| Applepalooza Wrap-Up: iPhone 14, New AirPods Pro, Apple Watch Ultra and More |
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| 🎬 Watch This: iPhone 14, 14 Plus, 14 Pro, 14 Pro Max: A First Look at Apple’s Latest |
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Net Savings: In the face of slowing subscriber growth, Netflix may pare back its real-estate footprint, limit corporate swag and control cloud-computing costs to reduce spending, people familiar with the situation say. |
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| 📖 From Personal Tech: When to Use a VPN—and When It Won’t Protect Your Data |
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Virtual private networks, better known as VPNs, are shrouded in mystery. These software tools are meant to hide the data coming in and out of your phone or PC, to make web browsing and other activity more private. But it isn’t always that simple. 👉 Read Dalvin Brown’s full report here. |
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| 📖 Read This: How Online Dating Scams Work—and Who Gets Targeted |
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About 30% of Americans have tried an online dating service, according to Pew Research Service. Some people have found compatible matches and even longtime partners. But other online romance ventures have ended in frustration, harassment or outright fraud. 👉 Read Bart Ziegler’s full report here. |
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• The Chips Are Down: Putin Scrambles for High-Tech Parts as His Arsenal Goes up in Smoke (Politico) • The 1,000 Chinese SpaceX Engineers Who Never Existed (MIT Technology Review) • Can A.I. Make Great Art? (Slate) |
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| 🎬 Watch This, Too: BeReal vs. TikTok—Can ‘Authentic’ Social Media Compete Without Ads? |
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| 📖 Read One More: Russia’s War on Ukraine Deepens International Cyber-Defense Cooperation |
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In the years leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Moscow’s hackers hammered the country with debilitating cyberattacks, including a pair that knocked out the lights to hundreds of thousands of people in two successive winters. Since the war began in February, however, cyber defenses put in place with the help of Western nations appear to have blunted Russia’s hacking advantage while fueling more international cooperation in cyberspace among Kyiv’s allies, current and former U.S. and European officials said. 👉 Read Dustin Volz’s full report here. |
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| Latest From Julie Jargon: Apple’s Medications Reminder Tool Is Coming in iOS 16. Here’s How to Use it |
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| CREDIT: ELENA SCOTTI/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, APPLE; ISTOCK |
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Remembering to take your meds can be hard. A skipped vitamin isn’t necessarily a big deal, but missed medications can be dangerous. An Apple Health app update, due Monday, will remind you it’s time to take your pills. 👉 Read Julie’s full column here. |
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…when the oil is for the masseuse—and it’s Valvoline. |
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