Google paid Apple $20 billion in 2022 to be the default search engine for Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, reports Bloomberg. The information was revealed in court documents Google provided in its antitrust dispute with the United States Department of Justice.
The DoJ has accused Google of having a monopoly on search, and in the lawsuit against Google, the search engine deal with Apple has been a major focus. In November, lawsuit documents indicated that Google was paying 36 percent of the total revenue that it earns from searches conducted on Safari, and now it turns out that equates to $20 billion.
Google has been the default search engine on Apple devices since 2002, though the deal has been renegotiated several times. Apple and Google have worked to keep the terms of the search engine agreement under wraps during the trial and before, but it has been well known that Google is paying Apple billions per year.
Last October, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified that the agreement between Apple and Google has made it impossible for search engines like Bing to compete. Microsoft at one point wanted Apple to buy Bing, but Apple was not interested. Microsoft blamed Google, but Apple’s Eddy Cue said that Aplple was concerned that Bing could not compete in “quality and capabilities.” Cue claimed that Apple uses Google as the iPhone’s default search engine because Apple has “always thought it was the best.”
Google is the default search engine on Apple devices in most countries, but users can opt to swap to Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia as alternatives. Changing browser engines requires opening up the Safari settings.
In Europe, the Digital Markets Act has required Apple to make changes to how browsers work. Users are able to choose a default browser when setting up their iPhone, and there are more options than the handful of providers that Apple allows in the United States.
If Google loses the antitrust lawsuit against it, the deal between Apple and Google could be dissolved. Closing arguments are expected on Thursday and Friday, with the judge’s ruling set to come later in 2024.
Samsung has revealed its financial results for the first quarter of this year, a few weeks after revealing revenue estimates. The company revealed that its revenue rose 13% compared to Q1 2023, while its profit skyrocketed nearly 10x (933%) compared to the year earlier.
Samsung’s profit jumps nearly 10x in Q1 2024, thanks to strong memory and smartphone sales
In Q1 2024, Samsung’s revenue was KRW 71.92 trillion ($52.08 billion), while the operating profit was KRW 6.61 trillion ($4.78 billion). That’s 13% more revenue and 933% higher profit compared to figures from Q1 2023. This massive rise in profit is due to higher memory chip and smartphone sales. Its semiconductor memory chip business returned to profit after nearly a year of losses, thanks to a rise in memory chip prices. The company’s home appliances, smartphone, and TV divisions also posted higher earnings during the quarter.
Smartphones
The company’s smartphone division (Samsung MX) generated revenue of KRW 33.53 trillion ($24.27 billion) and an operating profit of KRW 3.51 trillion ($2.54 billion). While the market demand for mid-range and high-end phones decreased, Samsung improved its revenue and profit due to impressive sales of the Galaxy S24. The company says it maintained “solid double-digit profitability” due to resource optimization.
Samsung expects smartphone and tablet sales to decline in Q2 2024. However, sales are expected to increase in the second half of this year as consumer sentiment could improve, especially in emerging markets. Samsung MX aims to ship more phones annually than it did in 2023.
The company plans to improve wearable sales through new models and form factors (like the Galaxy Ring) and confirms plans to launch premium smartwatches.
Semiconductor Chips
The Samsung Device Solutions division, which oversees the design and manufacturing of semiconductor chips, posted a revenue of KRW 23.14 trillion ($16.75 billion) and an operating profit of KRW 1.91 trillion ($1.38 billion). Thanks to the ongoing AI boom, sales of DDR5 memory, HBM memory, and server SSDs increased, while sales of UFS 4.0 storage chips increased largely due to higher demand from Chinese smartphone brands. Samsung says that the memory business will remain strong throughout Q2 2024.
The System LSI business, which designs camera sensors, smartphone processors, and other components, saw increased sales. However, improvements in earnings have taken longer than expected as Display Driver Integrated Chips (DDI) sales have slowed due to slow panel demand. Samsung also announced its plans to launch a new wearable processor based on advanced technologies.
