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Tag: COVID-19
Apple retail chief expects ‘many more’ stores to reopen in May
In her weekly video update, Apple’s retail chief Deirdre O’Brien told staff that she expects the company to reopen “many more” of its retail stores…
Wall Street gains as some U.S. states begin to reopen for business
Hopeful eyes watched several U.S. states that began to relax shutdown restrictions instituted in order to curb the COVID-19 pandemic and reopen for business…
Britain’s NHS rejects Apple-Google COVID-19 contact-tracing scheme
Britain’s NHS has rejected the Apple-Google COVID-19 contact-tracing scheme. The UK’s coronavirus contact-tracing app is set to use a different model…
Apple and Google look to rebrand ‘contact tracing’ as ‘exposure notification’
Apple and Google, working together on a COVID-19 contact tracing system are now rebranding their tools as “exposure notification.”
Germany dumps centralized COVID-19 contact tracing plan, backs Apple – Google approach
Germany changed course on Sunday over which type of smartphone technology it wanted to use to attempt a COVID-19 contact tracing architecture, ditching…
Stocks jump as more U.S. states prepare to ease lockdown
U.S. stock index futures rose on Monday as more states looked set to ease coronavirus-induced lockdowns, and investors awaited earnings reports from…
President Trump says Apple CEO Cook sees V-shaped recovery
The two discussed the COVID-19 pandemic and state of the economy. Trump said Cook believes the economy will have a V-shaped recovery …
Privacy: Apple won’t support invasive French, German contact tracing
A standoff over contact tracing privacy between Germany and France, the two largest nations in the European Union, and Silicon Valley escalated…
Why is the stock market rising even though 26M people are out of work?
Many investors believe the stock market has gone bonkers, saying it has become totally divorced from the reality on Main Street.…
Bill Gates: Getting a COVID-19 vaccine by 2H21 would be ‘history-making achievement’
Getting a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine by second half 2021 would be “history-making achievement,” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says…
The COVID-19 data is clear: Stop the panic and end the total isolation
The COVID-19 pandemic is entering the containment phase. We now need sensible policymakers who have the courage to ignore the panic and rely on facts…
Orders for Apple’s new 4.7-inch iPhone SE better than expected
Orders for Apple’s newly-launched 4.7-inch iPhone SE are better than expected, TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says, which has implications for…
Oil prices jump, clawing back some of the recent losses
Oil jumped 40% at the high on Wednesday, recovering from early losses in a volatile overnight trading session that saw international benchmark Brent crude…
U.S. Senator demands Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai be personally accountable for coronavirus contact tracing privacy
A U.S. Senator is calling for Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai to be held personally accountable for any contact tracing privacy …
‘Fraggle Rock: Rock On’ is coming to Apple TV+
“Fraggle Rock: Rock On” is coming to Apple TV+. The beloved stars of the classic ’80s series — Gobo, Red, Boober, Mokey, Wembley and Uncle Traveling Matt…
Apple aims to increase iPhone production by 4% through March 2021
Apple has notified several of its iPhone suppliers that it plans to increase iPhone production to make about 213 million iPhone units…
U-turn: French parliament to vote on COVID-19 contact tracing app after all
In a U-turn, the French government has decided after all to allow lawmakers to vote on its plan to launch a COVID-19 contact tracing app, lawmakers and…
France complains Apple’s Bluetooth privacy policy is blocking their COVID-19 contact-tracing plan
The limitation is standing in the way of a government contact-tracing app that France wants to build, Digital Minister Cedric O said…
Oil drops below $1 a barrel; lowest level in history
U.S. crude oil prices plunged to their lowest level in history, below $1 a barrel, due to an historic slump in demand from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic…
When all U.S. coronavirus stimulus payments should arrive
More than 80 million Americans were slated to receive their coronavirus stimulus payments via direct deposit this week, but with a total of 171 million Americans…
Apple explains how to make your own face shield
Apple has shared instructions for how to make your own face shield while warning that, “These manufacturing instructions should only be used by an expert…
Dow rockets on hope for coronavirus treatment touted by President Trump
Giving investors some hope there could be a coronavirus treatment solution that helps the country, and world, reopen faster from the widespread shutdowns…
ACLU has concerns with Apple-Google’s COVID-19 contact-tracing plan
A well-designed, widely-used COVID-19 contact-tracing tool could offer public health benefit, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says, but…
UK’s NHS in standoff with Apple and Google over coronavirus tracing
The NHS is in a standoff with Apple and Google after the two tech firms refused to support the UK’s plans to build an app that alerts users when they…
Tim Cook confident Apple will emerge strongly from COVID-19 crisis
A confident Tim Cook led an Apple companywide virtual meeting on Thursday to address concerns about the impact of COVID-19 and discuss…
Apple Retail Store to reopen in South Korea
An Apple store in South Korea will reopen outside of China for the first time since stores around the world closed in response…
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At the request of readers who prefer to use ad-blockers, but who would like to be able support the site, we launched a way to contribute to MacDailyNews …
Why the stock market could boom this year with its biggest rally ever
The stock market, before Wednesday, rallied strongly as the coronavirus curve flattened. Imagine, now, the magnitude of the rally …
Apple CEO Cook joins President Trump’s committee on reopening American economy
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s enlisting advisers from nearly all sectors of American commerce, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, members…
EU welcomes Apple-Google contact-tracing tech
Technologists focusing on contact-tracing as they race to try to use Bluetooth short-range communications between devices as a proxy for measuring the risk…
Apple, Google address questions about COVID-19 contact-tracing system
Apple and Google addressed questions about their upcoming COVID-19 smartphone contact-tracing solution on Monday, providing details…
President Trump: Some have ‘very big constitutional problems’ with Apple-Google COVID-19 contact-tracing tech
Last week, Apple and Google jointly announced a partnership to create a COVID-19 contact-tracing system that works with both iOS and Android…
Apple registers AppleCoronavirus.com domain name
Apple has recently registered the domain name AppleCoronavirus.com, according to a WHOIS record which indicates that Apple took possession of the domain…
Raymond James cuts Apple price target to $305
Raymond James analyst Chris Caso cut his Apple price target to $305 from $360, citing expectations of slower iPhone and wearables demand due to…
What’s wrong with the Apple-Google COVID-19 contact tracing scheme
There have recently been several proposals for pseudonymous COVID-19 contact tracing, including from Apple and Google. The UK’s National Health Service (NHS)…
UK NHS working with Apple-Google on COVID-19 contract tracing app
In the UK, senior sources say NHSX, the NHS’ technology arm, has been working at “breakneck speed” on a COVID-19 contract tracing app with Google and Apple…
Apple Maps to display COVID-19 testing locations
Apple Maps will soon help users find COVID-19 testing locations. Apple has launched a website where healthcare providers, labs, or other businesses can…
Apple, Google race to bring COVID-19 contact tracing to 3 billion people
Apple and Google today revealed a rare partnership to add technology to iPhones and their derivatives that will alert users if they have come into…
President Trump says US will have ‘substantially’ fewer deaths from COVID-19 than initial estimates claimed
On Friday, U.S. President Trump said that the projected number of deaths related to COVID-19 will be “substantially under” earlier models…
Apple and Google team on cross-platform COVID-19 contact tracing tool
Engineers at Apple and Google have teamed up to create a decentralized COVID-19 contact tracing tool that will help individuals determine whether…
Scorsese courts Apple to rescue $200M film starring DiCaprio and De Niro
Martin Scorsese’s representatives have been holding talks with Apple, Netflix, and others, as they seek a new company to produce or distribute…
