First Solar , the largest U.S. solar panel manufacturer, is expected to publish its Q1 2016 earnings on April 27th. We expect the company’s performance to improve on a year-over-year basis, driven by higher power plant sales, as well as lower module and balance of system costs. Below, we take a look at what to expect and what we will be watching as the firm reports Q1 earnings Wednesday.
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Beijing-based Zero Zero Robotics has developed a new portable drone that can track and film its user. We got a first look at the device in action at our San Francisco bureau.
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The folks over at it168 took apart the Meizu Pro 6 and found few obstacles along the way (so repairs should be easy), plus tons of thermal films and coatings.
The initial disassembly is easy-peasy. Undo two screws, take out the card slot and pop out the screen. Be careful, though, two cables connect the screen to the rest of the phone.
Digging in further, it168 found a metal plate that helps spread out the heat from the Helio X25 chipset. Additionally, there’s a graphite thermal film over the chipset to further facilitate cooling.
Meizu Pro 6 has extensive cooling…
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HTC went out and threw a curve ball by launching a smartphone no one was expecting. A couple of weeks after we were treated to the proper flagship HTC 10, we now have the One S9.
A unit less than the current top-end number, the new smartphone also gets to keep the One moniker, joining the One M9, A9, E9, X9, with a plus here and there and a Supreme Camera on top.
As a member of the previous generation it also has similar styling to the M9 – the bold chamfer on the 10’s back is nowhere to be found. In fact, it’s very much impossible to tell the S9 apart from the M9 by looking at two…
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Apple is about to post its first quarterly revenue decline since 2003
After a dozen years of dramatic growth — led first by the iPod and Mac, and then the iPhone and iPad — Apple is expected to report that March quarter sales declined 10 percent year over year to around $52 billion.
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Several rumors have been surfacing about the next iPhone — which is expected to be called iPhone 7 — such as a dual-lens camera on the larger version, the removal of the 3.5mm headphone jack, the addition of a second speaker at the bottom of the devices, waterproof and dust-proof ratings and a Smart Connector. Back in October 2015, Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray told Barron’s that the home button on the iPhone could be eliminated in favor of a digital button controlled by 3D Touch. And now, a new report from supply chain sources in China told DigiTimes that the iPhone 7 devices will have a touch-sensitive digital button instead of the traditional physical button separated from the display, making the front of the device completely flush.
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Equipped with a Snapdragon mobile chip, Hover Camera can follow people around autonomously and its propellers are fully enclosed, so they can’t injure anybody.
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The NCAA Football series was cancelled in 2013 and the sports gaming world hasn’t been the same since.
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Kristen Stewart couldn’t save ‘Snow White: Winter’s War’ from itself.
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Just how and when did Microsoft start to work towards a new and deeper understanding and appreciation of open source, Linux and open standards in general? How justifiable are claims of its appreciation for the community contribution model that underpins open computing? Amanda Silver is director of program management for Visual Studio at Microsoft, she explains what life has been like on the inside of the development teams.
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