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Yes, but: The New York Times' Mike Isaac reported Wednesday that the Wall Street Journal will participate in the service. Axios is hearing that Apple has not adjusted those terms. |
Bottom line: The deal makes sense for non-subscription publishers or those who are struggling to sell subscriptions, but is less attractive for those who rely heavily on subscription revenue. |
Gaming: Apple is also planning a subscription service for games, Cheddar reported last month, although it's unclear if Apple will touch on this at tomorrow's event. The service would act like a Netflix for gaming, giving users access to many different games under one subscription payment. |
Be smart: The pressure on Apple to finally get this services bundle right, combined with traditional Hollywood's Big Tech jitters, means that a lot of people will be paying attention to today's announcement. Apple's stock is watched closely during these types of events. |
Our thought bubble, from Axios' Ina Fried: Notable about today's event will be that Apple, which has always made its money from hardware, has a showcase devoted exclusively to services. |
This time around, Apple unveiled hardware updates ahead of time (new iMacs, iPads and AirPods were all announced last week), keeping the focus where the company wants it. |
What's next: Like all of Apple's major product announcements, the event will be live-streamed from Steve Jobs Theater at its headquarters in Cupertino 10am PT. Axios will be covering the event in real time, with updates in our stream. |
PASADENA >> It wasn’t the career-high five touchdowns on Josh Rosen’s mind as he stepped to the postgame news conference podium. Instead, it was the three incompletions that remained at the forefront of UCLA quarterback’s thinking after he led the Bruins to an easy 56-23 win over Hawaii on Saturday at the Rose Bowl. |
Yet another career night could easily put the quarterback’s start to this season within that spectrum. His 22-for-25 passing, 329-yard, five-touchdown night helped the Bruins (2-0) overcome a lackluster defensive performance in front of 50,444 at the Rose Bowl, UCLA’s smallest home crowd since Sept. 10, 2011 against Sa... |
Through two games this season, Rosen has thrown for 820 yards, nine touchdowns and no interceptions. He tallied his 12th career 300-yard passing game Saturday, the most for a UCLA quarterback, moving past Cade McNown, and jumped to fifth on the school’s career passing touchdowns list with 42, tying Cory Paus. |
“It’s been definitely enjoyable to watch him work,” offensive coordinator Jedd Fisch said. |
Surging from its monumental comeback against Texas A&M, the UCLA offense scored touchdowns on seven of its eight drives with Rosen at quarterback against Hawaii (2-1). Excluding the halftime whistle that halted UCLA’s final first-half drive Saturday and the last drive against Texas A&M when the Bruins ran the clock out... |
The offense held up its side of the expectation, but an injury-riddled defense yielded to Hawaii running back Diocemy Saint Juste, who had 154 rushing yards on 27 carries. The Bruins lost three defensive starters in the first half due to injuries, linebacker Kenny Young and safeties Adarius Pickett and Jaleel Wadood, a... |
The defense’s performance was saved by a missed field goal in the first quarter, three turnovers-on-downs by Hawaii, and a 30-yard pick six from freshman Darnay Holmes. |
Just six quarters into his UCLA career, Holmes, of Pasadena, jumped a route in the second quarter and returned it 30 yards untouched. |
“I was just thinking in my head, like, ‘Is this real?’ Holmes said of the moment. |
One week after giving up 382 rushing yards to Texas A&M, the Bruins allowed 6.7 yards per carry to the Rainbow Warriors and 281 rushing yards overall. Hawaii tacked on a late touchdown in the fourth quarter on a four-play, 75-yard drive that featured just running plays. |
After UCLA had three 100-yard receivers against Texas A&M, it added another Saturday in sophomore Theo Howard, who had seven catches and 110 yards, both career-highs, and a 26-yard touchdown catch. Senior Darren Andrews had a second straight multi-touchdown performance with four catches for 92 yards and three touchdown... |
Split-rock succelents are native in dry, desertlike regions. |
Several plant species belonging to the genus Pleiospilos are commonly called split-rock succulents. These plants are notable for their thick, fleshy leaves that open or split to reveal lovely, colorful flowers. Split-rock plants are perennial when grown in warmer regions, generally U.S. Department of Agriculture hardin... |
Split-rock plants are native to South Africa, where they grow in arid, desert-like regions. Each plant grows as a clump, producing stemless leaves that are extremely thick and globe-shaped, with a narrow cleft through the center of each leaf. Leaves are usually pale, grayish-green and, in some species, covered with dar... |
