Month: April 2020
Facebook stock spikes despite ‘significant reduction’ in demand for ads
The coronavirus pandemic is significantly slowing the growth of Facebook’s ads business, but investors seems pleased with the company’s performance in Q1 after Facebook released its earnings report Wednesday. The company beat Wall Street expectations on revenues, sharing that they had made $17.74 billion on while follow short on earnings…
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Microsoft shares rise after the tech giant posts 15% growth
Today Microsoft reported its third-quarter, fiscal 2020 quarter earnings, the period of time corresponding to Q1 2020 on the regular calendar. The technology giant generated $35 billion in revenue, up 15% from the year-ago period. That top line led to $13 billion in operating income (+25% YoY), and $10.8 billion…
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Apple will make it easier to use Face ID to unlock your iPhone while wearing a face mask
Face ID was a great idea — until large swathes of the world were forced to wear face masks since the coronavirus pandemic rendered it largely useless. Apple has apparently heard our pain. Users are reporting a subtle new feature in the latest developer version of iOS 13.5 that will…
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‘Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla’ is set in the Viking Age
Following a full-day livestream, we now have a better idea of when and where the next game in Ubisoft’s long-running Assassin’s Creed franchise will take place. In Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, you’ll play an assassin at some point during the Viking Ag… Source
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Apple makes it easier to skip Face ID if you’re wearing a mask
Being able to unlock your iPhone with Face ID is great, until you’re wearing a mask. Apple recognizes this, and in beta software released today, it makes it a little easier to skip the Face ID display and enter your passcode, CNBC reports.At the mome… Source
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Canon software turns your EOS camera into an overpowered webcam
If you’ve been video chatting more often during the pandemic, you’ve probably noticed that most PC webcams are… not great. Canon might have a solution if you have one of its cameras hanging around, at least. Its newly released (via DPReview) EOS We… Source
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