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...
Venus flytraps are far from ‘dumb’
With each successive touch, the plant does more and more: two strokes causes the mouth to snap shut, while additional strokes indicate the size of the prey (bigger victims tends to twitch more) and causes the plant to produce a proportionally larger amount of “prey degrading hydrolases.” Essentially, this ensures the plant only produces the amount of enzymes it needs on a per-meal basis, and prevents wasted production...
Venus flytraps are far from ‘dumb’
With each successive touch, the plant does more and more: two strokes causes the mouth to snap shut, while additional strokes indicate the size of the prey (bigger victims tends to twitch more) and causes the plant to produce a proportionally larger amount of “prey degrading hydrolases.” Essentially, this ensures the plant only produces the amount of enzymes it needs on a per-meal basis, and prevents wasted production...
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...
‘Dragon Age’ lead writer David Gaider leaves BioWare
You might not know his name, but if you’ve played a game from BioWare in the past seventeen years chances are pretty high that writer David Gaider had a hand in it. Specifically, the Dragon Age series of fantasy role-playing games. The news comes by way of Gaider himself, announcing on Twitter that Friday was in fact, his last day at the studio. “It wasn’t an easy decision,” the Dragon Age: Inquisition lead...