Split-rock plants do best when grown in full sun but can tolerate partial shade for a portion of each day. When grown as a houseplant, they need maximum light and do best in a south-facing window. The plants are very drought-tolerant and prefer a soil mix that is poor in organic material and contains about 50 percent s... |
When maintained outdoors, most split rocks grow in spring and summer, setting flowers in late fall or, for one species, Pleiospilos nelii, in the winter. Water your plant very sparingly during the growth phase in spring and summer, withholding fertilizer during this time. In late summer and the early part of autumn, st... |
You can propagate new split-rock plants by dividing your clump in early spring, before new growth appears. But do this infrequently since the plant blooms best when leaves are tightly crowded. Split-rock plants are generally resistant to pests and most diseases, although overwatering or using rich, poorly draining soil... |
Marie, Joanne. "Split Rock Succulent Care." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/split-rock-succulent-care-28516.html. Accessed 25 April 2019. |
There is no doubt that the United Kingdom’s (UK) exit from the European Union (EU) will have long-term economic consequences for the entire world. Friday’s response to the news that Britain voted to exit the EU (also known as “Brexit”), however, created an enormous market response. |
According to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, the financial markets "vastly underestimated" the consequences of Brexit. “There was a violent, brutal, immediate massive move, the pound went down by 10 percent," Lagarde said while speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colora... |
Amis the chaos of this massive upheaval, however, there was some good news. Lagarde praised the central bankers, saying they "did their job" by making sure their respective economies had ample liquidity, and by working with policymakers to reassure those in the market that things were under control. “And it was under c... |
After Friday, no markets experienced liquidity issues like the ones that occurred in 2008 during the height of the financial crisis. The situation is far from over, though, and Lagarde said that how markets react going forward depends on what the UK and the EU do next in the process of finalizing Britain’s departure. |
In fact, there is still time for the UK to back out of its vote to leave the EU. The UK Parliament’s website received over 2 million signatures on a petition for a do-over of the Brexit referendum over the weekend, at one point getting so much traffic that the site crashed. Under UK law, any petition on the Parliament’... |
In honor of breast cancer awareness month, this October Elyse Walker's Pink Party brought out stars for a good cause. |
Actress Jennifer Garner and fashion designer Rachel Zoe hosted the 10th anniversary gala benefiting the Women's Cancer Program at Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute on October 19 in Santa Monica, Calif. The event raised over $1.8 million this past weekend and has generated over $11.5 million sinc... |
Celebrity guests this year included Marcia Cross, Molly Sims, Lisa Rinna, Shay Mitchell, Maria Shriver and her daughter Katherine Schwarzenegger. |
The event had a fashion runway, specialty cocktails and dancing. "I think when you get a group of great people in a room together they can have a very big impact on very important things," Zoe said. "You don't always want it to be very somber and you want people to come out and have fun and be realistic about why they'... |
Actress Molly Sims opened up about how cancer has affected her life. "One of my very good friends just got diagnosed with stage three, and it's just hitting so many people close to home," Sims said. "I just wanted to really support and come out." |
Garner is optimistic that a cure will be found in her lifetime and reminds women everywhere to get themselves checked. |
"Just check yourself and make sure you everyone you love is checking themselves and just start there," Garner said. "If something feels funny to you or off or fishy at all, go to your doctor and just ask." |
The decade-long charity event was founded by stylist Elyse Walker to honor her mother who passed away from stage four ovarian cancer at the age of 42. |
Walker said that this year is her final Pink Party -- she's stepping down after this one -- but she says "anyone who knows me well knows that this is not totally over." |
The ballots poured in, 812 of them. For a while, it was neck and neck for No. 1, until one player ran away with it at the end. You were asked to send in your choices for the 12 greatest L.A. Dodgers of all time. The player listed first received 15 points, second place 11, third place 10, all the way to 1 point for bein... |
