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Google says AI helped it beat profit expectations
TechXplore· 2024-01-31 09:35
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Google parent Alphabet says it remains committed to keeping costs in check, in another sign more layoffs are on the way at the tech titan. Google parent Alphabet on Tuesday credited artificial intelligence with helping boost profits in the final quarter of last year. Alphabet reported a profit of $20.7 billion on revenue of $8 ...
Microsoft profit soars 33% on AI, cloud-computing investments
TechXplore· 2024-01-31 06:52
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: The logo of Microsoft is displayed outside the headquarters in Paris, Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. Microsoft reports their earnings on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Thibault Camus, file Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday that its profit for the October-December quarter soared 33%, powered by its significant investments in artifici ...
Editing memories, spying on our bodies, normalizing weird goggles: Apple's new Vision Pro has big ambitions
TechXplore· 2024-01-30 18:13
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Apple Apple Vision Pro is a mixed-reality headset—which the company hopes is a "revolutionary spatial computer that transforms how people work, collaborate, connect, relive memories, and enjoy entertainment"—that begins shipping to the public (in the United States) later this week. Critics have doubted the appeal of th ...
Amazon says Prime deliveries reached their fastest speeds ever last year
TechXplore· 2024-01-30 14:48
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Amazon delivered packages to its Prime customers at the fastest speeds ever in 2023, the retailer said Tuesday, thanks to better inventory placement, a new regionalization model for shipments and more same-day warehouses. The company had indicated in public announcements and corporate earning ...
Amazon's bid to buy Roomba maker iRobot is called off amid pushback in Europe
TechXplore· 2024-01-29 16:14
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: A Roomba 980 vacuum cleaning robot is presented during a presentation in Tokyo, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015. Amazon on Monday called off its proposed acquisition of iRobot, which was facing antitrust scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic, with the ecommerce giant blaming “undue and disproportionate regulatory hurdles.” Credit: AP P ...
Wall Street girds for ugly Boeing earnings as CEO faces scrutiny
TechXplore· 2024-01-29 09:14
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Alaska Airlines has resumed service on the Boeing 737 MAX 9 following a three-week grounding in the wake of a January 5 emergency landing. Boeing's 737 MAX 9 planes have begun to fly again after the January 5 Alaska Airlines scare, but the episode is expected to weigh on the aviation giant's finances for the foreseeable future. ...
Boeing exec apologizes over MAX 9 problem, promises fixes
TechXplore· 2024-01-28 10:50
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: A Boeing 737 MAX 9 for Alaska Airlines is pictured along with other 737 aircraft at Renton Municipal Airport. A top Boeing executive has apologized for the problems highlighted by the mid-flight blowout of a door plug on an Alaska Airlines flight, as two airlines began returning the troubled 737 MAX 9 planes to service. The co ...
Microsoft Teams outage blocks access, limits features for some users
TechXplore· 2024-01-26 21:33
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: The Microsoft logo is shown at the Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, on March 2, 2023. Microsoft Teams is experiencing an outage Friday, Jan. 26, 2024, that has blocked access and limited features for some users. Credit: AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra, File Microsoft Teams is experiencing an outage that has blocked acce ...
EU hails 'change' as Apple opens App Store to competition
TechXplore· 2024-01-26 18:00
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: EU law is forcing Apple to break the dominance of the App Store. The European Union's digital enforcer celebrated on Friday the "change" underway in the tech world after Apple yielded to a new EU law by announcing it would allow alternative app stores on the iPhone for the first time. The significant overhaul, which will take ...
In the market for a car? Soon you'll be able to buy a Hyundai on Amazon, and only a Hyundai
TechXplore· 2024-01-26 16:40
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain This is the year you can finally buy a car on Amazon. Well, one kind. Eventually. On Nov. 16, 2023, at the Los Angeles Auto Show, Amazon and Hyundai made a big announcement: Starting sometime in 2024, a new pilot program would let shoppers not only browse Hyundai cars on Amazon.com but pay fo ...