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Ridgewood NJ, Apple has announced a record-breaking $500 billion investment in the United States over the next four years, marking the company’s largest-ever spending initiative. This ambitious plan includes 20,000 new jobs and a major focus on artificial intelligence (AI), silicon engineering, and research & development.
Continue reading Apple Commits $500 Billion to U.S. Expansion, AI, and Manufacturing
TikTok Resumes Service for U.S. Users Following President Trump’s Announcement
TikTok users across the United States breathed a sigh of relief on Sunday as the popular app became accessible once again. The development follows President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he would sign an executive order delaying a federal ban on TikTok after his inauguration on Monday.
Continue reading UPDATE: TikTok Removed from App Stores Amid U.S. Ban: What You Need to Know
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Ridgewood NJ, file this under there is a lesson in this somewhere,a UK man is suing Apple for ~$6.3m, the cost of his divorce. He blames Apple for his deleted texts syncing to the couple’s iMac, which is how his wife learned he was cheating.
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Ridgewood NJ, the US Justice Department is preparing to file a lawsuit against Apple, possibly as soon as Thursday, alleging that the tech giant has violated antitrust laws by restricting competitors’ access to hardware and software features of its iPhone. This legal action would escalate the Biden administration’s ongoing antitrust crackdown on major US technology firms. Currently, the Justice Department is already pursuing a lawsuit against Google for monopolistic practices, while the Federal Trade Commission is actively investigating antitrust allegations against Meta (formerly Facebook) and Amazon.
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Ridgewood NJ, the prohibition on the sale of Apple’s flagship smartwatches, the Series 9 and Ultra 2, will persist in the foreseeable future following a ruling by US trade regulators in a patent dispute. The Biden administration opted not to override the decision, impacting the sales of these watches in the United States.
Continue reading Does Anyone Really Know What Time it is: Apple Watch Ban
Continue reading NJ Transit Police Warn on Apple iPhone “NameDrop”
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Ridgewood NJ, given the numerous regulatory enforcement cases being brought against or contemplated for technology giants, it appears that the Biden administration has declared war on Silicon Valley. Now the long anticipated trial of the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google, which began last Tuesday.
Continue reading BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TAKES ON SILICON VALLEY
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Ridgewood NJ, Apple is looking to catch up in the AI race ,reportedly spending millions of dollars a day on AI product research with the goal of creating a Siri that can automate tasks involving multiple steps. Most of the budget is dedicated to model training, which requires a lot of expensive hardware. The company has been working on large language models for four years, but it is unclear what it has achieved with its multi-year lead. Apple’s internal chatbot apparently boasts greater capabilities than OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 model, but is less intelligent than GPT-4.
Continue reading Apple Spending Big On AI Looking to Upgrade Siri
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Apple’s highly anticipated AR/VR headset could push the technology to the mainstream. The AR industry will benefit from Apple’s ‘it just works’ philosophy. While the exact uses for the headset are not known yet, Tim Cook has said before that AR is for communication and connection, and other reports say that the device will offer access to iPad apps, games, entertainment, and a version of Apple Fitness Plus. Apple is expecting to sell under a million units a year. Its release may result in a gold rush of app designers trying to replicate the success of early iPhone developers.
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Ridgewood NJ, an extensive legal battle is brewing after the Biden administration declined to veto an International Trade Commission (ITC) import ban on the Apple Watch.
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Ridgewood NJ, Apple (AAPL) shares are declining on indications the COVID-19 unrest in China will limit production of iPhones . Protests in Chinese manufacturing hubs such as Zhengzhou are creating headaches for Apple executives and President Xi’s lieutenants who are becoming decreasingly concerned over the implosion of the Chinese economy .
Continue reading Unrest Rocks Cities Across China as COVID Lock-down Protests Grow
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Ridgewood NJ, protests have broken out at Foxconn’s iPhone factory in Zhengzhou. The protests started after workers learned that bonus payments would be delayed. Footage of the protests on social media show workers clashing with riot police and hazmat-suited officials. The workers have been forced to live and work on-site due to Foxconn’s strict Covid-19 controls.
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Ridgewood NJ, Apple is reportedly planning to release new MacBook models in the fourth quarter of this year. New 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros could be shipping by early 2023. The laptops will likely look similar to their predecessors but will include more powerful M2 Max chips with 12 CPU cores and up to 38 GPU cores. A 15-inch MacBook Air is planned for next spring at the latest and a 12-inch model is expected to launch by early 2024. Apple usually holds a hardware event in October.
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Ridgewood NJ, this year, 24% more Americans plan to buy the new iPhone, according to the personal-finance website WalletHub’s new 2022 iPhone Survey. However, as the iPhone 14 release date approaches on September 16 (October 7 for the Plus variant), WalletHub found that people can save $1,146 – $5,013 over two years by picking the right plan.
