Amazon’s fast-growing cloud division couldn’t help its parent company avoid posting its first quarterly loss since 2015. Amazon Web Services saw revenue grow by 37% to $18.4 billion for the first quarter of 2022. That amounted to an operating profit of $6.5 billion, which was up 57% year-on-year and outpaced analyst expectations by almost $1
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple TV+ has reportedly signed two new stars for the second season of Slow Horses. Aimee-Ffion Edwards and Kadiff Kirwan are both reportedly in line for roles in the new season. There is no indication of when the second season of the popular Apple TV+ show will debut. That second
Read MoreRita Liao / TechCrunch: China’s VisionNav Robotics, which makes autonomous forklifts and other logistics robots, raises a ~$76M Series C extension led by Meituan and 5Y Capital — Industrial robotics has in recent years become one of the hottest tech sectors in China as the country encourages the use of advanced technology …
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple TV+ has shared a new first look video for the second season of Tehran. The second season of Tehran will debut on May 6, 2022. The first season is already available to stream in full ahead of the big premiere. The second season of Tehran is shaping up to
Read MoreLinda Sui / Strategy Analytics: Strategy Analytics: global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q1; Samsung led the market with a 24% share, a five-year high, and Apple had an 18% share — According to new research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments fell -11% YoY to 314 million units in Q1 2022.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A few years back, I was working as a freelancer for a company that was trying to develop a US market for its rather obscure hardware products and needed a native English speaker to tweak the text on its site. Everything was going swimmingly until my second week
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Read MoreGood morning! Before we start, you have to guess how much Apple made from iPhone sales in the first three months of the year. Just a guess! Answer below… Pixy takes flight
Read MoreYou probably know what a cyberdeck is by now, but you’ll find that people’s definitions differ. Some use the term rather loosely, applying it to things that are luggable at best. But we think you’ll agree that [Daniel Norris]’ chonky palmtop is without a doubt, quite cyberdeckian. One of the hallmarks of a cyberdeck is
Read MoreTracy Qu / South China Morning Post: Sources: China is preparing to end the regulatory crackdown over big tech and give the sector a bigger role to help boost the ailing economy — A symposium involving Chinese Big Tech has been scheduled after the Labour Day holiday to assure business leaders on the new direction
Read More(Photo: Adamant Namiki Precision Jewel Co., Ltd)A company in Japan that specializes in jewelry has teamed up with researchers to create a mind-blowing storage breakthrough. The team was able to manufacture a two-inch diamond disk intended for quantum computing. It’s the largest diamond storage device ever created, capable of holding up to 25 exabytes of
Read MoreIllustration by William Joel / The Verge Top Twitch streamers are voicing their anger about reported plans by the Amazon-owned platform to boost profits by cutting pay-outs in its partnerships program. As reported by Bloomberg News, Twitch is considering a number of changes to increase the revenue it collects from its most popular streamers. These
Read MoreJennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Report finds Amazon and third parties collect data from interactions with Alexa through Echo speakers and share it with as many as 41 advertising partners — Amazon and third parties use data from smart speakers to sell you stuff, says report — A report released last week contends …
Read MoreWhen Jurassic World: Dominion’s last trailer was released, my colleague Chaim Gartenberg boldly argued that he wasn’t at all scared by the prospect of a dino-infested future. “Humans have things like armies and weapons and walls and cities. We’ve grown pretty good at the whole “keeping animals away from us” strategy,” he wrote. “Sure, Jurassic
Read MoreThe nation follows the UK in permitting mitochondrial donation, which aims to prevent the transmission of rare but often fatal conditions.
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Read MoreOne simple, clicky button. | Photo by Mitchell Clark / The Verge In the age of aesthetically pleasing morning routines, a cheap electric coffee maker can feel a bit dated — something to begrudgingly use at the office rather than a gadget that brings joy to your kitchen. And while I love the fancy coffee
Read MoreIn 2011, James Dixon, then CTO of the business intelligence company Pentaho, coined the term data lake. He described the data lake in contrast to the information silos typical of data marts, which were popular at the time: If you think of a data mart as a store of bottled water—cleansed and packaged and structured for
Read MoreIt’s no surprise that the top tech companies are also the top cloud companies. It’s also no surprise that these top tech companies are making big investments in green energy. Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are now the three largest buyers of solar and wind power, according to new data from BloombergNEF, and they easily outdistance all other
Read MoreWhat you need to know “It’s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown” is now streaming on Apple TV+. The 1976 Peanuts special has made its streaming debut on Apple’s streaming service. It celebrates environmentalism by turning a baseball field into a garden. The gang throws Peppermint Patty off her game in this one. “It’s Arbor Day, Charlie
Read MoreA new report has detailed how some North Koreans rooted their Android phones. Escapees said people rooted their phones to install unauthorized apps and consume unauthorized media files. Android phones in North Korea are subjected to plenty of restrictions and surveillance software, but it turns out that some citizens are taking matters into their own
Read MoreNew York Times: China’s lockdown outrage tests state propaganda limits in Shanghai, where internet-savvy residents overwhelmed censors’ ability to keep up with critical posts — Public anger and grief over the bungled lockdown in Shanghai is creating a credibility crisis for the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, and his zero Covid policies.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Central African Republic (CAR) has become the second-ever country to adopt Bitcoin as a national currency, following El Salvador’s adoption of the cryptocurrency last year. CAR’s government says a bill to adopt Bitcoin was passed unanimously by the country’s parliament, reports Reuters and BBC News. (Though former
Read MoreThe value of the nonprofit’s first cryptocurrency has tanked, and users claim they’ve lost money, but it’s still expanding to other cities.
Read MoreVisual Look Up is an iOS 15 feature that lets you get information on various things in your photos. Here’s how to use it. There are many improvements to existing features in iOS 15, including FaceTime, Messages, Focus, and more. Some of the brand new features include Live Text and Visual Look Up, which kind
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