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Apple won’t have to allow App Store alternatives on iOS after North Dakota bill fails

A North Dakota bill that would have drastically altered the way app store operators like Apple and Google manage their digital marketplaces has failed to garner enough votes, failing in the state senate by an 11-36 vote on Tuesday, according to North Dakota House of Representatives member Karla Rose Hanson. The bill, SB 2333, stirred… Read more

Apple’s former hardware leader reportedly now overseeing AR and VR devices

Apple’s former hardware leader, Dan Riccio, is now overseeing the company’s still-secretive work on augmented and virtual reality products, according to Bloomberg. Riccio stepped back from Apple last month, after serving as senior vice president of hardware engineering since 2012. At the time, Riccio said he would remain at the company with a focus on… Read more

Xbox Series X stock will be scarce until June, warns Microsoft

Home News (Image credit: Future) Microsoft has admitted the Xbox Series X and Series S consoles could be in short supply until June 2021 or later. The company’s head of investor relations, Mike Spencer, told The New York Times that Microsoft company “sold every Xbox unit it had last quarter,” adding that supply is “likely… Read more

Apple Wants More Macs in Businesses: Can It Take on Intel vPro, AMD Ryzen Pro?

Home News (Image credit: Apple) Having posted its all-time quarter record revenue of $111.4 billion this week, Apple is looking for ways to expand. The company’s CEO, Tim Cook, sees selling Macs to businesses as one of the main growth opportunities for Apple, especially with the Apple M1 chip and its successors in tow. But with Intel appealing… Read more

Just look at this amazing Pac-Man history book

Pac-Man celebrated its 40th anniversary last year, and to commemorate the occasion, Cook and Becker is releasing a history book later this year — and it looks incredible. While there’s a standard hardcover version of the book for $39, which is called Pac-Man: Birth of an Icon, you can also buy a $99 special edition… Read more

Apple’s next iOS 14 beta will begin forcing developers to ask for permission to track you

Apple’s new privacy feature requiring developers ask for permission to track iOS users for ad targeting is at last going live in the next iOS 14 beta with a planned full release some time this spring for non-beta users, the company tells The Verge. The announcement coincides with Data Privacy Day, as well as a… Read more

Apple says there are now over 1 billion active iPhones

Apple says there are now more than 1 billion active iPhones, an enormous milestone for the company that speaks to the phones’ continued success and longevity. There are now 1.65 billion Apple devices in active use overall, Tim Cook said during Apple’s earnings call this afternoon. The milestone had been approaching for a while. Apple… Read more

Apple surpasses $100 billion in quarterly revenue for first time in its history

Apple today reported its fiscal Q1 2021 earnings, which cover the final calendar quarter of 2020 and the holiday sales season. That means this is the first time we’re getting a real indication of how the new iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max are faring with consumers. As… Read more

Apple has a new head of hardware engineering in latest executive shuffle

Apple’s hardware team is getting its biggest shakeup in nearly a decade, as Dan Riccio — who served as the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering since 2012 — transitions to “a new role” at the company. He’ll be replaced as Apple’s head hardware engineer by John Ternus, who led the hardware team designing… Read more

SpaceX is sparring with a Texas oil company to drill for natural gas

SpaceX is locked in a legal fight with a Texas oil company for a plot of land it wants to use to drill for natural gas, according to public records. The 806-acre site in southern Texas sits near SpaceX’s Starship facilities, a sprawling testing ground for its methane-fueled Raptor rocket engine. Tim George, an attorney… Read more

TIM: sanction of almost 1 million euros for the remodeling of the basic plan

The sanction for TIM of 928. 00 0 ?? for having incorrectly remodeled the contract linked to the conditions of the Basic Plan with a cost of 1, 99 ?? per month for some customers in the absence of active offers. Here are the details. by Bruno Mucciarelli published 20 January 2021 , at 11:… Read more

Wind farms in the North Sea produce more electricity than ever

The wind power plants in the North Sea delivered more electricity than ever before. Overall, the amount produced increased by , 4 percent on 22, 60 Terawatt hours (TWh), such as the network operator Tennet in Bayreuth communicated. In addition there were 4, which remained practically unchanged compared to 2019, 13 TWh from the Baltic… Read more

Less and less copper: this is how Italians navigate according to AGCOM

AGCOM takes the photo of the connectivity in Italy: in the fixed network, the lines in the network drop below copper, while mobile broadband is growing rapidly: + 40% compared to 2019. Here are all the data updated to September 2020. by Manolo De Agostini published 19 January 2021 , at 09: 21 in the… Read more

heise offer: iX workshop: system deployment and automation with Ansible

Ansible is probably the most widely used tool for configuration management. With the tool, systems in the network can be configured and managed from a central instance, and applications can be deployed and updated automatically. Ansible uses existing programs so that no special client software is required. In this interactive online workshop with many practical… Read more

TIM Special LE: only € 9.99 to get 70GB and much more! Here's who can activate them

A really interesting offer from TIM to users who want to activate a sim by making portability from other operators. In this case the cost is only 9. 99 ?? per month for unlimited calls and SMS and 70 GB of traffic. Here is who it is for. by Bruno Mucciarelli published 18 January 2021… Read more