Month: July 2024
What to Expect From Apple’s Quarterly Earnings Report This Week
Apple will report its earnings results for the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal year on Thursday, August 1 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri will discuss the results on a conference call with analysts a half hour later.
Keep reading for some key things to know about the quarter, including a recap of new products announced, revenue expectations, and more.
New Products During Quarter
The quarter ran from March 31 through June 29, according to Apple’s fiscal calendar. The following products launched during this period:11-inch iPad Pro with M4 chip
13-inch iPad Pro with M4 chip
11-inch iPad Air with M2 chip
13-inch iPad Air with M2 chip
Apple Pencil Pro
Vision Pro pre-orders in eight additional countriesRevenue Expectations
Apple has not provided formal revenue guidance since before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the average Wall Street estimate for Apple’s third quarter revenue is $84.5 billion, according to data compiled by Yahoo Finance. This would be around a 3% increase over the $81.8 billion revenue the company reported in the year-ago quarter.
This would be in line with the outlook that Apple’s CFO provided on last quarter’s earnings call:We expect our June quarter total company revenue to grow low-single-digits year-over-year in spite of a foreign exchange headwind of about 2.5 percentage points.Conference Call
Cook and Maestri will hold a conference call at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday to discuss the company’s quarterly earnings results. The call should last around one hour, and it will include a Q&A segment with analysts.
A live audio stream of the conference call will be available on Apple’s Investor Relations page, and a recording will be available later in the day for replay.
What’s Next
Apple’s current quarter runs through September 28, and the company has yet to announce any new products during this period.
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Apple will report its earnings results for the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal year on Thursday, August 1 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri will discuss the results on a conference call with analysts a half hour later.
Keep reading for some key things to know about the quarter, including a recap of new products announced, revenue expectations, and more.
New Products During Quarter
The quarter ran from March 31 through June 29, according to Apple’s fiscal calendar. The following products launched during this period:11-inch iPad Pro with M4 chip
13-inch iPad Pro with M4 chip
11-inch iPad Air with M2 chip
13-inch iPad Air with M2 chip
Apple Pencil Pro
Vision Pro pre-orders in eight additional countries
Revenue Expectations
Apple has not provided formal revenue guidance since before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the average Wall Street estimate for Apple’s third quarter revenue is $84.5 billion, according to data compiled by Yahoo Finance. This would be around a 3% increase over the $81.8 billion revenue the company reported in the year-ago quarter.
This would be in line with the outlook that Apple’s CFO provided on last quarter’s earnings call:We expect our June quarter total company revenue to grow low-single-digits year-over-year in spite of a foreign exchange headwind of about 2.5 percentage points.
Conference Call
Cook and Maestri will hold a conference call at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday to discuss the company’s quarterly earnings results. The call should last around one hour, and it will include a Q&A segment with analysts.
A live audio stream of the conference call will be available on Apple’s Investor Relations page, and a recording will be available later in the day for replay.
What’s Next
Apple’s current quarter runs through September 28, and the company has yet to announce any new products during this period.
AAPL is trading for around $223 as of writing, down from a 52-week high of $237.23.
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Hoyoverse fans won’t want to miss this latest limited edition PC case
Two new PC gaming accessory bundles have been revealed, both inspired by a popular Honkai Impact 3rd character.
The latest collaboration between developer Hoyoverse and PC gaming accessory manufacturer Hyte is here and it’s one that Honkai Impact 3rd fans shouldn’t miss.
Two separate limited edition bundles have been announced, both inspired by Songque – one of the central characters of Honkai Impact 3rd who was recently made playable as a Valkyrie.
Firstly, there’s the Official Y40 Songque Encased Fortune Case Bundle, which includes a stunning licensed PC case in addition to a set of custom fan shrouds. The case features exclusive artwork designed by Hoyoverse which is printed on the inside of the glass side panels, plus loads of nifty details like a custom backlit power button and a metal badge that displays the number of your edition.
The set of fan shrouds is adorned with iconography that should be immediately recognizable to any die-hard Songque fans, such as her signature sunglasses. They can be fitted to the case for some added personalization.
The second bundle is the Official Songque Shadowdimmer Keycap Set and Encased Fortune Desk Pad Bundle. This comes with a collection of 254 custom keycaps inspired by the character, each a stunning emerald hue. They are illuminated with bright gold lettering in addition to a subtle Japanese sub legend and work with MX keyboards in US, UK, or Japanese layouts among others.
The bundle also contains an absolutely adorable desk mat, featuring the same art as the PC case. It’s a lovely set overall and would be a great fit for a Honkai Impact 3rd themed setup.
Both bundles are currently available to pre-order with international shipping options. The Official Y40 Songque Encased Fortune Case Bundle costs $179.99, while the Official Songque Shadowdimmer Keycap Set and Encased Fortune Desk Pad Bundle is priced at $129.99.
Those who pre-order either bundle early will get an exclusive Sonque’s Encased Fortune wall scroll, with a detailed print of the collaboration artwork that you can hang above your setup.
If you’re not familiar with Honkai Impact 3rd but want to give it a try, it is currently available as a free-to-play title for mobile and PC. The game received a major update in February this year which introduced a vast amount of new story content and a new, more open structure that should make it much more familiar to those who have already played other Hoyoverse titles like Honkai: Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero, and Genshin Impact.
