Former Apple employee Dhirendra Prasad this week pled guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States after stealing more than $17 million from Apple through mail and wire fraud schemes. According to the Northern California District Attorney’s office, Prasad worked for a ten-year period between 2008 and 2018. He was…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Apple will continue to source modem chips from Qualcomm for the 2023 iPhone 15 lineup, reports Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. Qualcomm said it is set to provide the “vast majority” of modem chips for Apple’s devices, despite earlier expectations that it would provide just a fraction of modem chips. Qualcomm in November 2021 said that it…
There’s no question about it: Gen Z is built different. But the definition of who qualifies as Gen Z varies depending on who you ask (for example, if you ask me, it’s anyone who has never had to rewind a VHS). You can’t draw a solid line in time between Gen Z and Millennials—being part…
Advanced Micro Devices said it will ship its AMD Radeon 7900 XTX and XT graphics cards built on its RDNA 3 graphics architecture on Dec. 13.Read MoreRead More
Dataloop, a data-management and labeling company for unstructured AI data, has raised $33M in a series B round of funding.Read MoreRead More
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge If you’re paying Dish to stream live TV channels over the internet, prepare for a higher bill yet again: the company’s Sling TV streaming service is raising prices by $5 a month for the fourth time in five years. Sling Orange and Sling Blue pay TV packages will…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In an earnings call today, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced that the merging of HBO Max and Discovery Plus was going so well that the target date for the launch of the new service would be moving from summer 2023 to spring 2023. From their user…
Enlarge / Variations of “a photo of a happy corgi puppy with fancy sunglasses on sitting and facing forward, studio light, longshot” generated by OpenAI’s DALL-E. (credit: OpenAI) On Thursday, OpenAI announced the introduction of an API for its DALL-E image synthesis model that will allow developers to easily integrate its AI image generation technology…
Enlarge / Looking like a million bucks… or at least 1,500… At this point in the history of tech product marketing, consumers generally know what it means when a company sticks the word “Pro” at the end of a device name. From iPads and AirPods to the Microsoft Surface and Galaxy Watch, “Pro” models generally…
Appearances can be deceptive – both in the real world and in this month’s stories! If our latest issue teaches us anything, it’s that you can’t always judge things by first impressions… and that’s part of the fun of reading a good story, isn’t it? There’s nothing quite as thrilling as something unexpected. If…