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Ushering out the last day of January, the University of Washington and Washington State basketball teams meet on Sunday at 5 p.m. at Alaska Airlines Arena in a curiously named match-up. Somewhere along the way, someone somehow decided this game, or this series of games, needed to be called the Apple Cup.  How original. How […]

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Apple has revealed just how much money we’ve paid it, plus it’s been in a spat with Facebook, and it’s stepping up its fitness workouts.
This is a review of January 2021, but just take a step back to the same time in 2019 for a moment. Then the headline news was that Apple sales […]

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The Apple Watch can’t stay on my wrist all the time… because of the battery. Vanessa Hand Orellana/CNET More than steps, more than active minutes, I’ve been focused on making sure I get enough decent sleep each day. That’s been an issue working from home for so much of 2020-2021. Apple’s latest watch and WatchOS […]

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Payments have become the hottest area in banking today. The field, which in the past was a tool and not an end in itself, has in recent years become the biggest and most talked about target market in banking and banking-related fields, bringing with it a large customer base, headed by the food retail […]

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Some execs at Hyundai are wary of partnering with Apple to make electric vehicles, Reuters reported. Hyundai confirmed in early January it was in “early-stage” talks with Apple about an electric car.  “We are not a company which manufactures cars for others,” one exec reportedly said. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Executives at […]

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No charges for Sen. Richard Burr, federal charges in iPhone-centered SBA fraud, an iPad damaged in a “wrong house” raid by Chicago police, and more in the Apple Crime Blotter.
The latest in an occasional AppleInsider series, looking at the world of Apple-related crime.
Federal indictments for two men accused in SBA-loans-for-iPhones scam […]

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