AppleMagazine
US ASTRONAUT LAUNCHING NEXT MONTH MAY SPEND YEAR IN SPACE
NASA may soon chalk up another one-year space mission thanks to an out-of-this-world Russian movie-making deal.
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AppleMagazine #490
AppleMagazine
GERMAN AUTOMAKER BMW RAMPS UP ELECTRIC VEHICLE OFFERINGS
German automaker BMW said this week it intends to speed the rollout of new electric cars, vowing to bring battery-powered models to 50% of global sales by 2030. The company underlined the point by unveiling a new allelectric model three months ahead of plan.
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AppleMagazine #490
AppleMagazine
Movies & TV Shows
Movies & TV Shows
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AppleMagazine #490
AppleMagazine
DATA: FLORIDA'S TEXTING WHILE-DRIVING LAW RARELY ENFORCED
A Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputy was heading east on Interstate 4 in his red Dodge Charger on a brilliantly sunny afternoon in Florida when he saw him: A young driver behind the wheel of a Jeep texting on his phone.
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AppleMagazine #490
Techlife News
WILL WORK FROM HOME OUTLAST VIRUS? FORD'S MOVE SUGGESTS YES
It’s a question occupying the minds of millions of employees who have worked from home the past year: Will they still be allowed to work remotely — at least some days — once the pandemic has faded?
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Techlife News #490
Techlife News
SWISS POLICE RAID OVER HACK ON U.S. SECURITY-CAMERA COMPANY
Swiss authorities confirmed a police raid at the home of a Swiss software engineer who took credit for helping to break into a U.S. security-camera company’s online networks, part of what the activist hacker cited as an effort to raise awareness about the dangers of mass surveillance.
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Techlife News #490
Techlife News
STRIPE CONTINUES CASH HAUL, NOW VALUED AT $95 BILLION
The online payment company Stripe continues to attract investors, raising $600 million in funding to reach a whopping company valuation of $95 billion.
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Techlife News #490
Techlife News
SONOMA COUNTY TO USE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AGAINST FIRES
Sonoma County officials say they will add artificial intelligence technology to help fight wildfires with a 24-7 monitor to track fire outbreaks.
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Techlife News #490
Techlife News
PRE-EMBRYOS MADE IN LAB COULD SPUR RESEARCH, ETHICS DEBATES
For the first time, scientists have used human cells to make structures that mimic the earliest stages of development, which they say will pave the way for more research without running afoul of restrictions on using real embryos.
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Techlife News #490
Techlife News
NO CIGAR: INTERSTELLAR OBJECT IS COOKIE-SHAPED PLANET SHARD
Our solar system’s first known interstellar visitor is neither a comet nor asteroid as first suspected and looks nothing like a cigar. A new study says the mystery object is likely a remnant of a Pluto-like world and shaped like a cookie.
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Techlife News #490
Techlife News
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES NORTH CAROLINA CLOUD ENGINEERING HUB
Google announced plans Thursday to create a hub in Durham, North Carolina, for hundreds of engineers working on its Google Cloud products.
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Techlife News #490
Techlife News
ENCRYPTED MESSAGING APP SIGNAL BLOCKED IN CHINA
Encrypted messaging app Signal appears to have been blocked in mainland China, the latest foreign social media service to cease working in a country where the government tightly controls the flow of information.
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Techlife News #490
Techlife News
CHINA SUMMONS TECHNOLOGY FIRMS OVER VOICE SOFTWARE SECURITY
Chinese authorities summoned 11 companies including Alibaba and Tencent for talks regarding the security of voice software, as Beijing steps up scrutiny over the internet sector.
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Techlife News #490
Techlife News
ANXIETY, CONFUSION, TERROR, RELIEF: GIVING BIRTH IN PANDEMIC
Pregnancy, birth and life with a newborn in the middle of a pandemic has brought on high anxiety, ever-shifting hospital protocols and intense isolation for many of the millions of women who have done it around the world.
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Techlife News #490
AppleMagazine
‘MANK' LEADS OSCAR NOMINATIONS IN A YEAR OF RECORD DIVERSITY
After a pandemic year that shuttered movie theaters and upended the movie business, Academy Awards nominations went to two female filmmakers for the first time, to a historically diverse slate of actors and to David Fincher’s lead-nominee “Mank,” a traditional kind of Oscar contender — an old Hollywood homage — in very untraditional year.
