Airpods are now sold out for the holidays at Apple Stores. Macworld Staff Writer Michael Simon explains why this tech accessory is now resonating with consumers.
Apple struggled at first to capture the attention of the market with its cordless Airpods. Simon says it is typical for Apple to create demand for products on surface that don't seem revolutionary at first. Then people use them, word spreads, and all of a sudden everyone wants them.
Rumors surfaced on Tuesday Apple will release a new, more expensive Airpod model in 2018. Simon says little detail has been reveal. Simon expects to see a slightly smaller "neck" on the accessory, and potentially some new colors. Simon also says he'd like to see a true Siri integration with the Airpod in the future.
Uber could go public as soon as next year, according to the company's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. He said the ridesharing company is in a good position and he's confident in Uber's "very strong balance sheet." Khosrowshahi also revealed that Uber has been in discussions with Waymo for a potential partnership. If talks are successful, Uber could add Waymo's self-driving cars to its network in the future.
Walmart's annual shareholders meeting is underway in Arkansas. Cheddar's Nora Ali reports on what big announcements we can expect from the world's largest retailer.
Competition is heating up in the artificial intelligence field. In her annual Internet Trends Report, venture capitalist Mary Meeker says China is making progress in A.I. and could catch up to the U.S. in the next few years. Quartz's Mike Murphy and VentureBeat's Khari Johnson join us to discuss what the future holds for A.I. development.
The Oracle of Omaha said he is a "great admirer" of Dara Khosrowshahi, who has tried to improve the ride-hailing company's culture and reputation. But Khosrowshahi may not have done enough yet to address the fundamental issue of driver pay, says Patrick Sisson, senior reporter at Curbed.
A week after raising concerns over the braking time of the Tesla Model 3, Consumer Reports is now recommending the car. The electric automaker deployed "over-the-air" updates, something Jake Fisher, Director of Automotive Testing at Consumer Reports, said he'd never seen before.
The online second-hand retailer has turned selling your old duds into a billion-dollar business, helping more than 4 million people clean out their closets and switch up their wardrobes for some serious cash.
The company, which makes a FitBit-style fertility sensor, announced it will use the fresh capital to fill gaps in the market. "Women's health and women's health research has been underfunded for the last decade," says co-founder Lea von Bidder.
Hugging Face is an A.I.-powered chatbot designed to have "meaningful" conversations with users, says the CEO and co-founder Clément Delangue, who likened a relationship with a bot to the ties one might share with a pet.
ABC is canceling its hit show 'Roseanne' after the sitcom's star Roseanne Barr made racist comments on Twitter. The company released a statement saying, "Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show." Disney CEO Bob Iger chimed in to voice his support for ABC's decision. Barr has apologized for her comments about former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett.
Facebook is reportedly getting ready to launch its WhatsApp Pay service in India. The company could introduce the payment service across the country as soon as next week, according to Bloomberg. WhatsApp Pay was launched in February of this year and has received rave reviews. Around 200 million people already use WhatsApp's messaging service in India.
Budweiser is introducing a new beer to its Reserve Collection. Proceeds from the new Budweiser Freedom Reserve Red Lager will go towards helping veterans. Ricardo Marques, VP of marketing at Budweiser, joins Cheddar to explain why this is an important mission for the company.
A new data privacy battle is brewing in Europe. The EU is considering stricter data privacy rules called the ePrivacy Regulation, just days after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect.
Crowd Cow enables consumers to bid on parts of cows from independent farms and will only process orders once the entire cow is sold. "What we're doing is providing a very different experience from the entire meat industry," says co-founder and CEO Joe Heitzeberg.
A former Snap software engineer wrote an email last November criticizing the company for not being welcoming to women and people of color. Snap told Cheddar it’s making efforts to address what the engineer, Shannon Lubetich, called a “toxic” and “sexist” culture.
