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Apple will begin opening its American retail stores next week. The reopening of its 271 US locations — which have been shuttered in March due to the coronavirus — will be gradual, starting with six stores in Alabama, Alaska, South Carolina and Idaho, the company said. “We’re excited to begin reopening stores in the US …

Rap legend Nas has paid tribute to his Queens protégé Kiing Shooter, who died this week, reportedly of complications from the coronavirus. “This is never easy. One of Queensbridge’s finest,” Nas’ Street Dreams Records, Nas’ label with his brother Jungle, wrote on Instagram Tuesday when confirming the 24-year-old rising star’s death. “Rest in paradise,” they …

Someone’s on the other line. Rulon Gardner will call right back. It has been nearly 20 years since you first met the legend, who outmuscled logic and outlasted an immortal. It was in Sydney where the first line of a 29-year-old’s obituary was written, where Gardner pulled “The Miracle on the Mat” by handing Aleksandr …

In rolling out their coronavirus tracking system to developers, Apple and Google have confirmed that it will ban location tracking by other official apps. But the decision, which prioritizes privacy and preventing governments from using the system to compile data on citizens, could complicate things for state governments looking to track coronavirus outbreaks. State governments …

Apple on Monday unveiled a new 13-inch MacBook Pro, officially discontinuing its last remaining model with the much-hated “butterfly” keyboard. The new Pro, which starts at $1,299, features a keyboard modeled after the company’s popular Magic Keyboard that’s based on an older, scissor-like mechanism. Apple four months ago released a 16-inch MacBook Pro model with …

Piers Morgan announced Sunday that he fears he has the coronavirus. “On medical advice, and out of an abundance of caution for a mild symptom that arose in past 48hrs, I’ve had a test for COVID-19,” tweeted the British former star of “America’s Got Talent” and “Celebrity Apprentice.” The 55-year-old journalist did not detail what …

There appears to be some Bumble BS afoot. Common and Tiffany Haddish seem to have signed a — no doubt lucrative — endorsement deal with the dating site, and the new couple has been helping the dating app to promote its remote video dating feature during the lockdown. Except they are together. “While we are …

“Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” newbie Garcelle Beauvais ruffled a few feathers during her recent appearance on “Watch What Happens Live,” namely those of co-star Kyle Richards. During her virtual Q&A with host Andy Cohen, the actress, 53, answered a series of quick-fire questions about her new castmates. During the game, she named Richards, 51, …

Apple reported sales and profits that beat Wall Street expectations Thursday, with Chief Executive Tim Cook saying China sales were “headed in the right direction” as that country reopens from the novel coronavirus. But Cook said it was impossible to forecast overall results for the current quarter because of uncertainty created by the virus. Few …

Global smartphone production is seeing its biggest-ever slump as the coronavirus pandemic has smothered global demand. Industry firm TrendForce said it expects production to dip 16.5 percent year-over-year to 287 million phones in the June quarter, continuing a slide that saw output drop 10 percent in the March quarter, when the outbreak spread and peaked …