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Apple Watch continues to be a strong source of growth for Apple. During Apple’s Q2 2019 earnings call, both Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri touted the success of Apple Watch during the quarter, revealing that three-quarters of Apple Watch sales are to first-time buyers. Apple says that the second quarter of 2019 marks the best non-holiday quarter ever for Apple Watch. In total, Apple’s wearables, home, and accessories category set a new March quarter record with $5....

Apple was today awarded a patent for touch-free, motion sensing gestures within 3D GUI concepts just as the company reassigns a patent related to 3D mapping technologies that it picked up through its acquisition of PrimeSense. We first told you about Apple’s patent application for a “Sensor Based Display Environment” back in January of 2012, but today the United States Patent and Trademark Office officially awarded Apple the patent (via AppleToolbox)....

ARK Invest defines “disruptive innovation” as the introduction of a technologically enabled new product or service that potentially changes the way the world works. ARK focuses solely on offering investment solutions to capture disruptive innovation in the public equity markets. ARK released their annual BIG IDEAS 2022 research report centered around the belief that five innovation platforms are evolving and converging at the same time: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Energy Storage, DNA Sequencing, and Blockchain Technology....

Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Black Lightning, season 3, episode 14, “The Book Of War: Chapter 1: Homecoming” The latest episode of Black Lightning just changed the history of the Arrowverse in a big way, revealing the secret role the US Army played in creating the first metahuman in recorded history. This would be a big deal even without the implications it suggests regarding how drastically history has been altered on Earth-Prime following Crisis on Infinite Earths....

The team management software provider reported a non-GAAP net loss of $42.5 million, or 23 cents per share. Revenues were $100.3 million, an increase of 70% year-over-year. Analysts were expecting a net loss per share of 26 cents on revenue of $93.86 million. “With some of the most valuable companies in the world deploying Asana to manage initiatives across entire divisions, Asana exemplifies what cross-functional work management at scale looks like,” CEO Dustin Moskovitz said in a statement....

Prerequisites: What Do I Need to Be a Malware Analyst? Malware analysts are specialists in reverse engineering. You’ve probably used antivirus at some point to protect your computer from viruses and spyware. A malware analyst is the person who can reverse engineer these tiny programs, identify a pattern or footprint, and then the analyst can write programs that detect and protect a desktop or mobile device from infection. You must understand binary, machine languages, and how programs run on a computer....

When speculating on why Apple had acquired Beats, I wondered whether Beats’ fashionability in the youth market might be a factor. A survey of college students by Chegg suggests the answer may be yes. Re/code reports that the 10,000 students surveyed thought the deal was good for Apple’s image. Interestingly, only 15 percent of students owned a Beats product – likely a smaller percentage than those who owned an Apple one....

Shared in a Reddit post this morning, a gorgeous new iOS concept has detailed a whole new approach to Siri and multitasking that offers a look into how Apple could move away from the intrusive full-screen takeover design. Created by Kévin Eugène and shared on UX Design, the concept called iOS Mogi takes an impressively detailed look at how Siri and multitasking could be greatly improved in the future. Here’s how Eugène describes “parallel help,” the main idea he created the concept around:...

In this tutorial, we have listed some of the best mods released for Microsoft Flight Simulator in 2021. First released more than three decades ago for MS-DOS and Classic Mac OS, it could easily claim to be the best flight simulation game, and there wouldn’t be many doubting this claim. Just a few days ago, the eleventh installment of the game made its way over to Windows. Dubbed the Microsoft Flight Simulator (2021), it has completely revolutionized the entire simulator experience....

Apple’s mobile OS is getting some new features that have been available for Android and Windows Phone already, but are new to iOS. But the major news is for developers and what’s under the hood. That includes a completely new programming language called Swift. This should mean some new feature rich apps and improvements on your existing favorites. There’s also several new features for users too, including a new Enterprise option that will help IT admins with the BYOD trend....

