🔗 Today’s Articles: Tue 05.Mar.2024
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UPI: Diver has found about 200 Apple Watches in Indiana lakes
An Illinois diver who has recovered about 200 Apple Watches from the bottoms of lakes has a warning for owners: Don’t go swimming with the original watch bands.
Investor’s Business Daily: Stock Market Today: Dow Jones Falls As Apple Tumbles On iPhone Sales, Warren Buffett Risk; Cathie Wood Sells Coinbase
Shares of Apple sank 2.8% on reports of a steep drop in iPhone sales in 2024 in China. Counterpoint Research found that Apple’s China’s smartphone sales have fallen 24% in 2024 from the prior year amid fierce competition. According to the research firm, the comparison with an “abnormally high” sales record in January 2023 may be part of the reason.
But the iPhone maker also faces a risk as a top holding in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway(BRKB). According to reports, Berkshire sold 10 million shares of Apple stock in the last quarter of 2023, according to its latest 13F filing, and could sell more.
NYT: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: A Grisly Theory and a Renewed Debate
New speculation about the toddler’s death and pressure to force DNA testing of evidence have revived scrutiny of what was known as the “crime of the century.”
Atlantic: How Trump Gets Away With It
4.Dec.2023
If reelected, he could use the powers of the presidency to evade justice and punish his enemies.
via Patrick Rhone
The Takeout: The Phillies’ $1 Hot Dog Is No More
Spring is rolling around and we’re looking forward to baseball season. There’s nothing like munching on a ballpark hot dog and washing it down with cold beer in the stands, and it’s even better when the dogs are cheap. But fans of the Philadelphia Phillies’ popular “dollar dog night” promo at Citizens Bank Park must kiss their best concessions deal goodbye this MLB season, thanks to a bunch of rowdy spectators last year who ruined things for everyone.
This fiasco occurred last April, when a bunch of Phillies fans present on dollar hot dog night decided it would be a great idea to chuck a boatload of hot dogs at each other in the stands. The food fight quickly spiraled out of control, with some attendees eventually tossing bottles of water down from the upper deck, causing a safety issue. Though no injuries were reported, several fans were ejected from the game, and the event became a national news story.
NYMag: Apple, Tesla, and the Dying Dream of Self-Driving Cars
Every firm in the race to build a self-driving car was running into the same few real-world obstacles (and, occasionally, other cars), namely unpredictable drivers and wildly diverse environments and road conditions. The range of possible scenarios that a self-driving car might face on a single trip to the store is astronomically huge, and the risks of failure include death. For other automakers, revising plans around autonomous cars was expensive and embarrassing. For Apple, it ultimately meant retiring the entire project. The closest thing the public saw to an Apple car was a Lexus SUV with a big Apple-y sensor array on top: [Twitter link]
If anything, Apple’s move is a pretty late signal that the self-driving bubble has burst, but it’s a clear one. Apple isn’t a start-up or an automaker trying to catch up with Elon Musk’s tweets. At the end of 2023, it had more than $70 billion in cash on hand. It wasn’t running out of money to invest in a problem it had nearly solved. It’s a highly motivated firm with existing connections to the automotive industry and nearly infinite resources realizing that its plan might not be feasible for the foreseeable future.
The Verge (YouTube): Lisa: Steve Jobs’ sabotage and Apple’s secret burial | Full Documentary
30.May.2023
Sabotage, hired goons, and a landfill in Utah: this is a story about the life, death, and afterlife of Apple’s most pioneering flop, the Lisa computer. How it inspired generations of computers to follow; how Steve Jobs championed it, then turned against it; and how an outsider gave it another chance…before Apple closed the door on the Lisa forever.
Last Updated: 05.Mar.2024 22:01 EST