Samsung Foundry, the company’s division that manufactures semiconductor chips, hasn’t seen an improvement in sales. However, the company is continuously improving its technologies. Its 4nm process node finally has stable yields, while the development of 2nm and 3nm processes is claimed to be moving ahead smoothly. Apparently, Samsung Foundry has seen its highest-ever order backlog in the first quarter. It plans to start the mass production of second-generation 3nm chips in the second quarter, likely for the next-generation Exynos chips that will be used in the Galaxy S25.
Home Appliances & TVs
The company’s home appliances and TV divisions posted revenue of KRW 13.48 trillion ($9.75 billion). Their operating profit reached KRW 0.53 trillion ($383 million) during the first quarter. The TV business posted higher profits compared to Q4 2023 despite weak TV sales globally, thanks to higher sales of premium models (Neo QLED TV, OLED TVs, and 75-inch or bigger TVs).
Demand for TVs is expected to remain weak in the second quarter, but sales are estimated to improve in the second half of the year.
Display Panels
Samsung Display makes all kinds of display panels, including small and medium-sized OLED panels for laptops, smartphones, smartwatches, and tablets, as well as large-sized QD-OLED panels for monitors and TVs. This division’s sales were KRW 5.39 trillion ($3.89 billion), and its operating profit was KRW 0.34 trillion ($245 million).
While it supplied smartphone and tablet OLED panels to major customers, its performance dropped due to intense price competition from Chinese OLED firms. Since TV sales have been weak globally, Samsung improved sales by introducing QD-OLED monitor panels.
Harman International
Samsung owns Harman International, which makes AKG, Harmon Kardon, Infinity Audio, and JBL audio products. This division also develops and sells connected car equipment, which is increasingly being used these days. Its sales were KRW 3.2 trillion ($2.3 billion), while its operating profit was KRW 0.24 trillion ($173 million). Its performance declined slightly due to an off-season.
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A bioluminescent octocoral, Iridogorgia magnispiralis.Credit: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Deepwater Wonders of Wake
An ancient group of glowing corals pushes back the origin of bioluminescence in animals to more than half a billion years ago. “We had no idea it was going to be this old,” says evolutionary marine biologist and study co-author Danielle DeLeo. Tiny crustaceans that lived around 270 million years ago were previously thought to be the earliest glowing animals. Genetic analysis and computer modelling revealed that octocorals probably evolved the ability to make light much earlier, around the time when the first animals developed eyes.
A virulent strain of the monkeypox virus might have gained the ability to spread through sexual contact. The strain, called clade Ib, has caused a cluster of infections in a conflict-ridden region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This isn’t the first time scientists have warned that the monkeypox virus could become sexually transmissible: similar warnings during a 2017 outbreak in Nigeria were largely ignored. The strain responsible, clade II, is less lethal than clade Ib, but ultimately caused an ongoing global outbreak that has infected more than 94,000 people and killed more than 180. “The DRC is surrounded by nine other countries — we’re playing with fire here,” says virologist Nicaise Ndembi.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has changed how it classifies airborne pathogens. It has removed the distinction between transmission by smaller virus-containing ‘aerosol’ particles and spread through larger ‘droplets’. The division, which some researchers argue was unscientific, justified WHO’s March 2020 assertion that SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, was not airborne. Under the new definition, SARS-CoV-2 would be recognized as spreading ‘through the air’ — although some scientists feel this term is less clear than ‘airborne’. “I’m not saying everybody is happy, and not everybody agrees on every word in the document, but at least people have agreed this is a baseline terminology,” says WHO chief scientist Jeremy Farrar.
