The number of coronavirus cases reported varies significantly from state to state. Apple will focus its initial reopening efforts on regions less impacted by infection. The first Apple Stores in the U.S. to begin welcoming customers again are located in Idaho, South Carolina, Alabama, and Alaska.
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Idaho’s only Apple Store, Boise Towne Square, will reopen on May 11 at 11:00 A.M.
Apple has released a neat new rich resource today to help writers publish their content on its Apple Books platform. The new website walks through writing, publishing, marketing, and looking at analytics with Apple Books [...].
The apps and video focus on four kids — Ruby, Leo, Finn and Molly — each from different backgrounds. The titular Wonder Bunch is intended to make them appealing to all kinds of kids, lending an element of inclusivity the Michelics found lacking in other apps.
“We want kids of all backgrounds to be able to feel like they can be part of this group that's going through these adventures,” Alex Michelic said. “And so that was an important part of why we chose to design the way we did.”
Along with the new ability to stream podcasts on Apple Watch over cellular (or Wi-Fi) and episode downloading directly over Wi-Fi instead of over Bluetooth from iPhone, there are two small caveats. You’ll have to redownload your podcasts and Smart Speed and Voice Boost have been removed temporarily.
This new game is played on an Apple TV, iPad or iPhone, but The Otherside has all the trappings of a strategy board game, with simulated dice, cards… everything you’d expect. But it offers effects not possible from cardboard and plastic game pieces.
If your framework can be a library without losing much, it probably should be. If you don't work at a major tech company, you probably don't have the time or energy to give a framework all of the attention it requires. Libraries aren't everything, but they should be preferred.
For many companies, which started having employees work from home in March, prolonging the policy is not just a safety measure. It is a pragmatic approach that helps workers with young children plan for a difficult summer, and gives management time to reconfigure open-office plans into something safer.
Some companies said there is another reason: Working from home is working out well.
The part that is making me anxious is that I know whatever we are doing now cannot last forever, what we used to do may not return, and whatever we need to do in the future is still a big unknown.
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