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AppleMagazine
AIRBNB: REVOLUTIONIZING TRAVEL THROUGH TECH
After a turbulent year with the coronavirus pandemic putting a halt to the world’s travel plans, rental giant Airbnb is preparing to go public. Over the past decade, the Silicon Valley startup has transformed the way we sleep and explore, and its dominance will only continue to grow.
7 min |
AppleMagazine #461
AppleMagazine
Walmart's Online Sales Soar as Shoppers Stock Up on Supplies
Americans turned to Walmart’s online business as well as its stores for supplies and home goods as the virus surged in new regions, resulting in soaring sales for the fiscal second quarter.
3 min |
August 21, 2020
AppleMagazine
Apple 1st US Company to Be Valued at $2 Trillion
Apple is the first U.S. company to boast a market value of $2 trillion, just two years after it became the first to reach $1 trillion.
1 min |
August 21, 2020
AppleMagazine
Google Says Australians Could Lose Free Search Services
Google warned that the Australian government’s plan to make digital giants pay for news content threatens users’ free services in Australia and could result in their data being given to media organizations.
2 min |
August 21, 2020
AppleMagazine
VIRUS PANDEMIC RESHAPING AIR TRAVEL AS CARRIERS STRUGGLE
In a bid to survive, airlines are desperately trying to convince a wary public that measures like mandatory face masks and hospital-grade air filters make sitting in a plane safer than many other indoor settings during the coronavirus pandemic.
4 min |
August 21, 2020
AppleMagazine
UNIVERSITIES SCRAMBLE TO DEAL WITH VIRUS OUTBREAKS
North Carolina’s flagship university canceled in-person classes for undergraduates just a week into the fall semester Monday as college campuses around the U.S. scramble to deal with coronavirus clusters linked in some cases to student housing, off-campus parties and packed bars.
4 min |
August 21, 2020
AppleMagazine
THE APP STORE: FOUNDATIONS OF QUALITY AND PRIVACY
After months of tensions between Fortnite maker Epic and Apple, the Cupertino company ultimately dealt its killer blow: removing the billion-dollar game from the App Store, with Google following suit hours later.
9 min |
August 21, 2020
AppleMagazine
TARGET SALES SURGE AS AMERICANS LEAN ON BIG BOX STORES
Target reported recorded-setting sales growth online and at established stores over the past three months, more evidence that big-box retailers have become essential points of supply during the pandemic.
2 min |
August 21, 2020
AppleMagazine
WITH TRAVEL LIMITED, HOLLYWOOD LOOKS TO ‘GAME CHANGER' TECH
New LED video wall technology used in making last year’s “The Lion King” and “The Mandalorian” series could become more widespread as Hollywood production ramps back up during the pandemic.
3 min |
August 21, 2020
AppleMagazine
MANY STEPS NEEDED FOR ACCURATE COVID-19 TEST RESULTS
A widely used coronavirus test is under scrutiny this week after federal health officials warned that it could deliver inaccurate results if laboratory technicians don’t follow the latest updates from the manufacturer.
2 min |
August 21, 2020
AppleMagazine
JUDGE OKS $60M SETTLEMENT OVER TESLA BUYOUT OF SOLARCITY
A Delaware judge has approved a $60 million settlement in a shareholder lawsuit challenging electric car maker Tesla Inc.’s $2 billion acquisition of solar-panel installer SolarCity in 2016.
1 min |
August 21, 2020
AppleMagazine
FOR PANDEMIC JOBLESS, THE ONLY REAL CERTAINTY IS UNCERTAINTY
For three decades, Kelly Flint flourished as a corporate travel agent, sending everyone from business titans to oil riggers around the planet. Then came the worst pandemic in a century, leaving her jobless and marooned in an uncertain economy.
10+ min |
AppleMagazine #459
AppleMagazine
TESLA AND APPLE BOOSTS TURBOCHARGED STOCK WITH PLAN FOR SPLIT
Tesla will split its stock for the first time in its history so more investors can afford to buy a stake in the electric car pioneer following a meteoric rise in its market value.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #459
AppleMagazine
HUAWEI: SMARTPHONE CHIPS RUNNING OUT UNDER US SANCTIONS
Chinese tech giant Huawei is running out of processor chips to make smartphones due to U.S. sanctions and will be forced to stop production of its own most advanced chips, a company executive says, in a sign of growing damage to Huawei’s business from American pressure.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #459
AppleMagazine
BACK TO SCHOOL: RETURNING TO THE CLASSROOM SAFELY
Five months on from the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and policymakers and public health officials have decided it’s time to return to the classroom.
