JACKSON'S VFX STUDIO
New Zealand authorities have approved tech billionaire Sean Parker’s purchase of a onethird stake in film director Peter Jackson’s visual effects studio.
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Techlife News #475
Techlife News
US, ESTONIA PARTNERED TO SEARCH OUT CYBER THREAT FROM RUSSIA
In a modern twist on old-fashioned war games, the U.S. military dispatched cyber fighters to Estonia this fall to help the small Baltic nation search out and block potential cyber threats from Russia.
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Techlife News #475
Techlife News
PHISHING PLOY TARGETS COVID-19 VACCINE DISTRIBUTION EFFORT
IBM security researchers say they have detected a cyber espionage effort using targeted phishing emails to try to collect vital information on the World Health Organization’s initiative for distributing the COVID-19 vaccine to developing countries.
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Techlife News #475
Techlife News
FOXCONN NOT EXPECT TO MEET HIRING GOALS IN NEXT 3 YEARS
Foxconn Technology Group is not expected to receive tax credits in the next three fiscal years, continuing its failure to meet goals for hiring and investing in its Wisconsin manufacturing complex, according to state officials.
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Techlife News #475
Techlife News
DATA IS KING ON WALL STREET; 2 PROVIDERS JOIN IN $44B DEAL
The value that Wall Street places on access to billions of bytes of data, rather than old-school stock picking, became abundantly clear as two of the biggest providers of such information become one in the biggest takeover of the year.
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Techlife News #475
Techlife News
A YEAR IN 60 SECS: TIKTOK LISTS TOP VIDEOS, CREATORS OF 2020
From skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac to learning Cardi B’s rump-shaking choreography, TikTok users got creative in a pandemic year with new songs, dances, and memes in 60 seconds or less.
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Techlife News #475
Techlife News
Airbnb Hopes To Raise Up To $2.6B In Mid-December IPO
Airbnb hopes to raise as much as $2.6 billion in its initial public stock offering this month, betting investors will see its home-sharing model as the future of travel.
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Techlife News #475
AppleMagazine
POWERFUL M1: BENCHMARKS REVAL INCREDIBLE POWER OF NEW CHIP
Though it was always Apple’s intention to create leaner, faster machines when it transitioned to its own custom chip, even Craig Federighi revealed he was shocked when benchmarks were revealed. M1 takes the Mac in a whole new direction, revolutionizing computing once again.
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AppleMagazine #475
AppleMagazine
HAWAII SEEKS TO BE SEEN AS A REMOTE WORKPLACE WITH A VIEW
Software engineer Raymond Berger begins his work day at 5 a.m., before the sun comes up over Hawaii.
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AppleMagazine #475
AppleMagazine
THE PANDEMIC IS CHANGING HOLLYWOOD, MAYBE FOREVER
“No New ‘Movies’ Till Influenza Ends” blared a New York Times headline on Oct. 10, 1918, while the deadly second wave of the Spanish Flu was unfolding.
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AppleMagazine #475
AppleMagazine
UK AUTHORIZES PFIZER CORONAVIRUS VACCINE FOR EMERGENCY USE
British officials authorized a COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on Wednesday, greenlighting the world’s first shot against the virus that’s backed by rigorous science and taking a major step toward eventually ending the pandemic.
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AppleMagazine #475
AppleMagazine
SALESFORCE TO BUY WORK CHAT SERVICE SLACK FOR $27.7 BILLION
Business software pioneer Salesforce.com is buying work-chatting service Slack for $27.7 billion in a deal aimed at giving the two companies a better shot at competing against longtime industry powerhouse Microsoft.
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AppleMagazine #475
AppleMagazine
GM RETHINKS PLANNED STAKE IN ELECTRIC VEHICLE MAKER NIKOLA
General Motors will not be taking a stake in the electric vehicle company Nikola, and the company said that it was scuttling one of its marquee vehicles, an electric and hydrogen-powered pickup, after GM pulled technological support from the project.
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AppleMagazine #475
AppleMagazine
DOORDASH LOOKING FOR A VALUATION OF NEARLY $30B
DoorDash is looking for a valuation of nearly $30 billion when it takes itself public, reflecting how integral food delivery has become in millions of people’s lives during the pandemic.
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AppleMagazine #475
AppleMagazine
CHINA'S SPACE AMBITIONS: ROBOT ON MARS, A HUMAN ON THE MOON
China’s landing of its third probe on the moon is part of an increasingly ambitious space program that has a robot rover en route to Mars, is developing a reusable space plane and is planning to put humans back on the lunar surface.
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AppleMagazine #475
AppleMagazine
CALIFORNIA PROVIDING $500M IN VIRUS AID FOR SMALL BUSINESSES
California will provide temporary tax relief and $500 million in aid to small businesses struggling because of coronavirus outbreak restrictions, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week.
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AppleMagazine #475
AppleMagazine
BLACK FRIDAY SEES RECORD ONLINE AS US SHOPPERS STAY HOME
Black Friday online sales hit a new record this year as pandemic-wary Americans filled virtual carts instead of real ones.
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AppleMagazine #475
Bloomberg Businessweek
Amazon's European Adventure Could Be Different From Google's
There are signs that the company and the European Union are working to avoid an antitrust showdown
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December 07, 2020
Techlife News
HOSPITALS CAN CARE FOR MEDICARE PATIENTS AT HOME IN PANDEMIC
Hospitals will be allowed to care for Medicare patients in their own homes during the pandemic under a government program announced Wednesday to help hospitals deal with the latest surge.
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November 28, 2020
Techlife News
PENGUIN TO BUY SIMON & SCHUSTER, CREATE PUBLISHING GIANT
German media giant Bertelsmann said that its Penguin Random House division is buying rival Simon & Schuster in a megadeal that would reshape the U.S. publishing industry.
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November 28, 2020
Techlife News
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DENIES PLANNED MINE NEAR ALASKA FISHERY
The Trump administration on Wednesday effectively killed a contentious proposed mine in Alaska, a gold and copper prospect once envisioned to be nearly as deep as the Grand Canyon and could produce enough waste to fill an NFL stadium nearly 3,900 times — all near the headwaters of the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery.
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