Jim Brewer, Brett Butler, Ron Fairly, Al Downing, Shawn Green, Mickey Hatcher, Burt Hooton, Tommy John, Jeff Kent, Paul LoDuca, Mike Marshall (the pitcher), Ramon Martinez, Andy Messersmith, Rick Monday, Ron Perranoski, John Roseboro, Steve Sax, Larry Sherry and Steve Yeager. |
1st place (11,716 points): Sandy Koufax. Koufax was the only player listed on every ballot. |
Starting next Friday: The greatest L.A. Lakers of all time. |
HB 941, introduced by Reps. Crawford, McMahan, and Mitchell, calls for a study to determine the feasibility of establishing demonstration toll roads on existing interstates. The results of the study would be the basis for recommendations to the 2000 General Assembly. This bill has been assigned to the committee on Rule... |
HB 1249 proposes that NCDOT study the effects of intensive enforcement of all trucking safety and related laws on a designated portion of an interstate highway. However the only violation specifically mentioned in the bill is speeding, calling for citations to be issued to truckdrivers, with no warnings or margins for ... |
Under the provisions of the bill, the Division of Motor Vehicles and the Highway Patrol would be required to compile complete statistics of all enforcement actions. These statistics would include "identifying characteristics of drivers stopped, including the race or ethnicity, approximate age, and gender" and "any othe... |
North Carolina proposes to double existing traffic violation fines for CMV operators in HB 303. In addition, the bill also calls for North Carolina truckers to get additional points on their licenses for certain violations. For example, truckers will earn four points for speeding violations, while operators of other ve... |
LB 16, calling for higher speeding fines for trucks, failed to make it out of committee by the legislative deadline. |
On May 17, the House unanimously approved a bill that mandates a $2,000 fine (for vehicles over 26,000 pounds GVW) for failure to stop at a state scales. HB 36 is now in the Senate Committee of Transportation, Highways and Public Works. |
No action has been taken on Louisiana Rep. Arthur Morrell's HB 58. The bill would make it illegal for trucks to pass any vehicle on any bridge or elevated section of roadway. With a short time remaining in the legislative session (ends June 21), this bill is unlikely to see any action by legislators. |
Efforts to eliminate the state's weight-distance tax was killed, while another measure to raise the fuel tax by six cents a gallon gained committee approval in the House and moved to the House floor. If it becomes law, HB 2082 will boost the gas tax by two cents per gallon on Oct. 1, and an additional four cents a gall... |
HB 3530 will penalize those who throw containers of human waste on Oregon roadsides. Fines could go as high as $2,500. The House Committee on Transportation was expected to vote on the measure in late May. |
As of July 1, it will be illegal for any vehicle operator to pass another vehicle when signs indicating a lane closure have directed motorists to merge into another lane. This legislation is designed to penalize drivers who insist on running all the way up to construction barricades before merging into the open lane of... |
Also effective July 1, is a law mandating that motorists move over one lane when approaching a stopped emergency vehicle with its lights flashing. This law was introduced as a result of the deaths of four state police officers who have been killed in recent years while stopped on the shoulders of Indiana highways. |
Astrophysicist Paul Sutter's "Your Place in the Universe: Understanding Our Big, Messy Existence" was published Nov. 20, 2018, by Prometheus Books. |
Have you ever wondered about your place in the universe? I know I have, and so has astrophysicist Paul Sutter, whose new book "Your Place in the Universe" aims to bring the nearly 14-billion-year history of the cosmos down to Earth. And now, you have a chance to win a copy from Space.com! |
Today (Nov. 30), Space.com will interview Sutter in a Facebook Live event at 4 p.m. EST (2100 GMT) and we'll be giving three autographed copies of Sutter's book away during the event. All you have to do is tune in on Facebook and ask a question in the comments section. We'll select three winners at random and contact t... |
Sutter's "Your Place in the Universe" is one of the most accessible space books I've ever read (Disclaimer: I did review a preview copy) so do tune in to learn the story behind it and get your questions answered! If you're looking for more details on the book, you can read an excerpt here and an interview with Sutter b... |
Google is hoping its Android for Work MDM platform will open up more corporate doors to Android mobile devices, thanks to the following features. |
