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Apple is often lauded as the king of privacy among the tech giants, and to a certain extent, it is. After all, unlike Facebook and Google, Apple’s business model is built around selling hardware and services — not advertising to you. But the company’s new “App Privacyâ€� label feature, which was added to the App […]

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Apple Inc. excluded a COVID-related application from its app store and launched its own, in violation of antitrust laws, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court by a group that includes a Dartmouth computer scientist. In the suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Concord, the group says it completed its app, […]

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MACOMB, Ill. (WGEM) — Macomb High School science teacher Karissa Ham was awarded January’s WGEM Golden Apple Award. Ham’s typically very hands-on science class is a little more hands-off these days due to COVID-19 restrictions. “With the bigger projects, I’ve really had to cut back on because they really require groups of kids to work […]

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Apple’s AirPods Max are now available at Amazon in three different colors: silver, sky blue, and space gray. Unlike their namesakes, AirPods Max are not earbuds. Instead, they are full-sized, high quality wireless headphones. The quality is reflected in the price; these headphones retail for $549.While AirPods Max are shipping out at various points in […]

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Apple CEO Tim Cook told President Biden in a letter Friday that providing permanent legal status for “Dreamers” is a crucial part of any comprehensive immigration reform. Cook said that immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children are “invaluable members of our team.” He wrote to Biden on behalf of the Business Roundtable, where he […]

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Apple’s television adaptation of the podcast adaptation of the real-life soap opera that was WeWork now has some major talent attached. Jared Leto, the soon-to-be leading vampire of Morbius, and Anne Hathaway, are joining the Apple TV Plus series WeCrashed as Adam and Rebekah Neumann, according to The Hollywood Reporter. WeCrashed takes its name from […]

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An extremely rare Apple-1 computer, the original 1976 design created by famed engineer Steve Wozniak, has gone up for auction on eBay at an asking price of $1.5 million. The Apple-1 was Apple’s first product sold to consumers, the result of Wozniak selling a $500 calculator and the late Steve Jobs selling his VW Microbus […]

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Facebook and Apple’s fight over your data is heating up. Apple’s tracking-optional mobile operating system update is coming to iPhones this spring, and the new privacy-preserving features will give users the ability to opt out of being followed around the internet via trackers in their apps. Facebook — which makes the vast majority of its […]

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