Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is no longer just closing one store in China over coronavirus worries — Apple is closing them all. The company is shutting down all its corporate offices, stores, and contact centers in mainland China through February 9th, according to a statement provided to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Apple
Read MoreThe Indian government said today it plans to invest ₹8000 crores ($1.12 billion) in quantum computing research over five years. The country’s finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, said the scheme will boost the research for technology under the National Mission of Quantum Technology and Application project. India’s investment comes quite late as plenty of nations have already
Read MoreFor a moment, it looked Roku owners would be losing the highest-quality way to stream the Super Bowl for free, when the set-top box maker announced Thursday that it would abruptly pull Fox’s apps off the platform a day ahead of the game. But that won’t actually be happening. Late Friday, Roku and Fox announced
Read MoreJason Snell / Six Colors: Apple’s performance in 2019 across hardware, software, and services is rated and critiqued by a 65-person panel, including writers, developers, and podcasters — It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors … Apple's performance in 2019
Read MoreIDC: Global tablet shipments declined 1.5% YoY to 144.1M units in 2019; Apple’s shipments grew 15.2% YoY to 49.9M units during the year — The worldwide tablet market declined 0.6% year over year during the fourth quarter of 2019 (4Q19) as global shipments fell to 43.5 million units … Global tablet shipments declined 1.5% YoY
Read MoreWe’ve all got a pretty good mental image of what an arcade cabinet looks like, so you probably don’t need to be reminded that traditionally they are single-screen affairs. But that idea dates back to when they were built around big and bulky CRT displays. Now that we have modern LCD, LED, and OLED panels,
Read MoreAndrea Noble / Route Fifty: FCC approves $20.4B Rural Digital Opportunity Fund to deploy rural broadband but Democratic FCC commissioners warn it won’t help many areas that need internet — In this April 30, 2015 photo, Sylvia Fonseca, 16, works in the computer lab at Cuyama Valley High School in California. FCC approves .4B Rural
Read MoreJason Gurwin / The Streamable: Roku says it has settled its carriage dispute with Fox to distribute Fox channels on the Roku platform ahead of the Super Bowl — At midnight tonight, it was expected that Roku would remove the FOX Now, FOX Sports, FOX News, FOX Business, FOX Nation, Big 10 Network, and FOX
Read MoreThe search giant is remembering the Greensboro Sit-In on the first day of Black History Month. Google Doodle honors huge civil rights moment in a small package – CNET Source: CNet
Read More{$inline_image} Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: The Bouqs, a US-based flower delivery startup, raises $30M from Japanese company Yamasa to expand in Japan, bringing its total raised to $74M — The Bouqs plans to take a slice of Japan’s $6 billion flower market this year with a $30 million strategic growth round from Japanese enterprise business
Read More{$inline_image} Our friend [Hunter Scott] gave a talk at a past Supercon about created phased array antennas. He mentioned he was looking for collaborators to create an antenna with the SiBeam SB9210 chip. This is a specialized chip for WirelessHD, a more or less failed video streaming protocol, and it’s essentially an entire 60 GHz
Read MorePhones are rounded rectangles now. Have been for years — ever since the iPhone killed the QWERTY slider dead. They’re getting rounder and rounder, in fact, as manufacturers continue to figure out how to bend OLED screens and raw metals to their will. They’re far too samey, unless you count an array of sci-fi inspired
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter says it has permanently suspended markets blog Zero Hedge’s Twitter account, @zerohedge, for violating the company’s platform manipulation policy. On Wednesday, Zero Hedge posted a blog that doxxed a Chinese scientist and strongly suggested without evidence that the scientist created the strain of coronavirus that’s currently spreading
Read MoreThe Facebook CEO wants be understood rather than liked. Mark Zuckerberg thinks this is the biggest misconception about him – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRockets to Mars and electric cars are old news. Musk is now a musician, it seems. Of the EDM variety. Tesla's Elon Musk dropped an EDM song called 'Don't Doubt ur Vibe' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Dan Seifert / The Verge In our review of the Amazon Echo Show 5 smart display, Dan called it the “smart alarm clock to get.” But I think I might move mine to the kitchen, right next to the garbage can. That’s partly because Amazon has just added the ability for the Echo
Read MorePhoto by James Bareham / The Verge A California man has pled guilty to hacking Nintendo’s servers to steal confidential files, including taking information about the Nintendo Switch months before it was announced, the US Department of Justice revealed today. According to the DOJ, Ryan Hernandez, 21, and an associate phished a Nintendo employee in
Read MoreThe 5VM package proved to be a popular option among C8 buyers, despite costing the better part of $5,000. 2020 C8 Chevy Corvette visible carbon option canned due to supplier issues – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Twitter announced a subtle design change to its iOS app today that may go a long way in both making conversations easier to parse and to join. The change, which looks like it’s a change on Twitter’s end that does not require an update, is to the
Read MoreA 14-day quarantine has been announced by the CDC. US declares coronavirus a public health emergency – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThis 13.3-inch touchscreen laptop is a CNET favorite, and it looks even better when it’s 35% off. Reach out and touch a Dell XPS 13 for just 4 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreReview: Miss Americana gives an intimate look at the superstar’s life as she embarks on a new chapter energized by love and politics. In Netflix documentary Miss Americana, Taylor Swift's done being polite – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA couple of (expensive) movie ad spots have already arrived online. You can also expect trailers from Black Widow, Fast & Furious 9, and more. Super Bowl 2020 movie and TV trailers: Sonic the Hedgehog, F9 and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDisney Randy Freer is stepping down from his role as Hulu CEO as Disney moves to consolidate it’s direct-to-consumer business under its own executives. Part of the decision to roll Hulu’s business operations into Disney’s direct-to-consumer division is to help “rapidly grow our presence outside the US,” according to a company press release put out
Read More{$inline_image} Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The Department of Justice is taking a new approach to robocalls, seeking approval to hold telecommunications companies responsible for calls on their networks instead of just going after the often-overseas criminals who actually do the dialing. The companies identified by the DOJ allowed two groups with ties
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