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may or may not be notable. technology reporter @cnbc
Joined July 2010
biggest announcement today? the new power brick with 2 usb-c ports.
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I can't believe I'm going to pay $80 for a green LED on my AirPods case.
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So Tim, if you want to attach a photo to a text message, the camera roll is in the app strip now. I know, it's annoying
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the overwhelming impression i've gotten over the past 24 months of covering generative AI is nobody looks at the output closely.
Even looking at the hand-selected examples on OpenAI's website, it seems like they don't actually even care about the correctness of this output. 70% of Americans regret losing foreign-language ability? Really? You really think that's true?
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Some personal news: I'm delighted to be joining the team @CNBCtech to cover Apple and hardware. There's never been a better time to cover the fruit company and I'm thrilled to be working with so many great reporters and editors.
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One teen asked Tim Cook to “dab on the haters” today during a q&a at Steve Jobs theater. His answer? “I’m not going to do that.”.
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Apple TLDR . iPhone 📈 66%.Services 📈 27%.Mac 📈 70%.iPad 📈 79%.Wearables/Home 📈 24%. Overall sales: 📈 54% .
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My mother is currently flying back to US from Incheon airport, in Korea. She says it's unusually empty, although it is early in the morning there
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In ChatGPT's recent search engine announcement, they ask for "music festivals in Boone North Carolina in august" . There are five results in the example image in the ChatGPT blog post : . 1: Festival in Boone . that ends July 27 . ChatGPT's dates are when the box office is
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Apple confirmed leaked iBoot source code is legit in takedown request
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tom brady’s crypto ad on tv shows bitcoin’s price nearly 40% higher than it’s currently trading.
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it's just nice to see less fortunate people running up $1000 tabs in the hamptons get a little help from a celebrity. heartwarming story.
Jimmy Fallon paid a table's $1,136 restaurant tab just because they didn't bother him during dinner
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The asynchronous hill I'll die on is that Slack and other work chats should be desktop-oriented — not on your phone.
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Apple files appeal in Epic Games case, potentially delaying App Store changes for years
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Apple said last month that App Store had paid out $155 billion to developers.
Sundar says Android developers around the world have earned a total of $80 billion from Google Play. $goog.
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AT&T says it will defer turning on towers near airports. But the larger 5G network will be turned on tomorrow. Full statement:
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Tim Cook is head of Nike's succession committee, so he definitely knew about this Nike>ServiceNow>SAP CEO musical chairs.
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This isn't even really a joke. Apple has bought nearly $500B of its shares in the last decade.
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Every one of these stories should note the amazing rock and roll trivia fact that Dexter Holland has a PhD and he did his thesis on mRNA.
The Offspring oust drummer Pete Parada for choosing not to get COVID vaccine:
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Nvidia CEO: "Gaming is no longer just gaming. It's infused into sports, e-sports, it's infused into art, infused into social. Gaming has such a large cultural impact, it's the largest form of entertainment.". That's your bull case for Nvidia.
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can't innovate anymore my.
Apple introduces new polishing cloth for all devices, sold separately for $19 by @parkerortolani.
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"Nancy Pelosi called Zoom ‘a Chinese entity,’ but it’s an American company with an American CEO"
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several people are typing.
JUST IN: Slack shares halted for pending news.
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Apple's $2 trillion value is proof that Tim Cook's services plan worked — as Apple's value has ballooned its PE ratio has also risen to be more like a software company
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From Apple's App Store guidelines: "Push Notifications . should not be used for advertising, promotions, or direct marketing purposes".
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SNAP closed at $19.11 per share today, finally recovering from Kylie Jenner's infamous tweet that plunged shares back in 2018
sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore? Or is it just me. ugh this is so sad.
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Just got my first pitch at kif.leswing@nbcuni.com. That was quick. Send me tips, rumors, thoughts, ideas, etc!.
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Nvidia expects to sell $400 million in cryptocurrency mining chips in the current quarter These GPUs are best at mining Ethereum.
