Apple
Apple increases U.S. commitment to $600 billion, announces ambitious program - Apple
07 Aug 2025
Apple announced a new $100 billion commitment to America, a significant acceleration of its U.S. commitment that now totals $600 billion over four years.
Apple and Corning partner to manufacture 100 percent of iPhone and Apple Watch cover glass in Kentucky
07 Aug 2025
Apple and Corning today announced a major expansion of their long-standing partnership to make precision glass for Apple products.
Leagues Cup returns to MLS Season Pass on Apple TV on July 29
29 Jul 2025
Leagues Cup 2025 begins on July 29, and MLS Season Pass on Apple TV is where fans in over 100 countries and regions can watch every match.
Apple and Major League Baseball announce August “Friday Night Baseball” schedule - Apple
29 Jul 2025
Apple and Major League Baseball (MLB) today unveiled the August schedule for “Friday Night Baseball.”
Apple introduces AppleCare One, streamlining coverage into a single plan - Apple
23 Jul 2025
Apple today unveiled AppleCare One, a new way for customers to cover multiple Apple products with one simple plan.
Apple Retail arrives in Saudi Arabia with launch of Apple Store online - Apple
22 Jul 2025
Apple today announced the expansion of Apple Retail into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the launch of the Apple Store online and Apple Store app.
Apple Arcade launches special crossover events featuring SpongeBob SquarePants - Apple
17 Jul 2025
This month, SpongeBob SquarePants makes a splash in Snake.io+ and Crossy Road Castle with special events available exclusively on Apple Arcade.
Apple News+ introduces Emoji Game - Apple
17 Jul 2025
Today, Apple News+ debuted Emoji Game, an original puzzle that challenges subscribers to use emoji to complete short phrases.
Apple lands record-breaking 81 Emmy Award nominations, with
16 Jul 2025
Apple TV+ today earned a record-breaking 81 Emmy Award nominations across 14 hit Apple Original titles for this year’s 77th Emmy Awards.
Apple expands U.S. supply chain with $500 million commitment to American rare earth magnets
16 Jul 2025
Today Apple announced a new investment of $500 million with MP Materials.
Featured
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.
