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  • Apple earnings beat, iPhone sales in-line, stock jumps

    Apple earnings beat, iPhone sales in-line, stock jumps

    Reading Time: 2 minutesApple (AAPL) announced its Q2 2018 financial results on Tuesday. The tech giant sold 52.2 million iPhones during the quarter, which was just about in line with analysts’ estimates, which called for the company to sell 52.3 million iPhones. The company posted earnings of $2.73 per share on $61.1 billion of revenue. Those numbers beat analyst expectations of $2.64…

  • Facebook gets into the online dating business

    Facebook gets into the online dating business

    Reading Time: 2 minutesFacebook (FB) wants to help get you … into a long-term relationship. That’s according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who announced that his company will begin rolling out a new dating feature during the social network’s F8 developer conference on Tuesday. The dating app, Zuckerberg said, is meant to help bring people together…

  • Study: 1 in 5 American homes get broadband through smartphones

    Study: 1 in 5 American homes get broadband through smartphones

    Reading Time: 4 minutesAt least 1 in 5 Americans can only get online via their smartphones. (image:Pixabay) More There’s about a one in five chance that you can’t read this at home on anything that won’t fit in your pocket — thanks to a surge in smartphone-only broadband use found by a new study. The…

  • The iPhone X could be a problem for Apple

    The iPhone X could be a problem for Apple

    Reading Time: 4 minutesApple (AAPL) is scheduled to report its Q2 2018 earnings on Tuesday May 1, and all eyes will be on iPhone sales and average selling price (ASP). Apple’s stock price has taken a hit in recent weeks, as reports point to lower demand for the iPhone X. Those reports come as Taiwan…

  • Expanding Death Star lamp with MKR1000

    Expanding Death Star lamp with MKR1000

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteExpanding Death Star lamp with MKR1000 Arduino Team — April 27th, 2018 What could be better than a lamp that expands with the pull of a control cord? How about one that looks like the Death Star and is controlled with your voice?  That’s exactly what maker Adi Singh created using…

  • RC truck packs Arduino control system… and an electromagnetic accelerator turret!

    RC truck packs Arduino control system… and an electromagnetic accelerator turret!

    Reading Time: 2 minutesRC truck packs Arduino control system… and an electromagnetic accelerator turret! Arduino Team — April 27th, 2018 While some toy vehicles perform quite well out of the box, others are just begging to be equipped with supplemental electronics. This was the case for YouTuber Tanner Tech, who after receiving a capable 4WD…

  • Goldman Sachs boosts its Amazon price target to $2,000

    Goldman Sachs boosts its Amazon price target to $2,000

    Reading Time: 2 minutesGoldman Sachs boosted its 12-months price target for Amazon’s (AMZN) stock to $2,000, up from $1,825, after the e-commerce giant reported blow-out first-quarter earnings results. “We are in the sweet spot between Amazon investment cycles where new fulfillment/data centers are driving accelerating revenue growth while incremental capacity utilization is driving margin expansion,”…

  • Why you should actually install the new Windows 10 update

    Why you should actually install the new Windows 10 update

    Reading Time: 4 minutesMicrosoft’s latest Windows 10 update is actually worth downloading. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration More Buckle up, because Microsoft (MSFT) is about to fire a new Windows 10 update at your PC in the form of its Windows 10 April 2018 Update. But instead of deciding to put off installing this update until the heat…

  • Microsoft revenue and earnings beat expectations

    Microsoft revenue and earnings beat expectations

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) More Microsoft (MSFT) announced its Q3 2018 financial results on Thursday, and they beat expectations. The tech giant posted earnings of $0.95 per share on $26.8 billion of revenue. Those results beat analyst expectations of $0.85 per share on $25.78 billion revenue. The stock is slightly lower in…

  • Robot Van Gogh will paint your portrait

    Robot Van Gogh will paint your portrait

    Reading Time: 4 minutesMaker Faire Rome, where everything started I participated in Maker Faire Rome back in December 2017. I came with the rest of the Arduino crew to spend two days talking to other makers in the show, check out the projects made in the field of education and to…  get a portrait painted.…

  • Gmail still lacks these important features

    Gmail still lacks these important features

    Reading Time: 4 minutesGoogle has rolled out some major changes for Gmail, but it’s still missing these features. More Gmail has a new look and new tools today, courtesy of a redesign that Google (GOOG, GOOGL) pushed out two weeks before its big I/O developer conference. The update to Gmail — available in a browser…

