The iPhone you want to buy, and the one you should upgrade to, isn’t coming out until November. Apple announced three new iPhones on Tuesday: iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X (pronounced iPhone ten.) The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus aren’t that compelling, especially if you’re coming from an iPhone 7 or […]
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon took a shot at bitcoin, saying the cryptocurrency “is a fraud.” “It’s just not a real thing, eventually it will be closed,” Dimon said Tuesday at the Delivering Alpha conference presented by CNBC and Institutional Investor. Dimon joked that even his daughter bought some bitcoin, looking to cash in on […]
Read moreU.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao on Tuesday defended her department’s decision to use voluntary guidelines instead of enforceable rules to regulate self-driving cars, saying a flexible approach was best for an emerging technology. Chao also said the Trump administration would give preference in its forthcoming infrastructure plan to projects that promise technology innovation that could […]
Read moreApple investors bought its shares during the build-up to the latest iPhone announcements Tuesday, but then sold the news. Apple shares were trading at $161.37 at 1 p.m. Eastern time, when the event began, and climbed as high as high as $163.75 at 1:55 p.m., when CEO Tim Cook began talking about the iPhone. That […]
Read moreApple’s official entry into the wireless charging market is a major blow for Energous. After Apple provided details on Tuesday about the wireless charging capability in the latest iPhones, shares of Energous, the maker of WattUP wire-free charging, plunged as much as 21 percent. Apple said it’s using the Qi wireless charging standard, the technology […]
Read moreDuring Apple‘s demo on stage of the iPhone X’s Face ID, which is supposed to let a user unlock the phone by looking at it, the feature failed. Oops. The new Face ID feature is supposed to be more accurate and secure than Touch ID, which currently lets iPhone users unlock their devices with a […]
Read moreThe United States is in an “arms race” with China for artificial intelligence technology and talent, billionaire tech investor James Breyer told CNBC on Tuesday. He said the “great” companies in China, such as Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu, are “very close if not equal to our very best AI companies,” such as Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon […]
Read moreApple’s newest iPhones — the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X — will allow users to explore the real world with augmented reality (AR). The new phones come with upgraded cameras and the company’s A11 Bionic chip, which allow for better and faster AR processing. One app that will take advantage of additional […]
Read moreApple on Tuesday said that the forthcoming top-of-the-line iPhone X smartphone will feature a chip custom-built for handling artificial intelligence workloads. The dual-core “A11 bionic neural engine” chip can perform 600 billion operations per second, Apple executive Phil Schiller said at the inaugural launch event at the company’s new Apple Park headquarters in Cupertino, California. […]
Read moreApple announced the iPhone X at its event on Tuesday. It’s pronounced “iPhone 10.” The iPhone X is Apple’s most high-end iPhone to date. It offers a complete redesign from the current iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus and was introduced in addition to the new iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. It features a […]
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