Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
Data center equipment provider Super Micro shared details about reports of a delay in NVIDIA's latest Blackwell AI GPUs during the firm's Q4 2024 earnings call conference earlier today. Blackwell is NVIDIA's leading edge AI GPU lineup, and during the call, Super Micro's chairperson and CEO Charles Liang shared that the overall impact of any delay should not be significant for his firm and that it was ready to deploy and provide customers with new products like H200 cooling. Super Micro Treats Potential NVIDIA Delays As Completely Normal, Says Chairperson The Super Micro earnings call was the first time analysts […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is delaying its next crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA and SpaceX were slated to fly the Crew-9 mission to the ISS later this month, but now, the mission has been delayed by more than a month to late September. The delay follows as Boeing's Starliner continues to remain at the ISS, with no details from NASA's front about its plans to bring Starliner and its crew safely back to Earth. While Starliner's manufacturer Boeing is adamant that it has conducted extensive safety tests of the ship, NASA is yet […]
South Korean memory manufacturer SK hynix has signed an agreement with the US government under the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act to receive as much as $450 million in subsidies to develop advanced packaging facilities in America. This funding comes just as the global packaging industry experiences a supply crunch due to high demand for AI products. SK hynix makes advanced memory products for AI GPUs and other products, and today's announcement adds to the firm's $3.87 billion investment in building a memory packaging facility in Indiana. SK hynix Scoops Up $450 Million In US Funding To Developed Advanced Chip […]
The Tokyo Stock Exchange has crashed significantly, causing huge losses to major Japanese game companies. Companies such as Nintendo, Sega, Capcom and Square Enix are among the companies to experience a drop. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's stock market has been plummeting for three consecutive days. As of August 5, 2024, the stock market dropped by 4,451.28 Yen from the previous day, which has gone on to make it the biggest drop since the crash of the stock market in 1987. Out of the Japanese game companies that were affected, CAVE was affected the most on this day. They experienced a […]
OpenAI's head of alignment, John Schulman, who was responsible for tailoring its model responses to align with values, has left the company to work with Amazon backed Anthropic. Anthropic and OpenAI have a shared history, and the former comprises former executives from the latter who decided to set up their own company. Schulman announced his decision on X, and he was met with responses from OpenAI chief Sam Altman and others who appreciated the time they had spent together working at the company. Another OpenAI Safety Lead Departs Firm For Amazon's Anthropic Schulman's X post comes just after a report […]
In a late night press release after insider sources shared with multiple publications that NASA is undecided on whether to use its Starliner spacecraft to bring astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams home, Boeing has upped the stakes by publicly releasing the list of major actions it has taken to convince the space agency that the ship is ready to fly crew home. Starliner, which has been docked to the ISS since June, is currently in the public eye after NASA and Boeing ran extensive tests on the ship to ensure its thrusters and helium systems will perform without placing […]
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has alleged that SpaceX and Tesla billionaire Elon Musk has hacked the National Electoral Council of Venezuela, leaving Maduro unable to share election results. Maduro's allegations are the latest in the spat between the Venezuelan president and the billionaire, with the two having gone head to head via posts on social media and press conferences. These have seen Maduro invite Musk to a one on one brawl, and the latter accepted his offer on the condition that he step down if Musk wins. Venezuela's elections are the latest in a global bout of political instability, with […]
After spending a couple of topsy turvy days on the stock market that saw its shares soar after positive earnings results from AMD and then sink the next day, NVIDIA is now purportedly facing investigations from the Justice Department that accuse it of unfairly using its dominant market position to drive customer bargains. NVIDIA's GPUs are widely believed to be industry leaders in computing artificial intelligence workloads, and their popularity has propelled the stock to set new records in 2024. As part of its investigations, the DOJ has asked NVIDIA's rivals, including AMD and chip design startups, for their comments. […]