The development of lethal autonomous weapons, such as AI-equipped drones, is on the rise. “The technical capability for a system to find a human being and kill them is much easier than to develop a self-driving car,” says computer scientist and campaigner against AI weapons Stuart Russell. Some argue that accurate AI weapons could reduce collateral damage while helping vulnerable nations to defend themselves. At the same time, observers are concerned that passing targeting decisions to an algorithm could lead to catastrophic mistakes. The United Nations will discuss AI weapons at a meeting later this year — potentially a first step towards controlling the new threat.
In early April, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of a group of more than 2,500 Swiss female activists aged 64 or over who argued that Switzerland was doing too little to protect them as a group particularly vulnerable to health effects stemming from climate change. “This marks the first time that an international human-rights court has linked protection of human rights with duties to mitigate global warming, clarifying once and for all that climate law and policy do not operate in a human-rights vacuum,” says legal scholar Charlotte Blattner, who advised the court. “The ruling is bound to alter the course of climate protection around the world.”
When US scientists needed a place to test the first birth-control pill, they looked to Puerto Rico. But many of the working-class women who took the pill were unaware that they were part of a clinical trial. Debilitating side effects were dismissed as psychosomatic. And when the final product came onto the market, it was too expensive for women like them to afford. The play Las Borinqueñas revisits this complicated history. “It’s a long-overdue tribute and, most importantly, a reminder to remain vigilant against abuse and disrespect in studies involving human participants,” writes Nature reporter Mariana Lenharo in her review.
Winning image: Glaciologist Richard Jones captured the moment a crew member on RV Polarstern prepared to rescue a measuring device trapped in ice.Credit: Richard Jones
This image, taken on top of the icebreaker research vessel Polarstern, shows the delicate process of retrieving an ocean-monitoring instrument called a CTD (short for conductivity, temperature, depth) that had become trapped under sea ice off the coast of northeastern Greenland. CTDs, which are anchored to the sea floor, measure how properties such as salinity and temperature vary with depth. The photo is the winner of Nature’s 2024 Working Scientist photography competition. See the rest of the winning images from the competition here.
Yesterday we told you that NASA had reconnected with its spacecraft Voyager 1, the first human-made object to leave the Solar System. But was it really the first? A reader question sparked a debate in the newsroom about whether that accolade should rightfully go to Pioneer 10.
A lot depends on how we define the edge of the Solar System, explains Nature reporter Sumeet Kulkarni. “But I think it’s safe to say Voyager 1 left it first,” he says. The craft overtook Pioneer 10 in 1998, and left the heliosphere — the reach of the Sun’s influence — in 2013, by which time it was travelling much faster than Pioneer 10.
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Almost a billion mobile users, holding various devices, could have had their communications revealed to malicious third parties, a report from cybersecurity researchers Citizen Lab claims.
It says different device manufacturers have used different keyboard apps which were relaying unencrypted communications, transmitting keystrokes via plaintext, and similar. Tencent QQ Pinyin, Baidu IME, iFlytek IME, Samsung Keyboard on Android, Xiaomi (with keyboard apps from Baidu, iFlytek, and Sogou), OPPO, Vivo, Honor, all of these allowed potential threat actors to decrypt Chinese mobile users’ keystrokes, completely passively, and without the users needing to send any extra network traffic.
The team says it believes the keyboard apps found on these devices were “revealing the contents of users’ keystrokes in transit”.
Keeping private talk private
The only manufacturer whose keyboard app was secure is Huawei, the researchers said. As for Apple and Google, neither app has a feature to transmit keystrokes to cloud servers for cloud-based communications, it was said, which made it impossible to analyze the keyboards for the security of the feature.
“However, we observed that none of the mobile devices that we analyzed included Google’s keyboard, Gboard, preinstalled, either,” the researchers claim.
The researchers disclosed their findings to the manufacturers and say that as of April 1, almost all have addressed their issues. Only Honor and Tencent (QQ Pinyin) still remain a work in progress.
To defend from potential eavesdroppers, users should keep their apps and mobile operating systems updated, and use a keyboard that fully works on the device. Developers, on the other hand, are advised to use well-tested and standard encryption protocols, instead of building their own, potentially vulnerable versions, The Hacker News reports.
