People used to love their Blackberry keyboards. TCL Corporation, a company in China, now licenses the branding and just launched the Blackberry Key2 with a full keyboard. The Blackberry Key2 costs $649 and will be available in the U.S. on July 13. It’s an OK phone but, as we explain in the video above, there’s […]
Read moreGoogle raised a lot of questions when it unveiled “Google Duplex” at its developers conference in early May. Duplex, as Google demonstrated in the video above, was a scary-smart virtual assistant capable of calling a restaurant to book a reservation. A caller simply had to ask Google Assistant — the company’s version of Siri — […]
Read moreOne Wall Street firm is getting more bullish on Netflix shares, even after the stock’s stunning performance so far this year. Bank of America Merrill Lynch raised its price target to $460 from $352 for Netflix shares, predicting the streaming video giant will reach 360 million subscribers by 2030. The company’s stock closed at $399.39 […]
Read moreIn September 2017, London transport regulators failed to grant Uber a license to operate in the British capital. It said the U.S. ride-hailing giant was not “fit and proper” to hold a license and raised concerns over its corporate culture and safety procedures. Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi, who was less than a month into the […]
Read moreGoogle announced on Wednesday the biggest-ever rebranding of its advertising software, retiring the DoubleClick and AdWords brands to streamline entry points for advertisers and ad sellers. Google executives said its fees are not changing, and no services are merging. The company will retain the AdSense and AdMob brands for ad sales technologies that are aimed […]
Read moreApple co-founder and noted bitcoin bull Steve Wozniak says the hype around blockchain is similar to what he saw in the dotcom era, with companies going belly-up at a rapid rate. “It was a bubble, and I feel that way about blockchain,” Wozniak said Tuesday on stage at the NEX technology conference in New York. […]
Read moreYouTube star Mark Rober, best known for his DIY science videos, has been helping Apple develop virtual reality for entertainment in self-driving cars, according to patent filings that were first reported by Variety. Rober, who has more than 3.4 million YouTube followers, left stints at NASA and Morph Costumes to take a job in 2015 […]
Read moreFacebook on Tuesday said it will stop building pilot-less planes designed to beam down internet from the sky. It was one of a few web companies that set out a few years ago to bring connectivity to areas where it was lacking. That approach could have the effect of bringing on more users and driving […]
Read moreIn the heated bidding war between Disney and Comcast for Fox‘s assets, there’s growing confusion surrounding the fate of European media company Sky Plc. Fox owns 39 percent of Sky, which Disney CEO Bob Iger has called a “crown jewel” among Fox’s assets. But when Disney decided last week to increase its offer for Fox […]
Read moreGoldman Sachs is reiterating its sell rating on Tesla and expects the electric car maker’s widely watched Model 3 delivery number to fall short of Wall Street expectations. Tesla is expected to release its second-quarter production and delivery numbers in the first few days of July. Goldman analyst David Tamberrino expects the company to report […]
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