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Apple earnings: About that iPhone ‘slump’ in China
3 May 2024 @ 4:23 pm
If he hasn’t already, it’s past time for Apple CEO Tim Cook to gain a reputation for dry wit when it comes to handling preconceived opinion — he ladled out several helpings of this during Apple’s second-quarter fiscal call on Thursday. Though the company’s financials were down, they were still ahead of what Wall Street had anticipated.
Revenue for the quarter was $90.8 billion, down 4% from the same quarter last year, but Apple’s gross margins increased to 46.6%, mainly on the strength of solid services increases.
Cook states the facts
For me, one of his best lines during the presentation was captured in this
Microsoft begins to phase out ‘classic’ Teams
3 May 2024 @ 12:23 pm
Seven years after the launch of Teams, Microsoft has outlined plans to retire the initial, “classic” version of the team chat app. Support for Teams classic will end on July 1 and it will be discontinued a year later; atthat point, users will be unable to access the legacy client.
Microsoft released the new 2.1 version of Teams last October after several months in preview, claiming the new app
Apple confirms it will open up the iPad in Europe this fall
2 May 2024 @ 5:26 pm
In the latest set of tweaks to bring itself into compliance with a new European Union law, Apple has confirmed significant changes to the deal originally offered to developers in the EU. Not only will it open up the iPad in the same way as it is o
Udacity offers laid-off US workers free access to its courses for 30 days
2 May 2024 @ 3:44 pm
Citing the surge in layoffs nationwide, particularly within the IT workforce, online technology learning platform Udacity is offering a free trial to access its entire catalogue of courses for the next 30 days. The courses includes certifications in skills such as programming, data science, artificial intelligence, digital marketing.
“Layoffs have affected hundreds of thousands of people in the United States in the past year,” Udacity COO Victoria Papalian wrote in
Why you’ll soon have a digital clone of your own
2 May 2024 @ 10:00 am
Some of the most influential influencers on social media sites aren’t people, but computer-generated digital creations. And soon digital “people” will be commonplace in business.
In the past, fabricated fake folks were built the old-fashioned way — using Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) AI technology (the process behind video deepfakes). Nowadays, phony friends are build using LLM-based genAI tools.
One early digital influencer on Instagram, named Lil Miquela, has been 19 years old since 2016, is worth millions of dollars and was named one of the 25 most influe
Workers with these AI skills are getting cash premiums
1 May 2024 @ 6:02 pm
As companies are scramble to get ahead in the artificial intelligence (AI) arms race, one problem the face is finding and retaining AI talent.
For example, Meta has been extending job offers to candidates with AI experience without even interviewing them, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg went so far as to email researchers at Google’s DeepMind unit to recruit talent.
According to
Atlassian Rovo brings AI smarts to enterprise search
1 May 2024 @ 4:00 pm
Atlassian has developed a new search tool — Atlassian Rovo — that can surface data from a variety of third-party apps. Rovo, currently in preview, provides a chatbot interface to help workers access information across their organization,and even decipher workplace jargon.
“Atlassian Rovo is designed to unlock knowledge discovery and accelerate action across the organization,” said Jamil Valliani, head of product AI at Atlassian. “Think of Rovo as a large knowledge model for your company that allows team members to move and act faster.”
There are three key elements to Rovo: Search, Chat, and Agents.
Rovo Search expands on existing search funct
Mosyle and Fleet bring new device management options to Apple enterprise
1 May 2024 @ 3:24 pm
Hot on the heels of Jamf’s introduction of new compliance tools for Apple admins, Mosyle and Fleet have rolled out improvements to their own competing device management offerings.
What all these solutions have in common is that they meet an enterprise market that is rapidly adopting Macs, iPads, and iPhones, prompting fast-paced service enhancements across the Apple device management industry.
Like art, business technology also seems set on reflecting life. “Apple Macs, iPhones, and iPads are now commonly used as productive business tools in enterpris
LLM deployment flaws that catch IT by surprise
1 May 2024 @ 10:00 am
For all of the promise of LLMs (large language models) to handle a seemingly infinite number of enterprise tasks, IT executives are discovering that they can be extremely delicate, opting to ignore guardrails and other limitations with the slightest provocation.
For example, if an end user innocuously — or an attacker maliciously — inputs too much data into an LLM query window, no error message is returned and the system won’t seemingly crash. But the LLM will often instantly override its programming and disable all guardrails.
“The
13 tricks for more efficient Android messaging
1 May 2024 @ 10:00 am
No matter what type of Android phone you carry or how you usually use it, one thing is a near-universal constant:
You’re gonna spend a ton of time messing with messages.
The messages may be from clients, colleagues, or your cousin Crissy from Cleveland (damn it, Crissy!). But regardless of who sends ’em or what they’re about, they’re all popping up on your phone and cluttering your weary brainspace.
My fellow Android adorer, I’m here to tell you there’s a better way.
Google’s Android Messages app has gotten surp
Mere hours ago a barrage of official-looking images leaked depicting the upcoming Sony Xperia 1 VI and Xperia 10 VI, both models which could become official at the company's event on May 17.