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“Given the scope of these vulnerabilities, the sensitivity of what users type on their devices, the ease with which these vulnerabilities may have been discovered, and that the Five Eyes have previously exploited similar vulnerabilities in Chinese apps for surveillance, it is possible that such users’ keystrokes may have also been under mass surveillance,” the researchers concluded.
A bioluminescent octocoral, Iridogorgia magnispiralis.Credit: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Deepwater Wonders of Wake
Some 540 million years ago, an ancient group of corals developed the ability to make its own light1.
Scientists have previously found that bioluminescence is an ancient trait — with one group of tiny crustaceans first making their own light an estimated 267 million years ago. But this new finding pushes back the origins of bioluminescence even further by around 270 million years.
“We had no idea it was going to be this old,” says Danielle DeLeo, an evolutionary marine biologist at Florida International University in Miami, who led the study, which was published on 24 April in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. “The fact that this trait has been retained for hundreds of millions of years really tells us that it is conferring some type of fitness advantage.”
Bioluminescence has evolved independently at least 100 times in animals and other organisms. Some glowing species, such as fireflies, use their light to communicate in the darkness. Other animals, including anglerfish, use it as a lure to attract prey, or to scare away predators.
However, it’s not always clear why bioluminescence evolved. Take octocorals. These soft-bodied organisms are found in both shallow water and the deep ocean, and produce an enzyme called luciferase to break down a chemical to make light. But whether glowing octocorals use their light to attract zooplankton as prey or for some other purpose is unclear.
First light
Searching for answers, DeLeo and her colleagues analysed a large data set of genetic sequences and the sparse octocoral fossil record to reconstruct the animals’ evolutionary history. They then used a computer model to determine how likely it was that ancestral species were bioluminescent.
The model revealed that the common ancestor of all octocorals — which lived around 540 million years ago — was probably bioluminescent. The finding suggests that luciferase-based biofluorescence evolved early and was lost by non-bioluminescent descendants of ancient glowing octocorals.
The study shows that bioluminescence has been around since at least the Cambrian period (around 540 million to 485 million years ago), when the first animal species developed eyes. That’s surprising, says evolutionary biologist Todd Oakley, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, because bioluminescence is a trait that “tends to blink on and off” across evolutionary time.
Luciferase is just one way animals make light. Other organisms use different chemistry to get their telltale glow. In the case of octocorals, the luciferase system could have evolved for the production of an antioxidant, says DeLeo. Later, the light-generating aspect of the reaction would have become useful for communication.
In any case, the deep origin of bioluminescence suggests that it could be one of the oldest forms of communication on Earth, she says. “If you’re producing light — whether or not it’s intentional — you are signalling other animals,” she says. “Like, ‘Hey! I’m over here!”
April 23, 2009: Less than a year after opening its virtual doors, the App Store reaches 1 billion downloads.
Peer-to-peer file sharing app Bump becomes the 1 billionth app to be downloaded. As a result of his purchase, 13-year-old Connor Mulcahey of Weston, Connecticut, wins a “1 Billion App Countdown” promotion.
He takes home an assortment of Apple products valued at more than $13,000, including a $10,000 iTunes gift card, a 32GB iPod touch, a Time Capsule and a 17-inch MacBook Pro.
App Store’s 1 billionth download
Hitting the astronomical billionth download so soon after launch showed the remarkable potential of the App Store. The simple idea — hosting a curated software collection filled with the creations of developers big and small — turned the iPhone into a device capable of doing almost anything.
“The revolutionary App Store has been a phenomenal hit with iPhone and iPod touch users around the world, and we’d like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve the astonishing milestone of one billion apps downloaded,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, in a 2009 statement. “In nine months, the App Store has completely revolutionized the mobile industry and this is only the beginning.”
