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Workers at Apple’s Towson Town Center store in Maryland have voted to unionize, with 65 yeses and 33 nos. Around 110 employees were eligible to vote in the election. The store is the first Apple retail location in the US to hold a union election, after organizers in Atlanta withdrew their petition to hold a union vote, which had been scheduled to take place in early May. Organizing at the Towson store has been done by a group of employees that called themselves AppleCORE (an acronym for Coalition of Organized Retail…

Four months on from the “Queen / Aim” double single with bb, Sainté continues the theme of collaboration with new single “East”. For this one he’s cast his eye across the pond, teaming up with Maryland rhymer Joony who’s on a prolific run of his own (seven mixtapes in three years, to be precise).With the help of producers Parker Jazz and Brad Baker, Sainté’s tapped into a similar vibe to some of the tracks on Summer Is Blue: lots of bass, lots of melody, and the contrast between fast flows and laid-back beats. Bringing…

Residents of Maryland can now to Apple Wallet on and . Users there will be able to verify their identity digitally, though there are limited use cases for the Maryland Mobile ID program for now. At present, IDs in Wallet are only really useful at certain Transportation Security Administration checkpoints at some US airports. When asked for ID by a TSA agent, you'll be able to review the requested information then tap your phone or smartwatch against a reader. Apple says it designed the feature with a focus on security…

Apple has now made support for digital driver’s licenses in Apple Wallet available in Maryland, just under a year after initially announcing the first few states it would be coming to. The Wallet app update launched in Arizona earlier this year, with Connecticut, Iowa, Oklahoma, Utah, Kentucky, Colorado, Hawaii, Mississippi, Ohio, and the territory of Puerto Rico expected to follow in the coming months. Digital driver’s licenses are an effort to turn the Apple Wallet into a true wallet replacement. Rather than simply…

Apple’s Wallet app now supports Maryland state IDs and driver licenses, marking it as the second state after Arizona to gain the digital identification feature (via MacRumors). Residents of the Free State can now use their iPhone or Apple Watch at certain TSA checkpoints at participating airports, including Baltimore / Washington International and Reagan National. The iPhone won’t carry a “picture” of the card, only a means to transmit info to a receiving device — and you use biometrics to confirm the information being…

Drivers in Maryland can now take advantage of an iPhone feature that allows them to put their license into the Wallet app. That same feature is also available via the Apple Watch, too. The feature, which first launched in Arizona in March, allows people to add their driver's license to the wallet app in a way that's similar to adding a card for Apple Pay. Adding a card is very similar — the process begins by tapping the '+' icon in the wallet app and following the on-screen instructions. Those in Maryland can learn more…

A Maryland man who lived with a transplanted, genetically-modified pig's heart for two months may have died due to a virus that targets feral animals, The New York Times reported Thursday.  Dr. Bartley Griffith, a surgeon focused on transplants at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, performed the animal-to-human surgery on the patient, David Bennett Sr., and also reported the complication as the patient's health torpedoed.The procedure initially had been deemed a success. It took place in January 2022, after…

Customers walk past an Apple logo inside of an Apple store at Grand Central Station in New York.Lucas Jackson | ReutersWorkers at an Apple store in Maryland are taking steps to unionize, CNBC confirmed Tuesday. It's the third store to effort a campaign, setting up a potential labor battle with Apple.Organizers at the Towson Mall location, which is near Baltimore, have been coordinating with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The group has signatures from more than 65% of employees who would…

A group of employees at an Apple store in Maryland started a drive to form a union on Tuesday, the Washington Post reported.Organisers at the Towson Mall store near Baltimore said they had signatures from more than 65 percent of employees who are likely to be eligible, according to the report.The union intends to file paperwork with the National Labour Relations Board in the coming days, the Washington Post said.Apple did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.Workers at an Apple store in Atlanta in…