Trump Media and Technology Group (NASDAQ: DJT) shares have experienced a broad-based weakness over the past month on dilution concerns, with the stock down ~18 percent since the 02nd of July. Today, however, the company is attempting a narrative reset by commencing the phased rollout of its bespoke streaming platform, dubbed Truth Plus. Back in May, Trump Media and Technology Group had noted that it was done with the research and development phase of its new live TV streaming platform and that it would begin to scale up its own Content Delivery Network (CDN). In the first phase, Trump Media […]
Some traders invest systematically, choosing their bets via a meticulous process that employs rigid rules. Others adopt a roulette table approach, gambling away excess liquidity based on a hunch or an inkling. Consider the case of a Redditor who gambled $700,000 on Intel shares just before its deplorable Q2 2024 earnings. The Chip Manufacturer's Second Quarter Of 2024: What Went Wrong? As we noted in a previous post, Intel has posted broadly negative results relative to the consensus expectations for the second quarter of 2024. The chip manufacturer not only failed to meet the consensus expectations of analysts for its […]
NASA is "taking its time" before running a key review to decide when to bring astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS). Wilmore and Williams went to space in Boeing's Starliner spacecraft in June, and during their docking, the ship's thrusters failed to perform according to plan. Since then, NASA and Boeing have run thruster tests on the ground and in space, but after agency officials shared last week that a review could take place this week, fresh details suggest otherwise. NASA & Boeing Are Analyzing Data From Key Test To Decide […]
Intel has now announced its earnings for the second quarter of 2024, posting broadly negative results relative to the consensus expectations. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) Earnings Release for the Second Quarter of 2024 For the three months that ended on the 30th of June, 2024, Intel reported $12.833 billion in non-GAAP revenue, missing consensus expectations of $12.94 billion. Here is the actual performance of Intel's business segments in Q2 2024: The following chart compares the performance of Intel's two major segments - Data Center and AI (DCAI) and Client Computing Group (CCG) - with Wall Street's consensus expectations (sourced from here […]
Data center equipment provider Super Micro shared details about reports of a delay in NVIDIA's latest Blackwell AI GPUs during the firm's Q4 2024 earnings call conference earlier today. Blackwell is NVIDIA's leading edge AI GPU lineup, and during the call, Super Micro's chairperson and CEO Charles Liang shared that the overall impact of any delay should not be significant for his firm and that it was ready to deploy and provide customers with new products like H200 cooling. Super Micro Treats Potential NVIDIA Delays As Completely Normal, Says Chairperson The Super Micro earnings call was the first time analysts […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is delaying its next crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA and SpaceX were slated to fly the Crew-9 mission to the ISS later this month, but now, the mission has been delayed by more than a month to late September. The delay follows as Boeing's Starliner continues to remain at the ISS, with no details from NASA's front about its plans to bring Starliner and its crew safely back to Earth. While Starliner's manufacturer Boeing is adamant that it has conducted extensive safety tests of the ship, NASA is yet […]
South Korean memory manufacturer SK hynix has signed an agreement with the US government under the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act to receive as much as $450 million in subsidies to develop advanced packaging facilities in America. This funding comes just as the global packaging industry experiences a supply crunch due to high demand for AI products. SK hynix makes advanced memory products for AI GPUs and other products, and today's announcement adds to the firm's $3.87 billion investment in building a memory packaging facility in Indiana. SK hynix Scoops Up $450 Million In US Funding To Developed Advanced Chip […]
The Tokyo Stock Exchange has crashed significantly, causing huge losses to major Japanese game companies. Companies such as Nintendo, Sega, Capcom and Square Enix are among the companies to experience a drop. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's stock market has been plummeting for three consecutive days. As of August 5, 2024, the stock market dropped by 4,451.28 Yen from the previous day, which has gone on to make it the biggest drop since the crash of the stock market in 1987. Out of the Japanese game companies that were affected, CAVE was affected the most on this day. They experienced a […]
