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Here’s how Wall Street reacted to Apple’s Q1 earnings
Apple’s fiscal first-quarter earnings report was the very definition of a mixed bag. On one hand, the company managed to rake in record revenue totaling $88.3 …
Bitcoin plummets to nearly $8,000 as all cryptos slide to new lows
Bitcoin dipped below $10,000 on Thursday, for the third time in a matter of weeks, taking the whole crypto market down with it. New regulation …
These are the audio sources Apple’s HomePod will support at launch
After a multi-week delay, Apple’s HomePod is now available for pre-order, with deliveries expected to begin on February 9. While many of the early HomePod …
Amazon patents bracelets that can monitor the hands of a warehouse worker
Amazon this week has been issued two patents for a bracelet that can track the movements of a warehouse worker’s hands in real time. First …
Cancer breakthrough eliminates tumors in mice with simple injection
Meaningful progress in the battle against cancer can seem hard to come by, but new testing by researchers at Stanford might offer an incredible boost. …
Apple posts monster earnings with $88.3 billion in revenue; iPhone sales fall short
Apple today posted its earnings report for the recent holiday quarter and the numbers, as expected, are beyond impressive. For the quarter gone by, Apple …
Whales can mimic human speech, and you have to hear it to believe it
We’ve known for some time that orca whales are incredibly intelligent creatures, capable of advanced social behaviors and coordinated hunting efforts, but new research has …
The ‘failing’ iPhone X pushed Apple’s manufacturing partner to its best December in years
Foxconn, Apple’s primary iPhone assembler and the company’s biggest manufacturing partner, reported December revenue that was up 50 percent year-on-year, largely driven by iPhone X …
Top 4 ways Extreme Networks is transforming live experiences at events like Super Bowl LII
Anyone who goes to stadium events like concerts and football games knows that the event itself is only half the fun. Smartphones have become an …
SpaceX’s rocket survived an emergency landing that was supposed to destroy it
SpaceX is a household name thanks to its ability to perform gravity-defying landings of its used rocket boosters on drone ships. But yesterday’s mission was …
Researcher discovers incredibly rare ‘sea monster’ fossil hiding in a private collection
Fossil hunting can be a tricky thing, especially when you’re searching for examples of a new species whose existence is still in question, but paleontologist …
Scientist finds dinosaur tracks in NASA’s actual backyard
When you think about the best places to find evidence of dinosaurs, the grounds surrounding a NASA facility probably aren’t the first thing that comes …
Stop us if you’ve heard this before: Bitcoin is tanking right now
Welcome to the second major Bitcoin bloodbath of 2018. The price of Bitcoin dropped below the $10,000 mark yet again on Thursday, making this the …
Mark Zuckerberg brags that people now spend less time on Facebook than before
It’s unusual for the CEO of a social network or an ad-based business to brag users are spending less time on the product the company …
Drones can fix our forest problem by planting 100,000 trees a day
We’re so good and so busy at cutting down trees that we can’t possibly make up for the forests we lose each year by replanting …
What’s happening to Google Fiber?
At one point, Google Fiber was going to be our savior from Big Cable. Roll the clock back three years, and it seemed that it …
Orange crocodiles that swim in bat poop are turning into a new species
A very special kind of crocodile calls the Abanda caves in Gabon, Africa, home. The creatures are African dwarf crocodiles, but they might not be …
CEO of alleged $600 million crypto fraud: ‘I can sleep at night knowing that I did my best’
Crypto-currencies are, to put it mildly, exploding right now. The rise of Bitcoin is thoroughly documented, but a hundred thousands other companies are piling it …
The sad state of Android: Google removed over 700,000 bad apps last year
Google just released a security update on its Android blog in which it reveals how it fought bad apps this year, revealing it combined new …
2018 could finally be the year Sprint’s network becomes good
Sprint has comfortably occupied the plucky underdog role among wireless carriers for the last five years. Its low prices and cheeky ads are out of …
Nintendo Switch lifetime sales have already topped those of the Wii U
In just ten months, the Nintendo Switch has surpassed its predecessor’s lifetime sales. More Switch consoles have been sold than the Wii U managed to …
Google can now predict if your flight is going to be delayed
Earlier this month, I had a flight from New York City to Atlanta. I arrived at the airport about an hour and a half before …
Meet the Swiss startup with a VR glove that wowed CES
Following a warm reception at CES this year, a Swiss-based startup called Sensoryx in a few weeks is planning to launch an Indiegogo campaign to …
Lost NASA satellite wakes up after being declared ‘dead’ 13 years ago
NASA has had a pretty great string of luck when it comes to spacecraft reliability as of late. The Cassini probe around Saturn proved to …
Researchers discover how roosters prevent themselves from going deaf from their own crowing
If you’ve ever lived on or near a farm that raises chickens you probably already know just how incredibly loud roosters are. The old depictions …
Check out these gorgeous photos of this morning’s Super Blue Blood Moon
This biggest skywatching event of 2018 (so far) has wrapped up and the rare Super Blue Blood Moon is now in the history books. The …
$1,000 iPhone X was called crazy – now people are worried iPhone prices won’t keep rising
Talk about “damned if you do, damned if you don’t.” Apple unveiled the tenth-anniversary iPhone X last September, and people lost their minds when the …
Bitcoin slides below $10,000 just as Korea and Facebook announce new crypto cash policies
Those brave crypto traders who remember with angst the great Bitcoin crash from mid-January 2018 will now have to deal with a dreaded sequel. Bitcoin …
An infected lab monkey escaped its cage at the University of Pittsburgh and is now at the center of a heated legal drama
An infected monkey escaping its cage sounds like the beginning of a very bad horror movie, but that low-effort plot point became reality at the …
