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Apple expands its independent repair shop program to Mac computers

Apple initially launched the program last year, but it only covered iPhones, the company’s biggest-selling product. Mac users previously either had to use Apple or an authorized warrant service provider to get fixes with parts directly from Apple. Apple last month reported an uptick of 21.6% in quarterly Mac sales to $7 billion as many employees shifted to working from home. …read more […]

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Belarus Protests Continue, Pressure Grows on President Lukashenko

Mass protests continue in Belarus, where workers called for an election rerun on Monday. As the president trades barbs with exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, risks of a fight for influence between Russia and the West have grown. Photo: Tatyana Zenkovich/Shutterstock, Nikolai Petrov/Associated Press …read more […]

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Covid-19 Vaccine Push Lacks a Key Ingredient: Trust

(Bloomberg Opinion) — In the war against the coronavirus, only one weapon has the potential to ease the conflict quickly: a vaccine. With about 164,000 Americans dead from Covid-19, the economy battered and communities forced into recurring lockdowns, the federal government has made a $10 billion wager that public funds and expertise wedded to private research and production can jump-start a vaccine’s arrival — possibly by early next year.Operation Warp Speed, launched in April, is administered by the Department of Health and Human Services, the Biomedical Advance Research and Development Authority, and the Department of Defense, along with several other …read more […]

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Time to Get a Second Passport… If You Can Afford It

We’re perfectly happy on our farm.
We study the markets by day, muse about our thoughts on it all and then go relax by sweating the night away as the sun goes down.
We worked hard to get it. It’s home.
We don’t intend to leave.
So is it “un-American” or disrespectful to our land if we have our eye on another land? You know… just in case.
Second Passports
It’s a hot topic these days. As America locks up, melts down and jumps from right to left, record numbers of citizens are eyeing up a second passport.
Demand is up fivefold this year.
It’s a heck of …read more […]