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Apple Users Report Outages, Service Restored

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Users of Apple Music, TV+ streaming service and the App Store experienced problems accessing the services Tuesday (Sept. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment. At press time, all Apple’s services have been restored, 9to5 reported. At press time, all Apple’s services have been restored, 9to5 reported.

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Google, Apple Team Up To Enable Coronavirus Tracking Tech

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Apple and Google are collaborating on a new technology to track the spread of the coronavirus by using Bluetooth. As reported by Reuters , the new technology could be available as early as mid-May for iPhone and Android devices. The announcement by the California-based tech giants on Friday (April 10) came as the U.S.

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Samsung Pay Launches Debit Card, Money Management

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Samsung Pay is launching a physical debit card and this summer will introduce a money management tool in partnership with SoFi. Ahn added that over the summer months, Samsung Pay will introduce a tool to help people better manage their financial lives. By 2018, about 50 percent of retailers and restaurants starting accepting Apple Pay.

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Apple Buys AI Voice Assistant Startup To Make Siri Smarter

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Siri is getting an assistant by way of the artificial intelligence startup Voysis , which Apple acquired to improve natural language technology, according to a Bloomberg report on Friday (April 3). . Before co-founding the company, Cahill spent 15 years studying speech technology and neural networks.

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Apple Stores Unlikely To Reopen Before 2021

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employees and shoppers who expected to see the California-based technology giant reopen its stores this summer got some bad news. In a video conference call with its workforce last weekend, Deirdre O’Brien, Apple’s senior vice president of retail and people, encouraged employees to serve customers from home, Bloomberg News reported. . “If

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Introducing Intelligent Data, a podcast from Perficient

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The COVID-19 pandemic has done a great job revealing trouble spots and gaps in many companies’ technology strategies this year. If you’ve discovered that your data strategy and technology solutions need improvement, then this podcast is for you. The value of data in ecommerce, supply chain, and order management.

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Apple's Fortnite Fight Hurts All Gaming Business, Microsoft Says

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Microsoft is stepping into the fray of the legal battle between Apple and Epic Games over the banning of the Fortnite app from the App Store and the banning of Epic's account, CNBC reported. The Unreal Engine is a widely used set of technologies that allows for 3D graphics to be completed, and Epic licenses it to companies for a fee.

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