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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.
Apple announces chief operating officer transition - Apple
09 Jul 2025
Apple today announced Jeff Williams will transition his role as chief operating officer later this month to Sabih Khan.
Imagination takes center stage in Play‑Doh World, launching August 7 on Apple Arcade
08 Jul 2025
Apple Arcade is adding four exclusive games and rolling out fun updates to fan-favorite hits on the service.
Apple Music celebrates 10 years with the launch of a new global hub for artists designed to foster creativity and connection
30 Jun 2025
As Apple Music marks 10 years, Apple unveils a brand-new state-of-the-art space in Los Angeles dedicated to artist-driven content.
Apple Sports serves up tennis, just in time for Wimbledon
25 Jun 2025
Apple Sports today added tennis to its growing list of supported sports.
Apple expands tools to help parents protect kids and teens online
12 Jun 2025
Apple today shared an update on new ways to help parents protect kids and teens online when using Apple products.
Apple services deliver powerful features and intelligent updates to users this fall
12 Jun 2025
With the release of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, tvOS 26, visionOS 26, and watchOS 26, Apple is enhancing its services with powerful new features.
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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.