OpenAI's head of alignment, John Schulman, who was responsible for tailoring its model responses to align with values, has left the company to work with Amazon backed Anthropic. Anthropic and OpenAI have a shared history, and the former comprises former executives from the latter who decided to set up their own company. Schulman announced his decision on X, and he was met with responses from OpenAI chief Sam Altman and others who appreciated the time they had spent together working at the company. Another OpenAI Safety Lead Departs Firm For Amazon's Anthropic Schulman's X post comes just after a report […]
In a late night press release after insider sources shared with multiple publications that NASA is undecided on whether to use its Starliner spacecraft to bring astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams home, Boeing has upped the stakes by publicly releasing the list of major actions it has taken to convince the space agency that the ship is ready to fly crew home. Starliner, which has been docked to the ISS since June, is currently in the public eye after NASA and Boeing ran extensive tests on the ship to ensure its thrusters and helium systems will perform without placing […]
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has alleged that SpaceX and Tesla billionaire Elon Musk has hacked the National Electoral Council of Venezuela, leaving Maduro unable to share election results. Maduro's allegations are the latest in the spat between the Venezuelan president and the billionaire, with the two having gone head to head via posts on social media and press conferences. These have seen Maduro invite Musk to a one on one brawl, and the latter accepted his offer on the condition that he step down if Musk wins. Venezuela's elections are the latest in a global bout of political instability, with […]
After spending a couple of topsy turvy days on the stock market that saw its shares soar after positive earnings results from AMD and then sink the next day, NVIDIA is now purportedly facing investigations from the Justice Department that accuse it of unfairly using its dominant market position to drive customer bargains. NVIDIA's GPUs are widely believed to be industry leaders in computing artificial intelligence workloads, and their popularity has propelled the stock to set new records in 2024. As part of its investigations, the DOJ has asked NVIDIA's rivals, including AMD and chip design startups, for their comments. […]
Trump Media and Technology Group (NASDAQ: DJT) shares have experienced a broad-based weakness over the past month on dilution concerns, with the stock down ~18 percent since the 02nd of July. Today, however, the company is attempting a narrative reset by commencing the phased rollout of its bespoke streaming platform, dubbed Truth Plus. Back in May, Trump Media and Technology Group had noted that it was done with the research and development phase of its new live TV streaming platform and that it would begin to scale up its own Content Delivery Network (CDN). In the first phase, Trump Media […]
Some traders invest systematically, choosing their bets via a meticulous process that employs rigid rules. Others adopt a roulette table approach, gambling away excess liquidity based on a hunch or an inkling. Consider the case of a Redditor who gambled $700,000 on Intel shares just before its deplorable Q2 2024 earnings. The Chip Manufacturer's Second Quarter Of 2024: What Went Wrong? As we noted in a previous post, Intel has posted broadly negative results relative to the consensus expectations for the second quarter of 2024. The chip manufacturer not only failed to meet the consensus expectations of analysts for its […]
NASA is "taking its time" before running a key review to decide when to bring astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS). Wilmore and Williams went to space in Boeing's Starliner spacecraft in June, and during their docking, the ship's thrusters failed to perform according to plan. Since then, NASA and Boeing have run thruster tests on the ground and in space, but after agency officials shared last week that a review could take place this week, fresh details suggest otherwise. NASA & Boeing Are Analyzing Data From Key Test To Decide […]
Intel has now announced its earnings for the second quarter of 2024, posting broadly negative results relative to the consensus expectations. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) Earnings Release for the Second Quarter of 2024 For the three months that ended on the 30th of June, 2024, Intel reported $12.833 billion in non-GAAP revenue, missing consensus expectations of $12.94 billion. Here is the actual performance of Intel's business segments in Q2 2024: The following chart compares the performance of Intel's two major segments - Data Center and AI (DCAI) and Client Computing Group (CCG) - with Wall Street's consensus expectations (sourced from here […]