A recent study issued by cloud service provider Backblaze reports that hard drives built for data centers aren’t more reliable than models sold on the mainstream desktop market. The company compared two 8TB drives from Seagate.
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Source: Digital trends
Alphabet delivered a knockout quarter today, handily beating the estimates from Wall Street — but, perhaps more importantly, showing actual growth in a critical metric that has seen a consistent decline for quite some time. Google’s cost-per-click — a metric that basically defines how valuable its ads are — grew 1% quarter-over-quarter this year. While still down… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Amazon posted company earnings after the bell on Thursday. The company posted significantly better-than-expected earnings, at 52 cents per share, when analysts were forecasting just three cents. Revenue came in at $43.74 billion, versus the consensus estimate of $42.14 billion. Shares quickly ticked up 7% in initial after-hours trading. Bezos credits the success of its popular… Read More
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Microsoft today announced its quarterly earnings for its first financial quarter of 2018 (yes, I know it’s early, but that’s how Microsoft’s financial quarters work). Wall Street’s crack team of financial analysts expected the company to report revenue of about $23.56 billion and earnings per share of $0.72. The actual numbers the company reported today were $24.5… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
If you want to pick up a new language, there’s no shortage of options. But one aspect of the process that has been neglected is pronunciation, which is especially important for professionals. Online, learning pronunciation is generally “hear a recording, then repeat it.” A new platform, Blue Canoe uses an established curriculum and machine learning to make things easier and… Read More
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Amazon will be offering a new service to deliver packages inside your home. Would you sign up for this service and give the delivery person access to your front door? We want to know.
Source: CNET
Because it’s rude to leave out children, HelloFresh co-founder Dan Treiman has teamed up with Joanna and David Parker to launch a healthy prepared meal service for the little ones. Treiman, who joined the company last December, helped Yumble officially launch this past summer. Yumble is currently live in 26 states on the east coast and has plans to expand to the west coast sometime in… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
After being criticized for not catching fake news online, the tech giant partners with a fact-checking network to better comb the internet.
Source: CNET
After the card surfaced in rumors over the last several months, Nvidia confirmed when the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card will hit stores. They will be provided by 11 manufacturers with a starting price of $449.
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One author of a new paper on artificial intelligence is a 17-year-old high school senior.
Source: Wired