Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Amazon’s business tends to oscillate between periods of extreme high-spending and extreme profitability, and the company is now fully in the former. Amazon posted third quarter earnings this afternoon, boasting sales of $70 billion and profit of $2.1 billion. While sales blew past analyst expectations, thanks largely to
Read MoreWe see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today. Read more… The 10 Best Deals of October 24, 2019 Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreThe company has been investing heavily to keep its giant core businesses growing at the expense of higher profits. Amazon Earnings: Profit Falls Sharply as Company Buys Growth Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWhen an airline overbooks a flight, they’ll tempt travelers with money, meals or overnight hotel stays in a last-ditch effort to avoid involuntarily bumping passengers. But how do overbooked hotels cope with this same problem? Read more… What to Do If Your Hotel Is Overbooked Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreCuriosity delivers a scenic, extra-special Martian selfie. NASA Mars Curiosity rover selfie celebrates rare scientific feat – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMicrosoft 365 commercial customers may need to buy more licenses than they’re anticipating in order to avoid trouble with the compliance police, Directions on Microsoft warns. Beware of potential hidden Microsoft 365 licensing costs Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: Intel beats with Q3 revenue of $19.19B, up 6% YoY, vs. $18.05B est., and Client Computing Group revenue of $9.7B, down 5% YoY; stock up 4%+ after hours — Intel stock jumped 8% in extended trading on Thursday after the chipmaker beat third-quarter earnings expectations and reignited revenue growth. Intel beats
Read More{$inline_image} Amazon: Amazon Q3: $70B revenue, up 24% YoY, net income of $2.1B, down from $2.9B in Q3 2018, AWS revenue of $9B, up from $6.7B in Q3 2018; stock down 7%+ after hours — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE) October 24, 2019—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2019.
Read MoreThe latest quarterly earnings and guidance badly miss Wall Street’s expectations, causing the stock to plummet. Amazon's next-day shipping ambitions are costing it a fortune – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWe know we’ll at least see the new GTI, even if the standard Golf won’t be sold in the US any longer. New Volkswagen Golf GTI due in a year's time – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s no secret that the hardware devices we buy are often more capable than their manufacturer leads on. Features hidden behind firmware locks are a common trick, as it allows companies to sell the same piece of gear as a different model by turning off certain capabilities. Luckily for us, these types of arbitrary limitations
Read MoreGoogle’s Pixel 4 and 4 XL smartphones officially launch tomorrow. While most people can probably set up their devices by themselves at this point, there’s one little setting you’ll want to know about if you’re big into shooting videos—it’ll help you save space on your device without sacrificing video quality. Read more… How to Reduce
Read MoreDungeons & Dragons may have dungeons and dragons, but its real secret sauce is other people. Dungeon masters and party members make campaigns fun and unpredictable, forcing players into high-stakes games of dice-fueled improv. What do you do, though, when you want to get in on the action, but you also have a bad, dumb…
Read MoreIf you are familiar with my oeuvre, you know that I have no qualms when it comes to replacing bread with potatoes. I love a classic, bread-based crouton, but I see no need to limit the genre to one type of carbohydrate. Read more… Tater Tots Are the New Croutons Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreUber is introducing an updated version of its colorful Beacon gadget, according to a filing with the Federal Communications Commission. The digital display is meant to sit on the car’s dashboard, and will glow a specific color that riders chose in the app to help them find the right car in crowded situations. The Beacon’s
Read MoreThe older or younger the student enrolling, the more certain he or she is about having chosen the right major, at least in the beginning, according to a survey from Ellucian. While more than half of Gen X (older) and Gen Z (younger) students were confident in their career paths when they enrolled (56 percent
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has admitted that, in the past, the platform was skewed to show more ads to users with fewer followers, as first reported by CNBC. The policy was intended to give popular users a better experience, incentivizing them to stay on the platform. “Historically, users with high follower
Read MoreGoogle’s Pixel 4 and 4 XL are the latest smartphones to jump on the high-refresh-rate craze, but when your new shiny Pixel is finally in your hand, you may find that its 90Hz screen isn’t always as smooth as you expected. Read more… How to Force Google's Pixel 4 to Always Use a 90Hz Refresh
Read MoreMicrosoft has shared its post-mortem on the October 18 MFA issue which affected a number of North American Azure and Office 365 users. Microsoft: Packet loss involving Apple Push Notification Service was latest MFA outage culprit Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreBang & Olufsen has a new, second-generation version of its Beoplay H4 headphones out today, offering an improved design, USB-C charging, and support for your phone’s voice assistant through a new dedicated hardware button and extra microphone. At $300, the original Beoplay H4 were some of the cheapest headphones Bang & Olufsen offered, and the
Read MoreFacebook is getting its own dedicated news tab later this week, apparently. The platform’s tricky relationship with news is now crystallizing into a partnership, in which Facebook will pay big publishers to post to the news tab. CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased this new announcement during his tete-a-tete with Congress this week: “Later in this week
Read More{$inline_image}IBM Research today revealed a breakthrough nanotechnology technique that allows researchers to position individual atoms and control their quantum properties. This could be a watershed moment on the path to generally useful quantum computers. The research team developed the technique in order to build a quantum computing simulator. Binary computers – like the kind you’re using
Read MoreWhat’s the weirdest computer you can think of? This one’s weirder. [Dr. Cockroach] figured out a way to create an inverting NOT gate from just one LED and two resistors (one being a photo-resistor). The Dr. has since built AND, NAND, OR, NOR, XOR and XNOR gates, as well as a buffer, incorporating light into
Read MoreTen percent of U.S. Twitter users are behind 97 percent of tweets that mention national politics, according to a Pew study. Most of the political tweets you see are from a minority of users, a Pew study says Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreWhat happens when an algorithm cuts your health care | Artist: William Joel A health care algorithm makes black patients substantially less likely than their white counterparts to receive important medical treatment. The major flaw affects millions of patients, and was just revealed in research published this week in the journal Science. The study does
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