And now here we are with even more leaked images of the two phones, and these look pretty official as well. Sony's not doing a great job of taming these leaks, but we're happy we get to see the unannounced devices in so much detail.
Sony Xperia 10 VI leaked images
This time we have a better look at the Xperia 10 VI in all three colors. As we already mentioned earlier, the Xperia 10 VI...
Previously premium features have been trickling down to mid-range and even entry-level devices at a steady pace, and the new vivo Y18 can definitely attest to that. The phone was quietly listed by vivo onto its Indian website without any fanfare, and it comes with a premium-looking design on the back, which employs a 3D micro sculpting process in the Gem Green variant, which carves silver ripples into the rear plate. Combined with a nm scale coating the result is a gem-like texture, hence the name of the colorway.
There's also the more subdued Space Black, which has a subtle 'starry...
Last week a report claimed that Xiaomi has the exclusive first launch rights for Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC, and today a new rumor tells us when exactly to expect said launch. According to the prolific leaker Digital Chat Station, the first device powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is tentatively scheduled to arrive in mid-October.
If the previous report regarding Xiaomi's exclusivity was accurate, this means the Xiaomi 15 (and possibly the 15 Pro alongside it) will become official in mid-October.
Xiaomi 14
Of course a lot can change between now and then as we're...
Samsung started rolling out the update to One UI 6.1, containing the Galaxy AI features that debuted in January, to the Galaxy S22 family in Korea yesterday. And here we are not even 24 hours later, and it seems like the rollout has already been halted. Note that while yesterday's rollout included many more devices, it only appears to have been paused specifically for the Galaxy S22 series.
The reason, as always in such cases, has to do with a bug - quality control on software updates is hard, for sure, but it shouldn't be this hard to spot something so obvious. We're talking about the...
The new Huawei Pura 70 Ultra just arrived at our office door so we're bringing you a peek inside its box.
The box itself is a big white cardboard and comes in a nice paper sleeve that imitates the phone's faux leather backing.
Inside is the phone itself - ours is the maxed-out 16GB/1TB Green with subtle gold trim. There's also a SIM tool, a USB-C to USB-C cable, and a charging adapter.
It's the perfect package with both a USB-C and USB-A port - yes, you can use both - and tops out at 100W - that's Huawei's SuperCharge standard.
Check out our hands-on with the Huawei...
Not long ago a leak surfaced regarding the upcoming HTC U24 Pro smartphone, and if you needed even more proof that the Taiwanese company does in fact still exist, here you go.
Today the HTC A101 Plus Edition tablet got official in Russia. It's priced at RUB 15,990, which right now means about $174 or €162.
For that amount of cash, you get a 10.95-inch 1,920x1,200 IPS touchscreen, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of expandable storage, and a 7,000 mAh battery with support for 10W wired charging.
It runs Android 14 and is powered by the Unisoc T606 chipset. It has dual 13 MP cameras on the...
Motorola is currently working on the Moto G85, a device that will obviously become the successor to the G84 from last year when it hits the streets. And while we don't yet know when that will happen, keep in mind that the G84 was announced last August, so the G85 could still be a ways off.
The G85 has been listed by a European retailer, confirming a launch in Europe, but of course it should also be offered in other places. The G85 is expected to cost €300, which is the same launch price its predecessor had, but the twist is that for this price you'll be getting 12GB of RAM and 256GB of...
A few hours ago a comprehensive leak detailed the upcoming Sony Xperia 1 VI's specs, and now a bunch of official-looking renders of the phone have been outed, showing a design that's unsurprisingly very reminiscent of the Xperia 1 V from last year, but with the new and oft-rumored screen aspect ratio change (it's less tall and more wide this time around).
Sony Xperia 1 VI leaked renders
The Xperia 1 VI still has bigger 'forehead' and 'chin' bezels as you can see, which means there's no need for a hole-punch cutout up top to house the selfie camera. The phone is expected to...
The Poco F6 Pro was certified by the FCC about a couple of weeks ago with a 5,000 mAh battery. Now, the smartphone has popped up on Geekbench with more specs.
Geekbench revealed that the Poco F6 Pro, sporting model designation 23113RKC6G, is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, runs Android 14, and has 16GB of RAM onboard. But there will likely be more RAM options that are yet to be confirmed.
The Poco F6 Pro scored 1,421 and 5,166 points in Geekbench's single and multi-core tests, respectively. The single-core score is lower, while the multi-core score is higher than what some...
Apple posted its financial results for its second fiscal quarter, which is the period between January 1 and March 30, 2024. Sales of iPhones dropped 10% on a yearly basis, while Services reached its highest result ever, with a 14% increase over the same period last year.
Cupertino's total revenue was $90.75 billion, 4% down from last year. Net income was $23.63 billion, also down compared YoY.
Apple Store in Hong Kong
According to the report, the sales decline came from all across Asia. Net sales were down in Greater China (PRC, Taiwan & Hong Kong), Japan, and the Rest of Asia...
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