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The 'alkaline diet' claims your food can fix your body's pH — it can't. Here's what your body's acid-alkaline balance actually is, and what diet really can do.
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A year after Steve Jobs's death, readers shared the lesser-known stories — the India trip, the calligraphy class, the human behind the legend.
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Tim Cook's September 2012 open letter apologizing for the disastrous Apple Maps launch — sorry, direct users to rivals, and promise an incredibly high standard.
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With the iPhone 5 launched and Steve Jobs gone a year, Apple needed a creative voice. The case for Jonathan Ive stepping up — written days after launch.
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After winning a $1.05B verdict, Apple gave a judge a list of eight Samsung phones it wanted banned from the U.S. - including several Galaxy S2 models.
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In August 2012, Apple stock hit $665.15 and its market cap reached $624 billion - the most valuable company in Wall Street history.
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A German court extended Apple's EU-wide ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 but let the redesigned Tab 10.1N stand, days before the US patent trial began.
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Apple paid $60 million in July 2012 to settle with Shenzhen Proview over the iPad trademark in China, clearing the way to sell the tablet in a key market.
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In May 2012 IBM banned Siri on company devices — voice data went to Apple's servers, and nobody could audit it. The caution turned out to be prescient.
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In April 2012, Korean IT News reported Apple's iPhone 5 might use Liquidmetal alloy — the rumor fizzled; the iPhone 5 shipped in aluminum that September.
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The Two and a Half Men star was cast as Steve Jobs in the indie biopic Jobs, announced in April 2012 — a year before it premiered at Sundance.
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Walter Isaacson, Jobs's biographer, distilled his subject's leadership into 14 imperatives for the April 2012 Harvard Business Review. Here they are.
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Apple's 2012 third-generation iPad brought the Retina display, A5X chip, and 4G LTE. The specs that made the iPad 2's screen look soft overnight.
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In May 2011, Fortune's Adam Lashinsky published the most penetrating portrait yet of Jobs-era Apple — startup culture at the largest scale in business.
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Google's Vic Gundotra shared the famous 'Icon Ambulance' story after Steve Jobs's 2011 resignation — a Sunday call about a yellow gradient, and a lesson in
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Steve Jobs resigned as Apple CEO in August 2011. History offers four precedents — Disney, Walton, Ford, and Gates — for what happens when the founder leaves.
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Reuters reported in August 2011 that Apple's Asian suppliers were building a cheaper 8GB iPhone 4 — a play for emerging markets ahead of the iPhone 4S.
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Stephen Elop's leaked 'burning platform' memo of February 2011: the most brutally honest corporate memo ever, and the prelude to Nokia's Microsoft deal.
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Steve Jobs at 30, weeks after leaving Apple: a candid 1985 Newsweek interview on getting fired, staying unbitter, and why customers cannot invent the future.
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On January 11, 2011, Verizon announced the CDMA iPhone 4 at New York's Lincoln Center — ending AT&T's exclusive hold on the iPhone.
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Thinner, lighter, cameras at last, a faster chip: the late-2010 iPad 2 rumor mill turned out to be mostly right when Apple delivered in March 2011.
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With the holidays approaching and iPad adoption outpacing every technology before it, the tablet is becoming something new: the computer the whole family
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One of the original Apple I computers — sold from the Jobs garage in 1976 for $666.66 — fetched $210,000 at a Christie's London auction this week.
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