At the time, Apple had sold 37 million iPhones and iPod touches, the two devices capable of accessing the App Store. There were around 35,000 iOS apps available for download. (By comparison, Apple today has sold well more than 2 billion iPhones, and the App Store houses an estimated 1.81 million different apps.)
Setting new App Store records
The App Store hit 1 billion downloads in an era during which Cupertino was very keen on celebrating such milestones. For example, in 2004 it marked the 100 millionth iTunes song download by giving that customer a 17-inch PowerBook, a 40GB iPod, a gift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs and a personal phone call from Steve Jobs.
After the billionth App Store download, sales just kept climbing. In fact, by March 2012, Apple celebrated a staggering 25 billion apps downloaded. In 2020, the App Store enabled $643 billion in billings and sales, according to Apple.
However, the App Store’s astonishing success — and Apple’s tight control over the marketplace — gives antitrust regulators around the world a ripe target. Apple faces potential regulation at home and abroad.
It also opened the iPhone’s NFC chip to third-party payment and banking apps, giving users an alternative to Apple Pay. These and other measures are designed to loosen Cupertino’s grip on the App Store.
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Astera Labs, a relatively unknown semiconductor company with a $10 billion market value, recently showed off its new Aries 6 PCIe retimer board, which it is now sampling to leading AI and cloud infrastructure providers.
Due to the high-speed data transfer within the PCIe interface, the signals can suffer from degradation, especially over longer distances or due to interference. A PCIe retimer helps maintain the data signal integrity over the PCIe interface by cleaning, reshaping, and retransmitting the data signals.
The Aries 6 retimers, the first in Astera Labs’ PCIe 6.x portfolio, offer robust, low power, and efficient PCIe 6.x and CXL 3.x connectivity, squarely aimed at catering to the networking requirements of next-generation GPUs, accelerators, CPUs, and CXL memory controllers.
3x the reach
Based on Intel‘s Retimer Supplemental Specification, the new Aries 6 retimers build upon the company’s widely deployed PCIe 5.0 retimer portfolio and reportedly extend reach distance by three times the standard rate.
Casey Morrison, Chief Product Officer, Astera Labs, said, “PCIe 6.x technology’s superior bandwidth is required to handle data-intensive workloads and to maximize utilization of AI accelerators, but the faster speeds introduce new signal integrity issues in hyperscale platforms. Aries Smart DSP Retimers have set the gold standard for addressing critical PCIe/CXL connectivity challenges with a solid track record of robust performance and seamless interoperability. We’re proud that our third generation of Aries Retimers with support for PCIe 6.x, PCIe 5.x, and CXL 3.x have now been sampled to leading AI and cloud platform providers.”
ServeTheHometook a first look at Astera Labs’s new portfolio at Nvidia GTC 2024 (see the photograph above) and observed that the “Aries 6 was linked at PCIe Gen6 x16 speeds at 10-11W of power consumption. That is a big deal since it is lower than Broadcom is claiming with its new retimers.“
Many major AI firms are excited about the imminent arrival of Astera Labs’ new generation Aries Smart DSP Retimers. Raghu Nambiar, Corporate Vice President, Data Center Ecosystems and Solutions, AMD, said, “Our close collaboration with Astera Labs on PCIe technologies ensures our customers’ platforms continue to meet the higher bandwidth connectivity requirements of next-generation AI and HPC workloads,” while Brian Kelleher, Senior Vice President of GPU Engineering, Nvidia, added, “Astera Labs’ new Aries Smart DSP Retimers with support for PCIe 6.2 will help enable higher bandwidth to optimize utilization of our next-generation computing platforms.”
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Last month, it was reported that Samsung could get a $6 billion grant from the US government to build advanced chip factories in the US. The US government has now officially announced that it is offering $6.4 billion in grants to Samsung Electronics for its chipmaking investments in Texas.
