If you have an Apple Store in your city, consider yourself lucky. Here in Vancouver, we have two locations (with a rumoured fifth location coming) for a population of roughly 578,000 people, and two more in neighbouring Richmond and Burnaby. Each location is no more than 25 minutes away from the next. You can never have enough Apple Stores.
Riverside is the sixth largest city in California but they have one thing missing–an Apple Store. So what’s a city to do? Mayor Ron Loveridge and his City Council decided to spend $3500 to make a video showcasing the love they have for Apple products and how they would mutually benefit if Apple setup a retail shop there. There are three other Apple Stores nearby, but the closest is 40 kilometres (25 miles) away, clearly too far for Riverside.
Check out the video below–is Riverside worthy of an Apple Store (nice choice of Gary Glitter’s ‘The Hey Song’)?
If you thought OpenAI's ChatGPT is impressive, wait till you see what Google has been working on — if the company lets you, that is. Among Google's many endeavours in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning is MusicLM, a model the company created to generate original music from rich text prompts (via TechCrunch). Google researchers...
Apple's Emergency SOS via Satellite feature last month helped rescue two stranded travellers in British Columbia in what authorities said was the first known use of the feature in the province — reports the Prince George Citizen. Emergency SOS via Satellite is a safety feature available on Apple's latest iPhone 14 lineup. It lets users...
Apple reportedly wants an easy way for people to build augmented reality apps, that might even be assisted by the company’s Siri voice assistant, reports The Information. Unnamed sources say Apple plans to let Siri build an AR app when asked through its upcoming mixed-reality headset. These apps would then be able to submit to […]
