Apple 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 […]
Read moreIf the U.S. wants China to play fair on trade, pushing away like-minded allies is not the way to make it happen, a leader of the American business community in China said Monday. “Maybe it’s the worst tactic, as far as we can see here in China,” William Zarit, chairman of the American Chamber of […]
Read moreMastercard is looking at ways to integrate its payments system into voice assistants made by Google and Amazon to let people pay by talking to a device, a top executive from the company told CNBC on Monday. The U.S. payments giant has a product called Masterpass that allows a user to upload credit card details […]
Read moreWidely-followed cryptocurrency start-up Ripple is shelling out millions to some of the top universities in the world to speed up the adoption of blockchain technology. The company announced a partnership with 17 schools Monday, including the University of North Carolina, a research institute at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania. Through the “University Blockchain Research […]
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