The main benefit of Android for Work, like other mobile management platforms, is that it allows companies and employees to have just one device for both personal and work use. Android for Work runs atop the product to separate the two and effectively create two environments in one. |
Google was quick to point out that Android for Work can be used on both smartphones and tablets. Historically, most mobile device management platforms worked on just smartphones until the iPad changed that forever. Now, a service that doesn't run on both device types is dead in the water. Google knows it and has ensure... |
Android for Work provides a console that will enable IT managers to remotely manage devices from a single location. The console is a full mobile device management platform, allowing IT administrators to locate devices, switch on and off access to business apps, and automatically deploy software updates as needed. |
Google's Android for Work comes with a modified Google Play store that features specialized apps designed for enterprise customers. The app marketplace is also where Android device users can access and download proprietary software if IT administrators haven't already done that in house. |
Google is attempting to address the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) craze with Android for Work. Google saw BYOD becoming a cause for concern among some CIOs and realized that companies were increasingly allowing personal devices in the office. With Android for Work, Google is trying to make it easier on those CIOs to all... |
Once installed, Android for Work provides administrative controls of the work features of a mobile device regardless of where it is. Even if an employee is on vacation halfway around the world and somehow loses a smartphone, the user can call the IT department to remotely lock or wipe out data stored on the device. Thi... |
Google has pressed hard for companies to find devices that come with enhanced on-device security, but it has also strengthened Android on the software side. There's automatic encryption, the ability to set data-leakage prevention policies and software features that require extra credentials to access certain apps. Thin... |
Giving company employees remote access to the network can be a dual-edged sword. On one hand, it's an important feature for enhancing productivity, but without the right security, it can wreak havoc on a company. To address that, Google inked deals with several companies, including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks and F5 Netw... |
Samsung's Galaxy S6 and Silent Circle's Blackphone 2 are among the devices that Google says are ideal for those companies that want high-level device security. Google argues that those handsets' on-device encryption and other security features make them the most secure Android for Work devices. However, Android models ... |
Android users who haven't tried Android for Work will quickly find that they feel right at home with the platform. Google has designed its enhanced features to look and behave like any other Android installation. Again, that's an important factor. If Android for Work created a different environment that prompted a lear... |
ENDZA, Iraq — As jihadist fighters of the Islamic State lay siege to the Kurdish town of Kobani in Syria, the implications of the battle have resonated deeply among residents in this part of the Qandil Mountains in northeastern Iraq, hundreds of miles and a country away. |
In this region, beneath craggy peaks near the Iranian border, is the headquarters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., which has been fighting a guerrilla war against the Turkish state for three decades, a fight that has claimed more than 30,000 lives. Members of the group, along with fighters from an offshoot r... |
P.K.K. commanders say their halting, nine-year-old peace process with the Turkish government and, indeed, the future of the region, will turn on the battle for Kobani and on Turkey’s response. If Turkey does not help the embattled Kurdish forces in Kobani, the commanders say, they will break off peace talks and resume ... |
“We will mobilize the guerrillas,” he vowed. |
Despite increased pressure from the United States and pleas from outgunned Kurdish fighters in Kobani, Turkey has refused to deploy its military against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, or to open the border to allow reinforcements, weapons and supplies to reach the town. |
Turkey’s reluctance stems in part from its desire not to do anything that might strengthen the Kurdish populist movement in the region. The defense of Kobani is being led by the People’s Protection Units, or Y.P.G., an affiliate of the P.K.K., which is officially listed as a terrorist organization by the United States ... |
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has insisted that fighting the government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria should take precedence over fighting the Islamic State. And he holds the P.K.K. in such contempt that he recently equated the rebel group with the Islamic State. |