  • This week&apos;s No. 1 free Android app reviewed: Impossible Bottle Flip

    This week's No. 1 free Android app reviewed: Impossible Bottle Flip

    Reading Time: 4 minutesWelcome to Pogue’s Rated:App series. Each week, I install whatever is the No. 1 app on the iOS or Android store and review it, to save you the effort in case it’s a turkey! This week, the No. 1 most downloaded free app on Android store is a newly released game called…

  • 8K TVs are coming, but don&apos;t buy the hype

    8K TVs are coming, but don't buy the hype

    Reading Time: 4 minutes8K TVs are coming, but you don’t waste your money. More ROME — If the 8,294,400 pixels of resolution on an Ultra High Definition television just don’t seem to convey enough detail, fear not: The electronics industry has heard your cry. Even as UHD TVs, often called 4K TVs for their nearly…

  • A look back at CTC Valencia Fair 2018

    A look back at CTC Valencia Fair 2018

    Reading Time: 7 minutesOn April 18th, a team from Arduino Education made it to the museum Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias in Valencia to participate in the CTC Valencia Fair. A total of 1,200 students (out of 1,500 people in attendance) participated in the five-hour-long event where the students exhibited what they had…

  • Spotify is making two key upgrades to its free service

    Spotify is making two key upgrades to its free service

    Reading Time: 3 minutesSpotify is improving its free offering and updates its iOS and Android apps. More Spotify (SPOT) is finally giving its mobile app a major facelift, as part of a push to improve its free service. The new app will roll out globally to the company’s 157 million users in the coming weeks.…

  • 5 tips for spring-cleaning your gadgets

    5 tips for spring-cleaning your gadgets

    Reading Time: 6 minutesDespite the fact that the mercury is still hovering around “way too cold,” we’re well into spring. And while you might still be bundling up when you leave the house in the morning, now’s as good a time as any to get into spring cleaning mode. But since yard work or airing…

  • Google parent Alphabet beats expectations, shares jump

    Google parent Alphabet beats expectations, shares jump

    Reading Time: 2 minutesGoogle’s (GOOG, GOOGL) parent company Alphabet reported its Q1 2018 financial results on Monday, posting earnings of $13.33 per share on $31.15 billion of revenue. Those numbers beat analyst expectations of $9.30 per share on $24.75 billion in revenue, respectively. The company’s revenue reflects a 26% jump over last year’s levels, or 23% on a constant currency basis. Traffic…

  • &apos;Detroit: Become Human&apos; is a game where your choices matter

    'Detroit: Become Human' is a game where your choices matter

    Reading Time: 6 minutes‘Detroit: Become Human’ explores a world in which androids and humans must coexist. More Artificial intelligence and robotics are advancing at an ever-increasing clip. Still, we’re decades away from the kind of AI-powered humanoids that can rival our own cognitive and physical capabilities. But when that time does come, how will society…

  • 1961 rotary phone gets a 2018 cellular upgrade

    1961 rotary phone gets a 2018 cellular upgrade

    Reading Time: < 1 minute1961 rotary phone gets a 2018 cellular upgrade Arduino Team — April 23rd, 2018 While it’s hard to beat today’s mobile devices functionality-wise, if you need a phone built like a tank and designed for voice communication and voice communication only, you can’t go wrong with the Western Electric Model 500…

  • YouTuber makes his own Overwatch laser turrets

    YouTuber makes his own Overwatch laser turrets

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYouTuber makes his own Overwatch laser turrets Arduino Team — April 23rd, 2018 If you ever wanted to to see what Symmetra’s sentry turrets from Overwatch would look like in real life, now you can thanks to Mr. Volt. The YouTuber has produced a pair of them powered by a LiPo battery…

  • Arduino and Distrelec launch a new automation & robotics contest!

    Arduino and Distrelec launch a new automation & robotics contest!

    Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino and Distrelec launch a new automation & robotics contest! Arduino Team — April 23rd, 2018 How can you help advance Industry 4.0 using the Arduino ecosystem? From robots and predictive maintenance to remote control and data acquisition, we’ve teamed up Distrelec to launch a new Automation & Robotics Contest challenging our community to create innovative solutions…

  • Meet the Silicon Valley matchmaker helping top tech executives find love

    Meet the Silicon Valley matchmaker helping top tech executives find love

    Reading Time: 5 minutesDating in any dense metropolitan area can seem like a herculean challenge, but try doing it in tech-savvy Silicon Valley, where scoring a date may be relatively easy, but cementing a relationship can be more difficult than raising another round of venture capital. That’s where Linx Dating founder Amy Andersen comes in.…