Apple Reports Record Fourth Quarter Results
CUPERTINO, California — October 27, 2015 — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2015 fourth quarter ended September 26, 2015. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $51.5 billion and quarterly net profit of $11.1 billion, or $1.96 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $42.1 billion and net profit of $8.5 billion, or $1.42 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 39.9 percent...
FBI Dark Web hacks were a part of a global child porn bust
The international scope isn’t completely surprising, since the feds briefly took over an existing service (Playpen) to infiltrate the PCs of pedophiles who signed up. There were bound to be people outside of the US who got caught. However, it reveals just how broad the FBI’s search warrant really was. Effectively, it had permission to hack an unlimited number of targets worldwide in the name of stamping out sexual...
FBI Dark Web hacks were a part of a global child porn bust
The international scope isn’t completely surprising, since the feds briefly took over an existing service (Playpen) to infiltrate the PCs of pedophiles who signed up. There were bound to be people outside of the US who got caught. However, it reveals just how broad the FBI’s search warrant really was. Effectively, it had permission to hack an unlimited number of targets worldwide in the name of stamping out sexual...
Apple Names Jeff Williams Chief Operating Officer
Tor Myhren Joins Apple CUPERTINO, California — December 17, 2015 — Apple® today announced that Jeff Williams has been named chief operating officer and Johny Srouji is joining Apple’s executive team as senior vice president for Hardware Technologies. Phil Schiller, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, will expand his role to include leadership of the revolutionary App Store® across all Apple platforms. Apple also announced...
Scientists figure out how to create affordable smart windows
They prepared some small pieces of material for their experiments, adding color to them by mixing in micron-sized dye particles. MIT describes the group’s process as follows: In initial experiments, the researchers shone a light through the polymer structure infused with dye particles and characterized the amount of light transmitted through the material, without any deformation. They then stretched the polymer perpendicular to...
