Month: April 2020
iPhone sales are down, ahead of uncertain times for the industry
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Apple device sales have taken a hit, but the company’s services are doing swell. The iPhone, the longtime cornerstone of the company’s hardware portfolio, hit $28.96 billion in revenue for Q2, down from $31.1 billion from this time last year. The iPad…
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A new pro bono portal just launched for lawyers looking to help people hit hard by the pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has laid low a lot of Americans, more than 62,000 of whom have already died since the beginning of March and 30 million more who are now out of work owing to the resultant shutdown of most businesses and public gathering places. The ensuant crisis it has…
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Amazon plans to spend $4 billion on COVID-related expenses
Fueled in part by a massive uptick in demand for groceries and other essential items, Amazon reported a big jump in sales for the first quarter in 2020. But that also equated to a sharp increase in costs, which unfortunately resulted in lower profits… Source
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Amazon says it’ll spend $4 billion or more dealing with COVID-19
Amazon expects to spend $4 billion or more — the predicted operating profit for the company’s entire coming quarter — just on COVID-19-related expenses. In a quarterly earnings release today, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the expenses will come from spending on personal protective equipment (PPE), cleaning for facilities, “higher…
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is a good sign for cross-gen gaming on Xbox One and Xbox Series X
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla — the new viking-based iteration of the popular franchise — will support Microsoft’s upcoming Smart Delivery program for cross-generation games between the Xbox Series X and Xbox One, in one of the most encouraging signs of cross-generation gaming yet for the upcoming console. Smart Delivery is what…
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Rep. Adam Schiff pushes YouTube and Twitter on coronavirus misinformation
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) sent a letter today to Google, YouTube, and Twitter urging the platforms to explicitly notify users when they’ve engaged with misinformation about the coronavirus. Schiff wrote to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, saying it’s not enough to remove…
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