When I go onto Apple Music I’m searching for more. I want us to be a place where music has so many other different elements surrounding it, to give it that creative context. I just don’t want to be in a place where it’s just shifting one song around to left, right, up, down everything else. You know what I mean?
There has to be room in streaming for the romance of music to come along for the ride. That’s why we all got into this business in the first place.
Last fall, Howard Gordon, showrunner for the hit TV show "24" and co-creator of "Homeland," was in the middle of negotiating a deal with a newcomer to Hollywood: Apple . In a meeting with film executives from the iPhone maker, which had set aside an enormous budget to develop TV shows and movies, Gordon brought up rumors that Apple wanted sanitized projects - a potential problem for his show about a pair of disillusioned military veterans who go on a killing spree.
Would Apple buy the project, an adaptation of an Israeli show called "Nevelot," which translates directly to "Bastards," only to strip it of any violence and adult themes? "They were fairly adamant that it would not be a problem," Gordon said in an interview. "I said, 'Can you say that again into the microphone,'" Gordon said. He sold the show, which stars Richard Gere, to Apple in the fall and it is in early development.
Whether you're the one making a change, or you're saying goodbye to a friend or family member, tech can help you bridge that physical gap. Be it shared photos or playlists, messaging and video chat apps, or even a long-distance friendship lamp, there's no shortage of ways to keep in touch.
We put together a list of the best (and often free) ways to keep in contact with loved ones across the globe.
A team from Santa Fe’s Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and Northwestern University studying the metal “soaps” in the artist’s paintings have developed an iPad app they say will streamline how conservators monitor the harmful bumps.
Tech has its place in the gardening and homestead world. In fact, the right online tools can help home gardeners maximize space, track a garden’s progress or order supplies.
Garden planning and planting apps are a great way to stay organized and help ensure a garden’s success. But it can take a while to filter through the dozens of phone and computer apps available for home gardeners. So this spring, Bangor Metro has done some of the research for you.
For one of the oldest app developers in the world, being a "dokkyo roujin" -- an elderly person who lives alone -- turned out to be a benefit in the long run.
"It was easy because I have no one to care for me, whether it's good or bad," 83-year-old Masako Wakamiya said of building her first mobile app. In 2017, she launched Hinadan, a game aimed at elderly users.
The lack of distractions let her focus purely on programming, and overcoming the steep learning curve, not only in software development but also an unexpected language barrier.
With a 2017 GDP of $2.8 trillion, Southeast Asia, were it a single country, would be the world’s seventh largest economy; at its current growth rate, it would rank No. 4 by 2030. But for investors, market size is only part of the appeal. Super-apps promise a new mode of connecting with customers and an opportunity to amass a vast data trove about their preferences and purchasing behavior. It’s a model pioneered in China by Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat; Mark Zuckerberg, in a recent blog post, hinted that he hopes Facebook can emulate it. Many believe revenue from super-app services and the data they generate will prove to be more stable, more profitable, and easier to scale than revenues from ride-hailing—where profits have been elusive even as growth skyrockets.