January 26th, 2021
Apple
Apple is celebrating Black History Month by amplifying Black creators, artists, developers and businesses across its various services and with an Apple Watch Black Unity Collection. A limited-edition Apple Watch Series 6 features the words Black Unity etched onto the back crystal.
The company says that members of the Black creative community worked with Apple to create a Watch Sport Band and Watch face in tribute to the fight for racial justice. The band has the phrase “Truth. Power. Solidarity.” etched onto the enclosure. Like the band, the Unity Watch face uses the colors of the Pan-African flag: red, green and black. Apple says the face was designed to honor the craft of quilting and that its pattern of shapes shifts as the Watch moves around.
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Apple celebrates Black History Month
To celebrate Black History Month, Apple is bringing customers a variety of new and updated collections and exclusive content that highlight and amplify Black creators, artists, developers, and businesses. From curated features across the App Store, Apple Music, the Apple TV app, Apple Books, and Apple Podcasts, to new Apple Maps Guides, the Apple Watch Black Unity Collection, Today at Apple sessions, and more, here is a look at what is in store across Apple’s products and services this February.
App Store
Throughout February, users can visit the App Store Black History Month Hub, which will spotlight Black-owned businesses, developers, entertainment and gaming apps, and social justice apps. The App Store will also feature stories with Black developers discussing the importance of representation in apps and games, with creators from ustwo games and Zynga.
Inquiry Into Alleged Foreign Funding of ‘Anti-Oilsands Campaigns’ Will Soon Deliver Report
Alberta’s public inquiry into the role foreign money may be playing in undermining the energy sector will deliver its report at the end of January.
Accountant Steve Allan has been tasked with the inquiry’s mandate to examine “whether any foreign organization that has evinced an intent harmful or injurious to the Alberta oil and gas industry has provided financial assistance to a Canadian organization.” Special attention is to be paid to any Canadian organization that has spread “misleading or false information” about that industry, received grants from any level of government in Canada, or has charitable status in Canada.
Jackson Co. EMA gets $37,596 grant for new tech
The Jackson County Emergency Management Agency is set to order new tech to speed up search and rescue operations.
Posted: Jan 15, 2021 4:59 PM
Updated: Jan 15, 2021 6:12 PM
Posted By: Sierra Phillips
The Jackson County Emergency Management Agency is set to order new tech to speed up search and rescue operations. We have a large management area and a lot of open lands around that where there s just no cell service and radio communication is difficult, said Eddie Tigue, captain of the Scottsboro-Jackson County Rescue Squad.
Tigue explained that the lack of cell service in some areas makes it hard to communicate with their team and can slow down a rescue.