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Apple drops COVID-19 testing requirement, changes overall policy

While the COVID-19 pandemic may not be over, Apple is apparently making changes to its COVID-19 policy. Zoë Schiffer has offered the following about the situation in a recent tweet: Apple is making changes to its Covid-19 policy, and will stop mandating employees test before coming into the office. It’s also rolling back its special […]

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Apple pushing for corporate employees to return to in-person work for three days a week

Apple’s trying to wrangle its corporate employees back to in-person work for three days a week. The company has informed its corporate employees that they must return to in-person work three days a week beginning September 5. Employees will now need to work on-site Tuesday and Thursday, as well as a third day set by […]

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Apple planning to make changes for Apple Store retail location employees following unionization efforts

Apple is apparently planning to make employee schedules at retail locations more flexible in an attempt to improve working conditions. Accord to Bloomberg, the changes come as employees as some Apple Store locations have been working toward unionization. Employees will no longer be scheduled to work more than five days in a row, down from […]

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Recent patent shows Apple’s exploration into fuel cell-based devices with weeklong battery lives

This could lead to some extremely cool stuff. A patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday shows that Apple is looking into using hydrogen fuel cell technology to power its portable devices. Text and diagrams depict not only a fuel cell stack for generating power, but related aspects like connections with […]

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Fontstand lets Mac OS X users rent fonts for hours, days, months or buy them outright

This could be useful, especially if you only need as specific font for a short period of time. A new application called Fontstand allows Mac OS X users to rent or try fonts for free. Once a font is previewed, it can be activated for one hour or rented at 10 percent of its retail […]