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Apple may include an 18-watt charger that supports fast-charging with its next iPhones , according to a new report. Apple currently includes a smaller 5-watt charger with the iPhone and sells the 18-watt charger separately. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories .  Fast charging has been the standard on many Android flagship phones for years, and that might finally hold true for the iPhone as well. The company may bundle an 18-watt charger that supports fast-charging technology with its next-generation iPhone, according to Japanese tech blog Mac Otakara, which cites supplier sources. Apple's iPhones have supported fast charging since the iPhone 8, but the company requires that you purchase an 18-watt charger separately to take advantage of that technology.  If you want to upgrade from the 5-watt charger that comes in the box with Apple's current iPhones, the company charges $29. Apple says that these larger 18-watt chargers can replenish 50% of the iPh...

Bill Gates likes to read and recommend books . This year, ahead of choosing MIT Technology Review's breakthrough innovations , Gates read 10 books on tech that helped inform his choices. Here are Bill Gates's 10 best books on tech. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Like most successful people , Bill Gates is an avid reader. The tech billionaire pores through 50 books a year, choosing mostly nonfiction books that teach him something new, he said in a 2016 interview with the New York Times . Read more: Something interesting happened when Bill Gates started driving his daughter to school This year, Gates took a special interest in books about technology to help him curate MIT Technology Review's 10 breakthrough technologies of 2019 . The philanthropist chose which gadgets or inventions will have the most impact on society. The tech ranged from cancer vaccines to robot hands to a lab-grown burger. "Reading is my favorite way to learn about...

The PowerMax P18K Pop phone by Energizer only achieved 1% of its Indiegogo funding goal with $15,005 from 11 backers.  The P18K Pop was meant to come with a massive 18,000mAh battery — most smartphones  come with around 3,000mAh batteries.  The massive battery meant the P18K Pop was about three times as thick as the iPhone X .  Smartphone users want more battery life, but maybe not if their phone can be confused with a brick.  Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Energizer's PowerMax P18K Pop smartphone that's as thick as three iPhones stacked on top of each other has achieved only 1% of its Indiegogo funding goal. The Energizer phone — which was developed in partnership with Avenir Telecom — received $15,005 of its $1.2 million goal from 11 backers, despite widespread press coverage of the device. The Verge was the first to spot the news the the campaign had failed. Some quick math based on the average funding per backer and the perc...

"Avengers: Endgame" opened over the weekend to an unprecedented $1.2 billion. It joins a club of $1 billion-making movies that have hit that milestone in less than a month. In "Endgame's" case, it only took five days. The movie opened in China on Wednesday, two days ahead of the US, and broke China's opening-day box-office record . Another Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, "Captain Marvel," hit $1 billion earlier this month, but took 26 days. It took last year's "Avengers: Infinity War" 11 days. "Infinity War" was one of five movies released in 2018 to cross the $1 billion mark last year year . "Captain Marvel" was the first to do so in 2019 before "Endgame" shattered all expectations. We ranked these movies by the days it took each film to gross $1 billion worldwide, and we used each film's gross on the day it passed $1 billion to break any ties.  Here are the 17 movies that made $1 billion at t...

Fabletics , the digital-first activewear brand founded by Kate Hudson, Adam Goldenberg and Don Ressler, has recently opened up a physical store in Soho as part of its 2019 expansion plans. The company has plans to open up 12 new permanent retail stores over the course of this year alongside the Soho pop up shop, all of which will include a heavy tech element. For one, Fabletics has built its own POS system that connects offline and online sales. The system, called OmniShop, allows Fabletics to track the conversion of every item that goes into a dressing room, by size color and style all the way down to each individual customer. Co-CEO and cofounder Adam Goldenberg said that the company invested more than $150 million in OmniShop. But the system doesn’t just make the product easier to buy; it actually informs the product itself. The system allows Fabletics to see when a certain size of a particular SKU isn’t converting well and investigate if there is a fit/sizing issue. “From a c...

BBC : Vodafone denies report that said Huawei could have had unauthorized access to the carrier's fixed-line network in Italy, saying the issues were caught and fixed   —  Vodafone has revealed that it found vulnerabilities in equipment supplied to it by Huawei in Italy 10 years ago. from Techmeme http://bit.ly/2ISX8E7

YouTube today announced a new partnership with the MLB which will allow the site to exclusively live stream 13 MLB games to both YouTube and YouTube TV during the second half of the regular baseball season. While YouTube TV had previously partnered with MLB — it’s currently serving as the presenting partner for the World Series, for example — this is YouTube’s first-ever exclusive live game partnership with the league. The company says the schedule of the games and dates will be announced in a few weeks’ time, but will include 13 games that will be exclusively available to viewers in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico for free on the MLB YouTube channel , and on a dedicated channel that will come to YouTube TV. The games will also include a pre-game and post-game show, and will contain MLB and YouTube-themed content from popular YouTube creators, who have yet to be announced. The games will be produced and enhanced for the YouTube platform by the MLB Network’s production team. Deal...

Ford is now part of Amazon’s free in-car delivery service, the latest automaker to partner with the ecommerce and logistics giant. Amazon will bring its Key by Amazon In-Car delivery service to eligible Ford and Lincoln vehicles. The service will initially launch in 50 U.S. metro areas, according to Lorin Kennedy, who leads the FordPass business venture at the automaker. For now, only Amazon Prime members who own select 2017 model year or newer Ford and 2018 or newer Lincoln vehicles can participate in the service. Those vehicles must be equipped with modems that connect to the automaker’s connected car cloud services, FordPass Connect and Lincoln Way.  There are restrictions on packages as well and will require a signature if they weigh more than 50 pounds or are larger than 26 x 21 x 16 inches in size. Amazon has been moving into the car for a few years now. When Amazon Key initially started, customers could give delivery drivers access to their house with the help of a comp...

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge : Bird is launching monthly scooter rentals for $24.99 in San Francisco and Barcelona   —  The company will even deliver the scooter right to your front door  —  If using an app to track down a nearby electric scooter to rent is too much of a crapshoot, Bird is now offering monthly rentals … from Techmeme http://bit.ly/2IQMPAu

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC : Sensor Tower: in Q1 2019, apps developed by Chinese firms or by companies with large Chinese investors, had revenues of $674.8M in the US, up 67% YoY   —  KEY POINTS  — In the first quarter of 2019, apps developed by Chinese firms or by companies with large Chinese investors … from Techmeme http://bit.ly/2PIhdh2