Apple is holding its big annual developer conference, WWDC, on Monday, starting at 10AM PST. The keynote will be live-streamed through Apple’s website here. For the first time in recent memory, the live stream works on Google’s Chrome browser, as long as you have support for the right underlying technologies (MSE, H.264, and AAC, according […]
Read moreBitcoin prices have struggled this year, along with the cryptocurrency’s ability to capture interest on the internet. Searches for the term “bitcoin” have dropped more than 75 percent since the beginning of this year and roughly halved over three months, according to research from Google Trends. Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, pegged waning searches […]
Read moreSilicon Valley is scrambling for talent, and now Microsoft owns two of the top professional networks
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on Monday that software developers will increasingly have jobs at more and more firms. That could be quite a windfall for Microsoft, which now owns top sites for job searching and developer collaboration. With the combination of recent acquisitions LinkedIn and now GitHub, Microsoft owns two of the most influential […]
Read moreApple co-founder Steve Wozniak famously said the iPhone X would be the first model of the device he would not get on day one. In December, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent “The Woz” — as he is often called — an iPhone X. And the Woz’s verdict? “Plus and minus,” he told CNBC in an […]
Read moreNASA photographer Bill Ingalls set up six cameras to capture NASA’s launch of seven satellites on a SpaceX rocket on May 22. The launch melted the camera. But some pretty fantastic footage survived. A brushfire caused by the rocket launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California engulfed the camera set up furthest from the […]
Read moreThousands of Hong Kong citizens held candles and paused for a moment’s silence Monday night to mark the suppression of pro-democracy protests in Beijing‘s Tiananmen Square in 1989. The annual ceremony marked 29 years since Chinese authorities used tanks and soldiers to clear the square that had been occupied for weeks by students and workers. […]
Read moreEstonia said Monday it is not planning to launch a national cryptocurrency and that it never planned to do so. A government spokeswoman said the Baltic nation was not looking to issue its own national cryptocurrency as it already uses the euro as its official currency. Instead, Estonia plans to “explore various possibilities” for blockchain […]
Read moreThe world could fall behind China when it comes to developing artificial intelligence (AI), the former president of the European Commission warned Monday. Jose Manuel Barroso, now non-executive chairman at Goldman Sachs International, told CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal that Beijing is getting on with development in AI. “The Chinese are not only making statements, they are […]
Read moreTwitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently said he believes bitcoin will become the single global currency, something that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak hopes will happen. “I buy into what Jack Dorsey says, not that I necessarily believe it’s going to happen, but because I want it to be that way, that is so pure thinking,” Wozniak […]
Read moreFacebook on Sunday rejected claims by the New York Times that it had allowed Apple and other major device makers “deep” access to users’ personal data saying any such links were tightly controlled and largely subject to users’ consent. Facebook shares fell more than 1 percent Monday morning, in what was otherwise an upbeat start […]
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