In late October 1959, a Mexican spy named Eduardo Diaz Silveti slipped into the US Embassy in Mexico City. Tall and well-spoken with slicked-back hair, Silveti, 30, descended from a family of bullfighters. He had learned spycraft at the Federal Security Directorate, or DFS, Mexico’s secret police. During the Cold War, the capital had become […]
Month: January 2021
Tim Cook: Apple Working on Products Where ‘Hardware, Software, and Services Intersect’
During the quarterly earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked a broad question on how Apple evaluates products and opportunities before entering the new markets. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
Over 1 Billion People Are Using an iPhone Worldwide
Apple posted a strong quarterly result this morning, with the company hitting $111.4 billion in quarterly revenue. Along with the quarterly results, Apple also shared that a record number of users are using an iPhone. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
Apple Hits Over $100 Billion Quarterly Revenue for the First Time
Apple just published its quarterly results for the ‘critical’ first fiscal quarter for 2021. Q1 2021, for Apple, ended on December 26, 2020, after a much successful holiday season for the company. The company posted a record quarterly revenue of $111.4 billion for the first time. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
Fleeing WhatsApp for Privacy? Don’t Turn to Telegram
Because the chat app doesn’t encrypt conversations by default—or at all for group chats—security professionals often warn against it. Powered by WPeMatico
Stop Calling Everyone a Tech Bro
Silicon Valley’s problem is not an excess of frat-house behavior. It’s much worse. Powered by WPeMatico
Stop Calling Everyone a Tech Bro
Silicon Valley’s problem is not an excess of frat-house behavior. It’s much worse. Powered by WPeMatico
Biden will direct billions in federal spending power to climate change
President Joe Biden continues to make good on his campaign pledge to accelerate progress on climate change, rapidly working down the list of what he can accomplish on his own in his early days in office. On Wednesday, January 27, he will sign a second set of executive orders and memorandums on climate change that […]
These Doctors Are Using AI to Screen for Breast Cancer
During the pandemic, thousands of women have skipped scans and check-ups. So physicians tapped an algorithm to predict those at the highest risk. Powered by WPeMatico
This is how America gets its vaccines
After just a week in office, the Biden administration is already under immense public pressure to fix America’s mangled vaccine rollout. Operation Warp Speed injected enormous sums into developing vaccines but left most of the planning—and cost—of administering them to states, which are now having to cope with the fallout. The reliance on chronically underfunded […]