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Netflix (NFLX) shares closed 13% higher on Wednesday following the company’s huge third-quarter earnings report. The platform delivered a beat on both the top and bottom lines, in addition to 2.41 million net subscriber additions — crushing estimates of 1 million. “This company is clearly back on track,” Geetha Ranganathan, senior media analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, told Yahoo Finance Live as analysts begin to separate themselves into optimistic and not so optimistic buckets. Following… Source link

Cloud News Mark Haranas October 17, 2022, 11:06 AM EDT Kalyan Kumar, HCL’s global chief technology officer, explains to CRN why his $11.5 billion solution provider is investing in Google Cloud and where the biggest opportunities are ahead. … Source link

AI’s creative abilities are outstripping its driving skills. While self-driving car technology is going nowhere, there’s been a remarkable explosion in research around generative models, or artificial intelligence systems that can create images from simple text. In just the past week, AI researchers from Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google have taken an extraordinary leap forward, developing systems that can generate videos with just about any text prompt one can… Source link

When David Pierce covered the transitional birth of Google Lens for WIRED in 2017, he pegged the tool as “a long-term bet for the company and a platform for lots of use cases.” In the following years, as Google Lens out-survived other experimental forays, senior writer Lauren Goode wrote about the long journey toward perfecting visual search queries. Five years in, Google Lens remains great for identifying weird plants and helping students power through their algebra homework. The longer… Source link

Serial acquirer Salesforce (CRM) hasn’t made any splashy acquisitions since its $27.7 billion purchase of workforce communication platform Slack in July 2021. But that doesn’t mean deals are off the table. “M&A will definitely be part of our future,” Taylor told Yahoo Finance Live at the software giant’s 20th annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. Taylor explained that Salesforce has been laser-focused on expanding its profit margins to show investors the power of a… Source link

When Covid-19 entered our lives, people started re-thinking how they vacation and some are choosing alternative modes of transportation. My family has switched entirely to road-tripping post-Covid-19. To date we’ve driven to Florida, Georgia, and Minnesota twice with plans to drive to Cape Cod and Georgia later this year — all in an electric car. Why did we switch? I’ve always dreaded flying with kids. Two young kids, two car seats, a stroller, plus all the luggage. And it’s expensive… Source link

Imagine a startup co-founded by father and son engineers, based in the U.S., making a world-class, record-beating hypercar. Now, imagine the car’s underpinnings are 3D-printed metallic, designed by artificial intelligence, and assembled by robots. It sounds far-fetched, even for Silicon Valley, but the team of Kevin Czinger and Lukas Czinger have done just that. Czinger 21C (Credit: Czinger) Yahoo Finance had the chance to visit the Czinger vehicles factory near Los Angeles, California, -… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai and 550 Washington Street (Illustration by The Real Deal with Getty, 550 Washington Street via COOKFOX Architects) Don’t bother plugging “biggest believers in New York City’s tech future” into your favorite search engine: Google already has the answer. The tech giant’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, said he’s optimistic about the company’s prospects in the Big Apple, where it expects to continue growing its presence, Crain’s reported. “I’m… Source link

Share Tweet Share Email As the global economy makes its bounce back after dealing with the impacts of Covid-19 restrictions, advertisers and digital marketers are finding themselves in clear air. Leading the charge is Yahoo, coming off the back of its recent acquisition by Apollo Global Management. Mediaweek spoke to head of global revenue & client solutions at Yahoo, Elizabeth Herbst-Brady, when she made her way from New York City to Sydney for AdWeek. It’s been a big 12 months for Yahoo,… Source link

Google launched Carbon, an experimental language, last week, but industry skepticism clouds its future as a C++ replacement. C++ is a mainstay of enterprise development, but it has drawbacks, and some developers have argued that it needs a replacement. The reasons for this are many, including code that is difficult to learn and read, issues with safety mechanisms and lack of suitability for modern hardware architectures and environments, said Chandler Carruth, principal software engineer… Source link