6 min |
AppleMagazine #459
AppleMagazine
WHAT DO THE KIDS SAY? K-12 STUDENTS SOUND OFF ON SCHOOL
Parents have weighed in on reopening schools. Teachers have weighed in. Public health experts, too, along with cities, states and President Donald Trump.
5 min |
AppleMagazine #459
AppleMagazine
MTA ASKS APPLE'S HELP TO SOLVE iPHONE MASK ISSUES
New York’s mass transit agency wants Apple to come up with a better way for iPhone users to unlock their phones without taking off their masks, as it seeks to guard against the spread of the coronavirus in buses and subways.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #459
AppleMagazine
FEDERAL REPORT HIGHLIGHTS KEY WAYS TO PREVENT SCHOOL ATTACKS
School officials nationwide should improve mental health resources, monitor student social media accounts and improve physical security measures, according to a Justice Department report on school safety released this week.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #459
AppleMagazine
A SUPERB RYLANCE LIFTS UP LANGUOROUS ‘BARBARIANS'
Watching Mark Rylance play a man of basic decency getting swallowed up by an evil world — and a sadistic Johnny Depp — in “Waiting for the Barbarians,” I absent-mindedly jotted down in my notes: “Nobody does basic decency like Mark Rylance.”
3 min |
AppleMagazine #459
AppleMagazine
APPEALS COURT TOSSES ANTITRUST RULING AGAINST QUALCOMM
A federal appeals court has overturned an antitrust ruling against Qualcomm, dismissing arguments that it unlawfully squeezed out cellphone chip rivals and charged excessive royalties to manufacturers such as Apple.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #459
AppleMagazine
FAA SPELLS OUT DESIGN CHANGES NEEDED IN GROUNDED BOEING JET
Federal regulators said they will require several design changes to the Boeing 737 Max to fix safety issues that arose in two deadly crashes and led to the worldwide grounding of the plane.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #458
AppleMagazine
FLORIDA TEEN ARRESTED AS MASTERMIND OF TWITTER HACK
A Florida teen was identified last weekend as the mastermind of a scheme earlier this month that commandeered Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls and scammed people around the globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin. Two other men were also charged in the case.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #458
AppleMagazine
INSIDE BIG TECH: PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN WITH ‘HOT' EMAIL
The House Judiciary chairman was closing in on his Perry Mason moment with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Fortified with “hot” internal company documents, Rep. Jerrold Nadler was building his case at a hearing that seemed almost like a trial for Facebook and three other tech giants over alleged anti-competitive tactics.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #458
AppleMagazine
VIRTUAL SCHOOL: TEACHERS WANT TO IMPROVE BUT TRAINING VARIES
After a rocky transition to distance learning last spring, Georgia teacher Aimee Rodriguez Webb is determined to do better this fall. She bought a dry-erase board and a special camera to display worksheets, and she set up her dining room to broadcast school lessons.
4 min |
AppleMagazine #458
AppleMagazine
VIRGINIA FIRST TO ROLL OUT PANDEMIC APP FROM APPLE, GOOGLE
Virginia has rolled out a smartphone app to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus, becoming the first U.S. state to use new pandemic technology created by Apple and Google.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #458
AppleMagazine
PHIL SCHILLER ADVANCES TO APPLE FELLOW
Apple announced that Phil Schiller will become an Apple Fellow, continuing a storied career that began at Apple in 1987. In this role, which reports to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Schiller will continue to lead the App Store and Apple Events. Greg (Joz) Joswiak, a longtime leader within the Product Marketing organization, will join the executive team as senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #458
AppleMagazine
SONY'S PROFIT UP AS PEOPLE STAYING HOME PLAY VIDEO GAMES
Japanese electronics and entertainment company Sony Corp. said that its April-June profit jumped 53% as its video game and other online businesses thrived with people staying home due to the coronavirus pandemic.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #458
AppleMagazine
EU REGULATORS INVESTIGATING GOOGLE'S PLAN TO BUY FITBIT
European Union regulators opened an in-depth investigation into Google’s plan to buy fitness tracking device maker Fitbit.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #458
AppleMagazine
BEYONCÉ'S ‘BLACK IS KING' IS SUPREME BLACK ART
King Beyoncé’s new film takes you on a journey of Black art, music, history and fashion as the superstar transports you to Africa to tell the story of a young man in search of his crown, matched to epic songs she created while inspired by “The Lion King.”
3 min |
AppleMagazine #458
AppleMagazine
A SWEET TEARJERKER IN WWII FILM ‘SUMMERLAND'
“Summerland” might look like something you’ve seen before: A scenic story about a schoolchild who must leave London during the war and take up shelter with a reluctant caregiver. But while it is comfortingly familiar in many ways, and a little cliche and overwrought in others, it also has a modern edge and bite to it that keeps it novel enough to sustain interest.
3 min |