iPhone Sales Stall Despite Global Smartphone Market Recovery Apple experienced minimal iPhone growth in 2024 despite a significant rebound in the global smartphone market, according to new data published by IDC. Worldwide smartphone shipments increased 6.2% to reach 1.24 billion units, but iPhone shipments grew by just 0.4% during the same period. The tepid performance underlines Apple’s challenges in ke…

Porsche Still Has No Imminent Plans to Launch Next-Generation CarPlay Despite 2023 Preview In late 2023, Porsche previewed what next-generation CarPlay could look like in its vehicles, with a pair of images showing a custom instrument cluster and more. However, the luxury automaker has yet to release any vehicles that support the software nearly a year later, and it sounds like it still has no imminent plans to do so. A spokesperson …

MicroStrategy Falls 16% Despite New Bitcoin Record as Some Question Valuation

Hezbollah’s Rockets Remain a Threat Despite Israel’s Crushing Offensive Israel’s failure to tamp down the short-range rocket threat has put pressure on its government to embrace a cease-fire.

Bitcoin ETF Options Introduction Marks Milestone, Despite Position Limits BlackRock’s IBIT was the first bitcoin ETF to launch with options tied to it. The rest of the pack is coming today.

Little to no sales despite traffic and good feedback on products. Hi all. I’ve had my side hustle business for about 18 months. I’ve had some good sales here and there but nothing consistent at all. Some months it’ll be zero orders, some months 5-10. I’ve sold locally at pop ups and gotten some great feedback and have collected 30 some odd reviews on the site. Have a decent following on IG and I just started …

Kiernan Shipka Says She Knew What Was Going on in Mad Men Despite Efforts to Protect Her ‘Innocence’ as a Child Star “I don’t know if it was because my brain and body just decided to remember, like, audition, first day, whole thing,” Shipka said. “I’m glad for that. I mean, I’m sure there’s some days that are a blip, but that’s kind of everything.” Over the course of the series, Shipka’s character witnessed her TV parents Don and Betty Draper (played by Jon Ha…

Wildfire Grows in New Jersey and New York, Despite Modest Rainfall The Jennings Creek fire is currently burning across 3,500 acres, officials said, and is expected to grow to over 5,000 acres.

Despite loss, Napier thankful for chance to return Florida coach Billy Napier said after Saturday’s 49-17 loss at No. 5 Texas he was appreciative of the chance to continue trying to straighten out the program’s woes.

Iran executes Jewish man despite family pleas and attempts to pay restitution (RNS) — Arvin Ghahremani’s family claims he killed a Muslim in self-defense, but Iranian law distinguishes in such matters between Muslims and non-Muslims, frequently discriminating against the latter. The post Iran executes Jewish man despite family pleas and attempts to pay restitution appeared first on RNS.

Israeli Officials Embrace Trump Victory, Despite His Unpredictability There is a belief in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Israeli government that a Trump administration will allow it to end its wars on favorable terms.

Ravens’ Jackson to play despite missing practice Lamar Jackson didn’t practice Tuesday, but Ravens coach John Harbaugh said his star quarterback will be playing Thursday night against the Bengals.

Despite Bomb Threats and Disinformation, a Fairly Smooth Election A barrage of threats, widespread disinformation and a security lapse in Milwaukee marred Election Day in some places. But officials say the voting stayed on track.

Judge Denies Request to Extend Hours Despite 6-Hour Wait to Vote Near Lehigh University The lines to cast a ballot at the Banana Factory, an art center in Bethlehem, Pa., stretched for blocks, voters said.

Trump Vows to ‘Fix’ Crime, Inflation and Immigration Despite All Three Being Down In his final days on the campaign trail, former President Donald J. Trump has portrayed himself as the repairman for a country awash in inflation, crime and immigration — even though all three are down.

How Uvalde’s Newspaper Kept Going, Despite Unimaginable Loss Craig Garnett, the publisher of The Uvalde Leader-News, opens up about covering a tragedy that was — and is — too close to home.

troubleshooting a camera obscura, i tried to make one and it didn’t work despite doing the math? i’ve been trying to create a camera obscura in my room all day i measured the distance from the window to the wall, 9ft 2 inches i used the calculator which said for focal length of 2794 MM with pinhole size 2.11 MM is F/1321.46 i created a hole 2.11 mm in diameter and when i tried it, i couldn’t get any sort of focused image further than 3-5 …

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Do you know people that just dont like traveling, despite having the possibility to do so? I’ll explain my question better: do you think traveling is “just” an hobby/passion like many others (and thus some people may not like or enjoy it), or do you think everyone would travel the world if they had the money, time and condition to do so? Do you personally know people that, despite being able to do so, just hate traveling and dont find…

More Republicans Appear to Be Voting Early, Despite Trump’s Mixed Messages In 2020, Donald Trump convinced his supporters that anything but a vote cast in person on Election Day could not be trusted — and lost. In response, Republicans shifted their stance.