Month: January 2019

Apple CEO Tim Cook really wants you to upgrade your old iPhone. To make sure you know it, he’s said it numerous times. During yesterday’s earnings call that discussed the holiday quarter, Cook mentioned upgrades a total of seven times.

Here are all of the instances when Cook mentioned upgrading, including a bonus instance of his CFO pitching in (emphasis mine):

• “As our letter noted, that challenge was compounded by quarterly iPhone upgrades that were lower than we anticipated.”
• “We’ll return to upgrades in a moment, but I first want to say a bit more about our business in Greater China.”
• “Despite iPhone upgrades being lower than we anticipated, our business grew outside of China, including new records in the Americas, Western Europe,…

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As it turns out, the automaker would rather spend money on things more people will buy.

Apple Music subscribers can also listen to city-themed playlists.

Researchers at Columbia University have trained an algorithm to translate brain waves into intelligible spoken words.

SpaceX is getting excruciatingly close to catching a part of its rocket that falls out of the sky after each launch. A new video, released by the company on Twitter, shows a recent drop test of the rocket’s nose cone, the bulbous shell that shields the vehicle’s satellite and then breaks away during flight. In the footage, the nose cone nearly lands on SpaceX’s recovery boat, but ultimately, it falls into the water.

While the video is painful to watch, it suggests that SpaceX may soon be able to perform a successful nose cone recovery after an upcoming mission. And that could provide some savings for SpaceX. This hardware, also known as a payload fairing, costs about $6 million to make for each flight, according to the company. SpaceX…

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Researchers have found that formerly sedentary young adults who were instructed to exercise regularly for several weeks started choosing healthier foods without being asked to.

Lyft will file a lawsuit against the city of New York on Wednesday to block the implementation of a new law requiring a minimum pay for drivers, according to a source. The law, which passed last December and would go into effect February 1st, would mandate the wage floor of $17.22 per hour after expenses for drivers, or $26.51 per hour before expenses.

Lyft declined to comment, but it has previously argued that the new rule would make it more difficult for the company to compete with Uber. Ride-hailing app Juno is joining Lyft on the lawsuit, but Uber and Via are sitting it out for now. Lyft is expected to file its suit in court later this afternoon.

The city’s Taxi and Limousine…

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A new report from Hiya shows robocalls were on the rise in 2018.

Verizon took great pride in being first to roll out “5G” home broadband, but the company has announced that its 5G Home won’t be expanding to other cities beyond the initial four launch markets until later this year. More specifically, it’ll take until sometime in the second half of 2019.

Why the wait? Verizon’s 5G Home is built upon its own, pre-standard 5G communication technology called 5G TF. It does employ some core 5G tech like millimeter wave, but Verizon’s fixed home 5G internet really felt like a rush job to get out ahead of competitors and shout “first!” T-Mobile CEO John Legere slammed it as such, and the fact that Verizon is halting 5G Home’s rollout until it can switch everything over to the industry-backed 5G NR basically…

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