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Apple devices to use rechargeable batteries made with recycled cobalt by 2025

04/20/202304/19/2023 L. Green

Rechargeable batteries - Smartphone with recycling symbol

The company is moving ahead with a strategy for carbon-neutral products in two years. As a part of Apple’s strategy to achieve carbon neutrality throughout the length of its supply chain and product life cycle by the end of the decade, it is promising rechargeable batteries made with 100 percent recycled cobalt in its devices. This step is a strong one along the road to reaching the company’s sustainability goals. Apple announced that it would have the recycled cobalt in its rechargeable batteries by 2025. Furthermore, the iPhone maker also…

Nokia sells 51% stake in TD Tech company with Huawei

04/13/202304/12/2023 L. Green

The buyer for the shares was announced as New Oriental Advanced Materials, a Chinese company. Nokia has announced that it has sold its 51 percent stake in the China-based company TD Tech that it founded with Huawei in Beijing in 2005. The company makes a number of products for wireless carriers such as China Mobile. TD Tech has a number of research and development centers and a highly educated workforce focused on studying wireless communication technologies. It also produces a number of wireless products for customers including China Mobile where…

Here’s why you want a mixed reality headset, says Apple CEO

04/06/202304/04/2023 L. Green

Mixed reality headset - Welcome to Mixed Reality

According to Tim Cook, there will be advantages to creativity, business, and communications. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, recently took the opportunity to use a media interview to describe why he believed a mixed reality headset produced by his company is something consumers will want to have when one launches in coming months. The company is traditionally quite closed lipped about the projects it has underway. While Tim Cook didn’t officially confirm that Apple would be launching a mixed reality headset in the interview with GQ, he did spend some…

Apple Pay has launched for South Korean customers

03/30/202303/29/2023 L. Green

The mobile wallet has finally launched for shoppers in South Korea, following years of delays. Apple Pay has finally launched in South Korea following years of regulatory delays faced by the iPhone maker. The mobile wallet app will now work the same way for South Korean consumers as it does elsewhere. Apple Pay now works for South Korean users of iPhones, Apple Watches, iPads and Macs. Consumers with those devices can now use it to make mobile payments at restaurants and cafes, retail stores, in apps and online. “Apple Pay…

Criminals in Brazil are benefiting from Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service

03/23/202303/22/2023 L. Green

Starlink internet - Word Criminal on paper

The technology was meant to provide connectivity in the Amazon rainforest, but criminals are using it. Brazilian federal agents are increasingly finding Starlink internet units on the sites they raid in the Amazon rainforest. The agents are shot at, and the criminals often escape, but the technology is being left behind. Starlink internet services are a division of Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The company has nearly 4,000 satellites in low orbit, providing with people in remote areas of the world – such as the Amazon rainforest – with online connectivity. The…