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A very strong holiday season for GoPro’s newest Hero 7 lineup of cameras has helped the camera maker turn its first quarterly profit since the third quarter of 2017, the company announced on Wednesday. GoPro pulled in $377 million in revenue in the fourth quarter of last year, and it walked away with a $32 million profit.This marks the second time GoPro has turned a profit since the third quarter of 2015, back before the company’s ill-fated attempt at entering the drone market.GoPro

Tinder is still unstoppable. Match Group, Tinder’s parent company, announced its fourth quarter earnings today, in which it disclosed that Tinder added 1.2 million subscribers last year alone. That surge led the brand to close the year out with $805 million in revenue.That’s nearly as much as what the rest of Match’s dating brands, which include Match.com and OkCupid, pull in combined at $872 million. Match says most of Tinder’s revenue growth is thanks to Tinder Gold, w

Spotify is about to try to become a podcasting giant with two new acquisitions — and we have some suggestions for that — but first, it’s crossing an important milestone with its music streaming business. Today, for the very first time, the company is reporting that it’s turned a profit.
That’s right: some 13 years and 96 million paid subscribers later, Spotify is finally making money. Unless you count that one time a complicated tax situation technically threw it i

Not long after its release of the EOS R camera, Canon is already nearing the launch of a second full-frame mirrorless camera. The EOS RP has been revealed in a series of images posted on Nokishita today. Unlike rivals Sony, Nikon, and, most recently, Panasonic, which each offer a pair of identical-looking cameras, Canon is giving the EOS RP a unique design that’s significantly smaller and lighter than the R.The EOS RP reportedly weighs just 1.07 pounds compared to the 1.45-pound R. That&r

The first two tiny satellites to ever go interplanetary have fallen silent in deep space for some unknown reason, and it’s likely we may never hear from them again. But for NASA, which launched the probes last year, this loss of communication isn’t considered a failure. Before the pair went quiet, these vehicles demonstrated that tiny satellites could become critical tools for exploring other worlds deep within our Solar System.
The silent satellites are the two MarCO probes —

To drum up hype for Crackdown 3’s release on February 15th (and as a consolatory gift for making gamers wait so long), Microsoft is making the original Crackdown free for all Xbox One owners. The game, which originally launched in 2010 on the Xbox 360, is backwards compatible on the Xbox One S and Xbox One X. If Crackdown is your first foray into the series, it’s a good place to start. Though its mission design and NPC dialogue haven’t aged all that well, you’ll still ge

Instacart is reversing its controversial pay policy after an angry response from delivery workers and customers said that the Silicon Valley company was stealing tips.In recent days, both Instacart and DoorDash have come under fire after admitting to using customer tips to subsidize minimum payment guarantees to delivery workers. The drama started last November when Instacart put a new payment policy into effect that gave delivery workers a single, itemized “earning estimate,” and g

Microsoft launched Office 2019 late last year, but if the company’s new ad campaign is anything to go by, the company would really prefer if you didn’t buy it. Instead, Microsoft’s latest ads pit sets of identical twins against each other to complete office-themed challenges, with the end result showing that the company feels you’d be much better off with a monthly or yearly subscription to Office 365 instead, as spotted by TechCrunch.
The commercials are, put simply, ex

Last year, Flickr announced a new pricing plan: users would have to pay $50 for a Pro membership, or be limited to 1,000 images. Those users who opted not to pay and who were over the limit would have those additional images deleted by February 5th. Those users will have a bit more time: USA Today reports that Flickr is now saying it has extended the deletion deadline until March 12th.Last year, rival site SmugMug acquired Flickr from Yahoo, saying it would leave it as a standalone community, a

On Tuesday, embattled Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed a bill that paves the way for the state to eventually provide up to $750 million in cash incentives for Amazon to build its new headquarters in the northernmost part of the state.The deal, which was announced last November, would split up the new Amazon headquarters between Virginia and New York City. State governments from all over the country sought to make this deal which promised to bring thousands of “high-paying” jobs to