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AppleMagazine #490
AppleMagazine
WHERE TO STREAM THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINEES
Normally, Academy Award nominations mean an Oscar bump in box office. This year, streaming services and digital rental platforms may get a bounce.
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AppleMagazine #490
AppleMagazine
FOXCONN MULLS MAKING ELECTRIC VEHICLES AT WISCONSIN PLANT
Foxconn Technology Group, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, is considering making electric vehicles at its highly anticipated Wisconsin plant that has been scaled back since its announcement in 2017, the company’s chairman said this week.
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AppleMagazine #490
AppleMagazine
US SENDS TEAM TO DETROIT TO INVESTIGATE TESLA-SEMI CRASH
The U.S. government’s highway safety agency is sending a team to Detroit to investigate a crash involving a Tesla that drove beneath a semitrailer.
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AppleMagazine #490
AppleMagazine
TESLA'S NEW MODEL S: THE CAR OF THE FUTURE, HERE TODAY
Though today the company might be one of the world’s most exclusive and innovative, it hasn’t always been an easy road for Tesla and CEO Elon Musk.
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AppleMagazine #490
AppleMagazine
LG TO INVEST $4.5 BILLION IN ITS US BATTERY BUSINESS
LG Energy Solution says it will invest more than $4.5 billion in its U.S. battery production business by 2025 as automakers ramp up production of electric vehicles.
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AppleMagazine #490
AppleMagazine
THE RUSSO BROTHERS' CHERRY, STARRING TOM HOLLAND,NOW AVAILABLE ON APPLE TV+
On February 26, 2021, Cherry finally premiered in select theaters, with an Apple TV+ debut scheduled for March 12, 2021.
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AppleMagazine #490
AppleMagazine
DESPITE HACKS, US NOT SEEKING WIDENED DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE
The Biden administration is not planning to step up government surveillance of the U.S. internet even as state-backed foreign hackers and cybercriminals increasingly use it to evade detection, a senior administration official said.
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AppleMagazine #490
AppleMagazine
Google Gets Into Sleep Surveillance With New Nest Hub Screen
Google’s next internet-connected home device will test whether consumers trust the company enough to let it snoop on their sleep.
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AppleMagazine #490
AppleMagazine
WWE NETWORK MOVE TO PEACOCK PART OF VERY BUSY SPRING FOR WWE
World Wrestling Entertainment is used to making headlines this time of year leading up to WrestleMania. But the company has more on its plate leading up to its showcase event on April 10 and 11.
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March 12, 2021
AppleMagazine
MICROSOFT SERVER HACK HAS VICTIMS HUSTLING TO STOP INTRUDERS
Victims of a massive global hack of Microsoft email server software — estimated in the tens of thousands by cybersecurity responders — hustled this week to shore up infected systems and try to diminish chances that intruders might steal data or hobble their networks.
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March 12, 2021
AppleMagazine
PARK OUTSIDE: KIA RECALLS NEARLY 380K VEHICLES FOR FIRE RISK
Kia is telling owners of nearly 380,000 vehicles in the U.S. to park them outdoors due to the risk of an engine compartment fire.
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March 12, 2021
Bloomberg Businessweek
Flight School For Robots
A startup is building autonomous cargo planes for FedEx, with the long-term vision of shuttling around people, too
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March 15, 2021
Techlife News
CALIFORNIA COULD GET $150B FROM FEDERAL VIRUS RELIEF BILL
In January, state lawmakers agreed to use $2.6 billion in prior federal relief funding to pay off up to 80% of some tenant's unpaid rent. Ting said he’d like the state to also help pay off-unpaid commercial rents to prevent small business evictions.
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Techlife News #489
Techlife News
COUPANG, THE AMAZON OF SOUTH KOREA, DEBUTS ON NYSE
The biggest IPO in years is rolling out Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange where Coupang, the South Korean equivalent of Amazon in the U.S., or Alibaba in China, will begin trading under the ticker “CPNG.”
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Techlife News #489
Techlife News
SECURITY CAMERA HACK EXPOSES HOSPITALS, WORKPLACES, SCHOOLS
Hackers aiming to call attention to the dangers of mass surveillance say they were able to peer into hospitals, schools, factories, jails and corporate offices after they broke into the systems of a security-camera startup.
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