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Jan 31 2023
Opinion
No Such Thing as a Bad Apple
Some 25 years ago, I remember sitting on the Shooting Review Board for the King County Sheriff’s Office, a large metropolitan police department serving the Seattle region. I recall listening to an investigator explain the chain of events that had led to the fatal shooting of a man fleeing the scene of an armed robbery. My memory is that the man had a long criminal record and had just committed
The Atlantic
Mar 21 2023
News
Gwyneth Paltrow's Husband Brad Falchuk and Kids, Apple and Moses, to Testify in 2016 Ski Crash Trial
An attorney for Gwyneth Paltrow said during opening arguments in the civil lawsuit brought against the actress by a Utah doctor, that her husband Brad Falchuk, as well as her daughter Apple, 18, and son Moses, 16, will testify during the trial. As Paltrow's attorney Stephen Owens made his opening argument at Park City District Court on Tuesday, the lawyer asserted the Academy Award-winning
People
Nov 30 2022
Analysis
Twitter needs Apple more than Apple needs Twitter
Elon Musk launched a tirade against Apple this week after he said the phone-maker had mostly stopped advertising on Twitter and threatened to block the social media giant from its app store.
In some ways, the billionaire seemed to be picking a losing fight. The amount Apple spends advertising on Twitter and the rules it sets for apps in its app store could play a big role in whether
Washington Post
Feb 17 2023
News
'Blindsided': Apple Reportedly Cutting Hundreds Of Contractual Jobs Amid Alleged Workplace Issues
Apple is quietly laying off hundreds of contractors, and some contractual workers have revealed how they are allegedly put into a poor work environment, a report said.
The Cupertino-based company has started cutting ties with hundreds of contractors over the past few days, according to the report by the New York Post's On The Money. Sources revealed that instead of waiting for contracts
International Business Times
Jan 04 2023
News
What happened to the Apple store union campaign?
Earlier this year, Apple seemed poised to join Starbucks in a nationwide unionizing blitz. Two stores filed paperwork with the National Labor Relations Board while dozens more began to organize. In June, the first Apple Store in the country, in Towson, Maryland, voted to unionize.
Apple’s response was unequivocal: the tech firm hired anti-union lawyers at Littler Mendelson. Then it
The Verge
Feb 02 2023
News
Senator urges Apple, Google to remove TikTok from app stores
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) wrote to Google and Apple on Thursday, urging both companies to remove TikTok from their app stores.
Driving the news: In a letter addressed to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Bennet urges both leaders to boot TikTok immediately, calling the popular video-sharing app "an unacceptable threat to the national security of the United States."
Axios
Jan 11 2023
Opinion
Why the Trump-Biden classified documents aren't 'apples and oranges'
The unauthorized retention of classified materials by President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump is of significant concern for a simple reason. To understand why, consider how intelligence information would be classified under some hypothetical scenarios.
Had the National Security Agency or a closely allied counterpart service intruded into Iranian military networks and
Washington Examiner
Feb 10 2023
News
Apple cofounder says that Elon Musk, like Steve Jobs, wants to 'be seen as the important person and be like a cult leader'
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak took a dig at Elon Musk during an interview on CNBC's Squawk Box on Thursday.
Wozniak told Andrew Ross Sorkin that he thinks Musk and his late friend Steve Jobs are "very similar" when it comes to convincing people to believe in their products — but added that the similarities end there.
"I put them in the category of having the ability to
Insider
Nov 22 2022
News
UK Investigating Apple, Google Mobile Browser Dominance
Britain's competition watchdog on Tuesday launched an in-depth investigation into the dominance of the mobile browsers of Apple and Google.
Responses to a consultation it launched in June revealed "substantial support" for a fuller investigation into the matter and into whether iPhone-maker Apple restricts cloud gaming through its app store, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
International Business Times