Buried in a criminal complaint against a former Apple engineer who’s being charged with stealing trade secrets is a remarkable revelation about the size of Apple’s autonomous driving systems project: 5,000 employees are working on it or know about it. Xiaolang Zhang, who Apple hired to work on software and hardware for self-driving cars in […]
Read moreTesla is taking orders for its Model 3 electric sedans throughout the U.S. and Canada, no reservations required. Previously, would-be Model 3 owners had to put down $1,000 deposit to secure a place in line to buy the car. Now, anyone in North America can order one via Tesla’s website. Those who reserved a Model […]
Read moreApple has selected former Google executive John Giannandrea to lead a new artificial intelligence and machine learning team, the company confirmed on Tuesday. Giannandrea joined Apple in April 2018, fresh off an 8-year stint at Google, where he served as head of the Machine Intelligence, Research and Search teams, TechCrunch first reported. The hire was […]
Read moreIt’s been exactly a decade since Apple launched an online store where its customers could download iPhone apps, with the iOS App Store debuting on July 10, 2008. The store offered only about 800 apps for download initially, but Apple said in 2008 that the store still saw more than 10 million downloads the first […]
Read moreTintri, a company that makes storage hardware for companies’ data centers, has had a heck of a ride in the past year. It went public in June 2017. On Tuesday it said it has filed a voluntary petition for bankruptcy relief — and that, subsequently, the privately held storage company DataDirect Networks was looking to […]
Read moreGoogle recently rolled out a new YouTube feature that lets you watch videos privately on your phone. That means you can watch content without Google keeping track, sort of like the private mode in your web browser. It also means the app won’t store your viewing history. If you hand your phone to a son […]
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Amazon, Netflix and Microsoft together this year are responsible for 71 percent of S&P 500 returns and for 78 percent of Nasdaq 100 returns. The three stocks make up 35 percent, 21 percent and 15 percent of S&P 500 returns, respectively, while making up 41 percent, 21 percent and 15 percent of Nasdaq 100 returns. […]
Read moreOn-demand food delivery startup Postmates is adding 100 markets nationwide, and expanding its partnership with Chipotle. The move adds 300 Chipotle restaurants to its roster, and expands the delivery service to 50 million additional potential customers. The expanded partnership is the latest volley in the food delivery wars, which includes competitors like Grubhub, Door Dash, […]
Read moreApple‘s move into augmented reality could boost iPhone and App Store sales, resulting in as much as $8 billion in revenue for the tech giant, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. “We think AR apps will command a price premium,” Wamsi Mohan, senior equity research analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch wrote in […]
Read moreBrett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, is not a fan of net neutrality. The former clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy and current D.C. Circuit Court justice issued a blistering dissent last year in a ruling upholding the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rule, and said that even if Congress had […]
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