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...Analysts have estimated that iMessage, which is built into every iPhone, iPad and Mac, has as many as 1bn users globally, but Apple has not disclosed any figures for several years....
...In the letter, France- and US-based lawyers for the DRC say that Apple’s iPhones, Mac computers and other accessories are “tainted by the blood of the Congolese people”....
...The handheld console made by Panic Inc — publisher of Firewatch and Untitled Goose Game — has sold more than 70,000 units since it launched in 2022....
...Cook pioneered Apple’s shift of its supply chain from the US to China, establishing manufacturing of its iPhones, AirPods, Macs and iPads in the country....
...The sensible, FT-reading Eddie is initially unenthused about upholding this agreement with Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario) and her father (Ray Winstone)....
...This week, as Apple unveiled its latest high-end Macs, its new M3 chips were very much the focus....
...The average rate for a 30-year, fixed home mortgage was around 6.63 per cent last week, according to Freddie Mac....
...Thing is, it’s possible to argue that companies like Apple and Farmer Mac extract some advantage from being domiciled in the same state as they’re incorporated....
...We have blundered into a dystopia reminiscent of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, where books are seen as dangerous and people cocoon themselves in fantasy worlds through screens....
...But this month the company behind MAC and Clinique had to take an axe to its full year’s guidance. Demand for high-end beauty products in mainland China has been slow to recover....
...Mortgage rates have risen sharply in recent months, rising from 6.48 per cent at the start of the year to a 23-year high of 7.79 per cent last week, according to Freddie Mac....
...technology group has a long history of partnering with other companies until it has sufficient expertise to go it alone — such as the transition away from Intel processors to in-house-designed chips in Mac...
...In a chilly hangar in Northern Ireland, Ulster Aviation Society co-founder Ray Burrows surveys painstakingly restored aircraft including a sleek black Sherpa jet, a boxy Short 330 and a Canberra spy plane...
...[Qualcomm and Microsoft are working together to produce PCs that they hope can outperform Apple’s Mac computers.]...
...Many of the pieces are by Charles and Ray Eames and also by the Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld, who broke the mould of what furniture was supposed to look like....
...More recently, it has adapted those chips for its Macs, replacing Intel as the primary workhorse in its desktop and notebook computers....
...The tech group reported $89.5bn in revenue, 1 per cent less than the year before, as demand for other gadgets such as Macs and iPads fell....
...The maker of Aveda shampoo and MAC make-up has cut its outlook several times over the past year and reported a series of weak quarterly results owing to the weakness in China, as the world’s second-largest...
...The next generation of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses was also on display, with a new function to livestream directly to Instagram and Facebook....
...Odey European Inc, the firm’s flagship fund, and OEI Mac have suffered from a high volume of redemption requests, prompting Odey Asset Management to suspend them, according to people familiar with the situation...
...Some of these sins of omission involve institutions: the mortgage groups Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for example, remain stuck in a bizarre legal limbo, while there is still far too little scrutiny of non-bank...
..., Gillette, Freddie Mac, Wells Fargo, Washington Post)....
...At the start of its annual conference on Monday, Apple also announced faster versions of the Mac studio desktop, a 15-inch MacBook Air, and the first Mac Pro with “Apple Silicon” — completing its multiyear...
...The two hedge funds — Odey European Inc and OEI Mac, were subsequently suspended....
...Since launching the first iPhone processors designed in-house in 2010, Apple has steadily expanded its silicon ambitions, adding its own chips for Macs and for accessories such as AirPods and Apple Watch...
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