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Image: The Verge The music streaming app Tidal is laying off more workers. In a statement to Fortune, an unnamed Tidal spokesperson confirmed “the elimination of some roles across our business and design teams.” On Wednesday, Fortune published a leaked memo from Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Tidal parent company Block Block Head, who said that the company is going to “part ways with a number of folks” on the team. “We’re reducing the size of our design team and foundational roles supporting TIDAL, and we will consider reducing engineering over the next few weeks as we have more clarity around leadership going forward,” Dorsey wrote, according to Fortune. Though Dorsey’s message didn’t specify how many employees would be laid off, sources told Fortune that it... Continue reading…

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge To cap off a busy week that saw the rollout of the first Apple Intelligence features and several new Macs, Apple reported its fiscal Q4 earnings this afternoon. The period included very early sales of the iPhone 16 lineup, offering a chance to gauge the momentum of the company’s latest phones. The Apple Watch Series 10 and AirPods 4 were also released during the quarter. CEO Tim Cook told CNBC that sales of the iPhone 15 were “stronger than 14 in the year-ago quarter, and 16 was stronger than 15.” The company reported revenue of $94.9 billion, which is a new record for the September quarter and up 6 percent year over year. Nearly every segment of Apple’s business was also up with the exception of the “wearables, home, and accessories”... Continue reading…

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said he supports Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., to be the next leader of the GOP Senate conference, Axios reported.

Major U.S. stock indexes closed lower Thursday after Microsoft and Meta Platforms highlighted growing artificial intelligence costs that could hit their earnings, curbing enthusiasm for megacaps that have fueled the market rally this year.

More than 670,000 early voters in Georgia did not participate in the 2020 general election, according to analysis by GeorgiaVotes.com.

A father and daughter team based in the U.S. have decoded a mock "alien signal" beamed from ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter a year ago — but the meaning of the extraterrestrial message remains a mystery.