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From food and film to art, music and nature, here’s an epic sampling of ways to have some Bay Area fun in 2024. SF Tape Music Festival: Jan. 5-7, Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th St., San Francisco. America’s only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, SFTMF features four concerts of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions projected over a pristine surround system to an audience seated in complete darkness. $10-$50. sfsound.org/tape/ BritBeat – A Tribute to The…

Bankers, payment companies and hospitals have welcomed the RBI decision to raise the UPI payment limits to hospitals and educational institutions to Rs 5 lakh from Rs 1 lakh and also to hike the cap for e-mandates for recurring payments to Rs 1 lakh. Unveiling the monetary policy, Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das said the limit for various categories of unified payments interface (UPI) transactions has now been enhanced to Rs 5 lakh per transaction from the present Rs 1 lakh for payments to hospitals and educational…

Apple has announced the winners of the 2023 App Store Awards, listing the 14 best apps and games across different categories. Fitness-focussed hiking and biking app AllTrails has emerged as the best app on iPhone this year, while miHoYo's latest RPG gacha title Honkai: Star Rail has been named as the iPhone Game of the Year. Other winners include machine learning-powered editing app Photomator, souls-like action RPG Lies of P, and curated film streaming platform Mubi. Last month, Apple had announced a list of 40…

Fodor’s influential “No List” discouraged travelers from visiting the American West in 2023, citing the increasingly dry Colorado River and the millions of residents who depend on its water. But for 2024, the company’s travel experts have recommended one place in Colorado that should be on every vacationer’s bucket list. Boulder is one of 24 places to land on Fodor’s “Go List” for 2024 and one of just two destinations in the United States. The other is Cannon Beach, Ore. Fodor’s praised Boulder’s accessibility to…

On Wednesday, Apple unveiled its picks for the top apps and games of 2023, highlighting a collection that focuses heavily on personal exploration and growth. Apps honored in platform-specific categories included the outdoor exploration tool AllTrails for iPhone, the workout guide SmartGym for Apple Watch, beauty planning app Prêt-à-Makeup for iPad, and the arthouse-adjacent film streamer Mubi for Apple TV. Only in the Mac category, where the award went to photo-editing tool Photomator, did the company choose…

The outdoor recreation industry accounted for 2.2% of the nation’s GDP at $563.7 billion in 2022 and made up 2.8% of Colorado’s GDP at nearly $14 billion. The latest federal numbers on the industry also show that Colorado’s outdoor economy grew by 19.9% last year, the sixth largest increase nationwide. For the first time since the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis has released data on outdoor recreation, the industry’s sales crossed the $1 trillion mark. “This is a historic day for the outdoor economy,” Chris Perkins, vice…

FOR YEARS, Navarro Guerro, 25, searched long and hard for his dream cycling kit. You might think finding it would be easy given the rise of the “gorpcore” aesthetic, which saw black Arc’teryx rain shells and Klattermusen hiking pants become as covetable (and fashionable) as sneaker collaborations. Not for Guerro, a product engineer in Salt Lake City who said he finds much of this technical apparel garish, too often covered in shouty logos. He’s purchased a few different pairs of mountain-biking pants, he said, but doesn’t…

Apple is expected to manufacture a slightly smaller number of iPhone 15 handsets compared to the iPhone 14 last year, but the company is eyeing an increase in revenue when the device launches in the fall. How? Because it’s considering increasing the cost of the iPhone 15 Pro models. News of the possible price rise for the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max comes via a Bloomberg report on Monday, which cited “people familiar with the matter.” It chimes with a report last month from The Economic Times that suggested…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJulian Sands’s official cause of death was revealed by the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department on Monday 24 July.The 65-year-old British actor’s remains were discovered in late June more than five months after he failed to return from a hike in California’s Mount Baldy region on 13 January.Coroners have now officially ruled Sands’ cause of death as “undetermined”, police announced.“The…

watchOS 10 is the biggest update for the Apple Watch operating system yet. While watchOS 9 brought an important revamp to the Outdoor Running workout, this upcoming version improves Cycling and Hiking workouts, brings more metrics, collects more data to enhance your training, and adds third-party accessories integration. That’s in addition to all the other major tweaks and new design changes. Here’s what you can expect from watchOS 10 when you start new Cycling and Hiking workouts later this fall, or even…