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The greater my own longevity, the more I admire that very quality—longevity, that is. An “upgrade path” is similarly appealing—if, regrettably, rarely available to humans, who are stuck with the equipment we were born with, give or take a prosthesis or two.
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July 2021
Stereophile
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July 2021
Techlife News
AIRBUS-BOEING DEAL EASES US EU TENSIONS BUT CONFLICTS REMAIN
The deal the United States and the European Union reached this week to end their long-running rift over subsidies to Boeing and Airbus will suspend billions in punitive tariffs. It will ease trans-Atlantic tensions. And it will let the two sides focus on a common economic threat: China.
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Techlife News #503
Techlife News
AMAZON ALLOTS $300 MILLION FOR HOUSING NEAR MASS TRANSIT
Amazon is providing $300 million in low-interest loans to support housing located near mass transit in the Washington, D.C., area and the Seattle and Nashville, Tennessee, regions.
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Techlife News #503
Techlife News
CAN YOU MIX AND MATCH COVID-19 VACCINES?
Can you mix and match two-dose COVID-19 vaccines?
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Techlife News #503
Techlife News
INTERNET OUTAGES BRIEFLY DISRUPT ACCESS TO WEBSITES, APPS
A wave of brief internet outages hit the websites and apps of dozens of financial institutions, airlines and other companies across the globe Thursday and Friday.
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Techlife News #503
Techlife News
CASSILL TO BE PAID IN CRYPTOCURRENCY IN DEAL WITH VOYAGER
Landon Cassill will be the first NASCAR driver paid entirely in cryptocurrency in a sponsorship deal with Voyager that begins at Nashville Superspeedway this weekend.
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Techlife News #503
Techlife News
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CHINA'S NEW SPACE STATION
Adding a crew to China’s new orbiting space station is another major advance for the burgeoning space power.
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Techlife News #503
Techlife News
HONG KONG WATCHING CHINESE NUCLEAR PLANT AFTER LEAK REPORTED
China’s government said Tuesday no abnormal radiation was detected outside a nuclear power plant near Hong Kong following a news report of a leak, while Hong Kong’s leader said her administration was closely watching the facility.
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Techlife News #503
Techlife News
SELF-DRIVING CAR PIONEER WAYMO GETS $2.5B TO FUEL AMBITIONS
Waymo, the self-driving car pioneer spun off from Google, isn’t allowing a recent wave of executive departures to detour its plans to expand its robotic taxi service.
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Techlife News #503
Techlife News
LOUISIANA CREATES RULES FOR SELF-DRIVING DELIVERY DEVICES
Louisiana has created a framework for self-driving delivery robots to drop off packages on the state’s streets, under a bill backed by lawmakers and Gov. John Bel Edwards.
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Techlife News #503
AppleMagazine
UK WATCHDOG EXAMINES APPLE-GOOGLE MOBILE SYSTEM CONTROL
U.K. competition regulators are looking into Apple and Google smartphone operating systems, app stores and browsers, over concern that the control of “mobile ecosystems” by the two tech giants is harming consumers.
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AppleMagazine #503
AppleMagazine
UTILITY'S GREEN ENERGY PLAN FUELS DEBATE IN KANSAS, MISSOURI
Kansas’ largest electric company expects to make its first big investments in solar energy over the next three years and promises zero net carbon emissions in 2045.
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AppleMagazine #503
AppleMagazine
NATO NATIONS READY TO JOINTLY RESPOND TO ATTACKS IN SPACE
NATO leaders expanded the use of their all for one, one for all, mutual defense clause to include a collective response to attacks in space.
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AppleMagazine #503
AppleMagazine
WINNING AUCTION BID TO FLY IN SPACE WITH JEFF BEZOS: $28M
An auction for a ride into space next month alongside Jeff Bezos and his brother ended with a winning $28 million bid last weekend.
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AppleMagazine #503
AppleMagazine
REPORT SAYS TECHNOLOGY KEPT 2020 CENSUS BELOW EXPECTED COST
The 2020 census is expected to cost $14.2 billion, well below a previous estimate of $15.6 billion, reflecting a slowdown in the price tag for the nation’s head count thanks to technological innovations, according to a new watchdog report released this week.