Apple has revealed a pair of notable changes to its AppleCare+ protection plans for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. With today’s changes, AppleCare+ now covers two incidents of accidental damage every 12 months, as well as a lower deductible for the AppleCare+ Theft or Loss plan. In the past, AppleCare+ covered only two incidents of accidental damage every 24 months, such as water damage, a cracked screen, or a cracked back....

Patrick Wilson has confirmed that he will be returning for Aquaman 2. In the first Aquaman, Wilson portrayed King Orm aka Ocean Master, the half-brother of Jason Momoa’s Arthur Curry and the current ruler of Atlantis who seeks to command the entirety of the Seven Seas by uniting the underwater kingdoms under his rule and leading them in a war against the surface world. After breakout roles in the likes of The Phantom of the Opera, The Alamo and Hard Candy, Wilson rose to prominence with his role as Nite Owl in Zack Snyder’s Watchmen....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW5aEQzTcW0] UPDATE [Tuesday, January 17. 2012 at 2:29pm ET]: An AT&T spokesperson chimed in with a comment noting that “throttling only applies to top users with grandfathered unlimited plans”. The full quote is included at the article bottom. AT&T and other major carriers in the United States recently instituted data throttling and began limiting network speeds for the top 5 percent of data-hungry users. Carriers around the world tend to hide data throttling in fine print, so users are in for a surprise when they find out that their unlimited plan entails data throttling once a carrier-imposed ceiling is reached (usually 1GB per month)....

So, Captain Marvel has been released, and now, Avengers: Endgame is just a few short weeks away. Now that the former is out of the way and it’s breaking box office records, Marvel Studios is heading full steam ahead into what could be their biggest release yet. The movie promises to be the culmination of the Avengers saga, definitively ending the journey that began with 2008’s Iron Man and beginning a new journey that will be led by Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, and all the other relatively new characters....

Writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have shared details of Nova’s supposed involvement in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. The Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase Three’s culminating movies work as a back-to-back feature tackling the arrival and eventual defeat of Thanos. Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, they rounded up all key players in the universe for an epic action film - but the films were at one point also supposed to be Richard Rider’s introduction to the franchise....

Belkin announced its new SoundForm Elite Hi-Fi Smart Speaker + Wireless Charger powered by Devialet back at CES and now it’s available to purchase. The company has also launched two new multi-device wireless chargers for iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods. The headliner of the three new products is the SoundForm Elite Hi-Fi Smart Speaker. Belkin teamed up with the high-end audio company Devialet to produce the high-quality sound in this unique smart speaker....

No matter what the reason, having the right gear can help you stay in touch with the world on your own terms when things are going well, and allow you to summon help and remain in touch with family members, friends, and the emergency services when things take a turn for the worse. I’d never suggest that a multitool can take over the job of a proper toolkit, but a proper toolkit is only any good to you if you have it with you....

Want to learn a new language? Whether you want to approach it casually or seriously, there are some great options available on iOS. Read on for the best iPhone language learning apps. From free to paid and no matter if you can’t speak a word or are picking up where you left off with learning a new language, the options below offer proven strategies to make real progress with your iPhone or iPad....

Following today’s iWork for iCloud update, Apple has pushed out new versions of the iOS and OS X version of the productivity suite, providing feature parity with the online version. Pages (iOS / Mac), Keynote (iOS / Mac), and Numbers (iOS / Mac) each received a new read-only sharing mode to work with the iCloud version of that feature. Each app also got a long list of changes and enhancements, which are listed below....

While this year’s iPhone lineup is expected to comprise one LCD and two OLED models, Apple continues to look ahead to the next generation of display technology: microLED. This upcoming display technology is both brighter and more power-efficient than OLED, and doesn’t suffer from burn-in. The company is reported to have visited one of the more advanced suppliers of the new type of display … Taiwan’s Economic Daily News reports that Apple representatives visited AUO....