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Google's parent company, Alphabet, topped market expectations in the first quarter of 2023 with a net profit of $15 billion, the company said Tuesday, in a sign the search engine giant is regaining its footing. The tech titan came under pressure due to a general slowdown in ad spending, over-hiring during the Covid-era boom and a great challenge of Microsoft in the field of artificial intelligence. Microsoft is investing billions of dollars in OpenAI, the company that is building the technology that powers ChatGPT and has released its latest version, GPT-4. That technology, which OpenAI says can be driven by…

He National Bank just released one exclusive promotion in its online store for technology lovers. The promotion includes discounts and payment plans in installments for the purchase of cell phones, smart watches, LED TVs and brand notebooks Motorola, TCL, Noblex, Xiaomi and Samsung. The BNA Store has a wide variety of models of each of these brandswith different prices and characteristics to adapt to the needs and tastes of each user. It is important to note that to make the purchase, it is necessary to have a Visa or Mastercard from Banco Nación and register on the BNA Store platform.…

Day after day, cybercriminals search for new forms of scams to trick their victims into getting their hands on their money. personal, financial data and thus steal their money. In recent times, one of the most popular deceptions among scammers is that of impersonate representatives of companies or government entities. Among other fraud methods, these types of criminals often use fake profiles on social networks, generally pretending to be customer service assistantsPhone calls or fake websites that imitate the originals and appear among the first results of Google. The AFIP alerts for virtual scams via email "It's important that people…

Apple was founded on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobbs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne, a shareholder who left the company twelve days later. It was created with the primary goal of distributing the desktop personal computer known as the “Apple 1”. The machine was widely accepted and with the money from the profits the founders developed the "Apple II", a computer that launched the company to success. With the return of Steve Jobbs to the company in 1997, Apple focused its efforts on improving its products and testing new lines of business. Seeking to venture into the music industry,…

Leaving the cell phone on the table and going to bathe is a typical opportunity that thousands of Argentines have taken advantage of to "check" their partner's smartphone. How common is this situation? A lot, according to one recent survey Conducted by a company specialized in technology and security that discovered that almost half of Argentines who say they are in a loving relationship –43% of men and 44% of women– “suspect” that their partner has checked their phone in a surreptitious way. The work commissioned by the company Avast, specialized in the development of security software for devices, investigated…

The matrix of Facebook and Instagram, metaplatformsannounced this Tuesday that it will cut other 10,000 jobsin the midst of its owner's struggle, mark zuckerberg, to achieve greater corporate efficiency in the face of falling revenues. The cuts are made less than six months later after the social media giant announced 11,000 dismissals in November, a measure that reduced the total number of employees by a 13%. The company will incur construction costs that oscillate between US$3,000 and US$5,000 million, as announced on Tuesday by the company. In this sense, Zuckerberg warned that economic instability could last for "many years". Layoffs…

The bitcoin continued this Tuesday with its uptrend that began over the weekend, in the midst of a crisis of uncertainty in the United States after the crash on Silicon Valley Bank. the market of cryptocurrencies rises this Tuesday driven by the rescue of the federated reservel to the banking system of the United States and dispel the specter of a generalized financial crisis. However, more and more experts argue that BTC is proving the concept. flight to quality: which is basically the action of investors that move their capital away from risky investments towards a more secure one. The…

through the decree 136/2023 that was published this Tuesday the 14th in the Official bulletinthe Government stipulated the new import tariffs for PCs, notebooks and tablets, with the aim of "strengthening the industrial sector". The measure raises the rate from zero to 8% and 16%for certain property IT and Telecoms. It is a modification of the decree 910/2021incorporating decisions of the Mercosur Common Market Council. According to the provision, the aliquot rises 8% for tariff item 8471.30.12which includes units “of weight less than 3.5 kilograms with alphanumeric keyboard with at least 70 keys and with a screen with an upper…

The cryptocurrency market rose this Monday driven by the Federal Reserve's bailout of the United States banking system and dispel the specter of a generalized financial crisis. Bitcoin, the largest crypto by market capitalization, once again surpassed the $24,000 after he drilled the US$20,000 last Friday in the midst of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Over the weekend, the US government pledged to protect the bank's deposits and launched a new program that offers banks access liquidity to meet needs of the depositors. Joe Biden spoke about the bank crisis and assured that the system is "safe" This Sunday…