Gadgetory

hey it's Thursday July 19 2012 I'm Joshua Topolsky and you're about to spend 90 crazysexycool seconds on the verge it's apparently earnings day so bear with me as I tell you a bunch of numbers that neither one of us really understands first up is Google the company says that net income is at about 2.8 billion dollars with over 12 billion dollars in revenue they say paid clicks are up the motorola did report a 233 million dollar loss but Motorola is not really a company so what does it matter Microsoft ended its fiscal year on a bit of a sour note the company posted its first quarterly loss ever at about 492 million dollars much of that is due to an over six billion dollar write down a six billion right it's six billion okay a six billion dollar write down of its failed a cuanto vac juez ition revenue is otherwise off at over 18 billion dollars and Windows 8 is just around the corner of course it could be worse Nokia posted at second quarter earnings today with a 1 billion dollar operating loss though the company has sold about 4 million lumia handsets worldwide they've only sold 600,000 here in the US CEO Stephen Elop said Nokia's aim is to become the quote where company just as Google redefined the what with search and Facebook the who with social feel free to take bets on which companies are the when how and why NASA has hired a cent scientist to recreate the smell of space according to the Atlantic astronauts have described the scent as both seared steak and sulphurous which is exactly how the passenger seat of my car smells that's it for today tune in tomorrow and we're gonna explore chasing waterfalls is it worth the trouble