Sources: as Bob Mansfield retires, Apple puts AI chief John Giannandrea in charge of self-driving car project Titan; Doug Field runs the project day to day
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Apple will reduce its App Store cut to 15% from any developer who earns less than $1M in revenue per year from all their apps, starting January 1
but there's a catch Firstpost Tech : Apple to cut App Store commission from 30 to 15 percent for developers with up to $1 million annual revenue Stephen Warwick / iMore : Fury as T...
Apple says its new M1-equipped Mac mini, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro are available to order today, arriving as early as next week
A new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini powered by M1, Apple's breakthrough chip for the Mac — Cupertino, California — On a momentous day for the Mac …
Analysis of Apple's A14 chip shows an increase in single-thread performance of nearly 3x in 5 years, suggesting M1 will be a formidable rival to x86 incumbents
Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech :
Apple says its new M1-equipped Mac mini, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro are available to order today, arriving as early as next week
A new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini powered by M1, Apple's breakthrough chip for the Mac — Cupertino, California — On a momentous day for the Mac …
Apple says its new M1-equipped Mac mini, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro are available to order today, arriving as early as next week
A new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini powered by M1, Apple's breakthrough chip for the Mac — Cupertino, California — On a momentous day for the Mac …
Filing: ahead of Snowflake's IPO, Salesforce and Berkshire Hathaway both commit to buy $250M worth of Snowflake stock; IPO range to value it at ~$21B-$23.7B
Appeal of the cloud data storage platform lies not only in its triple-digit sales growth Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC : Snowflake IPO gets vote of confidence as Berkshire, Salesforce...
Apple sues Epic Games for breach of contract and seeks damages, says Epic poses “as a modern corporate Robin Hood” but just wants App Store's benefits for free
- Apple on Tuesday filed counterclaims and responses in its legal battle with Fortnite creator Epic Games …
Nvidia unveils its A100 AI chip with 54B transistors and 5 petaflops of performance, about 20 times more than the previous-generation Volta
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Nvidia launches Clara Guardian, an edge AI system that uses sensors for contactless patient monitoring to limit infectious disease spread, in 50 hospitals
Nvidia today announced the launch of Clara Guardian, a smart hospital edge AI system that uses sensors to limit the spread …
Zoom CEO says it hit more than 300M DAUs on April 21, up from about 200M on April 1
Zoom Video Communications Inc. has been lambasted for its security flaws, but the backlash hasn't slowed growth. The company reported a 50% surge in use of the online meeting appl...
Zoom rolls out its 5.0 update, focused exclusively on security and privacy features, including easier call management and upgrading encryption
But You Can Protect Yourself Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : 300 million people used Zoom on Tuesday. In December, their daily active users averaged 10 million. Scaling a r...
Zoom rolls out its 5.0 update, focused exclusively on security and privacy features, including easier call management and upgrading encryption
Zoom is moving quickly to address complaints — Zoom promised a 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy and security issues, and the company is delivering on some of those promises.
Nasdaq closes down 7.29% and S&P 500 down 7.6% extending last week's selloff, with Apple plunging 7.9%, Microsoft 6.8%, Facebook 6.4%, and Amazon 5.3%
Ari Levy / CNBC :
USPS announces it will use Nvidia GPU servers from HPE from spring 2020, aims to use the AI tech to accelerate package data processing by up to 10x
Dylan Martin / CRN :
Facebook buys CTRL-Labs, which makes a bracelet that measures neuron activity to detect movements the user is thinking about; sources: size of deal is $500M-$1B
- CTRL-Labs is said to fetch $500 million to $1 billion — Facebook may one day pair the technology with AR or VR glasses