When it comes to proving the tangible benefits of the blockchain technology that many expect to change the world, it is still very early days and the earliest viable applications will likely be in supply chain management, rather than financial services, executives say. In fact, Cisco stopped researching blockchain applications in financial services after 18 […]
Read moreApple chief executive Tim Cook had a strong message on Monday when he addressed the company’s global gathering of coders and computer scientists: Apple is the best place to earn money from making apps. Cook announced that developers have earned $100 billion through the App Store as of this week. Apple has had to manage […]
Read moreApple showcased its latest software for the iPhone and iPad, iOS 12, Monday at its Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, Calif. Top software executive Craig Federighi said Apple is “doubling down on performance” in the latest update to make devices faster and more responsive. The software update also comes with some serious photo updates. […]
Read moreAn official who could have a big say in whether Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc. can merge is keeping an open mind. Makan Delrahim, who heads antitrust efforts for the U.S. Department of Justice, said he doesn’t see reducing the number of major wireless carriers from four to three as inherently bad for the […]
Read moreApple 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 moreMicrosoft 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 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 […]
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