Apple’s stock continues to soar after hitting an all time high of $552 at closing. Today’s high puts Apple’s market cap over $514 billion, which now towers over the market cap of the No. 2 company Exxon that now stands at $403 billion. NASDAQ, of which Apple represents over 10 percent, was down slightly on the day. AAPL passes 10% of all of NASDAQ value as analysts target half a trillion dollar valuation (9to5mac....

AAPL’s Q4 2019 earnings day has arrived. For the fourth fiscal quarter of 2019, Apple had forecasted revenue between $61 billion and $64 billion. That compares to the $62.9 billion it reported in the same quarter last year. How did Apple perform during Q4 2019? In its earnings release, AAPL has announced revenue of $64 billion and profit of $13.69 billion. Apple no longer reports iPhone, iPad, and Mac unit sales numbers, though it does report a revenue breakdown by product category....

AAPL was the top pick for investors in Samsung’s home market of South Korea during the final quarter of 2019, according to the Korea Securities Depository (KSD)… The Korea Herald reports that local investors bought almost $60M worth of the stock, even after deducting the amount of the stock sold locally in the same period. They picked well, as AAPL broke $300 as the year opened, before pulling back a little....

Record shipments of Apple’s new iPhone 6 models unveiled this week might mean more headaches for companies building accessories with Apple’s Lightning connectors. Several sources tell us in the lead up to the launch of the new iPhones this week, Apple has purchased all of the available bulk inventory of Lightning connectors and authentication chips leaving smaller accessory makers in its Made-for-iPhone licensing program stranded. One manufacturer we spoke with told us that bulk orders of Lightning supplies from Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn are being reserved for Apple and its preferred partners, which include some of the larger iPhone accessory makers....

Runtastic, developers of several popular fitness iOS apps, today announced it has been acquired by Adidas for € 220 million. The move, according to a press release from both companies, will help Adidas bolster its efforts in offering connected products and its vision of “the convergence of sport, digital and data in an always connected and always on-demand world.” Or in other words, Adidas now has a strong software component with a large user base to integrate with its digitally enabled sports products including balls, wrist devices, apparel, and shoes....

Adobe today updated its ecosystem of Lightroom photography apps, most notably adding native support for Apple Silicon Macs. Lightroom is one of the first Adobe Creative Cloud apps optimized for the Apple M1 chip. I’ve been testing an optimized build of Lightroom on my M1 MacBook Air for the past few days. The experience is exactly what you’d expect: fast. Lightroom looks and works as it did before, just with an added performance boost....

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Keep up with the best gear and deals on the web by signing up for the 9to5Toys Newsletter. Also, be sure to check us out on: Twitter, RSS Feed, Facebook, Google+ and Safari push notifications. 9to5Toys Lunch Break delivers the best deals every day of the week at 12:30PM EST. This includes price drops on all sorts of Apple products from iPad to MacBook and everything in between, as well as HomeKit gear, accessories of all kinds and so much more....

On Friday, the Chronic-Dev team (along with a few other contributors) released “Absinthe,” the long-awaited free unteathered jailbreak tool for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. Today, the team updated us with a few interesting statistics. The shocker is that 1 million people jailbroke their A5 device in under three days. The Chronic-Dev team were able to get such exact numbers thanks to statistics from Cydia, the popular app marketplace that comes bundled with the jailbreak....

ABC announces the lead for the next season of The Bachelorette. During The Bachelor’s season 23 finale starring Colton Underwood, long-time series host Chris Harrison introduced Hannah Brown as the franchise’s next star. On The Bachelor season 23, Brown reached the Top 7 but was ultimately sent home by Underwood, a 27-year-old who played on various NFL practice squads from 2015 to 2016. As for Brown, the 24-year-old often discussed her Alabama roots during the latest season, as the Tuscaloosa native graduated from the University of Alabama and was crowned Miss Alabama USA 2018....

In Absentia, Stana Katic stars as Special Agent Emily Byrne. Upon investigating a serial killer in Boston, she disappears for a full six years, which leads to her being declared dead in absentia. She’s ultimately discovered alive and with no memory, which makes life even more challenging, especially when she becomes a prime suspect in new murder cases. Absentia season 1 ends with narrative resolution, as Emily’s captor is revealed, along with details about her childhood in a orphanage, one that involved behavioral experiments....

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Today Adobe is shipping updates to its Creative Cloud desktop apps for CC subscribers including new features in Photoshop plus enhancements to After Effects CC, Adobe Experience Design (XD) Preview, and more. One of these new upgrades is the debut of an impressive feature we first saw previewed last month… Photoshop CC is also gaining a new Face-Aware Liquify tool, which lets you “create creative artistic effects” on faces within your photos within losing to proportion of your subject’s face....

Keep up with the best gear and deals on the web by signing up for the 9to5Toys Newsletter. Also, be sure to check us out on: Twitter, RSS Feed, Facebook, Google+ and Safari push notifications. TODAY’S CAN’T MISS DEALS: Last Call Updates: Apple’s most powerful standard config 13” Retina MacBook Pro just received a massive $319 price cut, now $1,480 shipped This 27-inch 5K Retina iMac (Refurb) is down to $1,500 (Reg....

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A movie theater in Switzerland decided to take comfort to another level by replacing those often uncomfortable seats with double beds. For real. The experience of watching newly released films has come a long way from those times when you had to check the newspaper for showtimes and arrive earlier to get a good seat. Many new releases don’t even screen at cinemas anymore, opting for streaming platforms instead, but as long as there are still plenty that go for a traditional release, the cinema experience won’t die....

We don’t really articulate what we know, in other words. The signature achievement of artificial intelligence in the past two decades is classifying pictures of cats and dogs, among other things, by assigning them to categories. But AI programs never explain how they “know” what they supposedly “know.” They are the proverbial black box. A recent innovation from Google’s AI researchers seeks to provide an answer as to how AI knows such things....

As the US-China trade talks have come to a partial deal today, the overall US stock market saw notable gains. Along with the positive outlook on a potential US-China trade truce, AAPL is up and has hit a new 52-week high. AAPL set a new 52-week high during intra-day trading of $237.64 and closed out at the end of trading today with a share price of $236.21, a sizeable increase since falling below $150 back in January this year....

Like many space movies, Ad Astra is set in a future that’s recognizable but notably different in numerous aspects, though the thing is, the future depicted in the film is closer than people may think. Directed by James Gray and starring Brad Pitt as Major Roy McBride, Ad Astra tells an incredibly personal story about a man who travels to the edge of the solar system in order to reunite with his father (and save the world, of course)....

Adobe announced its AI-powered camera application back in November 2019. Since then, we did not get much information on when the camera application will make its way over to the public. Well, the Adobe Photoshop Camera is now available to download from the Google Play Store. It does offer a host of different features to help users capture the perfect image. A feature touted the most with the app is its ability to take advantage of Sensei — Adobe’s artificial intelligence platform....