Amazon’s years-long, meteoric growth rate may finally be cooling. The e-commerce company on Thursday reported fourth-quarter revenue of $72.4 billion, up 20 percent and at the top of the company’s guidance from October. Earnings surged to $3 billion, or $6.04 a share, handily beating analysts’ expectations of $5.67, according to Yahoo Finance. But guidance for …
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The IBM Q System One model doesn’t look like a computer. It looks like a conceptual art series of plates being held together with fishing lines suspended from a ceiling. The whole contraption is encased in half-inch-thick glass created by Milan-based Goppion, which made the protective displays for the Mona Lisa and the Crown Jewels. Bob Sutor, an IBM veteran …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Disney’s plans for a second VR short film. The many work and companion robots shown at CES 2019. What Samsung may name its new foldable phone. Now playing: Watch this: Can Disney make VR relevant? (The 3:59, Ep. 510) 4:25 The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Amazon’s Alexa versus Google Assistant at CES 2019. The coming foldable-phone revolution. Nike’s new self-tying Adapt BB shoes. Now playing: Watch this: Our really late post-CES show (The 3:59, Ep. 508) 4:37 The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by the CNET News team …
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Watch live video from NVIDIA on www.twitch.tv Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang showed off his company’s gaming chops at his CES 2019 presentation Sunday. Before a packed crowd at the MGM Grand Conference Center, Huang unveiled the GeForce RTX 2060, the chipmaker’s new, lower-priced graphics card. The card costs $349 (about £270 or AU$490) and will go on sale Jan. 15. …
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There were still hundreds of people in the audience at Intel’s CES 2019 presentation Monday. A beat-boxing musician, sizzle reels and a big colorful screen lit up the stage. But the unavoidable subtext to the hour-long event was that the chipmaker is still waiting to hire a new CEO. Without a permanent leader, the company put together a far more …
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After a year of anticipation, Amazon last month announced its winners for two new, 25,000-employee campuses and was summarily met with a flood of derision and mockery. There was even a protest in Queens, where one of the offices will go, with people lambasting the billions of dollars in incentives Amazon will receive for the projects. That backlash was the …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Many of the potential pitfalls Amazon faces in 2019. Apple plans a new $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas. Now playing: Watch this: From HQ2 to Trump, Amazon to face a lot of challenges… 4:45 The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by …
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Amazon on Wednesday revealed its first small-format Amazon Go convenience store. The store opened in Seattle today but will be available only to Amazon employees and their guests for now. An Amazon spokeswoman said these small-format stores “can be as compact as 450 square feet.” Comparatively, the original Amazon Go store is 1,800 square feet. Amazon Go is the company’s …
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Is Google’s location tracking so precise that it can know if someone moved from one side of a room to another? That’s a question US Rep. Ted Poe, a Republican from Texas, repeatedly asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai during one of the most pointed exchanges of Pichai’s congressional hearing Tuesday. But by using an iPhone, instead of a Google Android …
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