Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple narrowly outperformed Wall Street expectations with its Q3 earnings on Thursday afternoon, reporting a slight year-over-year increase in iPhone revenue and a 12 percent jump for its services division. But elsewhere, the company’s numbers sagged: Mac revenues were down by 10 percent — a drop that…
Traces of milk fat left on ancient pottery shows that people drank milk long before they could digest lactose. Armastus/Deposit Photos At the end of the last Ice Age, 11,700 years ago, only babies would have been able to digest lactose, one of the key sugars in milk. Being able to do so into adulthood…
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Learning navigation platform Career Karma has laid off 60 people across its United States and global teams, CEO and co-founder Ruben Harris confirmed to TechCrunch. While he did not share the percentage total of those impacted, estimates via LinkedIn show that nearly a quarter of total staff was impacted. C-suite was not impacted by the…
We know the drill: Snapchat adds the Stories feature, Instagram nabs it. TikTok gets too popular, Instagram pivots to short-form video. Now, here’s another one for the list. This week, Instagram quietly added a feature to its TikTok clone Reels called Dual, which lets you record with both your front and back camera at the…
A mixed bag in hardware land as Apple reports its third quarter profits today. In spite of lowered expectations, iPhone revenue was up slightly year-over-year, from $39.5 billion to $40.7 billion — amounting to a 3% jump from the same time period in 2021. But while the company’s overall picture beat Wall Street expectation, things…
YouTube wants to quickly ramp up the number of short-form “Shorts” videos available on its platform in order to better compete with TikTok. To aid with this effort, the company is today rolling out a new creator tool that turns existing YouTube videos into Shorts in a matter of moments. The update, now available on…
E-commerce giant Amazon reported its second-quarter results today, and despite inflation and a net loss of $2 billion, the results were surprisingly better than expected. Much of the loss is chalked up to Amazon’s stake in Rivian. The second quarter net loss is compared to the net income of $7.8 billion in Q2 2021. Sales…
Apple released its third-quarter earnings on Thursday and reported $19.6 billion in services revenue, marking a 12% year-over-year increase, but narrowly falling short of Wall Street predictions of about $19.7 billion. The tech giant’s third-quarter services revenue also falls short of last quarter’s record-breaking $19.8 billion and is also down from the 27% growth it…
Once upon a time, Marvel had a villain problem, but those days may be far behind us. To be fair, there are still a lot of duds in the growing history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but recent additions like Vulture, Wenwu, and the Mad Titan Thanos himself are almost enough to make us forget…