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AppleMagazine #503
AppleMagazine
Monterey macOS - UNLOCKING THE TRUE POWER OF THE M1 PROCESSOR
When it came to software enhancements and breakthrough features, this year’s WWDC was a little more understated than previous iterations, but after a year of coronavirus restrictions, it’s understandable that Apple would focus on refining its existing offering than try to reinvent the wheel.
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AppleMagazine #503
AppleMagazine
BATTERY RECYCLING FIRM TO EXPAND OPERATIONS IN NEVADA
A battery recycling company founded by a former executive at Tesla Inc. broke ground on 100 acres (40 hectares) of land at an industrial park near Reno as part of its expansion plan.
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AppleMagazine #503
AppleMagazine
COMPUTER TROUBLE HITS HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, SCIENCE HALTED
The Hubble Space Telescope has been hit with computer trouble, with all astronomical viewing halted, NASA said.
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AppleMagazine #503
AppleMagazine
BEHIND IN QUANTUM COMPUTER RACE, GERMANY GETS BOOST FROM IBM
IBM unveiled one of Europe’s most powerful quantum computers in Germany, boosting the country’s efforts to stay in the race for what’s considered a key technology of the future.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #503
AppleMagazine
AMAZON NOW SAYS REMOTE WORK OK 2 DAYS A WEEK
Corporate and tech employees at Amazon won’t have to work in offices full time after coronavirus restrictions are lifted.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #503
Stereophile
BOOK REVIEW
CHAIRMAN AT THE BOARD: RECORDING THE SOUNDTRACK OF A GENERATION, by Bill Schnee. Backbeat Books, 2021. 219pp. $24.49, hardcover; $21.49, Kindle e-book.
6 min |
July 2021
Techlife News
CHINA SAYS US REVOKING OF CHINA APPS BAN A ‘POSITIVE STEP'
China’s Ministry of Commerce said that a U.S. move to revoke the Trump administration’s executive orders intended to ban apps like TikTok and WeChat was a “positive step,” amid strained relations between the two countries.
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Techlife News #502
Techlife News
EYING DEAL, GM SOFTENS ON TOUGH STANDARDS FOR CAR POLLUTION
The nation’s largest automaker said Wednesday it can support greenhouse gas emissions limits that other car manufacturers negotiated with California — if they are achieved mostly by promoting sales of fully electric vehicles.
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Techlife News #502
Techlife News
FERRARI TAPS EUROPEAN CHIP-MAKER EXECUTIVE AS NEW CEO
Luxury sports carmaker Ferrari has tapped Benedetto Vigna, an Italian executive at Europe’s largest semiconductor chipmaker, as its new CEO, the company announced this week.
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Techlife News #502
Techlife News
OWN AN ECHO? AMAZON MAY BE HELPING ITSELF TO YOUR BANDWIDTH
Do you own an Amazon smart device? If so, odds are good that the company is already sharing your internet connection with your neighbors unless you’ve specifically told it not to.
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Techlife News #502
Techlife News
STARTUP LORDSTOWN MOTORS WARNS IT MAY NOT STAY IN BUSINESS
Startup commercial electric vehicle maker Lordstown Motors says it may not be in business a year from now as it tries to secure funding to start full production of an electric pickup truck.
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Techlife News #502
Techlife News
GERMANY STARTS ROLLING OUT A DIGITAL EU VACCINATION PASS
Germany on Thursday started rolling out a digital vaccination pass that can be used across Europe as the continent gets ready for the key summer travel season.
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Techlife News #502
Techlife News
SCIENTISTS HAIL GOLDEN AGE TO TRACE BIRD MIGRATION WITH TECH
A plump robin wearing a tiny metal backpack with antenna hops around a suburban yard in Takoma Park then plucks a cicada from the ground for a snack.
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Techlife News #502
Techlife News
GLOBAL WAR ON RANSOMWARE? HURDLES HINDER THE US RESPONSE
Foreign keyboard criminals with scant fear of repercussions have paralyzed U.S. schools and hospitals, leaked highly sensitive police files, triggered fuel shortages, and, most recently, threatened global food supply chains.
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