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new macbook airs have a squared off redesign , the black (midnight) is matte
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extreme sports is not a huge market but maybe the soft hands office workers who want to pretend they're outdoorsy IS a massive market.
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Apple's going to close some retail stores in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Arizona. Bad indicator for a smooth return to normalcy . the company does its homework and follows guidelines
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if it's on social media, why was google invited 🙃
JUST IN from Senate Judiciary Committee: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai and Twitter's Jack Dorsey invited for hearing on data privacy in social media.
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Lady Gaga called for a "Be Kind" emoji at a concert at Apple HQ last week 🆒.
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Well here's an Apple ad about cooking crack cocaine
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Apple says it's building a new campus and will hire 20,000 new employees
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Been to Moscone for so many tech keynotes and it’s inspiring to see it turned into an efficient vaccine center
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Now that I'm back on Twitter, I'm exclusively going to post retweet bait. That means. 1️⃣ Tweets with emojis.🚀 Lists of things that didn't exist 10 years ago .💁 Inspirational "rise and grind" quotes.🍦Quote tweeting big news with "wow" or "this".🤔. Profit?.
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If you were guessing which tech company did a bad news dump during apple launch, it was Uber.
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if you're looking for a solid free google docs replacement, one recommendation i hear a lot is to throw your computers into the bay and head for the mountains.
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brb AIM. brb forever
All good things come to an end. On Dec 15, we'll bid farewell to AIM. Thank you to all our users! #AIMemories
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The midnight green iPhone 11 Pro is very subtle not very green. Think it would work for any space grey fan
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kind of disingenuous to say Infowars has been banned by Apple when the "Infowars Official" app is autosuggested in App Store, a much bigger platform than iTunes Podcast Directory.
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Apple's board certainly seems happy with Tim Cook. They've approved a new stock grant through 2025 that will net him over 1 million AAPL shares if everything goes well — worth $114 million at today's closing price.
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Elon Musk made a $197 million bet he could help Australia's energy issues
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REVEALED: This is what secretive billion-dollar startup Magic Leap has been working on
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all the fleece companies came together to stop advertising on one web site during the summer.
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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says that he doesn't expect the semiconductor shortage to end until 2023. "We're in the worst of it now, every quarter next year we'll get incrementally better, but they're not going to have supply-demand balance until 2023".
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This is the ideal iPhone battery. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
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Apple has bought about 100 companies in the last 6 years. Here’s what it’s looking for
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Apple predicts more climate change disasters could increase iPhone demand
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Facebook's Bosworth says glasses with cameras will be the norm in 10 years
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"Some fans, however, were disappointed that the box set excludes Weezer’s other album, Pinkerton."
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It's official: Apple sends out invitations for the new iPad event on October 30
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sundar stalks around the stage, looks into the camera. "and one more thing: we're bringing google reader back" the crowd celebrates so hard it turns into a riot.
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where are we? what the hell is going on?
Grammy Award-winning musician Imogen Heap is using ethereum and the Harry Potter musical to fund her blockchain project
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@MattZeitlin Chipotle moved from a locally-sourced strategy to Big Restaurant Supply for everything in 2015, after the stock price fell, leading to an actual hedonic decrease in taste, quality and utility. this probably wasn't captured in CPI .
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It's true, you can now rent and purchase movies on Amazon Prime Video for iPhone using your card on file with Amazon. It's a small but important change.
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late last year ago i signed up for amazon subscribe and save for toilet paper and forgot to cancel it which meant i got a box of toilet paper every two weeks. who's laughing now.
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MacBook Pros are strategically important for Apple because programmers can only make iPhone apps on a Mac. And picky programmers, like those walking the halls of Apple Park, often choose the most powerful machine they can get.
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Who gave SBF/Alameda its original bankroll? . This was the question I've always had. Really nice scoop @ReedAlbergotti @semafor .
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iOS 14.8 is out, and it's security fixes, including one that was reported by @citizenlab — which said in August that it found zero-click NSO Group attacks on Bahraini activists using current iPhones
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