Spotify announced today that the company plans to spend up to $500 million on podcast-related acquisitions. The first purchases in that journey are Gimlet Media, which makes Reply All and other popular shows, and Anchor, which allows anyone to easily create their own podcasts. This is huge news for the growing podcast industry, as it’s already expected to generate nearly $700 million in revenue by 2020.
Spotify made its name as a music app, but now CEO Daniel Ek says the company is intere

Today’s deals, so far at least, cater toward those looking for a deal on a high-end Pixelbook, or those looking to speed up their computers with a discounted SSD from Samsung. Some of the best Nintendo Switch games are cheaper today, too. We’ll keep adding deals as we see them.
The most expensive configuration of Google’s Pixelbook is about $450 off at Amazon. Usually $1,649, it’s now $1,192.98. In the review for the newer Pixel Slate, The Verge’s Dieter Bohn sided

Today, Google is doing something it should have done weeks or months ago — it’s emailing owners of its Nest security cameras that they should really, really pick a better password, enable two-factor authentication (2FA), and be vigilant if they don’t want strangers to hijack those cameras and peek into their homes over the internet.Because that’s a thing that has actually been happening in some instances, including a fake nuclear bomb threat that really freaked one famil

Sony seems to be nearing the release of a phone designed for cinema buffs. New images of the Xperia XA3 posted by WinFuture reveal an ultra-wide display with a 21:9 aspect ratio. We’ve seen a wave of 18:9 smartphones in recent years, but Sony is going for an even more drastic tall and thin device. A 21:9 aspect ratio would be a match for many of today’s major films, so you'd be able to watch them on the XA3 without having to deal with black bars on the sides or at the top and bottom

Microsoft is holding its annual Build developer conference from May 6th to May 8th this year. Like last year, the software giant is holding Build in its home city of Seattle at the Washington State Convention Center. Microsoft’s developer event will overlap with Google’s I/O developer conference once again. Microsoft is now planning to open registration for the event on February 27th, and the agenda will be posted in late February, too.Build is Microsoft’s main developer event

A leaked promotional image may have just given us our first look at Samsung’s rumored upcoming true wireless earbuds. In the images posted by WinFuture, the “Galaxy Buds” (as a trademark application and Bluetooth certification suggest they’ll be called) can be seen sitting on the rear of what appears to be a Galaxy S10 handset.This positioning might not be a coincidence. According to an earlier rumor from SamMobile, the unannounced S10 will be able to wirelessly charge o

Google’s sister company Verily will open an opioid treatment facility in Ohio. The company plans to work with local hospitals to create a “tech-enabled campus” that collects information and analytics in hopes of improving outcomes for patients.The opioid epidemic is the deadliest drug overdose crisis in American history. Dayton, Ohio — where the new center will open — has been hit especially hard and called the opioid “overdose capital of the nation.”Th

Google’s most expensive Pixelbook configuration is currently being discounted by several hundred dollars on Amazon. Normally going for $1,649, this model with a 7th Gen Intel Core i7 processor, 512GB of storage, and 16GB of RAM is down to just $1,192.98 on Amazon, per Chrome Unboxed.
The $999 base model went as low as $750 during the holiday period, and the current lowest price is $849.99 on Amazon. So right now, Google’s high-end model is the smarter buy if you’re after a hig

Google has recruited its in-house machine learning framework, TensorFlow, to help train additional spam filters for Gmail users. With the new filters in place as of last month, the company claims Gmail is now blocking an extra 100 million spam messages every day.
In the context of Gmail’s 1 billion-plus users, this isn’t necessarily a huge gain — it works out as one extra blocked spam email per 10 users — but Google says Gmail already blocks 99.99 percent of spam, so wor

