Oprah Winfrey has teamed up with Apple on a new free-to-view series in which the popular talk show host and producer holds remote interviews with people personally affected by COVID-19.
Apple is donation N95 masks to healthcare providers fighting COVID-19 in the US and Europe.
As iDownloadBlog reported this morning, Hollywood studios are starting to experiment with releasing some films early digitally as theaters remain closed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The studios breaking their traditional theatrical window is major news, but Steve Jobs actually predicted digital home premiere of flicks still in theaters... well, a decade ago.
In response to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak and coronavirus pandemic, major entertainment companies such as Disney, NBCUniversal and WarnerBros are breaking their traditional theatrical window as Hollywood starts to grapple with cratered box office ticket sales due to the current public health crisis that has prompted audiences to avoid crowded venues.
Major video-streaming platforms like Netflix, Google-owned YouTube and Amazon's Prime Video have reduced streaming quality in the European Union to avoid straining the Internet as millions of employees switch to teleworking amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Usually when location tracking is talked about, it's how companies are doing something wrong with it. But the United States government is considering walking that fine line in an effort to track the spread of the novel coronavirus.
While the annual Worldwide Developers Conference draws most of the attention in the first part of June, there is another option for developers that takes place in San Jose, California, at the same time.
As part of Apple's response to the coronavirus pandemic, its chief executive Tim Cook last Saturday encouraged employees to work from home. However, the Cupertino company seems to have hit some bumps along the road in shifting its global workforce to remote work.
Just a few days ago, Apple was planning to reopen its retail stores outside of China on March 27, but the company seems to have changed its mind, saying via a notice on its US website that its brick-and-mortar locations will now remain closed until further notice.
Another day, another major shift in normalcy due to the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic. This time it's Universal making a major change.
Things are changing at a rapid pace due to the global coronavirus pandemic, and that's definitely true in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
The global spread of the coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease it causes, continues. And yet another Apple employee has tested positive.