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Logic Pro amplifies beat making on Mac and iPad with advanced new capabilities
28 May 2025
Apple today introduced new Logic Pro updates for Mac and iPad, supercharging beat making and producing.
The App Store prevented more than $9 billion in fraudulent transactions over the last five years
27 May 2025
In the last five years, the App Store has protected users by preventing over $9 billion in fraudulent transactions, including over $2 billion in 2024.
CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, begins rolling out today
15 May 2025
Today, CarPlay Ultra is available with new Aston Martin vehicle orders in the U.S. and Canada, and will be available for existing models in the coming weeks.
Apple brings insights, ratings, and reviews from expert sources to Apple Maps
15 May 2025
Apple Maps makes it easier for users to discover top-ranked restaurants, hotels, and more, with the addition of insights from expert sources.
Apple Intelligence features expand to new languages and regions today - Apple
15 May 2025
Apple Intelligence is expanding to even more people around the world.
Universal Music Group and Apple Music announce Sound Therapy
13 May 2025
Apple Music is joining forces with Universal Music Group to introduce Sound Therapy.
Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year
13 May 2025
Apple today announced new accessibility features coming later this year, including Accessibility Nutrition Labels.
Meet four of this year’s Swift Student Challenge winners - Apple
08 May 2025
Meet Taiki Hamamoto, Marina Lee, Luciana Ortiz Nolasco, and Nahom Worku, four winners of Apple’s 2025 Swift Student Challenge.
Apple Arcade adds five new games in June, including UNO: Arcade Edition - Apple
07 May 2025
Apple Arcade welcomes five new games and exciting updates for hit games on the service next month, with no ads or in-app purchases.
Apple introduces the 2025 Pride Collection - Apple
05 May 2025
The new Apple Watch Pride Edition Sport Band, watch face, and iPhone and iPad wallpaper celebrate the strength and beauty of LGBTQ+ communities.
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
