 Apple reported its most profitable quarter in history in fiscal Q1. The company posted a record-breaking $123.9B in revenue, an increase of 11% YoY, as well as $34.6B in profits, significantly beating projections. More: - The revenue for the October-through-December period topped the $111B Apple reported during the 2020 holiday season.
- During an earnings call Thursday, CEO Tim Cook said Apple now has 1.8 billion active devices worldwide, up from 1.65 billion a year ago and 1.5 billion in January 2020.
- In October, Cook said larger-than-expected supply constraints, driven by chip shortages and manufacturing issues, cost the company $6B in the September quarter.
- However, the company appeared to navigate many of the supply problems and benefitted from the release of the iPhone 13 and other new products.
- In Q1, Apple generated an all-time high of $71.6B in revenue from iPhone sales, up more than 9% from the year-ago quarter.
- Cook forecasts that Apple will be "less constrained" by supply issues in the current quarter.
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Google plans to invest up to $1B in Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest mobile phone operator, as it seeks to offer more affordable access to smartphones. Google will pay $700M to acquire a 1.28% stake in Airtel. It plans to invest another $300M to explore commercial agreements and bankroll new devices, networks, and cloud technologies with the telecom company. More: - The companies said they will work with device manufacturers to lower the price barriers of owning a smartphone.
- They plan to collaborate on 5G and cloud services in India, where Airtel claims more than 300 million subscribers.
- The partnership will expand Airtel's Android-enabled devices and deliver them to consumers through "innovative affordability programs."
- In 2020, Google acquired a $4.5B stake in India's largest telecom platform, Jio Platforms Ltd. The companies have since developed an "ultra-affordable" smartphone for the Indian market.
- Both Airtel and Vodafone compete with Jio Platforms, which has 400 million+ subscribers in India and is run by Asia's wealthiest man, Mukesh Ambani.
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 Nearly 40 new emoji have been added in Apple's iOS 15.4 software update, which is now in beta testing. The new characters include a biting lip, a pregnant man, kidney beans, a disco ball, a troll, heart hands, and a "melting face." More: - The non-profit Unicode Consortium, which manages and approves new emoji, signed off on the 37 designs in September.
- According to the consortium's Emojipedia, the update recognizes that "pregnancy is possible for some transgender men and non-binary people."
- iOS 15.4, which will see a full release this spring, also introduces support for Face ID while wearing a mask.
- In addition, the new iPadOS 15.4 and macOS Monterey 12.3 betas add Universal Control for allowing "multiple Macs and iPads to be controlled with a single mouse and keyboard."
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 Japanese conglomerate and tech investor SoftBank Group Corp. announced the departure of COO Marcelo Claure, who is known as the "right-hand man" to CEO Masayoshi Son. Sources said Claure resigned over a pay dispute, including his request for a $1B bonus that was denied. More: - Claure was president and CEO of Softbank-owned Sprint from 2014 until 2018.
- As executive chairman, he later oversaw the wireless carrier's 2020 merger with T-Mobile USA.
- He joined the larger Softbank in 2017. Claure helped salvage some of Softbank’s investments in WeWork after the troubled office-leasing giant dropped plans for its IPO in 2019.
- Claure earned $17M per year but reportedly wanted a larger reward for his turnaround efforts and the "future value he could bring to SoftBank.”
- SoftBank Group reported a profit of $46B last fiscal year, the most of any Japanese company in history. The company owns a large stake in Alibaba Group and invests in technology companies through its Vision Fund.
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 Render of Google Pixel 6a A Google coloring book makes reference to an upcoming Pixel 6A smartphone, which could be released this spring. The Pixel 6A would be the latest phone in Google's budget-friendly A series. More: - The coloring book was recently sent out to members of Google’s Pixel Superfans group along with a Google Nest audio product.
- Its content page mentions a "Pixel 6A" on pages 6-7, though an image of the phone isn't actually there.
- Known leaker Max Jambor has said that the Pixel 6A will be revealed in May, which is when Google normally hosts its annual I/O developer’s conference.
- The device is said to have a 6.2-inch display with a 60Hz refresh rate and a 12.2 megapixel main camera. It would likely be powered by Google’s custom Tensor chip.
- The Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, which also use the Tensor processor, were released on Oct. 25.
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 An artificially intelligent system was able to predict where frozen meteorites may be located in Antarctica. Uncovering the space rocks, which are fragments from asteroids and other planetary bodies, could provide researchers with more information about the origins and evolution of the Solar System. More: - Extraterrestrial rocks are more likely to be preserved and discovered in Antarctica's icy landscape.
- To better locate them, researchers trained an AI system with satellite data as well as data about "blue" ice fields in Antarctica.
- The system found 600+ potentially meteorite-rich "zones," including undiscovered ones.
- It estimates that approximately 300,000 meteorites currently exist on the surface of the continent's ice sheets.
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 |  | Beth is an Inside Analyst and a former public policy/investigative reporter. She has covered AI, VR, technology, and e-commerce for Inside. When she's not busy writing, she's hiking in Arizona's desert, playing pickleball, or trying out new Mexican food recipes. |   | | Editor | Eduardo Garcia is a writer and editor based in New York. He is writing an illustrated book about climate change that will be published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, Scientific American, and others. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade. | |
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