Samsung will invest $44 billion to make chips in Texas, USA
The US government announced earlier today that it plans to offer tax incentives of up to $6.4 billion to Samsung Electronics. The Commerce Department has reached this preliminary agreement with Samsung under the US government’s CHIPS and Science Act. This grant will ease Samsung’s efforts to build two chip plants (Austin and Taylor) in Texas. While the chip plant in Austin is old, the company is building an advanced chip plant in Taylor. Samsung is also said to be making a chip packaging facility and a chip research center.
Local chip production is set to reduce the USA’s reliance on other countries like China, South Korea, and Taiwan. It will also boost local aerospace, automobile, electronics, and defense industries.
White House National Economic Adviser Lael Brainard said, “The return of leading-edge chip manufacturing to America is a major new chapter in our semiconductor industry.” Biden’s administration has already granted similar tax incentives and sops to competing chip firms, including Intel, Global Foundries, Microchip Technology Inc., and TSMC.
Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly in the process of planning a groundbreaking data center project which would include an AI supercomputer named “Stargate”.
A report by Anissa Gardizy and Amir Efrati in The Information claims the goal of the project, which would be financed by Microsoft to the tune of over $100 billion, and which reportedly has a launch date set for 2028, is to reduce the two companies’ reliance on Nvidia, something that a lot of the tech giants involved in AI are increasingly looking to try to do.
Microsoft and OpenAI’s plan reportedly involves five phases, with Stargate being the fifth and most ambitious one.
The data center will be the supercomputer
The cost of the project is attributed to the age-old “sources familiar with the plans” (The Information says these are “a person who spoke to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about it and a person who has viewed some of Microsoft’s initial cost estimates”), but neither Microsoft nor OpenAI have yet commented on the specifics of the project.
The new data center project is expected to push the boundaries of AI capability and could potentially exceed $115 billion in expenses. This is more than triple the amount Microsoft spent on capital expenditures for servers and equipment last year. Microsoft is currently working on a smaller, fourth-phase supercomputer for OpenAI that is expected to launch around 2026, The Information claims.
Shedding more light on the report, The Next Platform says, “The first thing to note about the rumored “Stargate” system that Microsoft is planning to build to support the computational needs of its large language model partner, OpenAI, is that the people doing the talking – reportedly OpenAI chief executive officer Sam Altman – are talking about a data center, not a supercomputer. And that is because the data center – and perhaps multiple data centers within a region with perhaps as many as 1 million XPU computational devices – will be the supercomputer.”
The Next Platform also says if Stargate does come to fruition it will be “based on future generations of Cobalt Arm server processors and Maia XPUs, with Ethernet scaling to hundreds of thousands to 1 million XPUs in a single machine,” and it definitely won’t be based on Nvidia GPUs and interconnects, which seems like a safe bet if the rumors are to be believed.
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The United States Commerce Department today announced a significant financial commitment to Apple chip supplier TSMC to make more chips in the U.S. (via Bloomberg).
The White House shared a statement explaining that the U.S. Commerce Department will allocate a $6.6 billion subsidy to TSMC for the advancement of semiconductor production in Phoenix, Arizona. TSMC will also receive $5 billion in loans and be eligible to claim an investment tax credit of up to 25% of capital expenditures. The move is part of a larger initiative under the CHIPS and Science Act, which aims to rejuvenate the United States’ semiconductor manufacturing capabilities.
TSMC has already committed to an escalated investment of $25 billion, elevating its total investment to $65 billion. This is the largest foreign direct investment in a completely new project in U.S. history.
The chipmaker also announced plans to construct a third fabrication plant in Arizona by 2030. The first TSMC plant in Arizona will start producing 4nm chips next year. The second plant, which was originally designed to make 3nm chips, will also make 2nm ones by 2028. The third plant will produce 2nm chips with capacity to make even more advanced semiconductors in the future.
Apple’s most advanced chips are currently made in Taiwan using TSMC’s 3nm process, so the ability to make these chips and even more powerful ones in the future in the United States could represent a significant shift for the company’s supply chain.
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April 23, 2009: Less than a year after 
