Chen to leave BlackBerry at the end of the week
After a decade of trying to resuscitate BlackBerry Ltd., John Chen is leaving the company. In a statement issued this afternoon, the company announced the executive chair and CEO will retire effective Nov. 4. Richard (Dick) Lynch will succeed Chen as board chair and will also serve as interim chief
Read MoreApple’s ‘Scary Fast’ event video was shot on iPhone
In tech, ‘dogfooding’ means using your own stuff in the way you intend for your users to, which is helpful to make sure your stuff lives up to your marketing claims. Apple dogfoods in a number of ways, but one particularly visible way it’s doing that is with the event
Read MoreApple’s October Scary Fast Event: Everything revealed about the new MacBook Pro, iMac and M3 chips
It’s time for another Apple event, with a spooky twist. The company announced a surprise “Scary Fast” event last week, prompting the rumor mill to speculate that Apple would be revealing new chips to power a new lineup of Macs. As our resident Apple expert Brian Heater wrote, a new
Read MoreApple brought back the best Mac colorway with the new M3 MacBook Pro
Apple has a new range of updated MacBook Pro notebooks, and while they get a pretty nice internal upgrade courtesy mostly of the new M3 processor lineup, the big news for aesthetes is on the outside – in addition to the existing silver and space gray colors, there’s a new
Read MoreApple’s M3 iMac is up for preorder, starting at $1,299
Folks banking on the arrival of the iMac Pro will have to wait a bit longer. If you’ve been looking to upgrade your 24-inch all-in-one, on the other hand, Apple’s got some good news. The company just unveiled a refresh to the 24-inch iMac that skips the M2 altogether, in
Read MoreApple’s M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max 3-nanometer chips arrive with a big graphics boost
We felt fairly confident that we would see at least one piece of next-gen Apple silicon as part of tonight’s Scary Fast event. But how’s this for an early Halloween surprise: We just got three new M3 chip models. It’s a sizable shakeup of the company’s standard release schedule. The
Read MoreSam Bankman-Fried doesn’t recall
Photo Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Bloomberg, Getty Images Bankman-Fried gets a shot at his side of the FTX story — then promptly shreds his own credibility with the jury. Midway through Sam Bankman-Fried’s cross examination, as prosecutor Danielle Sassoon went through a brutal line of
Read MoreMax Q: ABL Space nears next launch
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Read MoreNex Cubed partners with HBCU.vc to launch scout program
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Read MoreWhy did Twitter (X)’s valuation tank 56% in one year?
The company formerly known as Twitter, X is valuing itself at $19 billion, per internal documents obtained by Fortune. When Elon Musk bought the company one year ago this week, he paid about $44 billion for the microblogging platform, or $54.20 per share. This internal valuation marks about a 56%
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