2018 was the fourth-warmest year on record, federal climate experts announced today — just behind 2015, 2016, and 2017. The year also featured $91 billion in direct losses from 14 billion-dollar weather disasters in the United States, making it the fourth-costliest year on record, too.It’s another data point in an alarming trend of rising average global surface temperatures, which have climbed roughly 2 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880. “This warming has been driven in large part

I had very mixed feelings when Apex Legends was announced. On one hand, Titanfall and its sequel are two of my favorite shooters, offering an incredibly fast, almost balletic sense of movement that made otherwise standard skirmishes feel fresh and alive. The idea of developer Respawn taking that to the battle royale genre and throwing in charming Overwatch-style characters was incredibly exciting. But there was one very particular aspect of the game that made me wary: you can only play it in te

When Jamaican novelist Marlon James walks into a room, you know it. It’s not that he’s particularly dominating or otherwise physically intimidating — although he is more than six feet tall — it’s that he has the thing casting agents call “presence.” He’s there there. That translates to his books, too: his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings was released in 2014 to rapturous reviews, and it won the prestigious Man Booker prize. His latest book

In Kelly Robson’s “Skin City,” a street burlesque dancer becomes infatuated with a privacy-shrouded woman and tries to find a way to spark a connection.Robson has earned considerable acclaim for her works of fiction. Last year, she earned the Nebula Award for her novelette A Human Stain, and she earned the Prix Aurora Award (for excellence in science fiction in Canada) for her novella Waters of Versailles. We also enjoyed last year’s novella Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky

It’s been rumored for a while now that Samsung will add a third Galaxy S10 model to its lineup alongside the standard S10 and super-sized S10 Plus. The latest batch of leaks confirmed both the design and the name for the cheaper and smaller Galaxy S10e, via Slashleaks.
While the overall design of the S10e has already been thoroughly leaked by the ever-reliable Winfuture in a slew of press pictures, the latest leak has confirmed the final missing piece of the puzzle: the S10e’s name.

When you think about the weaknesses of the Mac platform, a couple of obvious areas spring to mind. One is undoubtedly gaming. Even though Steam came to the Mac in 2010, Windows remains streets ahead in terms of the number of games released. The games that do come to macOS often run better when booted into Windows on the same machine. Another shortcoming is Apple’s inflexible hardware strategy, as the company often goes for pedestrian GPUs and unpopular experiments like the MacBook Pro&rsq

Speaking on the company’s earnings call last week, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said he sees fifth-generation wireless (5G) becoming a “fixed broadband replacement product” within the next three to five years, providing consumers with faster speeds than most existing cable and DSL connections.AT&T’s marketing department insists that the public will see “unforeseen innovation” as these networks come online. Both AT&T and Verizon have spent several y

Cryptocurrency exchange and wallet service provider Abra has just announced the launch of a new way to invest in traditional stocks, commodities, indexes, and ETFs using Bitcoin. Only it’s not as simple as it sounds. In what it’s claiming is a world first, Abra is adding new investment features to its app that will allow investors in over 155 countries to invest in 50 traditional stocks. Before you go thinking this is something groundbreaking, consider that it’s a world first

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Calm,the meditation and wellness app that launched back in 2012, has today announced the close of an $88 million Series B financing with a valuation of $1 billion. (We have not been able to clarify whether the valuation was post- or pre-money.)
The funding was led by TPG Growth, with participation from CAA and existing investors Insight Venture Partners and Sound Ventures.
As meditation grows in popularity across the U.S. — the CDC says it tripled from 4.1 percent in 2012 to 14.2 percent i

Troubled cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX has been granted an order for creditor protection by a Canadian supreme court. The court-issued order means QuadrigaCX will have 30 days of initial protection from its creditors to allow it to come up with a ‘Plan of Arrangement’. The time period can be extended by the court if QuadrigaCX is able to demonstrate that it will likely file a Plan of Arrangement and the extension is not damaging to creditors. Based in Vancouver, QuadrigaCX ran