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Even the Galaxy S10 couldn’t save Samsung from a 60% drop in profits last quarter

Apr30
by on April 30, 2019 at 6:58 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


When Samsung issued its quarterly guidance earlier this month, it predicted a decline in operating income by a whopping 60 percent, the company’s biggest decline since a similar drop in the third quarter of 2014. Now that the Q1 2019 earnings are out, the financials aren’t looking all that rosy. Citing declines in prices for memory chips, and lower demand for screens like the OLED display it makes for Apple’s iPhone, Samsung reported profits of 6.2 trillion won (about $5.3 billion), down from 15.64 trillion won (about $13.4 billion) last year. “First quarter earnings were weighed down by the weakness…

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Retired Dogecoin CEO Elon Musk trolls Ethereum and its co-founder Vitalik Buterin

Apr30
by on April 30, 2019 at 6:07 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Elon Musk has been trolling the Ethereum cryptocurrency and its co-founder Vitalik Buterin on Twitter. The Tesla founder simply tweeted the word “Ethereum” early this morning, but shortly later took it back (hehe). jk — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 30, 2019 In response, Vitalik invited Musk to an Ethereum developers conference in October, scheduled for somewhere in east Asia. Musk told Buterin to “[s]top giving away free ETH,” an obvious reference to the cryptocurrency giveaways scams that have plagued Twitter for years, and often involve hacked verified accounts posing as Musk. Stop giving away free ETH! 🤣🤣 — Elon Musk…

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YouTube’s recommendation algorithm is trying to ruin Avengers and Game of Thrones for me

Apr30
by on April 30, 2019 at 1:18 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Look, I know the internet is dark and full of terrors if you’re not up to date on your favorite bits of pop culture. I should know better than to think I can completely avoid the zeitgeist around Avengers: Endgame and the latest season of Game of Thrones. But for years, I’ve done just fine staying out of trouble on most social media. YouTube’s recommendation algorithm, however, is out to get me. A few years ago, I only really had to worry about reading comments, but as the recommendation algorithm becomes more targeted, it’s become far more likely to spoil my favorite…

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Pro tip: Don’t hide a code editor ‘Easter egg’ in your Nintendo Switch game

Apr30
by on April 30, 2019 at 1:11 am
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


An indie game called A Dark Room vanished from the Nintendo eShop over the weekend after its creator revealed he’d sneaked a code editor into it as an “Easter egg.” The developers dismayed reaction seems almost comically naive given Nintendo‘s dim view of any kinds of non-game software on its consoles. The developer, Amir Rajan, revealed in a social media post that he’d buried the code editor and a Ruby reader into the game. Players could find it if they connected a USB keyboard to the Switch and pressed the “~” key while the game was active. Anyone who accessed this would…

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