Even though Apple has been spending $10bn a year on research and development, “people aren’t banking on innovation ”, says Amit Daryanani of RBC Capital Markets, a bank. That helps to explain why the firm’s shares are valued on a price-to-earnings ratio of around ten times its forecast 2018 e ...
Atop a hill there is usually nowhere to go but down. Questions about the future of the iPhone and whether Apple will ever design another product to match it pursue the company. The relentless rise of smartphone ownership is slowing, with around two-fifths of the global population now owning one. App ...
TO A FOREIGN tourist, a giraffe is an extraordinary and elegant beast. To locals it is, too often, a larder on legs. A giraffe can weigh as much as a tonne and a half. Only two African animals, the elephant and the white rhino, are heavier. And bush meat fetches high prices. So, even though gira ...
This week, we're talking election security and technology. Today's show is focused on old tech: paper. Remember the 2000 presidential election fiasco and the hanging chads, those tiny bits of paper that stuck to paper ballots? They confused vote counters so much the Supreme Court eventually had to ...
Florida began to count the cost as Hurricane Michael passed, leaving a devastated state in its wake . Some 370,000 Floridians had been evacuated before Michael’s arrival; six people are known to have died. Rick Scott, Florida’s governor, said the hurricane, which produced 150m ...
The Concise Oxford Dictionary: The Classic First Edition 1st Edition，100周年纪念版，经典复刻。 内容简介 本书为一百年前精准牛津字典的再版！ 1911 年，本字典为知名的 Henry Watson Fowler 和 Francis George Fowler 兄弟从原始的牛津字典中精心挑选出的字汇，多半为日常生活所用 ...
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