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The ‘Women in Blue’ cast reflects on their stark similarities to their characters
Bárbara Mori, Ximena Sariñana, Natalia Téllez and Fernando Rovzar discuss all the ways in which the actors were able to connect to their characters in the series ‘Women in Blue’.
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Google Search launches new features to tackle deepfakes
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Google is cracking down on deepfakes. The search giant has announced plans to make it easier to remove non-consensual sexually explicit content at scale.
In the announcement, published through the Google Blog, product manager Emma Higham says change has been brought to combat the new form of abuse.
Deepfakes are where a person’s face or body has been digitally altered into a photo or video. These are usually sexually explicit and are used maliciously or to spread false information.
While people have long been able to request the removal of images from Search, new systems have been developed to make the process easier.
Higham explains: “When someone successfully requests the removal of explicit non-consensual fake content featuring them from Search, Google’s systems will also aim to filter all explicit results on similar searches about them.
“In addition, when someone successfully removes an image from Search under our policies, our systems will scan for – and remove – any duplicates of that image that we find.”
This means copies of the image can be tackled at the same time, stopping the deepfake in its track.
Higham says this has been tested and “already proven to be successful in addressing other types of non-consensual imagery.
“These efforts are designed to give people added peace of mind, especially if they’re concerned about similar content about them popping up in the future.”
Google Search will lower rankings for websites reported for deepfakes
Google is making it harder for the images to even appear in search results too as these fake content creations will be lowered in the rankings.
“First, we’re rolling out ranking updates that will lower explicit fake content for many searches.
“For queries that are specifically seeking this content and include people’s names, we’ll aim to surface high-quality, non-explicit content — like relevant news articles — when it’s available.
“The updates we’ve made this year have reduced exposure to explicit image results on these types of queries by over 70%. With these changes, people can read about the impact deepfakes are having on society, rather than see pages with actual non-consensual fake images.”
Google will be demoting sites that receive a high volume of removals for fake explicit imagery, preventing them from being shown when searched for.
While these new features mark a major change, Higham says “there’s more work to do to address this issue,” with more solutions to be developed going forward.
Image Credit: Via Ideogram
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Why We Might Never Know the Truth About Ultra-Processed Foods
An anonymous reader shares a report: A recent meeting of the American Society for Nutrition in Chicago was presented with an observational study of more than 500,000 people in the US. It found that those who ate the most UPFs (ultra-processed foods ) had a roughly 10% greater chance of dying early, even accounting for their body-mass index and overall quality of diet. In recent years, lots of other observational studies have shown a similar link – but that’s not the same as proving that how food is processed causes health problems, or pinning down which aspect of those processes might be to blame.
So how could we get to the truth about ultra-processed food?
The kind of study needed to prove definitively that UPFs cause health problems would be extremely complex, suggests Dr Nerys Astbury, a senior researcher in diet and obesity at Oxford University. It would need to compare a large number of people on two diets — one high in UPFs and one low in UPFs, but matched exactly for calorie and macronutrient content. This would be fiendishly difficult to actually do. Participants would need to be kept under lock and key so their food intake could be tightly managed. The study would also need to enrol people with similar diets as a starting point.
It would be extremely challenging logistically. And to counter the possibility that people who eat fewer UPFs might just have healthier lifestyles such as through taking more exercise or getting more sleep, the participants of the groups would need to have very similar habits. “It would be expensive research, but you could see changes from the diets relatively quickly,” Dr Astbury says. Funding for this type of research could also be hard to come by. There might be accusations of conflicts of interest, since researchers motivated to run these kind of trials may have an idea of what they want the conclusions to be before they started.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
An anonymous reader shares a report: A recent meeting of the American Society for Nutrition in Chicago was presented with an observational study of more than 500,000 people in the US. It found that those who ate the most UPFs (ultra-processed foods ) had a roughly 10% greater chance of dying early, even accounting for their body-mass index and overall quality of diet. In recent years, lots of other observational studies have shown a similar link – but that’s not the same as proving that how food is processed causes health problems, or pinning down which aspect of those processes might be to blame.
So how could we get to the truth about ultra-processed food?
The kind of study needed to prove definitively that UPFs cause health problems would be extremely complex, suggests Dr Nerys Astbury, a senior researcher in diet and obesity at Oxford University. It would need to compare a large number of people on two diets — one high in UPFs and one low in UPFs, but matched exactly for calorie and macronutrient content. This would be fiendishly difficult to actually do. Participants would need to be kept under lock and key so their food intake could be tightly managed. The study would also need to enrol people with similar diets as a starting point.
It would be extremely challenging logistically. And to counter the possibility that people who eat fewer UPFs might just have healthier lifestyles such as through taking more exercise or getting more sleep, the participants of the groups would need to have very similar habits. “It would be expensive research, but you could see changes from the diets relatively quickly,” Dr Astbury says. Funding for this type of research could also be hard to come by. There might be accusations of conflicts of interest, since researchers motivated to run these kind of trials may have an idea of what they want the conclusions to be before they started.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.