According to analysts, Mr. Erdogan is calculating that if the Islamic State fighters overrun Kobani, the Kurdish defeat will not scuttle Turkey’s peace process with the P.K.K. But to the commanders of the P.K.K., Turkey’s refusal to act amounts to complicity with the Islamic State. |
Turkey, Mr. Bayik said, “wants to use ISIL in order to inflict some blows on the Kurdish movement and to prevent the Kurdish people in Syrian Kurdistan to gain their rights.” He sat at a plastic table in an olive-drab tent beneath the boughs of a towering walnut tree that provided cover from surveillance drones as well... |
“Turkey wants to victimize the Kurds,” he said. P.K.K. officials requested that the precise location of the interview not be revealed. |
Turkey’s posture has spurred violent protests that have left more than 30 people dead across the country. |
Mr. Erdogan’s strategy also carries considerable risks both to his domestic political standing and his legacy. |
He owes his rise to power in part to the support of Kurds, which he has cultivated by taking a more conciliatory approach to Kurdish nationalism, developing closer ties with Iraq’s Kurdistan regional government and helping to secure more rights for Kurds, including laws that allowed the use of the Kurdish language in s... |
Mr. Erdogan, who was prime minister from 2003 to 2014 and became president in August, is now seeking to alter the Constitution to gain more executive powers, an effort that analysts say will require the support of Kurdish parties. |
Yet his position on Kobani is quickly costing him Kurdish backing, analysts say, while also helping to unify the Kurdish population around the world. |
On Sunday, leaders of the two main political parties in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdistan region said at a news conference that they had sent weapons and humanitarian aid to Kobani. |
They did not say when the shipments were sent or whether they had arrived safely, but officials in Kobani said they never received weapons or ammunition from the Kurdistan authorities. |
In late September, however, a convoy of at least 15 trucks with posters indicating that they had come from Kurdistan crossed the border from Suruc, Turkey, into Kobani. Kurdish activists from Kobani said at the time that the trucks contained aid for refugees in Turkey and Syria. |
While Mr. Erdogan’s standing has plunged among Kurds, the Kurdish fighters’ reputation has soared. In the Kurdistan region, the P.K.K. has enjoyed remarkably broad public support in recent months in light of its battlefield successes against the Islamic State militants. |
In the initial months of the Islamic State assault on northern Iraq, the P.K.K.’s performance stood in contrast to that of the Iraqi military, which wilted in the face of the Islamic State sweep, and of the pesh merga, Iraqi Kurdistan’s army, which suffered demoralizing setbacks before regaining its footing with the su... |
P.K.K. units are widely credited with engineering the rescue of thousands of Yazidis who were trapped on Mount Sinjar and facing annihilation. P.K.K. fighters established an evacuation corridor from the summit of the mountain, where the Yazidis had languished for days. The P.K.K. also rushed to the aid of the pesh merg... |
Many Kurds have called on the United States and the European Union to reassess their classification of the P.K.K. as a terrorist organization — a rebuke of Mr. Erdogan and Turkey. |
After the counterattack that recaptured Makhmur, Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan regional government, whose political party has had a bitter relationship with the P.K.K., rewarded its fighters with a visit. |
“We have the same destiny,” Mr. Barzani told the guerrillas. |
Kirk Semple reported from Endza, and Tim Arango from Istanbul. Kareem Fahim contributed reporting from Caykara, Turkey, Ceylan Yeginsu from London, and Kamil Kakol from Sulaimaniya, Iraq. |
Coastguard stations set to close Jump to media player The UK's 18 coastguard stations are to be reduced to eight, with only three operational around the clock, the government has announced. |
Search and rescue fleet for sale Jump to media player The UK's Search and Rescue Helicopter fleet, which is currently run by the RAF and the Royal Navy, will be taken over by a private company. |
The UK's 18 coastguard stations are to be reduced to eight, with only three operational around the clock, the government has announced. |
Plans aiming to "improve levels of service while reducing costs" will see 24-hour centres in Aberdeen, Dover and the Southampton/Portsmouth area. |
Shipping Minister Mike Penning said the organisation of the coastguard dated back 40 years and "cannot stand still". |
The cuts raise concerns about safety around the UK's coastline, says Labour. |
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