Yifan Yu / Nikkei Asia: Apple’s Q2 revenue rose 15.3% YoY in Asia-Pacific, business in India grew by “very strong double digits”, but sales fell 2.9% in Greater China and 7.1% in Japan — iPhone maker logs double-digit growth in India, says market at ‘tipping point’ — Asia-Pacific, outside of Japan …
Read MoreEmily Bary / MarketWatch: Block reports Q1 revenue up 26% YoY to $4.99B, vs. $4.6B est., Square gross profit up 16% YoY to $770M, and Cash App gross profit up 49% YoY to $931M — Company raises full-year forecast on a profit metric — Block Inc. posted a big beat on an adjusted earnings metric
Read MoreA rendering of what a large “direct ocean capture” plant from Captura could look like. | Image: Caltech An audacious new effort to pull carbon dioxide out of the Pacific Ocean as a way to fight climate change is being backed by fossil fuel giants and Big Tech. But the nascent technology, called “direct ocean
Read MoreDatabase-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider DataStax is releasing a new support service for its open-source based unified events processing engine, Kaskada, that is aimed at helping enterprises build real-time machine learning applications. Dubbed LunaML, the new service will provide customers with “mission-critical support and offer options for incident response time as low as 15 minutes,” the company said,
Read MorePhoto by Becca Farsace / The Verge Apple surpassed Wall Street expectations and said it had reached an all-time high in services revenue and set a new March quarter record for iPhone revenue in a report on its second quarter earnings on Thursday. The numbers show continued demand for the iPhone 14 lineup even as
Read MoreTodd Spangler / Variety: Apple reports Q2 revenue for its Services segment, which includes Apple TV+ and Apple Music, grew 5.5% YoY to $20.9B and its board approves a $90B share buyback — But the tech giant topped Wall Street expectations and its services business hit a new record for sales, while iPhone revenue also
Read MoreDuring the pandemic, the ways we accessed and managed our money transformed. To be sure, in-person banking was dropping in popularity even before the start of the pandemic, while digital platforms were seeing a slow and steady rise: About 4 million users joined the digital banking world each year between 2017 and 2019, according to Statista. Though their popularity was beginning to wane, brick-and-mortar branches
Read MoreBill Peters / MarketWatch: Coinbase reports Q1 revenue down 34% YoY to $772.5M, vs. $655M est., net loss down 82% YoY to $78.9M, $145B in trading volume, vs. $147.7B est.; COIN jumps 8%+ — ‘The crypto industry continues to be volatile, as evidenced most recently by the disruptions in the banking sector and ongoing regulatory
Read MoreA rendering of what a large “direct ocean capture” plant from Captura could look like. | Image: Caltech An audacious new effort to pull carbon dioxide out of the Pacific Ocean as a way to fight climate change is being backed by fossil fuel giants and Big Tech. But the nascent technology, called “direct ocean
Read MoreErin Woo / The Information: Sources: OpenAI’s losses roughly doubled to ~$540M in 2022, and Sam Altman privately suggested the company may try to raise as much as $100B in the coming years — OpenAI’s losses roughly doubled to around $540 million last year as it developed ChatGPT and hired key employees from Google …
Read MoreApple: Apple reports Q2 revenue down 3% YoY to $94.84B, declining for a second quarter in a row but beating estimates of $92.96B, and net income down 3% YoY to $24.16B — Services revenue reaches new all-time high iPhone revenue sets March quarter record — CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today …
Read MoreKif Leswing / CNBC: Apple Q2 revenue: iPhone up 2% YoY to $51.33B, Mac down 31% YoY to $7.17B, iPad down 13% YoY to $6.67B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 1% to $8.76B — – Apple reported second-fiscal quarter earnings on Thursday that beat Wall Street’s soft expectations for sales and revenue …
Read MoreDavid Pierce / The Verge: Mozilla expands its Mastodon instance to a private beta with strict moderation, saying the company is “not building another self-declared ‘neutral’ platform” — If you want to be a member of Mozilla.Social, Mozilla’s new Mastodon instance, you’re not allowed to harass other users.
Read MoreChatGPT is an AI large language model (LLM) which specializes in conversation. While using it, [Gil Meiri] discovered that one way to create models in FreeCAD is with Python scripting, and ChatGPT could be encouraged to create a 3D model of a plane in FreeCAD by expressing the model as a script. The result is
Read MoreThis is the company that Pluto TV’s co-founder is reportedly working on. | Image: Telly The co-founder of Pluto TV, Ilya Pozin, wants to give away free ad-supported TVs — yes, you read that right. That’s according to a report from Janko Roettgers in his Lowpass newsletter, who says the free television set will come
Read MoreServiceNow and Hugging Face are releasing a free large language model (LLM) trained to generate code, in an effort to take on AI-based programming tools including Microsoft-owned GitHub Copilot, Google’s Bard AI and Amazon CodeWhisperer. Dubbed StarCoder, the open-access and royalty-free model can be deployed to bring pair‑programing and generative AI together with capabilities like
Read MoreAkash Sriram / Reuters: Lyft reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1B, net loss of $187.6M vs. $196.9M YoY, and active riders up 9.8% YoY to 19.5M; LYFT drops 13%+ on weak Q2 guidance — Lyft Inc’s (LYFT.O) forecast second-quarter revenue and core profit below estimates on Thursday amid tough competition from larger rival
Read MoreDenny Jacob / Wall Street Journal: DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 40% YoY to $2.04B, vs. $1.93B est., a $162M net loss, vs. $167M in Q1 2022, and total orders up 27% YoY to 512M — Food-delivery company’s revenue grows 40% to $2.04 billion, topping Wall Street estimates — DoorDash sales surged in the latest
Read MoreThe entire point of buying a robot vacuum is that you don’t have to clean anything yourself. But the vast majority of robot vacuums still require a lot of human interaction. All-in-one robot vacuums up the ante with auto-emptying dustbins, water tanks that empty and refill themselves, and auto-cleaning mop cloths. The new Roborock S8
Read MorePatches of floating plastic are teeming with life, and cleanup companies hauling trash out of the water risk destroying an aquatic habitat.
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Microsoft is helping finance AMD’s AI chip expansion and working with the chipmaker on Microsoft’s own processor for AI workloads, codenamed Athena — Microsoft Corp. is working with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on the chipmaker’s expansion into artificial intelligence processors …
Read MoreThe Pixel Fold was revealed in a tweet today. Here’s what we can discern for now.
Read MoreAre you a Platinum person or a Graphite person? | Image: Dell Dell has refreshed what might be its boldest and funkiest laptop, the XPS 13 Plus. The new model looks quite similar to the product released last year; the flat keyboard, LED function row, and invisible haptic touchpad remain. But inside, the new model
Read MoreWashington Post: Sources: Google, which published AI papers prolifically, in February moved to sharing only after the work had been productized, due to OpenAI’s ChatGPT launch — For years the tech giant published scientific research that helped jump-start its competitors. But now it’s lurched into defensive mode.
Read MoreIt’s been a running battle in some quarters for years, whether analog sensor processing is better than digital. Proponents of digital are sometimes driven by lack of familiarity with analog circuitry, while analog die-hards point to delays and software crashes in microcontrollers. We’d probably toe the line that a mixture of the two skills is
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