While Facebook is in the process of trying to catch every internet user in its web, it seems that CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to catch every Pokémon. The 32-year-old CEO, who would have been in his early teens when the first Pokémon games hit the US, said on today’s earnings call that he, “like, everyone else, am enjoying Pokémon Go.”
On yesterday’s earnings call, it became clear that a trend is emerging for Apple: iPhone sales are falling, and accounting for a smaller portion of the company’s revenue than they had in recent quarters. But while investors weren’t particularly perturbed—the market spiked in after-hours trading, and Apple’s sales weren’t as bad as Wall Street had been expecting—it does start to make one wonder about what the company has planned for the longer-term future, if iPhone sales continue to slump. And the answer may lie in the large amounts of money Apple is spending on research, and the massive amounts of cash the company continues to hold.
Many believed that Apple would announce that it had sold its billionth iPhone on today’s third-quarter earnings call, but instead the company outlined that sales were either flat or falling across all of its business lines.
Pokémon Go has been a massive mobile gaming hit for Nintendo, a company that’s long been criticized for missing the boat on the public’s shift from console gaming to casual games played on cellphones. But instead of doubling-down on licensing its popular franchises for more mobile games, it seems Nintendo’s next move will be trying to launch another zany portable console.
Late last year, GoPro announced to the world that it release its first consumer drone, the Karma, in the first half of 2016. Then, late in the first half of 2016, GoPro said it would push back the launch until the winter.
A million iPhones isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion iPhones.
Across America, millions of people use dial-up connections to web portals as they surfed the information superhighway.
Most consumer drones on the market right now are really good at being flying cameras. Some can follow you around on their own, and some can avoid obstacles pretty well. But without a lot of modification, most of them aren’t particularly good at doing much else. Now, a new drone company called Teal wants to make drones modular, so that one system can better suit the needs of its consumers. (Google is attempting something similar for cellphones.)
Convenience stores are called as such because they’re everywhere and almost always open. But earlier this month, 7-Eleven took that concept to another level: The chain partnered with Flirtey, a drone delivery company that completed the first government-sanctioned drone delivery in the US last year, to deliver a customer’s order to their home in Nevada.
While they probably can’t complete the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, as Han Solo might say, these drones are probably fast enough for you old man. Propel, a radio-controlled toy company, has announced that it’s going to be making officially licensed Star Wars drones that will be released this fall.
Facebook wants to bring internet to the most remote parts of the world, and the first part of its plan to do so has taken flight. A massive, foreboding wing-shaped drone, nicknamed Project Aquila, recently completed its first test flight in Arizona, Facebook announced today.
Pokémon Go is an international sensation that has seen people get mugged, find dead bodies, and crash cars in the short time it’s been available. And it seems the US Congress is concerned about it—though not really for those reasons.
For years, Nintendo was the king of mobile gaming. Long before there were smartphones, or there were even many cell phones, there was the Game Boy. Nintendo sold 118 million Game Boys, and many more of its follow-up mobile consoles: 154 million Nintendo DSes, and 58 million Nintendo 3DSes, according to the company.
Just about every major computer company has jumped on the tablet-that’s-almost-a-laptop bandwagon at this point. Apple has the iPad Pro, Microsoft the Surface, Samsung the TabPro S, to name a few. Now, Chinese telecom giant Huawei has thrown its hat in the ring: The company’s MateBook tablet went on sale in the US July 11.
It’s summertime in the northern hemisphere. That means it’s time to char pieces of meat on open flames.
Chances are, if you have a smartphone, you have recently joined the quest to catch them all.
Every other year, for nearly a decade now, Apple has released a redesigned, updated version of its iPhone smartphone. But it’s been reported that its next new phone, the iPhone 7, will look pretty much identical to the iPhone 6 and 6S. According to some sources, Apple will then skip making an “S” model in 2017, and go straight to releasing an iPhone 8 that will be a complete overhaul stylistically and technologically.
It’s been a startling 17 quarters since IBM has produced any sales growth, when compared to the year-ago quarter.
It’s been over a year since the Apple Watch was first released, and I’ve argued that no one needed to buy one, but now it seems that very few people want one either.
Apple on July 7 released beta versions of its newest mobile and computer operating systems, iOS 10 and macOS Sierra, which anyone can choose to download. If you want to experience the latest innovations in putting stickers in text messages and notification windows before the vast majority of iPhone and Mac users, all you have to do is sign up on Apple’s website.
On Thursday (July 7), a suspect involved in the fatal shooting of five police officers during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas was himself killed by police using a robot outfitted with a bomb.
In a disappointing defeat against France, the human German soccer team was knocked out of the European Championship July 7. But at least the nation can take heart that its robots proved victorious in the annual RoboCup robot soccer tournament that took place this past weekend in Leipzig, Germany.
It’s becoming less and less apparent why high-end smartphones need to cost so much.
