The much-anticipated new iPhone X — pronounced iPhone 10 — has officially arrived. It comes with a host of new features, but at a steep price: $999. While many tech enthusiasts will gladly fork over a grand to upgrade to the new model, the price has left others balking. If you’d rather blow your cash […]
Read moreApple stock fell amid disappointment the company will not begin taking orders on its much anticipated iPhone X model until October. It ended Tuesday trading at $160.82, down 0.4 percent. There was also concern about its new facial recognition technology, after the function failed when it was being demoed by Apple during its unveiling. The […]
Read moreIn the months after Apple announced its health and fitness-tracking Apple Watch, users started making some surprising declarations. The Apple Watch had saved their life. Apple’s executive team took note. At an event on Tuesday, where it unveiled a new version of the Apple Watch, the company showcased some of these heartwarming user stories: People […]
Read moreThe iPhone you want to buy, and the one you should upgrade to, isn’t coming out until November. Apple announced three new iPhones on Tuesday: iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X (pronounced iPhone ten.) The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus aren’t that compelling, especially if you’re coming from an iPhone 7 or […]
Read moreJPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon took a shot at bitcoin, saying the cryptocurrency “is a fraud.” “It’s just not a real thing, eventually it will be closed,” Dimon said Tuesday at the Delivering Alpha conference presented by CNBC and Institutional Investor. Dimon joked that even his daughter bought some bitcoin, looking to cash in on […]
Read moreU.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Tuesday defended her department’s decision to use voluntary guidelines instead of enforceable rules to regulate self-driving cars, saying a flexible approach was best for an emerging technology. Chao also said the Trump administration would give preference in its forthcoming infrastructure plan to projects that promise technology innovation that could […]
Read moreApple investors bought its shares during the build-up to the latest iPhone announcements Tuesday, but then sold the news. Apple shares were trading at $161.37 at 1 p.m. Eastern time, when the event began, and climbed as high as high as $163.75 at 1:55 p.m., when CEO Tim Cook began talking about the iPhone. That […]
Read moreApple’s official entry into the wireless charging market is a major blow for Energous. After Apple provided details on Tuesday about the wireless charging capability in the latest iPhones, shares of Energous, the maker of WattUP wire-free charging, plunged as much as 21 percent. Apple said it’s using the Qi wireless charging standard, the technology […]
Read moreDuring Apple‘s demo on stage of the iPhone X’s Face ID, which is supposed to let a user unlock the phone by looking at it, the feature failed. Oops. The new Face ID feature is supposed to be more accurate and secure than Touch ID, which currently lets iPhone users unlock their devices with a […]
Read moreThe United States is in an “arms race” with China for artificial intelligence technology and talent, billionaire tech investor James Breyer told CNBC on Tuesday. He said the “great” companies in China, such as Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu, are “very close if not equal to our very best AI companies,” such as Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon […]
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