Apple has a reputation for making products that just work, so why aren't its headphones compatible with the high-quality streaming it just announced for Apple Music? We have a theory. We're also excited for rocket plane test flights, NASA setting records in its Mars helicopter, and yes, even the Google retail store coming to NYC. This one might work.
Apple did something decidedly un-Applish this week. Just as it launched lossless audio versions of every single track in its 75-million-plus-song Apple Music library, it also acknowledged that none of its wireless headphones — including the insanely expensive $550 AirPods Max — are currently compatible with these lossless versions. That's a pretty shocking admission from a company that typically introduces new products and features with the tagline: "It just works."
Right now, lossless audio works with just two wireless standards, and Apple's headphones don't offer either of them. Is there a method to Apple's seeming madness? Prolific Apple leaker Jon Prosser believes that we are merely in a carefully planned resting period between Apple announcements and that we'll just have to wait for the other shoe to drop.
But what is that plan, and when will we find out what that plan entails? How does Apple intend to get around a thorny (and deeply technical) barrier imposed by its choice of wireless audio technologies?
NASA's diminutive Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has so far exceeded expectations, handling the red planet's tough conditions with apparent ease during five separate test flights in the space of a month.
The team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is overseeing the current Mars mission, is now preparing to send Ingenuity on its sixth flight since its historic maiden hover on April 19.
Having completed the technology demonstration phase that proved Ingenuity's ability to achieve flight in Mars' extremely thin atmosphere — on one mission staying aloft for nearly two minutes while flying 266 meters — the team is now moving to the operations demonstration phase that will seek to learn more about how such flights can assist future exploration of Mars and other planets.
Whenever a tech giant such as Google makes an announcement about having a physical store to showcase and sell its products, It raises a red flag because you only need to look at another behemoth to see how it can end up being a failure. I'm talking about Microsoft, which once had flourishing retail shops across the country, but ultimately shuttered all of its stores.
The future's unpredictable, but here's why Google's venture has a more promising future ahead of itself.
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