YouTube’s have a rough couple of years, but that’s just because it’s been growing up, its chief executive said Monday. CEO Susan Wojcicki, speaking at the Wired25 conference at SFJazz in San Francisco, called the past 18 months YouTube’s “growing-up years.” Now playing: Watch this: YouTube says it’s working on growing up 3:13 “We used to have …
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Some companies may be rethinking their US Defense Department contracts, but Amazon’s not one of them, CEO Jeff Bezos said Monday. Bezos, speaking at the Wired25 Conference at the SFJazz Center in San Francisco, said he will continue to support the US Defense Department. Earlier this month, cloud computing rival Google pulled out of the bidding for a $10 billion Pentagon contract …
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Google has been experimenting with a censored search engine that would work in China, but it’s not sure if it will ever launch the service, CEO Sundar Pichai said Monday. Pichai, speaking during the Wired25 conference at the SFJazz Center in San Francisco, said Google started the internal project — dubbed Project Dragonfly — to see what was possible in …
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If you’ve got an iPhone XS and XS Max that doesn’t appear to charge correctly, Apple’s got a fix coming for you. Some users have reported their new phones won’t charge when plugged into lightning cables when their screens are off. The iPhones did, however, charge when using wireless charging or when the screens were on. For those charging with …
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Students now will be able to get into their dorms and pay for meals in the university cafeteria using just their iPhones or Apple Watches. Starting Tuesday, students from three US universities will be able to add their student IDs to the Apple Wallet on their devices. That lets them use their phones and watches to pay for items or …
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There’s more information on our phones than in our homes, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, and we may need government regulations to protect our privacy. Cook, long a vocal proponent of user privacy, noted that our phones know about our relationships, what we look at online and what photos we take. All of that could be at risk if the …
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Apple might’ve infringed a Qualcomm patent, but that doesn’t mean iPhones should be banned from sale, a new US International Trade Commission filing said Friday. Qualcomm in late 2017 had asked the ITC to prevent iPhones that had Intel 4G chips from being sold because of allegations of patent infringement. Administrative Law Judge Thomas Pender on Friday agreed that Apple …
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Qualcomm’s Toq smartwatch was so big it dwarfed my wrist. Rectangular and thick, it weighed down my arm and almost restricted my motion. I had to cut the wrist band, which contained the battery in the clasp, to precisely fit my wrist. It was a watch that only an engineer could love. And I sure wasn’t an engineer. That, in …
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If you were hoping to get your hands on the premium version of Apple’s newest high-end iPhone, you may need to wait a while. Preorders for Apple‘s newest phones began just after midnight Friday, and the larger and more expensive iPhone XS Max designed for Verizon and AT&T in the US appeared no longer available for delivery by launch day, Sept. …
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A year after Apple made huge — but pricey — changes to its smartphone lineup with the iPhone X, it may finally have a redesigned, cheaper phone for the rest of us. The company plans to host an event at 10 a.m. PT on Wednesday at the Steve Jobs Theater on its campus in Cupertino, California. During the event, it …
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