Apple Inc will look into the possibility of building a manufacturing facility in Indonesia, its CEO said on Wednesday after meeting President Joko Widodo. Apple CEO Tim Cook arrived in Jakarta on Tuesday, after visiting Vietnam. He met with Jokowi, as the president popularly known, and will be inaugurating an academy for Apple developers on the island of Bali. "We talked about the president's desire to see manufacturing in the country, and it is something that we will look at," Cook told...
As a measure of how lefty my upbringing was, we had a portrait of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt hanging on the kitchen wall. My parents were ’60s activists-turned-urban pioneer social workers, my father a charter member of Missouri’s New Left, and my mother a Greenwich Village folkie by way of the bus from Jersey. And […]
Heart transplant recipient inspired hundreds of people to live their best lives Anne Buckley, 51, of South Burlington, peacefully transitioned from this world to her next great adventure on April 8, 2024, while at the Miller-McClure Respite house, after a long-fought battle with heart disease. As always, her timing was impeccable, following the once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse! Anne was blessed with over 13 extra years through a heart transplant in...
I talked with Tim Ventura about technology. We discussed SpaceX, teslabot and nuclear power among other topics.
Imagine making a documentary about one of the 20th century’s leading opponents of the Ku Klux Klan — without ever talking about the evil of the KKK itself. If that sounds like malpractice, consider PBS’s new documentary on the life of William F. Buckley Jr. “The Incomparable Mr. Buckley,” the latest installment in the “American Masters” series, has much to say about anti-Communism but never reckons with the murderous reality of Communism itself. In failing to do so, producer and director...
Imagine making a documentary about one of the 20th century’s leading opponents of the Ku Klux Klan — without ever talking about the evil of the KKK itself. If that sounds like malpractice, consider PBS’s new documentary on the life of William F. Buckley Jr. “The Incomparable Mr. Buckley,” the latest installment in the “American Masters” series, has much to say about anti-Communism but never reckons with the murderous reality of Communism itself. In failing to do so, producer and director...
Apple CEO Tim Cook has spent a second day in Vietnam, discussing investment with the country's prime minister, as well as being shown developers working on Apple Vision Pro apps. Tim Cook visits a school in Vietnam On the second of his two-day visit to Hanoi, Tim Cook once again met with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. They discussed Apple increasing its investment in the country, and the government creating a working group to help with the company's expansion efforts. "There is no...
Deadline is reporting that Heroes creator Tim Kring is looking to revive the TV franchise with a new spinoff series entitled Heroes: Eclipsed, which Universe Television is currently pitching to potential networks and streaming services. The original Heroes premiered on NBC in 2006 and followed a group of ordinary people who discover they possess superpowers. […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original post here: Tim...
We’re having a weekend away in the countryside, and his behaviour is growing ever more worrying. What shall we do?It is teatime on our rainy family weekend away. The five of us are sitting around staring at the dog as it attempts to remove mud from between its toes by scrabbling at the sides of its dog bed.“She hates mud,” says the middle one. Continue reading
Heroes creator Tim Kring is developing a reboot of the classic 2006 superhero series, which will be titled Heroes: Eclipsed.Heroes: Eclipsed is set “years after the...
Tim Kring's 'Heroes' is eyeing a second encore with 'Heroes: Eclipsed,' a
This is one of the most amazing stories to come down the pike in I don't know how long, published over the weekend in The Washington Post. The short version is that Tim Sheehy