Microsoft Develops Set-Top Box Microsoft has been developing designs for a simple set-top device for streaming video and other entertainment options. More
Amazon may be working on a smartphone with hologram-like 3D Amazon is reportedly developing a smartphone that sports a 3D screen that relies on retina-tracking technology to make images seem to float above the screen like a hologram. With the smartphone, users would be able to navigate through content by using their eyes alone, according to two unnamed people who discussed the phone with the Wall Street Journal. More
YouTube launches pay channels with campy flicks Roger Corman's campy B movies, children's shows like "Sesame Street" and "Inspector Gadget," and inspirational monologues by celebrities — these are among the 30 channels that will require a paid monthly subscription on YouTube coming soon. More
FCC moving forward on speedier in-flight Internet service U.S. federal telecommunications regulators are pushing ahead with efforts to bring faster Internet service to commercial and private airline flights. The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday started deliberations on a proposal that would offer a new type of in-flight broadband service promising U.S. More
Apple iPhone 15 Pro long-term review The iPhone 15 Pro shipped with iOS 17 last year and is running 17.4.1 at the time of this writing. iOS 17 has been less than ideal at times during ... 04/19/2024 - 4:29 am | View Link
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Google sacks 28 employees over Israel protest, Huawei announces Pura 70 series Google has sacked 28 employees who protested the technology giant’s work for the Israeli military by staging sit-ins ... 04/18/2024 - 4:14 am | View Link
Samsung reclaims crown as top smartphone seller, but how long until Apple retaliates? Samsung shipped 19.64 million units in Q1 2024, surpassing Apple's 17.51 million units sold, according to market analyst Counterpoint Research. This gives Samsung control of 20 percent of the global ... 04/17/2024 - 10:00 am | View Link
Tesla asks shareholders to back $56bn pay for Elon Musk rejected by judge Delaware court in nullified compensation deal based on carmaker’s market value in January, calling it ‘unfathomable sum’ ... 04/17/2024 - 3:46 am | View Link
Surprise: Despite the ByteDance app’s bad day, its competitors aren’t rallying like you might expect.
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed the TikTok ban into law, finally giving owner ByteDance its Choose Your Own American Adventure: It must either sell the immensely popular video-sharing platform or see it get banned in the U.
The social media company said it had a ‘good start to the year,’ but investors seem to think it wasn’t good enough.
Meta announced its first-quarter earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday. The company’s stock plunged 12% in after-hours trading, due to the company’s increased expenses and mediocre revenue projections.
Techno-optimism pervades governments and nongovernmental organizations, and influences the thinking of billionaires.
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen penned a 5,000-word manifesto in 2023 that gave a full-throated call for unrestricted technological progress to boost markets, broaden energy production, improve education and strengthen liberal democracy.
AI-generated images draw in users—and Facebook’s recommendation algorithm may be organically promoting these posts.
If you’ve spent time on Facebook over the past six months, you may have noticed photorealistic images that are too good to be true: children holding paintings that look like the work of professional artists, or majestic log cabin interiors that are the stuff of Airbnb dreams.
Remember, anything can happen with summer movies.
“Barbenheimer” is a hard act to follow. But as Hollywood enters another summer movie season, armed with fewer superheroes and a landscape vastly altered by the strikes, it’s worth remembering the classic William Goldman quote about what works: “Nobody knows anything.”
A year into the job, the rideshare CEO shares how he turned the company cash-flow positive and why he may pull out from Minneapolis.
When Lyft CEO David Risher took the helm of the rideshare company from cofounders Logan Green and John Zimmer a year ago, his mandate was clear: create a sustainable business by getting the perennial second-place rideshare company to stop bleeding money.