Apple CEO Tim Cook Plugs ‘Wolfs’, ‘Palm Royale’, ‘Sugar’ & IPhone Sales In Mainland China Apple saw a solid March quarter with service a standout and dips in iPhone and China sales less than expected. 05/2/2024 - 10:12 pm | View Link
Apple earnings: About that iPhone ‘slump’ in China Apple told us then that it realized about $5 billion in iPhones sales ... So, it is very good for us. “And then and certainly the numbers are getting larger all the time. And so the gap as you compare ... 05/2/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Apple Reports Decline in Sales and Profit Amid iPhone Struggles in China The company continues to lean on customers’ appetite for apps and services, as demand for its devices weakens. 05/2/2024 - 11:18 am | View Link
Apple Services Revenue Rises 14% to New Record, iPhone Sales Drop Amid Weakness in China Apple's services revenue reached a new record for the March 2024 quarter, but iPhone sales dropped amid weak demand in the China region. 05/2/2024 - 9:37 am | View Link
Apple set for big sales decline as investors await AI in iPhones Apple's plan to add generative AI to its iPhones and revive sagging sales in the crucial Chinese market will be in focus on Thursday, when the tech giant is expected to report its biggest quarterly ... 05/1/2024 - 9:16 am | View Link
With summer movie season upon us, theaters are looking to draw crowds with a new interactive lobby attraction.
A long line to get into the theater is fairly standard for a hot movie in its opening weekend. A long line just to engage with a film’s lobby display, however, is not standard at all.
The housing market saw a 30% increase in active inventory in April, but that’s still 35% below pre-pandemic levels.
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In the past few days, you may have noticed something new inside Meta’s apps, including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp: an artificially intelligent chatbot.
Within those apps, you can chat with Meta AI and type in questions and requests like “What’s the weather this week in New York?” or “Write a poem about two dogs living in San Francisco.” The assistant will come up with responses immediately, such as “The corgi was short, with a butt so wide, the lab was tall, with a tongue that would glide.” You can also instruct Meta AI to produce pictures — like an illustration of a family watching fireworks.
This is Meta’s response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the chatbot that upended the tech industry in 2022, and similar bots including Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Bing AI.
Builders are finally making a dent in the state’s housing shortfall, especially for apartments. But home prices and mortgage rates continue to outpace income gains, and affordability is worsening rather than improving.
“The story with interest rates is that they are only exacerbating the problem,” said Steven Byers, chief economist with the Common Sense Institute in Denver.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — On a Monday morning last month, tech executives, engineers and sales representatives from Amazon, Google, TikTok and other companies endured a three-hour traffic jam as their cars crawled toward a mammoth conference at an event space in the desert, 50 miles outside Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The lure: billions of dollars in Saudi money as the kingdom seeks to build a tech industry to complement its oil dominance.
To bypass the congestion, frustrated eventgoers drove onto the highway shoulder, kicking up plumes of desert sand as they sped past those following traffic rules.
A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said last month.
Authorities said the case appears to be among the first of its kind in the country and called for new laws to guard against the technology.