HyperLoop555

Twitter banned Infowars and its founder, the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, following months of public pressure to do so. In a series of tweets on Thursday, the company said it had “permanently suspended” accounts associated with Jones and Infowars after numerous complaints that they violated its terms of service prohibiting repeated abusive behavior. A Twitter spokesperson told The Daily Beast specifically that an Infowars video posted on Twitter of Alex Jones berating CNN reporter Oliver Darcy on Wednesday was the final violation of the company’s terms. “Those are the eyes of a rat,” Jones told Darcy to his face in a live video, where he accused Darcy and CNN of trying police internet content. “Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope,” Twitter said in the first of a series of Thursday tweets. “We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to

There are good news and bad news for Apple on the cusp of the Apple Watch Series 4 reveal. The good news is that, according to Counterpoint Research’s Global Smartwatch Tracker, Apple was again the market leader in the second quarter of 2018, with 41% of the market share. The bad news is that last year, Apple was at 48% in the same quarter, while Fitbit has jumped from 8% all the way up to 21%. But there’s even more bad news. More than three years after its launch, Apple Watch Series 1 remains the most popular smartwatch model. In fact, the Series 3 model was just the fourth most popular smartwatch last quarter, with both the Fitbit Versa and Amazfit’s BIP selling better than Apple’s latest addition to the Apple Watch lineup. “Despite initial hype and traction of cellular-based Apple Watch Series 3 in the first two quarters, Apple iPhone users are actually choosing the Series 1 as a non-cellular option over Series 3 non-cellular model which is surprising to many industry watchers,

We now have confirmation that Huawei has surpassed Apple to become the world’s second-biggest maker of smartphones: Gartner has belated weighed almost a month after IDC did, noting the same milestone. As I first reported in  Apple Delivers a Blockbuster Quarter, But…  on August 1, Apple sold about 41 million iPhones in the quarter ending June 30, flat with the year before. But IDC, at the time, provided some bad news, noting that Apple had slipped from second place, by sales, in the smartphone market to China-based Huawei, a firm that basically doesn’t even sell handsets in the United States. But now that Gartner has weighed in too, we can take a closer look at the results. Using my normal averaging model, the smartphone industry shipped about 358 million handsets in the second quarter of 2018, roughly flat with the 357.4 million it sold in the same quarter a year ago. Samsung, as usual, emerged as the number one smartphone manufacturer with 72 million units sold, good fo

Apple has been widely rumored to launch three new iPhones in September; one will be a direct successor to the current iPhone X while another will keep the same aesthetic but come in a much bigger size. The third device is said to be a cheaper iPhone model that will forgo some premium features in order to be more affordable. Market intelligence firm  TrendForce  recently insisted the cheaper hardware will feature an LCD screen instead of the OLED present in the current iPhone to keep manufacturing costs down. An alleged prototype of the smartphone was also recently shown off by YouTuber  Marques Brownlee  - the most notable feature of the product was its lack of a dual-camera setup. Instead, the hardware only touted a single sensor on its rear. But now a new report from  Bloomberg  has added further fuel to speculation surrounding the three products. Citing people "familiar with the matter", the publication declared this year will be a more iterative one for t