After 22 years, Apple’s very first Retail Store, the Tysons Corner Apple Store in McLean, Virginia, has reopened its doors in a new location. Jason Aten for Inc.: There is a fascinating video of Steve Jobs giving a tour of the first ever Apple Store, located at the Tysons Corner shopping center in McLean, Virginia. It was 2001, and just about everything was different. You can tell that it’s an Apple Store, but a lot has changed since it first opened its doors 22 years ago today. Retail is expensive and risky and Apple wasn’t nearly as successful a company as it is today. Opening physical retail stores seemed foolish… In fact, that store — and the one that opened a…

Apple employees will be restricted from using ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools, The Wall Street Journal reports Friday. Apple Park in Cupertino, California Aaron Tilley and Miles Kruppa for The Wall Street Journal: Apple is concerned workers who use these types of programs could release confidential data, according to the document. Apple also told its employees not to use Microsoft -owned GitHub’s Copilot, which automates the writing of software code, the document said. ChatGPT, created by Microsoft-backed OpenAI, is a chatbot derived from a so-called large language model that is able to answer questions, write essays and perform other tasks in humanlike ways. When people use these models, data is sent back to the developer to enable continued improvements,…

Apple employees will be restricted from using ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools, The Wall Street Journal reports Friday. Apple Park in Cupertino, California Aaron Tilley and Miles Kruppa for The Wall Street Journal: Apple is concerned workers who use these types of programs could release confidential data, according to the document. Apple also told its employees not to use Microsoft -owned GitHub’s Copilot, which automates the writing of software code, the document said. ChatGPT, created by Microsoft-backed OpenAI, is a chatbot derived from a so-called large language model that is able to answer questions, write essays and perform other tasks in humanlike ways. When people use these models, data is sent back to the developer to enable continued improvements,…

On May 12, 2023, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office Upper Ojai Search and Rescue (SAR) Team located and came to the aid of 10 missing hikers near the “Last Chance” area of the Santa Paula Canyon, thanks to Apple’s Emergency SOS feature. When you make a call with SOS, your iPhone automatically calls the local emergency number and shares your location information with emergency services. In some countries and regions, you might need to choose the service that you need. For example, in China mainland you can choose police, fire, or ambulance. When SOS appears in your iPhone status bar, it means a cellular network is available for emergency calls. You can also add emergency contacts. After an emergency call…

On May 12, 2023, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office Upper Ojai Search and Rescue (SAR) Team located and came to the aid of 10 missing hikers near the “Last Chance” area of the Santa Paula Canyon, thanks to Apple’s Emergency SOS feature. When you make a call with SOS, your iPhone automatically calls the local emergency number and shares your location information with emergency services. In some countries and regions, you might need to choose the service that you need. For example, in China mainland you can choose police, fire, or ambulance. When SOS appears in your iPhone status bar, it means a cellular network is available for emergency calls. You can also add emergency contacts. After an emergency call…

Illustration: The Verge A former Apple engineer and the executive at an electric vehicle startup owned by the Chinese tech giant Baidu has been charged with stealing Apple’s self-driving technology, as reported earlier by CNBC. On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice indicted and charged Weibo Wang with the “theft and attempted theft” of Apple’s autonomous driving tech. As noted by the indictment, Wang started working at Apple as a software engineer in 2016, where he signed a confidentiality agreement and worked on the company’s secretive autonomous driving project. Wang resigned from his role in 2018, but unbeknownst to Apple, Wang accepted employment at “the U.S.-based subsidiary of another company that was headquartered in the People’s Republic of China and…