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  Apple has been hit with a lawsuit claiming that it hosts, facilities, and benefits from an illegal gambling enterprise on the App Store. The complaint, lodged in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, takes aim at free-to-play social casino apps that allow users to buy in-game currency with real money. Like real slot machines and casinos, the lawsuit alleges that social casino apps are "extraordinarily profitable and high addictive." Unlike real casinos, however, it...

This series delves into the myriad ways people enter the commercial real estate industry and what contributes to their success. Before Elizabeth Birch closed her first commercial real estate deal, she had already served as a top attorney for Apple and spent a decade leading a major civil rights organization. Birch joined CBRE in 2017 as a D.C.-based vice president representing office occupiers. She had previously spent a dozen years running her own consulting company, and before that she spe...

 E-Mail (Boston)--Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with a higher risk of complications including ischemic stroke, cognitive decline, heart failure, myocardial infarction and death. AF frequently is undetected until complications such as stroke or heart failure occur. While the public and clinicians have an intense interest in detecting AF earlier, the most appropriate strategies to detect undiagnosed AF and medical prognosis and therapeutic implications of AF detected by screening are u...

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. George Bernard Shaw What is MkLinux? MkLinux is a project begun by the OSF Research Institute (now Silicomp RI) and Apple Computer to port Linux, a freely distributed UNIX-like operating system, to a variety of Power Macintosh platforms running on top of OSF Research Institutes ...

January 23, 2021 255 Today is Sunday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2021. There are 341 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in northern California, a discovery that led to the gold rush of `49. On this date: In 1908, the Boy Scouts movement began in England under the aegis of Robert Baden-Powell. In 1924, the Russian city of Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg) was renamed Leningrad in honor of the late...

Italy's Data Protection Authority has blocked access to TikTok for some users in the country who cannot prove their age, in the wake of the death of a 10-year-old girl attempting to take part in a dangerous "challenge."

Almanacs are full of lists of global and national historic events. But “This Day in History” feature invites you to not just peruse a list, but to take a trip back in time to see how a significant event originally was reported in the Chicago Tribune.

  Apple this week donated a sprawling Black Lives Matter mural that was painted on barricades fronting Apple Pioneer Place in Portland, Ore., to nonprofit Dont Shoot PDX for safekeeping. The organization announced taking receipt of the large community-created art piece in a weekly newsletter, saying the panels "reflect the responses of so many that were witnesses to this summers uprisings and the joint call to action against institutionalized violence and white nationalism," reports The Oreg...

Police in Texas used the cellular location tracking feature of the Apple Watch to find a woman who had been kidnapped.

The European Parliament has asked for Apple CEO Tim Cook to join other major tech CEOs to a hearing on February 1, with lawmakers aiming to discuss changes that could curtail the power of Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook on the continent.