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Apple reports Q3 revenue of $53.8B, up 1% YoY, record Services revenue of $11.5B, up from $10.2B YoY, iPhone revenue of $26B, down from $29.5B YoY; stock up 4%+ — Company Revenue Sets June Quarter Record Services Revenue Reaches New All-Time High — Apple today announced financial results …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
iPhone is less than half of Apple's revenue for the first time since 2012; Mac had Q3 revenue of $5.8B, up from $5.3B YoY, iPad's rose to $5B, up from $4.6B — Apple is diversifying ahead of major services coming this fall — Apple today reported its fiscal third quarter 2019 earnings …
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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Tim Cook says the Apple Card will launch in August — KEY POINTS — The Apple Card is launching in partnership with Goldman Sachs and will provide detailed information on purchases in the iPhone's Wallet app. — Apple may use the credit card to build more financial services into the Wallet app in the future.| Megan Scudellari / IEEE Spectrum: |
Researchers from UCSF and Facebook Reality Labs have successfully decoded question-and-answer dialogue from brain signals in real time, via brain implants — The project is the first to decode question-and-answer speech from brain signals in real time — In 2017, Facebook's Mark Chevillet …
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| Bloomberg: |
A researcher's tip to Capital One about leaked data led to the arrest of ex-Amazon employee Paige Thompson, who prosecutors say boasted online of her exploits — - Former Amazon employee stole data, boasted online, U.S. says — ‘I gotta find somewhere to store it,’ hacker allegedly wrote
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
AMD reports Q2 revenue of $1.53B, down 13% YoY, net income of $35M, and third-quarter guidance below Wall Street expectations; stock down 4%+ after hours — AMD projected third quarter revenue of about $1.8 billion, give or take $50 million. Wall Street expected AMD to report revenue of $1.95 billion.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple, Microsoft, Google to test CARIN Blue Button API, a newly-proposed standard for giving patients digital access to historical health insurance claims data — A newly released data model and draft implementation guide for providing digital access to historical health insurance claims data directly …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Waze now lets Carpool drivers invite up to four other riders to join a carpool; previously, riders beyond the first had to initiate requests to join a carpool — Waze, the community navigation app owned by Google, now allows Carpool users to invite multiple people to join a ride.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Chrome 76 arrives with Flash blocked by default, a new safeguard to prevent Incognito mode detection, PWA improvements, and more — Google today launched Chrome 76 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. The release includes Adobe Flash blocked by default, Incognito mode detection disabled … | Scott Scrivens / Android Police: |
Sony and LG still struggled to sell smartphones in Q2 2019, with LG reporting mobile division sales of $1.38B, down 21% YoY — It's that joyous time of the year when we're bombarded with long, boring press releases with lots of numbers on that tell how terrible a company is doing …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google Project Zero researchers publish details and demo exploit code for five of six “interactionless” iOS security bugs; iOS 12.4 patched all but one of them — The six bugs, if sold on the black market, would have brought in well over $5 million.
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| Rani Molla / Vox: |
Google employees have donated more to Elizabeth Warren than any other presidential candidate; some staffers think antitrust action wouldn't hurt Google's value — Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders want to break up Google. That isn't stopping Googlers from donating to their presidential campaigns.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Sony Q1: 3.2M PS4s sold, 100M sold since launch in 2014, while smartphone revenue dropped 15% QoQ, with 900K units shipped, less than half of Q1 2018 — Despite flagging sales of late, Sony's PlayStation 4 has sold 100 million units, making it the fastest-selling console to hit that number.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says Skype for Business Online will be “retired” on July 31, 2021; Skype consumer users will be able to communicate with Teams users starting Q1 2020 — As part of its Skype for Business Online to Teams transition, Microsoft will enable Skype consumer users to communicate …
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| CoinDesk: |
Coinbase's VP of Engineering Tim Wagner is leaving the exchange after just over a year at the company; two other senior engineering employees are also leaving — Coinbase executive Tim Wagner is leaving the crypto exchange after slightly over a year on the job.
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| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
Documents show that Amazon's Ring vets and authors public statements about Ring attributed to police and delays announcing partnerships with police departments — Amazon's home security company Ring has garnered enormous control over the ways in which its law enforcement partners are allowed …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Identity verification startup Truework raises $12M Series A round led by Sequoia Capital — Truework, a San Francisco-based developer of cloud-hosted identity verification solutions, today announced that it has secured $12 million in a series A round led by Sequoia Capital, bringing its total raised to $15 million.
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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Android Auto's first big refresh since debuting in 2014 is starting to roll out this week, with dark mode by default, a notification tab, app launcher, and more — Less widget-y, more app-like — Five years after Android Auto launched, Google announced the platform's first major refresh at Google I/O earlier this year.
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| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
Huawei H1 2019: revenue of $58.26B, up 23.2% YoY; smartphone shipments of 118M, up 24% YoY; Canalys report says Huawei leads in China with 38.2% market share — KEY POINTS — China's Huawei reported a 23.2% year-over-year increase in revenue for the first six months of 2019 despite facing political headwinds.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Ford acquires Quantum Signal, a developer of virtual testing environments for unmanned remote and autonomous systems, to boost its self-driving car effort — Mere months after Ford announced it would collaborate with Agility Robotics to explore a range of autonomous home package delivery concepts … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Attabotics, which hopes to make fulfillment centers more efficient with its robots, raises $25M Series B led by Coatue, Comcast Ventures, Honeywell — Attabotics, a robotics supply chain company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, today announced it has secured $25 million in a series B funding round led …
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