The search engine giant Google has unveiled a new doodle on its home page commemorating the birth of hip hop 44 years ago. By clicking on today’s Google doodle you are transported to an interactive player that allows you to choose records, fade between them, choose the pace of the beat and even scratch. For […]
Read moreRevenues from Snap Inc’s video recording sunglasses Spectacles fell in the second quarter, adding to the disappointment felt by investors after it reported revenues and user growth that missed expectations. On the earnings call for the June quarter, Snap’s Chief Financial Officer Drew Vollero said: “other revenues were $5.4 million, substantially all of which was […]
Read moreThe hacker who stole TV show scripts from HBO has leaked an email showing a company executive offering $250,000 as a “bounty payment” to the cyber-thief, according to two news outlets. Last week, details of a data breach at HBO came to light. Scripts from shows such as “Game of Thrones” were leaked online ahead […]
Read moreTwo newly public tech companies reported earnings on Thursday, and both were ugly for their investors. Meal-kit preparer Blue Apron, which went public in late June, gave its first earnings report as a public company before the bell. It missed earnings expectations by a wide margin — losing 47 cents a share instead of the […]
Read moreU.S. Defense Secretary General James Mattis said on Thursday that the country’s military is “ready” to counter the threat from North Korea. “My responsibility is to have military options if needed,” Mattis told a group of reporters in Mountain View, California, where he was visiting a new Department of Defense arm designed to speed the […]
Read moreNvidia is telling its investors that cryptocurrencies are no longer just a niche business. In the company’s earnings call on Thursday, Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress said that demand for cryptocurrencies like ethereum helped Nvidia beat its own guidance for the most recent quarter. Crypto is “a very important market that will likely continue to […]
Read moreSometimes, Jim Cramer finds companies that shed light on what consumers like to do and where they are really spending their money. That’s why the “Mad Money” host was so fascinated by Wednesday’s earnings report from Live Nation Entertainment, the Ticketmaster parent that produces live events like music festivals. “Of course, the stock gave up […]
Read moreGoogle CEO cancels all-hands meeting about fired engineer as employees worry about online harassment
Google‘s CEO Sundar Pichai has cancelled its much anticipated meeting to talk about gender issues today, after its employees expressed concern over online harassment they had begin to receive when their questions and names have been published outside the company on a variety of largely alt-right sites. Pichai was set to address the search giant’s […]
Read moreSnap has not snapped back. The social media company reported worse-than-expected quarterly results on Thursday, with a loss that was steeper than expected and revenue that missed estimates, as it added fewer users than Wall Street anticipated. Snap added 7 million daily users during the second quarter — a slower rate than the 8 million […]
Read moreA team of researchers say they have brought scientists one step closer to safely transplanting organs from pigs into humans. Researchers from a biotechnology startup eGenesis and several universities in China, Denmark and the United States, have used CRISP-Cas9 gene editing techniques to remove diseases that could be transmitted from pigs to humans during tissue […]
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