Think about your favorite devices—your smartphone, laptop, tablet, computer, or console—the things you use to play cool games, watch hilarious videos, and connect and chat with friends.
Many young people spend a lot of free time looking at them. Turns out that teens spend an average of 8.5 hours on screens per day, and tweens—that’s ages 8 to 12—are not far behind, at 5.5 hours daily.
Keep in mind those numbers are for only social me
Despite beating expectations and posting an 11% year-over-year growth in revenue on the back of rebounding advertising spending, Alphabet saw its stock drop in after-hours trading following its earnings report for the third quarter of 2023 thanks to weaker-than-expected performance in the company’s cloud business.
Alphabet shares fell by more than 6% following its earnings report after rising nearly 2% during regular trading hours on Tuesday.
Google’s parent
Amazon is hopping on the passkey bandwagon.
The retailer became the third tech giant this year to roll out or increase support for passkeys on browsers and mobile apps, which could hasten the demise of traditional passwords. Effective immediately, Amazon customers are able to set up passkeys in their Amazon settings, which will let them use biometric data, such as a face scan or fingerprint, to access their account, or just the PIN they use to unlock their device.
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Microsoft beat analyst expectations in its latest fiscal quarter, giving the stock a big boost in after-hours trading.
Shares were around 4% higher after the company reported first-quarter earning results of $2.99 per share, significantly higher than the $2.65 per share expected by FactSet. Revenue topped expectations as well, coming in at $56.52 billion compared to an expected $54.5 billion.
The company’s closely watched Azure cloud service saw a big jump in revenu
The California Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday suspended Cruise’s permit to operate its self-driving vehicles, effective immediately.
The agency cited “an unreasonable risk to public safety” and said there is “no set time” for the suspension’s duration. “The DMV has provided Cruise with the steps needed to apply to reinstate its suspended permits, which the DMV will not approve until the company has fulfilled the requirements
Smartphone chip kingpin Qualcomm is making an ambitious foray into a product category poised to play a major role in our lives in the years to come. Actually, it already does. Maybe you’ve heard of the device in question: It’s known as a “personal computer,” or “PC” for short.
What Qualcomm is launching is the Snapdragon X Elite, a silicon platform for laptops running Microsoft’s Windows operating system. It’s a system-on-a-chi
As Meta readies to report earnings this week, the social media company behind Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp has been hit with a massive lawsuit from 42 attorneys general in 33 states, including California and New York. The attorneys general accuse the company of harming young people’s mental health and contributing to the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that addict children to its platforms. The lawsuit filed in federal
Is Bitcoin back? It appears so—at least for now.
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) edged past $35,000 this week—the highest it’s been since May 2022. After a prolonged “crypto winter,” this is welcome news to crypto traders and investors, many of whom are underwater on their holdings. While the $35,000 mark is still a long way from BTC’s peak value of more than $63,000 in the spring of 2021, it does represent a sizable bounceback. Bitcoin prices tu
At AI biotech company Owkin, cofounder and CEO Thomas Clozel is rethinking cancer and disease research through an entirely new lens—and aiming to break down barriers in healthcare along the way.
“The field of research in medicine is extremely siloed,” Clozel says. “Open innovation in health doesn’t really exist.” As a clinical research doctor and former assistant professor in clinical hematology, Clozel witnessed these silos firsthand. He sa
As concerns mount about AI’s risk to society, a human-first approach has emerged as an important way to keep AIs in check. That approach, called red-teaming, relies on teams of people to poke and prod these systems to make them misbehave in order to reveal vulnerabilities the developers can try to address. Red-teaming comes in lots of flavors, ranging from organically formed communities on social media to officially sanctioned government events to internal corporate efforts. Just recen