The writing may have been on the wall for a while, but Intel on Tuesday acknowledged that sliding PC sales would force the company to go through a major restructuring. The world’s biggest chipmaker said it will cut 12,000 jobs, or 11 percent of its global workforce, by the middle of next year. The job …
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Netflix finds its mojo overseas
People around the world are flocking to sign up for Netflix’s online video and original content. And the company doesn’t see that demand drying up anytime soon. In the last three months of 2015, Netflix rolled out its service to Japan, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Earlier this month, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said the company had expanded into 130 additional …
Read More »Hey, Apple, leave that jack alone
You might not think an itty-bitty hole in a phone would cause much angst. When that hole is the universal 3.5mm headphone jack, though, rumors of its demise are a major big deal. After all, nearly every wired headphone on the market plugs into this little sucker. The iPhone faithful went through this sort of thing once before, in 2012, …
Read More »Women take to the stage, finally, at Apple developers confab
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s Jennifer Bailey took to the stage at the Worldwide Developers Conference to lay out what’s new in Apple’s mobile payments system. James Martin. It’s the little things that can say the most. And at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, the company’s …
Read More »Science labs in the cloud: Champagne discoveries, beer budget
“Science isn’t science until it’s reproduced,” says Ethan Perlstein, CEO of Perlstein Lab. Getty Images Science is hard. Repeating other labs’ findings is even harder. That’s particularly true in the life sciences, where biologists and researchers manually run sophisticated experiments fraught with variables such as water purity, humidity or subtle differences in equipment. “Biologists do almost everything by hand, and …
Read More »iPhone sales take a big bite out of Android shipments
Lollipop is just one version of Google’s Android mobile operating system. Google The holidays weren’t so jolly for Android smartphones, after all. Shipments of Android-running smartphones fell in the last three months of 2014 as consumers bought Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in record-shattering numbers. This marks the first decline in Android smartphones during the all-important holiday quarter …
Read More »Katy Perry to Super Bowl fans: Buy my stuff, now
Katy Perry will sell a range of merchandise over social media during her half-time show at the Super Bowl. Photo by Neil Lupin/Getty Images Are you ready for some shopping? That could be the subtext of Katy Perry’s half-time show during Sunday’s Super Bowl, as she pitches a range of merchandise over social media. The singer, partnering with Universal Music …
Read More »President Obama presses for high
President Obama says he wants to expand access to affordable high-speed Internet, no matter where they live. Andrew Harrer — Pool/Getty Images President Barack Obama wants more Americans to have access to affordable broadband, no matter where they live. The president will deliver that message Wednesday from Cedar Falls, Iowa, according to Jeff Zients, director of the National Economic Council …
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