A striking step from Apple: the company wants to help people to make less use of their iPhone, reports Bloomberg news agency. In the new version of operating system iOS, which will be presented on Monday, there will be a tool that helps people to occasionally hide their iPhone and iPad.
Two reporters died in the United States on Monday when a tree fell on their car. The two were on their way for a report for the American news channel WYFF News 4 about the dangerous weather conditions in the American state of North Carolina.
Apple users will soon be able to contact more things with their iPhone. Opening a door, for example, or checking in public transport. Apple wants to give developers more access to the NFC chip in the devices, so they can make new applications.
Two US naval ships sailed close to islands in the South China Sea on Sunday, claimed by China. The warships were about twelve nautical miles from the coast of some of the Paracel Islands.
Two Egyptian brothers who were arrested in France for a terrorist plan wanted to use explosives and possibly the poison ricin. That means is not very effective to sow death and destruction, experts say. Perhaps the terrorists had themselves brought to an idea by Netflix.
Employees of an animal shelter in the US state of Nebraska have carried out a special rescue campaign last week: six young squirrels were tied up with their tails and the animals had to be disassembled in order to move on.
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America has been shaken again by a 'House of Horror'. Again it is California where a large family, this time ten children, was terrorized and tortured for years. The father would have shot at his children with an air rifle and a bow with dart arrows and applied waterboard techniques to them.
A toddler of three years old is devoured by a leopard in a national park in Uganda.
Apple is expected to pay $ 100 billion to shareholders, making it the highest amount ever. Apple tries to win the favor of shareholders.
The tree that was given as a gift to the American president Donald Trump has disappeared from the garden of the White House. Trump received the tree as a promotional gift from the French president Emmanuel Macron.
The leaders of South and North Korea, President Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un, have planted a pine tree together at the dividing line between the two Koreas, where they met for a summit on Friday.
On the Asian island of Borneo an ant has been found that can disable his enemies by exploding, so they get a toxic substance over them.
Almost the whole of Puerto Rico is without power due to a huge disruption. The cause is probably a mistake in an important pipeline in the center of the island.
Russians can no longer use the chat app Telegram since Monday. The service is blocked. The telecom watchdog has passed that assignment to the providers. Russia also wants Telegram from the Apple App Store and the Play Store from Google.
In the mid-west of the United States, a record amount of snow fell on Sunday and extremely low temperatures were measured. In addition, the eastern part of the US suffered from tornadoes.
A single fallen tree has caused a disturbance that causes nearly 900,000 people in Puerto Rico without power. The tree fell on one of the most important electricity cables towards the capital San Juan.
At least two tourists were killed in an accident with a tourist bus in Malta. Six other people were seriously injured, reports the Times of Malta newspaper. That happened reportedly when the double-decker bus in Żurrieq was driving under low-hanging branches of a tree.
A tree hugger must pay heavily: Alain now has to pay three tons or sell his house. And it will probably be the last.
Former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, is the mockspot of ridicule on social media, after he had completely ignored his wireless Apple Airpods.
A 60-year-old American woman is married to a hundred-year-old tree in a park in Fort Myers, Florida. The woman hopes to save the ficus.
Apple wedges are ideal to give to children as a healthy snack. However, the segments quickly turn brown and therefore end up in the rubbish bin rather than in the mouth of your child. An Australian mother has now come up with this.
The Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is also still in the United States this week. The royal is working on a roadshow to get big concerns to his country. This mainly concerns tech giants like Apple and Google.
In Thailand, at least eighteen people were killed in a heavy bus accident. The bus driver lost control and drove a tree, let the police know. Of the 52 occupants, another 32 people were injured, eight of whom are in mortal danger.
Like almost every year, Japan enjoys the first cherry blossoms in an almost religious way, which is regarded as one of the country's trademarks. But the cherry trees in the country are threatened by the invasion of a beetle that has come over from the Asian mainland. The number of trees can be decimated within a few years.
A letter of application that Steve Jobs wrote about three years before he co-founded Apple, has raised over 141,000 euros on an internet auction in the US.
France is throwing tech giants Apple and Google to court for unfair trade practices. The French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire announced that Wednesday. The conditions that the American companies set to app makers are a thorn in the eye.
With increasing criticism, the Scientology organization started its own television channel on platforms such as Apple TV and Google Play.
Barack and Michelle Obama are talking to Netflix about their own series.
Following the example of Amsterdam, Paris and London, New York now also has a night mayor. Former night club owner, city councilor and catering consultant Ariel Palitz (47) was appointed by the daytime mayor Bill de Blasio as the first Senior Executive Director of the Office of Nightlife, as the function is officially called.
